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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Ever since he left Scotland to start a new life in America, Duff MacCallister has stayed true to the values and traditions of his clan in the Highlands. But as Christmas approaches, he yearns to reconnect with his family -- even the ones he hasn't met yet. This year, two of his American cousins -- twins Andrew and Rosanna -- will be joining Duff for the holidays at the Sky Meadow Ranch. That is, if they manage to get there alive . . . The twins'...
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive?...
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Series
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"The newspapers call them the Devil's Horde. A well-oiled team of cutthroat bandits who terrorize the Northern Pacific Railway en route to the coast through Dakota Territory. They dynamite the tracks, blow open the express car door, murder the crewmen, rob the passengers, and empty the safe of gold and cash. If Wells Fargo & Company can't find a way to stop the Devil's Horde, there'll be hell to pay . . . Enter Wolf Stockburn. A tall rangy Scotsman...
Author
Publisher
TwoDot
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
During the 1800s trains carried the nation's wealth throughout the east, but no one thought to rob a speeding train until 1866. In 1870 the first western train was robbed in Nevada and within hours a second train was robbed. Railroads made every alteration to their cars and changed every procedure they could imagine to thwart the robbers, but to no avail. Robbing trains became epidemic over the next five decades, even when the legislatures made train...
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English
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"Stretching across the wild western frontier, the railroad needs guardians like Wells Fargo detective Wolf Stockburn. Known as the Wolf of the Rails, the steely Scotsman is as cold and hard as the tracks he rides -- and those too foolish to fear him will soon lie dead at his feet . . . When train robbers hit the Boot Hill Express -- so called because of all the people riding it who have ended up dead -- with a full head of steam, Wolf Stockburn makes...
9) Cutthroats
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Series
Language
English
Description
"After a lifetime of robbing banks and holding up trains, Jimmy 'Slash' Braddock and Melvin 'Pecos Kid' Baker are ready to call it quits. Sold out by their old gang, Slash and Pecos have to bust out of jail and pull one last job to finance their early retirement. The target is a payroll train. Catch is: the train is carrying a Gatling gun and twenty deputy US marshals who know they’re coming. Caught and sentenced to hang, their old enemy--Marshal...
10) Rio Lobo
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
English
Description
A spectacular robbery of a Union pay train by Confederate guerillas leads to the train's colonel befriending the leaders of the robbery when the war ends. Together, they seek the Union traitors responsible for a string of Confederate train robberies.
11) Boxcar Bertha
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c1972
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1930's, a homeless woman and an union organizer team up on a crime spree to get revenge from a railroad company.
Author
Publisher
TwoDot
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
[2nd edition].
Language
English
Description
Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan was an outlaw, gunfighter and infamous member of the Butch Cassidy gang. With more than fifteen killings attributed to him, and given his involvement in the Butch Cassidy gang, "Kid Curry" was as renowned a figure as you were likely to find west of the Mississippi. Short of stature yet enormous in reputation, after Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid fled for South America, Logan became the most wanted outlaw in the United...
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, also known as the Sundance Kid, discussing his childhood in Pennsylvania, outlaw activities, attempts to live a crime-free life, death, and other topics; and includes photographs.
Author
Series
A.C. Greene volume 13
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Author
Series
A.C. Greene volume 8
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
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