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A farmboy becomes a cowboy in 1870s Texas. He is Trey McLean who leaves his father's homestead to head west with a few dollars in his pocket, which he promptly loses in a card game. But he finds work, survives Indians and gunmen, and becomes a professional drover. By the author of The Far Canyon.
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The law nailed him with every murder in the Southwest! And every holdup, horse theft and any other unsolved crime in the territory. But Buck Duane was innocent. He was just too busy ducking to prove it. Then he met the Texas Ranger and found the chance to clear his name. He rode out alone to bring in the vicious Cheseldine Gang. Now he'd ride back for his pardon - or die!
3) Dead river
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"On the wild western frontier, the three men known as the Jackals stand between the law and the lawless-delivering their own brand of justice with a fast draw, dead aim, and enough bullets to populate Boot Hill. Johnstone Territory. Where Death Rides Hard. Apache renegade Bloody Hand plays a role in each of the Jackals' lives. To bounty hunter Jed Breen, he is man with a price on his head. To retired cavalry segeant Sean Keegan, he is a cellmate after...
4) Blood valley
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Lawmen don’t last long in the town of Doubtful, Wyoming Territory. The last one quit, another ended up in a hangman’s noose, and one more was backshot by the hired guns at the Circle L Ranch. But the town of Doubtful has never seen the likes of the man known as Cotton, who aims to take the badge for the next year, save himself a nice chunk of money, and be on his way. At least, that's his plan. Problem is, Cotton has just stuck his nose in the...
7) The jackals
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With Apaches on the prod, ex-cavalry sergeant Sean Keegan, bounty hunter Jed Breen, and ex-Texas Ranger Matt McCulloch take shelter in a West Texas way station--along with a hot-as-a-pistol female bound for the gallows, a spiteful newspaper editor, and a coward with $50,000 who promises them five grand if they'll deliver his blood-soaked stash to his wife. Turns out, Indians might be the least of the problems for the trio, soon to be known as the...
9) The revenant
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The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Trapping beaver, they contend daily with the threat of Indian tribes turned warlike over the white men's encroachment on their land, and other prairie foes -- like the unforgiving landscape and its creatures. Hugh Glass is among the Company's finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face...
10) Bad river
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2022.
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Ranger Sam Burrack is riding to Mexico to hunt down the Arizona Cowboy Gang, who are now robbing trains and banks on both sides of the border. With patience and a little luck, he will find them and arrest them. That is the job, and a ranger always gets the job done.
11) Coyote's people
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2021.
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Three people are caught in the middle of the savage war between the white man and the Apache. Coyote is an Apache chief seeking peace. Lieutenant Austin Hamilton, an officer sympathetic to the Indians plight and Calvin Taylor, a seventeen year old white boy nicknamed Choctaw. All three are caught up in this bitter conflict, threatened by enemies on all sides.
12) Firestick
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"In his mountain-man days, Elwood 'Firestick' McQueen was practically a living legend. His hunting, tracking, and trapping skills were known far and wide. But it was his deadly accuracy with a rifle that earned him the Indian name 'Firestick.' His two best buddies are Malachi 'Beartooth' Skinner--whose knife was as fatal as a grizzly's chompers--and Jim 'Moosejaw' Hendricks, who once wielded the jawbone of a moose to crush his enemies in the heat...
13) Too proud to run
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2023.
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U.S. Deputy Marshal Morgan Clyde has made many enemies and now the territory is wilder than ever. When a rich man's family is kidnapped by an outlaw gang, Morgan will have to watch his back and be quicker on the trigger than ever.
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"Once every year, Perley Gates and his brothers lead the Triple-G crew on its annual cattle drive. It's a treacherous journey along the Great Western Trail, with a herd of two-thousand cows on one side and many opportunities for trouble on the other. This year, trouble shows up in the form of a beautiful young woman, her little baby, and her bizarre traveling companion-a colorful old cuss who goes by the name of Possom Smith. They're heading to a...
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In the fall of 1873, a wagon train of immigrants sets off from Missouri for the Montana Territory. Leading them is wagon master Jamie Ian MacCallister, a giant of a man who swears he can get them there by Christmas. The journey is plagued by brutal storms and rugged terrain, outlaws and hostile Indians. Just when things look nearly hopeless, two unlikely saviors arrive: an old mountain man known as Preacher and legendary frontiersman Smoke Jensen....
17) Buffalo wagons
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For Gage Jameson, the summer of 1873 has been a poor hunt. A year ago, he felled sixty-two buffalo in one stand, but now the great Arkansas River herd is gone, like the Republican herd before it. In Dodge City, old hide hunters speak is awe of a last great heard to the south-but no hunter who values his scalp dares ride south of the Cimarron and into Comanche territory. None but Gage Jameson...
18) Shotgun
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Dr. John Bishop thought he'd seen his share of death on the battlefields of America's great Civil War. Then his quiet life was shattered when a gang of outlaws invaded his home, killed his family, and tortured him within an inch of his life. John Bishop's soul may have died that day, but his mangled body lived on. A beautiful Cheyenne named White Fox nursed him back to health - and a gunsmith outfitted him with a special shotgun rig where his left...
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Smoke Jensen has come to Corpus Christi, Texas, to take delivery of five hundred horses he purchased from an old friend. That's when a Mexican revolutionary, Colonel Bustamante Keno, brazenly crashes the border, slaughters twenty-two innocent U.S. citizens in cold blood, and steals a thousand head of cattle--along with two hundred of Smoke's horses. Going where the U.S. Army and the Texas Rangers cannot, Smoke crosses the border in hot pursuit of...
20) Pecos crossing
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Johnny Fristo and Speck Quitman have been cheated of six months' wages by their rancher boss, Larramore, and they intend to get what is due them. --