Books by Earl Murray and Complete Book Reviews
Earl Murray, Author . Forge $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86922-9
The author of more than 40 novels, most of them about the American frontier, Murray (South of Eden) displays his intimate knowledge of the people and events that shaped the West in this unusual collection of short stories spanning the last two...
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Earl Murray, Author Forge $22.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-86124-7
Don't come between a woman and her family. That's the moral to Murray's (Spirit of the Moon) entertaining ninth western, which seems to pack every cliche of frontier mayhem into a single year in the life of man-killing matron Holly Porter. Separated
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Earl Murray, Author Forge $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-86923-6
Following last year's droll saddlebag romance, Gabriella, Murray's 13th novel for Forge is a gory, macabre and depressing western combining cattle-ranching politics and a murder mystery. Ellis Burke is a rookie forest ranger in the new federal...
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Earl Murray, Author McGraw-Hill/Contemporary $8.95 (165p) ISBN 978-0-8092-4642-7
Murray, a writer of historical novels and westerns who resides in Montana, relates oral histories of people's alleged encounters with ghosts and spirits in the Old West. The author discusses myths surrounding the spirits of pioneer settlers and...
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Earl Murray, Author Forge $22.95 (413p) ISBN 978-0-312-09706-6
Events immediately preceding Custer's death at the Little Big Horn provide the backdrop for an engaging new novel by the author of Song of Wovoka . Mason Hall has signed on with General George Crook's expedition against the Sioux as a way to exit...
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Earl Murray, Author Forge $23.95 (382p) ISBN 978-0-312-85915-2
In this mildly engaging oater, Murray follows up Thunder in the Dawn, which dealt with events preceding the Battle of Little Bighorn, with a well-researched account of the fate of Custer and others. Former war correspondent Adam Garrett, though...
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Earl Murray, Author Forge $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-86189-6
Relying upon the actual journal kept by a Nez Perce woman on an 1841 fur expedition into the far Southwest, Murray (Ghosts of the Old West) weaves a gripping tale of greed, betrayal and courage. Spirit of the Moon, the novel's narrator and main...
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Earl Murray, Author Forge $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-86515-3
The author of more than 20 historical novels about frontier America (Ghosts of the Old West), Murray captures both the fantastic challenges and the tedious drudgery of pioneer travel. Set in 1846, his latest follows the adventures of Gabriella Hall,
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Earl Murray, Author Forge $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-86123-0
By the time she arrived in Colorado in 1873, via San Francisco and the Sierras, 40-something Isabella Bird, one of Victorian England's freer spirits and most popular travel writers, had already completed solo explorations of Australia, New Zealand...
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