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Jess Derringer gets word that the woman he loved and left behind was murdered by five ruthless thugs. Jess is driven to avenge her death. His best lead to the identity of the killers is a receipt made out to a member of the Colby ranching clan. Jess and his younger brother, Sam, infiltrate the Colby Ranch by signing on as gun hands. They soon realize that riding the fence between crooks and good guys is more dangerous than they reckoned on, especially...
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Clay Darringer finds trouble when he comes across a beautiful, dazed young woman wandering in the desert. Katherine Turner is the sole survivor of an outlaw attack, and once the killers find out she is still alive, her life won't be worth a plugged nickel. Less than an hour after Clay and Katherine reach town, Clay finds himself in the middle of a gunfight and realizes he cannot leave Katherine unprotected - her valuable ranch land is about to trigger...
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This was a time that was a major part of western history, a sort of baptism of sweat and blood. Great buffalo herds covered mile after mile and hide hunters swarmed the plains. They were hard-riding and reckless and killed buffalo by the tens of thousands, bringing on near extinction. The invasion was part of the great western migration and it caused major confrontations with such Indian tribes as Comanche, Kiowa, Arapaho, and others. The buffalo...
4) Nevada
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Alone again! Just like his orphaned boyhood. Those are Nevada's thoughts as he turns from the only home and happiness he has ever known. But it had all been a lie, at least on his part. He had been hiding his true identity from his best friend, Ben, and the woman he loved, Hettie. They knew him as Nevada, a man they care for and respected, when in truth he was a wandering fugitive gunman, notorious from Nevada clear to Tombstone, Arizona. And now...
5) Sunset pass
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Trueman Rock is a daring young cowboy and rider. Six years ago he had to leave the cowtown of Wagontongue because of a history of gunfights and run-ins with bad hombres. Since then, he's become a man who only uses his gun when he needs to, on rustlers and crooks. Now, he's returning to his hometown. But things have changed. The town and its people aren't what they used to be. He expects to find some of his enemies there to welcome him, but instead...
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Peter Dunstan is a big rancher who wants to control more land. When he buys Dr. Henry Morgan's ranchland that had been unsuccessfully converted to farming? it is Dunstan's intention to return it to open range. The only stipulation Morgan makes is that Dunstan must retain Sandy Sweyn? who has more or less been Dr. Morgan's ward? although the man is of age. Sweyn is generally considered to be a half-wit? even by the doctor. Yet Sandy has a fabulous...
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At thirty-five Federal Marshal Buck Fyffe has had eleven years' experience as a lawman. When he and Deputy Steve Larson were charged with taking the outlaw Luther Gibbs to the newly established Yuma Territorial Prison, he wasn't expecting any problems. When Larson gets snake bit and dies, Fyffe finds himself almost three days away from the Yuma prison with no one to spell him while he sleeps. Gibbs and his gang had stolen $25,000 from Southwestern,...
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* Beautifully illustrated with atmospheric paintings by renowned artists, Ken Ward in the Jungle is the gripping tale of how the Ward brothers, Ken and rambunctious Hal, set out to follow the Santa Rosa River as it winds through the uncharted jungles of Mexico. At stake is a contest – and the top prize is a trip to Africa. But in this contest, losing might mean death
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Nueces Grit: Texans Answer the Call absorbs readers in the events and accompanying dynamics sweeping South Texas during the early years of the War Between the States. Texas’ best men have joined the fight, leaving the Texas frontier vulnerable to desperadoes, bandits, and hostile Indians. Follow the epic adventures of Texas Ranger Captain Luke Dunn, as he delivers frontier justice across the war-ravaged treacherous prairies of the Nueces Strip of...
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A soldier returns home to find his parents displaced and their property stolen in this classic Western. "He leaned propped against the rail of the great ship, in an obscure place aft, shadowed by the life-boats. It was the second night out of Cherbourg and the first time for him to be on deck. The ridged and waved Atlantic, but for its turbulence, looked like the desert undulating away to the uneven horizon. The roar of the wind in the rigging bore...
11) Deadwood ambush
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Deadwood, Dakota Territory, was filled with luckless miners and diggers, as well as more than its share of lawlessness, and more often than not, there was nothing Marshal Fred Nolan and his two deputy marshals, Wentworth and Grubb, could do. So when a teen hustler, known as Gitalong because of his crippled leg, was hoorawed by a trio of Texas drovers, the law wasn't called in. Besides, two strangers had comet o Gitalong's aid, confronting the drovers...
12) Kettle of tears
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When Nate Tallhelm left his homestead to visit his uncle's place hard by the eastern slopes of the continental divide in 1870, he had no idea of the adventures-and dangers-that lay ahead. His mission to rescue his bushwhacked cousin would bring him to the Kettle of Tears, one of most awe-inspiring and forbidding landscapes he'd ever seen. Respected and revered by the Nez Perce, it was also home to a citadel-like outpost that commanded the region from...
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Seventeen-year-old Oliver Mc'Neil has never been outside. Like everyone else in the Fifth City in the year 2085, he and his mother live in an apartment where the air and water are sterile, their food is couriered to them, and all their activities--work, school, exercise, entertainment--are done indoors on sims, machines that simulate life using computer monitors, virtual reality headsets, and holograms. When Oliver wakes up in the middle of the...
19) The Lonesome gun
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Perley's elder brother, Rubin, who manages the Triple-G Ranch decides to try breeding some Hereford cattle with the ranch's longhorns. He asks Perley to deliver the contract for the Herefords, a simple task. But nothing ever remains simple when Perley is involved. And for the reluctant fast gun, it means a nightmare journey through hell itself . . . The trouble starts when Perley and his sidekick, Possum, meet some damsels in distress--a lovely group...
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Jamie MacCallister remembers the Alamo--especially one brave frontiersman who died fighting there. Now the fallen veteran's granddaughter needs Jamie's help. She's found a letter written by her grandfather with a map to the spot where Alamo legend Jim Bowie supposedly hid a fortune in silver and gold. Jamie never believed the story. Countless treasure hunters had scoured the area and come up empty handed. But his friend's grandaughter is convinced...
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