Jon R Horton: 6 books

The last natural cowboy and the last natural bear duel in the wilderness of Yellowstone — each of them hungry for a death with meaning. Gib is the story of the passing of a generation of men who suffered the Great Depression, fought in WWII and Korea, then lived to mourn the greatest threat yet...

Detective Tom Thompson of the Teton County Sheriff's Office in the beautiful little resort town of Jackson, Wyoming is in a delicate condition. He's a Viet vet and recovering alcoholic with a bitter ex-wife, a confused teen-aged son, and a house he can't afford being built. Tommy's...

Tom "Tommy" Thompson's investigation will lead him to the far south of Mexico, and the mountain home of the Mixtec Indians of Oaxaca, the mysterious Cloud People. Murder, artifact smuggling, Zapatista rebels, designer hallucinogens, and sacrificial rituals make this novel one for the books.

Thompson’s fall from grace is precipitated by his investigation when a Mormon polygamist is murdered in an elk-hunting camp near Jackson Hole. As fate would have it, the dead man is a first cousin to Tom's ex-wife and their son is a witness to the hideous murder. Tom’s investigation takes...

James "Snuffy" Johnson wakes up two days before the Christmas Eve dance with his whole life planned around his engagement to the daughter of a neighboring homesteader. If you want to hear God chuckle, it is said, tell him your plans. That Christmas of 1926, the young man's path leads him far...

By 1840, American politics was a paradox—unprecedented freedom and equality for men of European descent, and the simultaneous isolation and degradation of people of African and Native American descent. Historians have characterized this phenomenon as the "white republic." Race and the...