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Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition, Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Peter Quince was a fighter born and bred. Orphaned at a young age, he remembered an old woman saying that he was a bad one and would cause a lot of trouble in the world. Others claimed he had bad blood and it would show up sooner or later. But Bill Andrews felt a connection with the boy, took him home and raised him as one of his own despite his wife's misgivings. Peter soon learned he could manipulate people by withholding his true feelings--showing...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition, First edition.
Language
English
Description
Edward Dugan left his home in Boston with a bequest from his father--mining certificates giving him ownership of the Christabel mine. Although they have a face value of 250,000 dollars, the mine has been declared worthless. However, Henry Christian, the man who originally sold the mining stock to Dugan's father, has offered to buy back the stock certificates for 1,500 dollars. Since he has no money, Dugan decides to walk the 3,000 miles to Potts...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2009], �1995
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Raw frontier action is epitomized in Lee Porfilo. With a penchant for settling his problems with his fists, a penniless fighter constantly in trouble, he finds himself framed for murder by wealthy and powerful ranchers. Now he has an enemy for life. In a desperate bid to prove his innocence, flees into the wilderness, with the law and bounty hunters in hot pursuit. An interesting story written in the older style of language usage that you'll find...
25) Alcatraz
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Prolific writer of Westerns Max Brand is credited with helping to popularize the genre and define some its key characteristics. The novel Alcatraz is a perfect example of what Max Brand excelled at, bringing together interesting characters, a tightly plotted storyline, a deep reverence for the landscape, and plenty of thrilling action.
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
He dipped out of the brighter level into a premature night below; evening was gathering quickly, and with each step Connor felt the misty darkness closing above his head. He was stumbling over the boulders, downheaded, hardly able to see the ground at his feet, yet when he reached the bottom of the little ravine which ran toward the entrance, he looked up to a red sky, and the higher mountains rolled off in waves of light. Distances were magnified;...
27) Ronicky Doone
Author
Series
Ronicky Doone novels volume 1
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
The ever-popular Ronicky Doone series from renowned Western author Max Brand features one of the most indelibly memorable protagonists in the genre. Although Ronicky is a stand-up guy with a deep-seated sense of honor and loyalty, he often finds himself stuck in scrapes that require some creative thinking to get out of. If you love unforgettable characters mixed up in action-packed adventures, you'll love Ronicky Doone.
28) Trailin'!
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Trailin'!" by Max Brand. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
33) Iron Dust
Author
Publisher
Start Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Andrew Lanning's father dies, his Uncle Jasper takes him under his wing and raises him for the next fifteen years. Jasper wants his nephew to be the kind of man who rightly belongs to the Lanning clan: good with horses, and even better with guns. But the results prove disappointing-Andrew becomes the town's mild-mannered blacksmith. However, something soon happens that changes all that in a single day. When the belligerent Buck Heath confronts...
34) Old Carver Ranch
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
After ten years of wandering, during which he has lived the life of a gambler and learned the ways of devious men, Tom Keene returns home, only to find his father alone and dying.
Old John Keene's sole legacy to his son is a Bible, so with his father's passing, Tom Keene renounces his selfish, worthless past and sets out to preach to others that the greatest happiness is born of trust in one another.
Tom gets a chance to demonstrate his new way...
Author
Series
Publisher
Start Classics
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
A seventeen book collection by American author, Max Brand. Included in this collection is: Black Jack, Bull Hunter, Gunman's Reckoning, Harrigan, Riders of the Silences, Ronicky Doone, Ronicky Doone's Reward, Ronicky Doone's Treasure, The Garden of Eden, The Hair-Triggered Kid, The Night Horseman, The Rangeland Avenger, The Seventh Man, The Untamed, Trailin'!, Way of the Lawless, Alcatraz.
Author
Publisher
Books in Motion
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
This fast-paced story is about a tough rebel named Destry who is sent to prison for years, serving time for a crime he did not commit. Once out, he aims to seek revenge on the 12 jury members who sent him to prison. However, his mission isn't to kill but to find other unique ways as punishment...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Lorrimer Weldon has spent his life being a tumbleweed and rolling where the wind blows him. Up to Canada, down to Mexico, through deserts, forests, and mountains; anywhere fortune could be found. Those travels helped earn him a reputation as a gambler and a gunfighter-a reputation that frequently preceded him.
When Weldon rode into San Trinidad, he found he immediately had two job offers: the outlaw Roger Cunningham wants Weldon to join his smuggling...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Found among a group of unpublished works by Frederick Faust, these two Western stories both deal with cowardice. In "Traynor" the title character is believed to be a weak young man, having let Dr. Parker Channing steal his love, Rose Laymon, away from him. When the stage Traynor is driving into Little Snake is robbed and Traynor's best friend and stage guard, Sam Whitney, is killed by the robber, Traynor chases the thief and recovers his dropped...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition, Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"In "The White Streak," twenty-one-year-old Jimmy Babcock, a former football star, but now a worker at the local bank run by William Parker in the town of Dresser, which has changed from cattle country to one made up of oil and alfalfa fields. When Parker fires Jimmy, all Jimmy can think is how he will hurt Muriel Aiken, his fiancée, who wants to marry. When his father signs over the old family homestead to him that is in serious need of repair,...
40) Daring duval
Author
Publisher
Center Point Publishing
Pub. Date
11/01/2017
Language
English
Description
Within ten days of stepping out of the woods near the town of Moose Creek, Duval is the most popular man in the district. After all, what's not to like? He is a good listener, generous with his money, a great cook and host, and a hard worker on old Dad Wilbur's place, which he bought for $1,500. He wins the admiration of Sheriff Nat Adare when he quells and befriends the often-wild Charlie Nash and pays for the damages Charlie has caused in the town...