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"There's something rotten in Wyoming, and the first whiff is coming off the Laramie County Cattlemen. Right off the bat Duff MacCallister notices there's no small-time ranchers allowed. It's big-leaguers only, like Brad Houser of the sprawling Twin Peaks ranch. He's up in arms over small-timers claiming escaped unbranded mavericks. Which is perfectly legal. But Houser has a plan to stop them: for $1000, he will make the small ranchers go away...
62) Call me lonesome
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"The Arkansas Traveler, a hired assassin, is obsessed with killing Morgan. He's waiting for him on the Arkansas River. The Pinkerton Detective Agency have put their best man hunters on his trail. Morgan has one thing going for him. His enemies have made him very mad, and surviving is the only way he can kill them all"--Provided by publisher.
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"The top dogs of bestselling western action thrillers hit the bullseye with Shotgun Johnny, a disgraced lawman whose quest for vengeance becomes a legendary fight for justice.Shotgun Johnny Greenway thought he'd hit rock bottom when he lost his wife and son, hung up his badge, and hit the bottle. But a pretty young woman gave him a second chance. Offered him a job riding shotgun for the Reverend's Temptation Gold Mine. Gave him a reason to live. But...
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2021
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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....
65) Axle Bust Creek
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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...
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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...
67) Dead River
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2022
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"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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2021
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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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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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Large print edition.
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"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...
70) Destiny, Texas
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
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2015
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Large print edition.
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"Before the Civil War, Argyle Dollarhyde had everything a man could ever want: a beautiful wife, three strong sons, and a prosperous stake in the booming cotton industry. But now, Union troops have left the South in ruins--and Dollarhyde's life is in shambles. Refusing to fall prey to carpetbaggers, Dollarhyde gathers up his family and sets out for the one place a man can still live free: Texas. Where the natives are as dangerous as the land itself....
71) Dead man's road
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Thorndike Press
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2015
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Large print edition.
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In the high Rocky Mountains, Civil War veteran Marshall Brewster has a vision of wealth and fame. Under the tutelage of a hardened railroad tycoon, Brewster will build a railroad connecting Colorado's booming silver mines to a country starved for wealth-and maybe win himself the hand of a beautiful woman in the process. But as in war, Brewster's plan is soon shattered by the enemy: an angry, proud and desperate tribe of Cheyenne warriors, a competing...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
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2016
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Large print edition.
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John "Shotgun" Bishop has tangled with plenty of lowlifes in his time--and he's got the missing limb to prove it. But few sink as low as his own brother Devlin, a crazy-mean cuss who'd steal the horns off the devil himself. This time, Dev's got his cold black heart set on taking over John Chisum's land, destroying the cattle king's dream of building a new town and laying down tracks for the railroad. So Chisum hires Shotgun and his Cheyenne partner,...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015
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Large print edition.
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Red River Valley, 1869. Hordes of ex-Confederate soldiers have emerged from the piney hills and swamps of the Louisiana backcountry in a bloody show of defiance. Captain Douglas Owens of the 4th Cavalry is ordered to reclaim the godforsaken land from its murderous outlaw gangs. With a squad of soldiers, including a former slave and an ex-Rebel gunslinger, Owens makes a last desperate bid to change the course of history and bring freedom and justice...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2012
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Large print ed.
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English
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Idaho, 1879. When the McCandles gang shoots up a small town, seventeen-year-old Joseph Roper decides to bring them to justice, alone. Decades later in 1938, he tells his story to an interviewer with the Federal Writers Project.
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2020.
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Large print edition.
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"A killer blizzard sweeping across the Southwest threatens the livelihoods of everyone in the town of Trinidad. But it's two gunshots that fell Sheriff Caleb York's unlucky deputy. As sure as the blood pooling in the snow, York knows it was a case of mistaken identity. The bullets were meant for him. It's the first nasty step in a plan rustled up by former Quantrill's Raider Luke "Burn 'Em" Burnham-eliminate the law, corral a team to rob a bank in...
76) 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...
77) Little Bighorn
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Thorndike Press
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2018.
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Large print edition.
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Colonel George Armstrong Custer hires eighteen-year-old Allen Winslow as an aide for his 1876 campaign against the Sioux and Cheyenne. Traveling west, Allen finds himself in the company of Addie Grace Lord, sixteen, whose brother is a regimental surgeon. They fall in love, and it is with foreboding that Addie Grace watches Allen and her brother ride out with the Seventh Cavalry. Weeks later in Montana, the Seventh brings its quarry to bay beside the...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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Large print edition.
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It's 1845. Texas joins the union and Mexico threatens war over the disputed Texas border. Meanwhile, expansionists dream of an America that sprawls all the way to the Pacific Coast. Can a conflict with an already war-torn Mexico satisfy this lust for territory? The Mexican-American War becomes the heroic proving ground for future Civil War generals and presidents of the United States, Mexico, and the Confederacy. But the glories of victory are tempered...
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Thorndike Press
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2012, c2010
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Outlaw Lawrence Grey has been captured in El Paso, but Marshal Neilan will set him free if he can locate John Ray, now in Mexico, and during the search, Lawrence finds himself surrounded by intrigue, with his lifethreatened from all sides.
80) Storm's thunder
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Thorndike Press
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2017.
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Large print edition.
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Mistrusted by the whites who run Caliche Bend and estranged from the Navajo, Harlan Two-Trees heads west to California--to freedom. But the Rio Grande's bloody baptism does not wash off so easily. From his berth aboard the gleaming Santa Fe railway, Harlan brims with the promise of a new life. But when a daring robbery maroons him in the desert, he is back in the world he knows--where death is king and justice comes from the smoking barrel of a gun....
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