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Author
Series
Woman who volume 5
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"When January Billings receives a letter informing her not only of the death of a grandfather she knew nothing about, but also that a meeting with his attorney would be to her best advantage, she is both angry and intrigued. Eli Pasco convinces her to follow up on the matter. A second note warning her to stay away or else it might "prove bad for her health" only makes the decision easier. January is not a woman to be cowed by threats. Turns out her...
1182) Red Trail
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"An outbreak of hostilities with Comanches has disrupted the usual trail routes. But Mase Durst must get his cows from his Texas ranch to the railway up in Wichita, Kansas, or face losing his land, which the bank is fixing to foreclose on. He's forced to take his herd on a little-used route called the Red Trail--little used for good reasons. It's a tough trek: dangerous, narrow, and fraught with banditry. Along the way, Durst and his men face numerous...
1183) Northwest passage
Publisher
Loew's Incorporated
Pub. Date
1940
Language
English
Description
An American historical drama about a group of settlers known as Rogers' Rangers--led by Major Rogers (Spencer Tracy)--and the hardships of survival and battles with hostile Indians, they encounter in trying to settle the upper New York state area for their families in the late 1750s and early 1760s.
1184) Hangman's choice
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Federal Deputy Sullivan Hart arrived too late to rescue his father. But the elder Hart managed to identify his killers by scrawling "Los Pistoleros" in his own blood. This outlaw gang has been involved in everything from cattle rustling to running guns without getting caught. Hart aims to end that lucky streak. But he isn't the only one. Quick Charlie Sims, gambler and con man, has his own score to settle with Los Pistoleros. And he can't let Hart...
1185) Adobe moon
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
After growing up on an Iowa farm, Wyatt Earp is ready to live by his wits rather than the sweat of his back. In California, a Mexican girl tells him the adobe moon prophecy: if you do not achieve your dreams, you must settle for what you have, a philosophy that haunts him. After many menial jobs, Wyatt settles down as a constable in Missouri and sinks into depression when his wife and child die in childbirth. Soon wanted by the law, Wyatt bides his...
1186) Born to the badge
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Shunted from his entrepreneurial ambitions to profit from the boomtowns of the frontier, Wyatt Earp returns to law enforcement. In Wichita, Kansas the town leaders become disenchanted with his hardline methods, and so he moves to a place where an iron rule is needed, Dodge City. With him comes Mattie Blaylock, a runaway prostitute, who, like Wyatt, is searching for a chance at a better life. As marshal in Dodge, Wyatt establishes a reputation as...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Edition
Large print ed.
Language
English
Description
Cotton Pickens gets fired from his job as sheriff of Doubtful, Wyoming, a booming mining town and mourns the loss of his murdered horse, Critter, when a flashy stage show arrives in town and stirs up the locals, and after a man is found stabbed to death, a bank safe gets blown up, and the sheriff from another county shows up, Cotton begins to suspect that there is a plot to take over Doubtful.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Leader of the last of the great outlaw bands--the Oklahombres--Bill Doolin outfoxed the law while trying to walk the line between being a good man and bad. He was a family man and a bank and train and stagecoach robber. By the end of his reign, almost every one of his gang had been gunned down, and now the law was out to finish him as well. But it would not be easy, not even for the likes of the famed U.S. Marshals led by Heck Thomas. A fictional...
Author
Series
Jeremiah Halstead volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Silver Cloud, Montana. A mining town welcome to all seeking to make their fortune. And a place where a lawman has to watch his back before some hardcase empties his pistol into it. Deputy U.S. Marshal Jeremiah Halstead is escorting notorious outlaw John Hudson across the territory for trial when he's ambushed by a pack of Hudson's men anxious to rescue their partner from his custody. Halstead puts the blast on them, but outnumbered and outgunned,...
1190) Promised land
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"In Tombstone, Arizona Territory, despite a silver strike promising entrepreneurial opportunities, Wyatt Earp returns to law enforcement, posing a new threat to the Cow-boy rustlers running rampant on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border. The Earp brothers make as many enemies as they do allies in a deeply divided community. Aspiring to be county sheriff, Wyatt bargains with outlaw informants in his pursuit of three wanted men. When the deal unravels,...
1192) Hugh Glass
Author
Publisher
Bruce Bradley
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
HE WAS A WHITE MAN, WHOSE STORY WAS SO POWERFUL IT BECAME A TRADITION AMONG THE INDIANS OF THE AMERICAN PLAINS! For most of his thirty-seven years, Hugh Glass lived his life as an ordinary seaman, but in 1817 his ship was captured and he was given the choice to join a pirate crew or die. From that time on his life became an adventure that ranged from the edges of the Caribbean to the heart of the American wilderness. Based on a true story. Mauled...
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