I am looking for the name of a book set in the old west. The hero is on a stage headed back to his ranch from the east coast when it is held up by Danny (danielle and her cohort). Because the hero is dressed like an easterner and offends danny with something he says, she takes his boots and makes him walk to the next town. Hero (maybe his name is beau?) decides to teach her a lesson and kidnaps her, leaving a trail for her cohort to follow while she is tied down in the sun in a technique hero had learned from the indians. After he leaves her, he decides to go back and grab her because he thinks she is a boy under the bad influence of her older cohort -- truth is, she is the boss in a historical romance way -- i.e. the old man only goes along with danny's outlaw plan to protect her because she would do with or without. So hero goes back to grab her and take her to his ranch with a job so she gives up the outlaw life. Then he realizes he is a she and the romance begins.

The first time you posted this, I had Googled while using lots of combinations of keywords, but with no luck.

I suggest you call or visit your local public library and ask for reader's advisory help at the reference desk. They have all sorts of print and electronic resources. It's good that you have remembered names and various incidents. That should help them figure out a title more quickly. If you can remember the approximate copyright date (or how long ago you read it) and if it's a YA or adult romance, that would help too. Also, was it a paperback, say, a Harlequin title?

Thanks wondergirl. It was perhaps avon or jove that was the publisher. It was an adult romance, and I believe the copyright date was around 1994.