Jane Candia Coleman Books In Order

Novels

  1. Deep in His Heart Jr Is Laughing at Us (1991)
  2. Shadows in My Hands (1993)
  3. Doc Holliday’s Woman (1995)
  4. Moving On (1997)
  5. I, Pearl Hart (1998)
  6. The O’Keefe Empire (1999)
  7. Doc Holliday’s Gone (1999)
  8. Desperate Acts (2001)
  9. The Italian Quartet (2001)
  10. Wives and Lovers (2002)
  11. Lost River (2003)
  12. Matchless (2003)
  13. Tombstone Travesty (2004)
  14. Tumbleweed (2007)
  15. The Silver Queen (2009)
  16. Bandit Queen (2009)
  17. Range Queen (2010)
  18. Desert Rose (2017)

Omnibus

  1. Lucky Dog / Asylum / Town Killer (1999)

Collections

  1. Stories from Mesa Country (1991)
  2. Discovering Eve (1993)
  3. Legend (1999)
  4. Borderlands (2000)
  5. Country Music (2002)

Non fiction

  1. Mountain Time (2001)

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Jane Candia Coleman Books Overview

Moving On

WesternJane Candia Coleman is a natural storyteller whose characters come from the lands between the southwestern valleys of Arizona and the Gila Mountains of New Mexico. The night Billy the Kid died is hauntingly depicted in Corrido for Billy. Lady Flo is a memoir, based on historical fact, of the black wife of an Irish nobleman. Moving On depicts a young girl abandoned by her family who finds her way with an itinerant Jewish peddler. And Are You Coming Back, Phin Montana? is the winner of the 1995 Spur Award for Best Western Short Fiction. Each story embodies the finest elements of Western fiction imitations of hope, vulnerability, and courage. First Edition Western

I, Pearl Hart

Pearl Hart, dubbed the Bandit Queen, was the first woman ever to be sentenced to the Yuma Penitentiary in the Arizona Territory. The story of how she went from a conventional home in Toledo, Ohio to becoming a gamblers wife, a singer, and ultimately, a convict, is brought to vivid life in this powerful drama.

The O’Keefe Empire

Joanna O’Keefe journeys to New Mexico to meet up with her husband at the Circle MC, but when she arrives she finds her husband has been murdered, and it is up to Joanna to drive the cattle across the Mojave Desert to San Diego.

Doc Holliday’s Gone

STORY TOLD AFTER DOC HOLLIDAYS DEATH BY HIS WOMAN BIG NOSE KATE A TRUE ACCOUNT OF HER LIVING IN THE WEST.

Lost River

Coleman has won the Western Heritage Award from the Cowboy Hall of Fame three times, as well as two Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America.

Wealthy archeologist Lawrence Haslett has located an important site for the artifacts of an ancient tribe of Indians in the Lost River Valley. He hires talented Sidra Givens to be the photographer on the expedition. What Sidra finds as she enters Lost River Valley is violence, terror and greed. Surviving in this climate of ceaseless and unrelenting violence is an incredible challenge.

Matchless

A Spur Award winning Author A Western Heritage Award winning Author Matchless is a passionate, compelling, and magnificently authentic human drama based on the diary of Augusta Tabor, wife of Horace Tabor, the Colorado silver king. This is Augusta’s story of their struggles until Horace struck it rich and she was renounced as an embarrassment by a man who had or could buy anything. Jane Candia Coleman was born and raised near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She studied creative writing, but felt she had nothing to write about. She abandoned the East for the West, where her creativity truly came into its own. She has won two Spur Awards for short stories from Western Writers of America as well as three Western Heritage Awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame for her contributions to Western fiction. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her author husband, G. G. Boyer.

Tombstone Travesty

Here is a magnificent human drama based on the memories of one who lived it, filled with facts history books omitted. Orphaned at an early age, Allie and her brothers and sisters were parceled out to foster families. She eventually moved in with her married sister, who was operating a boarding house. It was there that Allie met Virgil Earp who was working for a stage line. They were married without benefit of clergy and so began a life of itinerant wandering where all roads seeming to lead to Tombstone. In this vivid account, all the political intrigue and moral ambiguities of that time and place are brought dramatically to life, including the stark and brutal events of lawlessness and law enforcement that culminated at the OK Corral. Jane Candia Coleman lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Tumbleweed

TRUE GRIT
Allie Earp always said the West was no place for sissies. And that held especially true for a woman married to one of the wild Earp brothers. She had no fear of cussing a blue streak if someone crossed her, patching up a bullet wound, or defending her home against rustlers. Every day was a new adventure from the rough streets of Deadwood to the infamous OK Corral in Tombstone. But through it all one thing remained constant: her deep and abiding love for one of the most formidable lawmen of the West.

The Silver Queen

The passionate, compelling and magnificently authentic story of the first woman in the camps of the Colorado silver mines, and how her strength and courage helped her endure through one of the biggest scandals of the time.

Lucky Dog / Asylum / Town Killer

Go west with Zane Grey in ‘The Great Slave’ and a Crow chief who must save his vanishing tribe; Max Brand in ‘A Sagebrush Cinderella’ and an encounter with a notorious bandit; and Giff Chesire in ‘Wild Was the River’ as river workers face a flood and far greater enemies.

Discovering Eve

An anthology of short stories celebrates women coming of age and finding a niche in the world and narrates these transformations from an insider’s perspective. By the author of Stories from Mesa Country.

Borderlands

A natural storyteller, author Jane Candia Coleman offers nine stories about the many physical and psychological borders of people’s lives. Among them, ‘Sandhill Cranes’ tells of the long and perilous journeys of the children who were sent west on orphan trains in the late 1800s. The title story is comprised of many journeys and a multitude of crossings, including Pancho Villa’s raid on New Mexico an act of unprecedented daring by a most unusual revolutionary leader.

Mountain Time

New York critic R. Rabinowitz called this lyrical novel of misplaced desire and ambition, thwarted passion, and enduring love, Beautiful, wondrous, and wise. Coleman, who lived on a small Italian island for almost a year, an island that could have been one of Homer’s mythic places, has woven family legend into a story of tragedy, triumph, and the healing power of art and music. Hollywood agent Bettye McCartt has called The Italian Quartet A classic that will still be in print in two hundred and fifty years, and film maker and producer Ismail Merchant captivated by Coleman s depiction of island life contrasted with the magical allure of Venice had it in his sights for another of his enchanting productions at the time of his death.. The Italian Quartet weaves a never to be forgotten spell.

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