Books by Lynn Davidson

The title poem of Islander is an essential definition: not rooted in landlocked blood and soil but connected by sea and distance, and the returning tides of Scotland, the archipelagos of New Zealand and the islands of Oceania. Here is a poet attuned to the ancient laws of movement and sensitive to the uncertainties, the vulnerable truths.

West of the Brazos is a story of a man and the settlement of a land. Jessie Lee Franklin rides west to find his future and finds it west of the Brazos river in far West Texas. He overcomes adversaries and meets new neighbors who are also there to settle the land. They overcome outlaws and raiders. Jessie makes a ride across the vast Llano Estacado trailing an outlaw. He meets Indians and ciboleros. They have a cattle drive and blaze new paths in a new land. A town is founded.

Roy Callahan is an old retired cowboy and construction man. He is driving through the West seeking a place where he would like to settle down. He has always liked the western cowboy life and would like to relive that life again.A man makes an emergency landing near his camp, and Roy saves the pilot by flying him to a hospital. This starts a chain of events that includes a large ranching operation, the invention of a super weapon, and a final showdown with terrorists.Along the way Roy makes a new friend, encounters Indians on their reservation, renews old-time friendships, and proves there is life and action left in an old cowboy.