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81) The contractor
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
The Contractor is based upon an actual event, an 1868 murder in a railroad camp during the building of the Union Pacific. The killer, a construction contractor, flees the territory only to find himself being pursued by N.K. Boswell of the Rocky Mountain Detective Agency. When Boswell takes the murderer into custody, however, the detective finds that his problems have only just begun. Now he has to transport him back to Laramie. Forty miles of empty...
82) Dead man's boot
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Back in Central Texas, Clay’s sister has died, and only on this river might he learn why. The person perhaps responsible may have fled here, but no one enters this no-man’s-land except at his own peril. Comanches are on the prowl, and across the Pecos, Mescalero Apaches range all the way to the mysterious Guadalupe Mountains. In a dead man’s boot, Clay finds a map to rumored gold in the Guadalupes. When Comanches approach, he flees upriver...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"A stranger named Dunbar comes to the town of Dry Camp and goes to work at Rich Stanton's Clay Creek ranch. Soon after arriving, he and Whit Barnett ride out on a search party and find the body of old Ross Guilford. Both get fired when foreman Paul Kelso picks a fight with ranch hand Willard Brumley and Dunbar intervenes. Asking around, Dunbar learns that Guilford knew something about Brumley's wife, a beautiful woman of color who disappeared twenty...
84) Easy pickin's
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
85) Hell's gate
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English
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After crossing the dry Arizona desert--and missing six meals in a row--Sam Flintlock is flat-out desperate. For food. For work. For lodgings. Luckily he finds all three in the high timber country east of the Mogollon Rim. Lucy Cully, a young and pretty heiress, has an unusual proposition for the bounty hunter. She will pay him cold, hard cash to spend one full week in the Gothic mansion of her murdered uncle. What's the catch? The place is haunted....
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Agon Bordner is dead, and the ranch he cheated for has been handed over to the Corrigan brothers. Deed, Holt, and Blue rebuild the town, buying the bank and appointing a marshal. Peace looks possible for these weary veterans of the trail -- until the gunfire. Seeking vengeance for their boss, eight of Bordner's killers storm the town, rob the bank and kill the marshal. Deed and Holt hit the trail and Blue steps in as marshal, as the Corrigans risk...
87) Long ride home
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Theo Belk is the quintessential gunfighter: rootless, ruthless, and deadly. In the fierce and lawless Western frontier of 1874 these traits were what was needed to stay alive. Haunted by the ghosts of the men he's killed, there is one man he has set out to destroy... Louis Gasceaux, the man who murdered his parents while a younger Theo watched. But the trail Theo's following is long and bloody... and Louis always seems to stay a few steps ahead. This...
89) Preacher's kill
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English
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The Preacher dispenses some American-made justice in this avalanche of Western adventure from the national bestselling authors of the Sidewinders series.
A fur trapper by trade, Preacher can smell a bad deal from any direction no matter how well it's disguised. It wasn't always that way—he's got the scars to prove it. Now he's ready to pass on his deadly survival skills to a boy named Hawk, who just might be his son . ....
A fur trapper by trade, Preacher can smell a bad deal from any direction no matter how well it's disguised. It wasn't always that way—he's got the scars to prove it. Now he's ready to pass on his deadly survival skills to a boy named Hawk, who just might be his son . ....
90) The rusted sun
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Half-frozen and nearly dead, Gil Ryan rode into the little mountain town of Larkspur just ahead of a raging late-winter blizzard. He'd lost everything he owned except for his mount and the clothes on his back when his pack horse fell through the ice on the Big Sandy River. Racked with fever, early-stage pneumonia, and a barely healed gunshot wound, all he wanted was a little medicine and a warm place to wait out the storm. But Gil had no way of knowing...
91) Silver City
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Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Cash McLendon, reluctant hero of the Indian battle at Adobe Walls, journeyed to the Arizona Territory with one goal: to win Gabrielle Tirrito back from schoolteacher Joe Saint. As they're about to depart by stage for their new life in San Francisco, Gabrielle is kidnapped on orders from crooked St. Louis businessman Rupert Douglass. Cash, once married to his troubled daughter, fled the city when she died of an accidental overdose and Douglass had...
92) Smoke wagon
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It's 1872 and the Katy Railroad is hell-bent on laying the first set of tracks through Indian Territory, but things have stalled out at Ironhead Station. It's a man-a-day, end-of-the-tracks boom camp, meant to live loud and die young. The railroad hired a new chief of police, but the odds are three-to-one he'll be dead by the end of the week. If Morgan Clyde can out-think the smart ones, out-lie the sneaky ones, and outshoot the deadly ones, he'll...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Tom Dooley returned from the Civil War to a tumultuous affair with Ann Foster Melton, a married woman, and later became involved with her cousins Pauline and Laura. Tom is about to elope with Laura, who is found murdered, and he and Ann are arrested. After exonerating Ann, Tom is tried and found guilty. But why would he kill the girl he was going to run away with?
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
From rodeos to rustlers, from ranch life to the outlaw trail, Elmer Kelton's take on the human condition shows us life in Texas as it was back then: simpler but harder, with danger always present. Filled with unforgettable characters and adventure, and imbued with a love of the time, the people, and the place, these stories take us from the earliest days of the Wild West well into the twentieth century, each one embodying a passion for life that's...
95) Witness seeker
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
96) Adobe moon
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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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
In the Dakota Territory of the 1870s, the line between outlaw and lawman is often blurred. Some sworn to protect the helpless might exploit them instead. And some hard cases might redeem themselves. Here, a lawman and an outlaw plunge into a battle that only one can survive, if the Indian raiders terrorizing homesteaders and cattlemen don't kill them first.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Between July 1875 and November 1883, a single outlaw robbed the stagecoaches of Wells Fargo in California's Mother Lode country a record of twenty-eight times. Armed with an unloaded shotgun, walking to and from the scenes of the robberies, often for hundreds of miles, and leaving poems behind, the infamous Black Bart was fiercely hunted. Between robberies, Black Bart was known as Charles E. Bolton, a distinguished, middle-aged man who enjoyed San...
99) Big horn legacy
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
It is 1850 in St. Louis, and Abriel Catton receives the last will and testament of his father, Web catton, an enigmatic mountain man. Among the papers are instructions the Ab must reassemble his family: brother and sisters he can barely remember, that separated after the death of his mother. Together they will search for Will Catton's legacy, all the while pursued by Braxton Bragg and his desire for revenge and gold. Also in pursuit of the Cattons...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Bitter Trail: Tough teamster Frio Wheeler hauls cotton from Texas to Mexico. But as the Civil War rages through the South, Wheeler must contend with the most difficult challenges hes ever faced, including imprisonment with the bandidos in league with Union sympathizers and the betrayal of his best friendhis former partner and brother of the woman he loves.
Barbed Wire: Irishman Doug Monahan runs a fencing crew outside the Texas town of Twin Wells,...
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