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Pub. Date
2021
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English
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"In Texas's Big Bend country, every man has a price. For crime lord Harry Holland and his ruthless gang of cutthroats, that price is [dollar]20,000--a ransom demand for the kidnapped daughter of a retired Army colonel. So far, neither the Army nor the Rangers have been able to penetrate Holland's guarded fortress. In desperation, the colonel turns to the Jackals. As a longtime friend, retired cavalry sergeant Sean Keegan is determined to bring the...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press/Gale
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen stories, where good meets bad, and everything inbetween, from the legendary author of the west, Elmer Kelton. Law of the Land chronicles some of his most exciting and dangerous tales of the old west, collected together for the first time--including the exciting first publication of a never-before published Kelton story, Biscuits for Bandit"--Provided by the publisher.
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Pub. Date
2021
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English
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"'On this trip there will be no cussing, no drinking, no gambling, and no loose women.' No problem. Or so Red Ryan thinks--until he meets the passengers. They include four holy and silent monks, one beautiful lady tutor, and a drunken, washed-up gunfighter. Even worse, they're crossing the wild Texas hill country where bloodthirsty Apaches are on the loose and a killer is on the prowl. But that can't compare to what's waiting for them at Fredericksburg....
4) Texarkana
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English
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"JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. RUSTLERS' PARADISE. At first, the job sounds easy: lead a small herd of horses across the Arkansas-Texas border to the Double-D ranch near Texarkana. No problem--at least not for a man like Perley Gates. In fact, he's looking forward to the 150-mile journey with his old sidekick Possum Smith and young Sonny Rice, and doesn't expect any trouble along the way. Unfortunately, trouble has a way of finding Perley Gates. This time, it's...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press/Gale
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Alice's Trading Post is the story of an untamable, unforgettable woman with a wry wit who lives 103 adventurous years. She survives all the west could throw at a woman, fights to be herself, live free, and find love. Treat her with respect, you walk away safe. If not, there will be consequences. Alice never met her young Army of the West officer father stationed in Oregon Territory, 1860s. She's raised like a boy by her Canadian trapper stepfather...
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"From the battlefield of Shiloh to the prisoner camp at Slocum, former Union soldier Cleveland Trewe has seen more than enough carnage for one lifetime. Now that the war is over he's found work as a peacekeeper and prospector--the perfect set of survival skills for a town like Axle Bust, Nevada, a place seething with danger. Cleve's uncle staked a claim in Axle Bust only to lose it to a murderous con-man partnered with Duncan Conroy, owner of the...
7) Bad River
Author
Series
Ranger series (Ralph W. Cotton) volume 40
Publisher
Thorndike Press/Gale
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Ranger Sam Burrack is riding to the Mexico Valley to hunt down the Arizona Cowboy Gang, notorious bandits who have topped the Most Wanted list for the past year. Now they're robbing banks and trains on both sides of the border. Burrack knows it won't be easy. He won't find the gunmen just waiting to be arrested in Bad River. But with patience--and a little luck--he will find them nearby, maybe in the limestone mountains, maybe in the caves above...
8) Dead River
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Pub. Date
2022
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English
Description
"When Matt McCulloch breaks Apache renegade Blood Moon out of jail, his fellow jackals Sean Keegan and Jed Breen follow them into Mexico. Now, all four are wanted men. The U.S. Army and bounty hunters are in pursuit. Awaiting them south of the border are Mexican rurales led by Confederate expatriate Major Block Frazer seeking revenge. But nothing will stop McCulloch from completing his mission to save his daughter from the Apache band who abducted...
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"Settling the American West required men to enforce peace in a land where justice was delivered from the barrel of a gun. Wagon trains along the Oregon Trail are falling prey to outlaws. With families being terrorized, Preacher and MacCallister volunteer to escort the next wagon train. Preacher travels with the settlers while MacCallister trails at a distance, scouting for trouble. Battered and weary, the travelers are no match for the trigger-happy...
10) Forever Texas
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It's 1852. The wounds of the Mexican War are healing. Regis Royle, co-owner of a steamship fleet, has made it out alive, relatively unscarred and with enough profit and foolhardy ambition to envision a new life in south Texas. With the help of his crack-shot kid brother Shepley, his glad-handing riverboat partner Cormac Delany, and his old friend, raw-edged former Texas Ranger Jarvis 'Bone' McGraw, Regis is laying claim to the prime jewel in a magnificent...
11) Preacher's purge
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"When greed overtakes men's souls, it falls to the righteous mountaineer known as Preacher to rain fire and brimstone upon them from the barrels of his guns . . . Preacher has agreed to escort Barnaby Cooper through Dakota Territory's hills to establish a trading post. Accompanied by his friends Lorenzo and Tall Dog, the mountain man hopes they'll be able to protect Cooper from Sioux warriors who don't want any white man trespassing on their sacred...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this compelling new installment of bestselling author Ralph Compton's Sundown Riders series, a man seeks revenge for the death of his wife and sons while caring for his traumatized daughter. Carl Novak returned to the Texas hill country after fighting in the Civil War, but unlike most of his neighbors, Carl didn't fight for the Confederacy. He was a Union soldier. Carl tries to resume his life as a farmer with his wife and three children. One...
13) Silver Grass
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Publisher
Thorndike Press/Gale
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Large print edition.
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English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Wilsey Grant is on his own when he meets a traveler on foot. The two arrive in the town of Silver Grass, where the other man finds work washing dishes. Wilsey goes out to look for work and meets an indentured servant girl, an orphan like himself. Before long, the fellow traveler turns up dead. Wilsey goes to work at the nearby Emerald Peaks Ranch, where he hears of ranch hands terrorizing the settlers, and he witnesses the shooting...
14) The bootheel
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Publisher
Thorndike Press/Gale
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
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English
Description
"All Tyler ever wanted was to be a cowhand. Virgil Hutt, The Bootheel's owner, brought the orphan boy to the ranch and raised him like a son. Word comes that rustlers have made off with The Bootheel's cattle. Tyler, Hutt, and the other ranch hands find the outlaws. They find a captive Indian girl, Luak, and take her back to The Bootheel. Though Luak can't speak English, Tyler's affection for her grows. Dalton Fox and his men capture Tyler and Luak....
15) Cimarrón
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
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English
Description
"Cimarrón meant wild. Untamed. Thats how Calvin Taylor, the young man they called Choctaw, saw himself. As free of restraint as the raw new land he wandered, where the only law was lynch law. Someone who couldnt be broken to the plow. Choctaws stamping ground was the Arizona Territory of 1873. He worked as a mustanger, catching and breaking wild horses; for the army scouting against Apaches; as a cowboy trailing horse thieves. Each adventure added...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Setting up shop in rip-roaring Spanish Fort, Texas, in the early 1870s, Big Eddie Hager outfitted many cowboys in boots as they headed up the Chisholm Trail. Hagers fame and his company grew with the years, turning Hager Boots & Company, Incorporated, into a global legend. But when a Dallas newspaper reporter arrives in whats left of Spanish Fort, an old-timer sets the record straight by telling the true story of the man behind the Hager legend-the...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a art of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"When a decades-old feud between a wealthy plantation owner named Watson and a mixed-blood Chickasaw family explodes in violence, Elijah Two-Buck finds himself homeless and on the run. Locating his brother, the infamous Kid Jace, and his gang of cattle rustlers, Lige reluctantly joins the band of thieves. But when a Watson-led raid on the Two-Buck family farm results in the loss of innocent lives and the law refuses to intervene, the brothers realize...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1917, and the Mexican Revolution has the Big Bend of Texas aflame. But the firestorm is no greater than the one inside newspaper reporter Jack Landon. Disillusioned, he flees down the road to nowhere and finds himself in Esperanza. Populated by people of Mexican heritage, the small village on the Texas bank of the Rio Grande is a target of Texas Rangers Company B, which unjustly considers it a bandit den. Jack befriends a teenaged boy and his...
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Series
Jackals volume 5
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"When a band of merciless, murdering thieves raise hell across the territory, three men committed to justice descend upon them like angels of death. And when the guns fall silent and the smoke clears, the Jackals are always the last men standing. Comanchero Cullen Brice has escaped from a Huntsville, Alabama, prison, where he was sentenced to hang. And he has sworn revenge against the man who killed his brother and put him behind bars, Texas Ranger...
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