Zane Grey
3) Avalanche
Raised together in the wild country of the Tonto basin, Jake and Verde grew up closer than brothers. But when they both fell in love with the same fickle woman, their friendship turned to raging hate. The only force that could mend that shattered trust was the raging fury of nature itself.
Monty Price was a man with a secret. Several times each year, he disappeared with his accumulated pay, not to be heard from again for months. And when he came back, he wouldn't say where he had been or what he had been doing. It was a selfish obsession, and he wouldn't break his habits for man or beast. But when a forest fire threatened, he found depths of courage in his soul that would change his life forever.
In thirty years of prospecting, old Jim had never discovered Amber's Mirage--a shining cliff above a spring that ran heavy with gold. But his young sidekick took up the search to find the gold--a search that would cost him two years away from wild Ruby, the woman he loved.