Lona Hanson

Originally published in 1948, one year after A. B. Guthrie’s The Big Sky, Lona Hanson establishes many of the themes of Thomas Savage’s later masterworks. In ranchwoman Lona Hanson, Savage creates an extraordinary character: passionate, driven, domineering and ultimately tragic...

The Casebook of Sheriff Pete Benson

Pete Benson was a big-city police detective. His job was intense, dangerous, and 24/7. He loved it. But he also had a loving wife and two young children he hardly saw. So he made a choice.

Now Sheriff Pete Benson patrols Rhyolite County, Montana. His beat is bigger than some states, but it’s beautiful country...

600 Hours of Edward

Edward Stanton is a man hurtling headlong toward middle age. His mental illness has led him to be sequestered in his small house in a small city, where he keeps his distance from the outside world and the parents from whom he is largely estranged. For the most part, Edward sticks to things he can count on...and things he can count...

The Bottom of the Sky

The Bottom of the Sky, a debut novel, is an aching rags-to-riches family saga that springs from rural Montana squalor into the power chambers of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. The story contrasts the 30-year struggles of an abused sister and brother who, after one abandons the other, seek to claim themselves from their abhorrent legacy...

The Pass

“The Pass” was Thomas Savage’s first novel, written by the iconic Western novelist in the 1930s and originally published by Doubleday in 1944. The book, set near Savage’s hometown of Dillon, Montana, takes place around 1910 when the area is newly settled...

Lodestar

Riverbend is pleased to be distributing Lodestar by Sarie Mackay, which tells the story of young Persis Allen. Persis travels west to marry a successful railroad baron in 1880 and begin a life of adventure with him in Territorial Montana. Persis arrives in Helena and finds a wild, unruly place of dreams, characters and outlaws, a place that sends cowards home and forces the courageous to stand tall...

Sherlock Holmes: The Montana Chronicles

For the first time, here are the long-lost records of four intriguing mysteries solved by the famous English detective Sherlock Holmes when he traveled to Montana in the late 1800s. Using his inimitable eye for clues, his astounding deductive reasoning, and – when necessary – clever subterfuge, Holmes solves a very public murder at the famous Opera House, a supernatural theft of gold...

The Watershed Years

This is the long-awaited sequel to Rowland’s highly aclaimed first novel, In Open Spaces. Follow the Arbuckle family through years of troubles, trials, and triumphs as they struggle to hold their Montana ranch - and their family - together. In this dramatic story, brothers and wives turn against each other as they struggle with greed, deceit, and murder...

Horses They Rode

A dramatic novel of love, family, and changing cultures along Montana’s rugged Rocky Mountain Front. The novel lyrically weaves the protagonist’s journey through women, children, horses, and Indian spirituality, culminating in a thrilling cross-country horse race. His storytelling is full of rhythm and surprise...

On Sarpy Creek

A novel of love, adultery, murder, race, family, and forgiveness in a tight-knit Montana community after World War I. This is a masterpiece in its exploration of human emotions and motivations.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Western Writers of America ranked these four stories as the best short stories of the 20th Century, but they have never been collected in one book until now. This edition is destined to earn a place in every western library. Great educational tool.

The Story of Mary MacLane

The Story of Mary MacLane shocked the literary world when it was published in April 1902. It sold 100,000 copies in its first month, an astonishing number then and now. Within a few years it had been translated into 36 languages, and writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, and Gertrude Stein lauded it as an important...

Short in the Saddle

It's not always the biggest fish or biggest game that you remember about days in the outdoors. It's the funny stuff that happens along the way. Enjoy these great stories illustrated with the cartoons of John Potter.