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Phil Sundeen thinks Deputy Sheriff Kirby Frye is just a green local kid with a tin badge. And when the wealthy cattle baron's men drag two prisoners from Frye's jail and hang them from a high tree, there's nothing the untried young lawman can do about it. But Kirby's got more grit than Sundeen and his hired muscles bargained for. They can beat the boy and humilate him, but they can't make him forget the jog he has sworn to do. The cattleman has
...2) Wildfire
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In a land of red cliffs and towering stone monuments, with the brooding Colorado River running through it, the unmatched Zane Gray sets his classic novel about a rancher, a blood feud, and a horse named. . .
Wildfire.
Bostic, a powerful rancher with a strong-willed 18-year-old daughter, has lost track of Lucy's wanderings. Caught up in a feud with two families, running his empire with an iron fist, Bostic does not know that Lucy has met a man who...
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From a master storyteller of Old West adventures comes this novel of romance and redemption. Zane Grey, author of Riders of the Purple Sage, introduces Hell-Bent Wade, a gunfighter with a shadowy past. Wade arrives at a Colorado homestead where a young woman is being pressured into matrimony. Rancher Bill believes that marriage to Columbine, his foster daughter, will steady his wild and unruly son, Jack. Columbine is torn between her feelings of duty...
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Heart of the West is a collection of 19 short stories highlighting the complicated relationship between men and women, law and order, honor and obligation. These compelling tales are filled with memorable characters and fascinating conflicts. In Heart of the West, O. Henry explores the illustrious region featuring cowboys, outlaws, rangers and sheepherders. It consists of 19 short stories celebrating the unique culture and happenings in the Old West....
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Canadian West series volume 1
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Elizabeth Thatcher is young, pretty, cultured, and educated. But when she journeys west to teach school in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, she's completely unprepared for the conditions she encounters. Still, she's determined to succeed at the formidable task of fitting in with the locals and shaping the hearts and minds of the schoolchildren in her care. She's just as determined not to give her heart to any of the local frontiersmen. Until...
7) Black jack
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Renowned writer of westerns Max Brand gives the age-old nature-vs.-nurture debate a new spin in Black Jack. The Black Jack of the title is a notorious gunslinger who is shot down in his prime. His young son, Terry, is cared for and reared by a network of family friends. Is the young man doomed to follow in his father's foolhardy footsteps? Read Black Jack to find out.
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Zane Grey, who is best known for his novel "Riders of the Purple Sage," helped to define the popular image of the Old West through his popular adventure novels. First published in 1910, "The Heritage of the Desert" is set in the American southwest where John Hare is found dying in the desert and consequently nursed back to health by the rancher August Naab. John soon finds himself caught between his indebtedness to the generous rancher, whose daughter...
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Business ain't easy when the locals stand to lose it all.
"Molly conceived a resentment against the rich cattleman who could impose such restrictions and embitter the lives of poor people. And as for Traft's tenderfoot nephew, who had come out of Missouri to run a hard outfit and build barbed-wire fences, Molly certainly hated him."
Although he doesn't know cattle or cowboys, Missourian Jim Traft finds himself as the foreman of a tough Arizona outfit...
10) Brionne
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Major James Brionne brought Dave Allard to trial for murder. Just before the hanging, Dave swore his brothers would take vengenance. Four year later the Allard boys retumed to settle the score. Only Brionne’s son escaped. They murdered his wife, destroyed his home, and left Brionne nothing but the charred ruins of his past to haunt him. Seeking peace and a new life, Brionne and the boy headed west. But the Allards hadn’t finished with...
11) Whiskey river
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Sundown Riders volume 5
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Former Confederate soldiers-turned-outlaws Mark Rogers and Bill Harder are given a choice between serving a prison sentence or infiltrating a dangerous gang of whiskey runners, with the return of their confiscated lands offered as a further incentive.
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Milt Dale, man of the forest, halted at the edge of a timbered ridge, to listen and to watch. Beneath him lay a narrow valley, open and grassy, from which rose a faint murmur of running water. Its music was pierced by the wild staccato yelp of a hunting coyote. From overhead in the giant fir came a twittering and rustling of grouse settling for the night; and from across the valley drifted the last low calls of wild turkeys going to roost. To Dale's...
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Danny Duggin novels volume 2
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In this Ralph Compton western, the Strange twins find themselves in double trouble... Young Jed and Tim Strange lost their father to an outlaw's bullet, and now their mother has succumbed to a fatal illness. Unable to farm their land due to a lack of funds, the twins set out to find their sister-who left home to avenge their father's death over a year ago. Farm life hasn't prepared the twins for the rough-and-tumble cow towns west of Missouri. And...
14) Comstock Lode
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It was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vultures—they were lured by the glittering promise of instant riches and survived the brutal hardships of a mining camp to raise a legendary boom town. But some sought more than wealth. Val Trevallion, a loner haunted by a violent past. Grita Redaway,...
15) Dark thicket
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Donovan: Donovan was supposed to be dead. The town of Dry Fork, southern Texas, had buried him years before when Uncle Joe Vickers had fired off both barrels of a shotgun into the vicious outlaw's face as he was escaping from jail. Now, Uncle Joe has been shot-in just the same way. And Judge Upshaw had found a noose hanging on his door. It looked as though Donovan was back-gunning for the people who had tracked him down and tried him. Sheriff Webb...
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Trailsman volume 300
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Fargo must match up against a murdering monster!
In his time, Skye Fargo has tracked, trapped, and tussled with every sort of man or beast west of the Mississippi. But now, he’s headed east, where he’s been hired by a group of Illinois citizens to stop a depraved killer—the Sagamon River Monster. For years, entire families have been slaughtered without mercy, and none who pursue the Monster are ever heard from again. But...
In his time, Skye Fargo has tracked, trapped, and tussled with every sort of man or beast west of the Mississippi. But now, he’s headed east, where he’s been hired by a group of Illinois citizens to stop a depraved killer—the Sagamon River Monster. For years, entire families have been slaughtered without mercy, and none who pursue the Monster are ever heard from again. But...
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Trailsman volume 265
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Fargo gets rough with a gold-greedy goon!
Hollis Blackburn has a way of turning lead into gold. He has other miners shot. But when bullets don’t work on the Black Hills mining camp of Busted Hump, Hollis sends them a special package—infected with Pestilence.
Now Skye Fargo is tending to the sick, consoling the townswomen, and planning a little lead-work of his own.
Hollis Blackburn has a way of turning lead into gold. He has other miners shot. But when bullets don’t work on the Black Hills mining camp of Busted Hump, Hollis sends them a special package—infected with Pestilence.
Now Skye Fargo is tending to the sick, consoling the townswomen, and planning a little lead-work of his own.
18) Frisco filly
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Trailsman volume 240
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Skye Fargo takes to the San Francisco stage—and knocks 'em dead...
The Trailsman gets mixed up with a troupe of actors who are about to take a final bow right into the grave—and some murderous criminals who are out to steal the show. But the Trailsman's going to show the thieving thugs that this show will go on-even if their lives don't...
The Trailsman gets mixed up with a troupe of actors who are about to take a final bow right into the grave—and some murderous criminals who are out to steal the show. But the Trailsman's going to show the thieving thugs that this show will go on-even if their lives don't...
19) Dakota danger
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Trailsman volume 299
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Fargo loses his deadliest weapon…
Rescuing a damsel in distress is nothing new to Skye Fargo—but Amy Fenton is no average damsel. She’s beautiful, she’s bright, and she’s just inherited several lucrative businesses from her father. But in dangerous Dakota Territory, no one holds on to anything unless they can fight for it. So Fargo signs on with Amy as a hired gun—and ends up on the wrong end of a bushwhack...
Rescuing a damsel in distress is nothing new to Skye Fargo—but Amy Fenton is no average damsel. She’s beautiful, she’s bright, and she’s just inherited several lucrative businesses from her father. But in dangerous Dakota Territory, no one holds on to anything unless they can fight for it. So Fargo signs on with Amy as a hired gun—and ends up on the wrong end of a bushwhack...
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Lonesome Dove saga volume 1
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A love story and an epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last, defiant wilderness of America. Richly authentic, beautifully written, Lonesome Dove is a book to make readers laugh, weep, dream and remember. Now a blockbuster television event.
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