Böcker av Jim Overstreet

The Canadian Horse is the fourth novel in the Rodeo in the Blood series. In the opening scene, C.R. Winchester steals a steer wrestling horse in Canada and smuggles him into Montana where he brands the horse with his own iron. Although C.R. intends to use the horse to further his own rodeo career, he is forced to sell him after he is jailed for a hit-and-run driving fatality. Rusty Blackstone, Warren Weston and Casey Jones buy the horse to take the place of Rusty's great steer wrestling horse Apache. The aftershocks vibrate throughout the story, all the way to the National Finals Rodeo.Even after coming to terms with her ex-husband, Warren Weston, Jenny finds that managing the Westmont Ranch that her six-year-old son, Todd, inherited from his grandfather becomes more difficult. The ranch appraisal comes in much higher than expected, creating a major tax liability. Her desire to hold the ranch together and the impossibility of paying the IRS from net income forces her to consider options that she hates to contemplate. She is not afraid to use her womanly wiles to make the best deal she can.Rusty and his long-time traveling partner, Casey Jones, qualify once more for the NFR. When Casey heads south at the end of the regular rodeo season, Samantha "Buckshot" Baldwin goes with him. Although his job on an oil pipeline falls through, they find temporary work on the border wall.Now working for Running W Real Estate and Ranch Management Company, Warren is resigned to finishing one place out to the top fifteen steer wrestlers who compete in the National Finals Rodeo. He is driving north to one of the ranches that he oversees when he gets a call from the PRCA commissioner telling him that he is in the Finals because one of the qualified contestants has torn up his knee.Rusty, Warren and Casey wind up practicing together in New Mexico to prepare for the NFR. That's where they meet the Canadian horse. Although they ask C.R. to price him, he initially refuses. Later, after Rusty's remaining horse, Boots, is injured, and C.R. needs to post bail and hire an attorney, they work out a deal. It's when the horse's previous owner shows up at the NFR to claim him that things start to fall apart. Can the tall man from Canada prove that the horse is his? And how will that affect Casey's chance to win a Championship.

A Montana Rivalry is a sweeping story of Rusty Blackstone and Warren Weston, two young men who become bitter rivals the first time they meet. It is a complex tale with many interacting characters. Set on modern day ranches in Montana and rodeos all over the West, the story is told by an author who grew up on a Montana ranch and competed in rodeos at all levels. Whether it is ranch work, saddle bronc riding or steer wrestling, the details that only an insider would know create a slightly exotic world that is completely authentic.Warren Weston is an only child. His parents own one of the best ranches in the state. His father is from back east and has a trust fund. His mother is the fifth-generation descendant of the hardy man who founded the ranch and made it prosper. His mother thinks of herself as Montana aristocracy. Although she can be a demanding woman, as far as she is concerned, Warren can do no wrong. On the other hand, nothing that Warren can do pleases his father. Although his family is wealthy, Warren grows up arrogant and emotionally destitute.Rusty Blackstone has two sisters. His father works on various ranches and often switches jobs and moves his family. His is a former professional saddle bronc rider and starts teaching Rusty to ride broncs at an early age. When he takes a job in New Mexico working for a large rodeo company, Rusty's mother refuses to go. She keeps the kids in Montana and works whatever low paying job she can find to support them. Rusty finds a job on a nearby ranch and spends all his free time working. He loves the work, and the older couple who own the ranch take him in as if he were their own. Even though his father only shows up a couple of his is supportive. With a loving mother and two younger sisters, Rusty grows up in a stable environment and has no idea that they are poor.Because Warren's parents sent him away to boarding school, the rivalry between the boys isn't a constant burden for either of them. At their hometown rodeo, on Labor Day just before their senior year in high school Rusty enters the saddle bronc riding and is astounded to see Warren steer wrestle with modest success. He decides right then that if Warren can do it, he can do it better.They both compete successfully in college rodeo, often trying their best to outdo each other. When Rusty ultimately partners with a professional steer wrestler to go down the rodeo road, Warren has to stay home on the ranch. He does manage to steal Rusty's girlfriend and marry her. Later, when he watches Rusty on television competing at the National Finals Rodeo, he figures that if Rusty can qualify for the Finals, he can too. He decides to buy a new horse and become a full-time professional steer wrestler himself. This has all kinds of negative effects on his personal life and makes Warren a pariah on the rodeo circuit. His encounters with Rusty are fraught with tension. It takes a couple of years before Warren can come to terms with all the unfair things in his life and find a way to be happy.In the end, Warren and Rusty go head-to-head for the World Championship in steer wrestling at the National Finals Rodeo.

A Montana Feud brings back all the rugged and passionate characters of the Rodeo in the Blood series for another drama-filled adventure. Fans of thrilling rodeo rides and the complexities of human relationships will find this story absorbing.During the pandemic shortened 2020 rodeo season, former rivals, Rusty Blackstone and Warren Weston, join forces to pursue their rodeo dreams. At a rodeo in Chinook, Montana, Rusty accidentally reignites a dormant feud between his father and rodeo producer Jake Augustine. Rusty is lucky to survive the ensuing turmoil.Meanwhile, Warren battles his ex-wife, Jenny, for a portion of his rightful inheritance. Throughout, Rusty, Warren, and Jenny struggle with the new arrangement to share their son, Todd. Warren battles to care for his invalid mother. Unexpected violence mars Rusty and Amanda's horseback wedding.Harlan, the only man they all trust, does his best to help them through everything.