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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Large print ed.
Language
English
Description
A wheat farmer is torn between allegiances while fighting to keep the woman he loves in this epic of the First World War!
It's 1917, and the United States is about to enter the First World War. The wheat farms of rural Washington State have become an important resource in winning the war. Kurt Dorn is a wheat farmer born of a German father and an American mother, and his family's farm contains some of the finest wheat grown anywhere. But a Bolshevik...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
©2011
Edition
Large print ed.
Language
English
Description
Mase Campbell has earned a reputation as a skilled wagon master, heading up freight trains for Kavanaugh Freight. Then one night in 1874 in Corinne, Utah Territory, he is stopped in the street by someone asking him for a match, and shot to death. Those who saw the murder either do not come forward or admit no knowledge. Buck McCready, captured at ten years of age by Indians, rescued by Mase, and raised by him, wants to find out who killed Mase and...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
©2009
Edition
Large Print ed.
Language
English
Description
From one of the most beloved Western authors comes an epic historical tale of adventure and romance in the great wilderness.
Against the epic backdrop of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad across plains and deserts and through the mountains to meet up with the Southern Pacific in Utah comes a sprawling, historical tale. Warren Neale is a brilliant civil engineer who is constantly confronted with construction problems. He is sided by Larry...
85) Wild justice
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1896, after thirty years spent dispensing justice in Montana, Judge Harlan Blackthorne expires, leaving Deputy U.S. Marshal Page Murdock, his most steadfast officer, to escort his remains across the continent by rail. The long journey is interrupted from time to time by station stops for the public to pay its respects, and for various marching bands to serenade the departed with his favorite ballad, "After the Ball." This gives Murdock...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Frontier life is hard enough without having kids to worry about, especially for a widower like Paul Meakes. Still, he's settled where he is and resolved to stay in the small Colorado town his son and daughter call home. So when his daughter is hit by a seemingly poisoned arrow during an Indian raid, Paul is determined to track down the Comanche villains who hurt his little girl and bring them to justice with the help of Indian hunter Hank Adley, a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the timeless Westerns of John Wayne and the hardboiled heroes of classic crime fiction, bestselling legends Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins turn up the heat on their tin-star tough guy Caleb York--in a gun-blazing showdown with two women ranchers calling the shots... It starts with an abusive, drunken young scoundrel who resists arrest, holds a barmaid hostage, and gets what he deserves from the blazing .44 of Sheriff Caleb York....
88) The purchase
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
In this provocative and starkly beautiful historical novel, a Quaker family moves from Pennsylvania to the Virginia frontier, where slaves are the only available workers and where the family's values and beliefs are sorely tested. In 1798, Daniel Dickinson, recently widowed and shunned by his fellow Quakers when he marries his young servant girl to help with his five small children, moves his shaken family down the Wilderness Road to the Virginia/Kentucky...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Ordered to head west when a New York gangster puts a price on his head for killing his son, Detective Sergeant John McBride ends up in High Hopes, Colorado--a lawless boomtown where McBride quickly runs afoul of corrupt saloon owner Gamble Trask and his vicious hired guns. When beautiful card dealer Shannon Roark asks for his protection, it's high time for one of New York's finest to dole out some frontier justice of his own.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Josiah Wolfe quits the Texas Rangers and returns home to find himself in the middle of a family feud. The Langdons and the Halversons have been fighting over land as the townfolk fled after losing out on a railroad junction. Morris Langdon has vowed revenge on Josiah and the Texas Rangers for the hanging of his older brother. The Halverson family holds a grudge against Josiah for leaving with their young grandson. The Texas Rangers are called in...
92) Cape Hell
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
U.S. Deputy Page Murdock is ordered by Federal Judge Harlan A. Blackthorne to Cape Hell, Mexico, to verify a report that former Confederate Captain Oscar Childress is raising an army to take over Mexico City -- and then intends to turn north to rekindle the Civil War. Childress, it seems, has the weapons, wealth, and moral compass to do it. Unable to talk himself out of the mission, Murdock heads south on a steam train named El Espanto -- The Ghost....
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"John Tylor figures everything is finally coming his way. He's got what he wants: a free shot into the wilderness where no one will ever know his name or his shame. As he and Will Cunningham head west into the northern Plains, Tylor rescues a wounded hawk, which he had dreams foretelling the event. Tylor and Cunningham run smack into a party of Arapaho who are eager to relieve these solitary white guys of everything they've got, including the hawk....
Author
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.
95) Shoot first
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Large print ed.
Language
English
96) Golden riders
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack has a reputation for finishing what he sets out to do. He'd been on the trail of five gunmen for days. Then there were four. And he won't stop until every one of the Golden Riders is behind bars or underground. Then a few escape from jail, and get word to gang leader Braxton Kane that his brother died at the hand of a lawman. Now Burrack is both hunter and hunted, and if he doesn't live up to his reputation, he won't live...
97) Dark horses
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Trouble follows horse trader Will Summers as soon as he sets foot in Dark Horses, Mexico. A party of men is intent on hanging him for a horse thief, but not before they take him to their boss -- Ansil Swann, the very man Summers is delivering four horses to. Will is saved from the noose by Ansil's beautiful wife, Bailey. Only Bailey has an agenda of her own, one that lands Will right in the middle of a deadly shootout.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen-year-old Gage Pardell didn't intend to kill Henry Kalb when he rode into Shelburn, Texas, to confront the son of the county's richest man. He just wanted justice for what Kalb had done to his sister. But now Henry is dead, and Gage is on the run from a gang of vicious bounty hunters hired by Henry's father. With nowhere else to go, Gage heads west toward the far-flung buffalo ranges of West Texas. There, he learns what it means to stand...
99) Stolen horses
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Outlaws are made, not born, and such is the case of the aged Joe Brown, aka Einer, and his young cohort, horse thief and possible murderer John Paul. After meeting in odd circumstances the two pair up to steal a herd of Mexican horses to sell across the border.
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.
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