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Jubal Kane was twenty-two years old. For the past year, he'd been in the saddle every day, riding from town to town on a seemingly endless search for three cold-blooded killers. They were the men who'd shot his parents in cold blood while Jubal watched, hidden inside a pile of hay.
Mitchell was one of these men. And with his death, Kane found some relief from the memories that had been haunting him. But two murderers lived on. Jubal knew that until...
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In California, The Southern Pacific Railway was prying the West wide open, and the land was worth its weight in gold. While some men got in on the action, and some got out of the way, one group of settlers was making a stand-and holding up the railway. Turning to Alan Pinkerton's Chicago detective agency, the railroad robber barons hired the perfect agent to penetrate the settler's organization, a man who had learned a spy's trade in the Civil War....
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The Hanging at Leadville
Welcome to Leadville-a melting pot of Irish and Swedes, steelworkers and scam artists. Brady Kenton is America's foremost traveling reporter, and he's come to this violent, whiskey-stained, mining town to sniff out a story for Gunnison's Illustrated American. Alex Gunnison, son of the famous publisher, is along for the ride to help keep the trouble-seeking Kenton out of harm's way. But with a dead body found and lost, and...
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With the Twentieth Century just underway, the establishment of the Forest Service has brought change and upheaval to the intermountain West. Cattle barons who once allowed their herds to graze unchecked across the open range are now chafing at the introduction of forest-saving restrictions. With power and fortunes at stake, secret meetings and strategy sessions are the order of the day.
Three people in particular are wrestling with the changes in...
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In the tradition of Louis L'Amour's Sackett series, the Underhill novels chronicle the dramatic saga of one man's life--a life that follows the days of the early American frontier, of the men and women who came together as friends, family, and enemies, and of the pioneers who pushed westward into the raging violence of the Indian wars.
His name was Bushrod Underhill, a son of the Cumberland mountains, inheritor of a pioneer spirit and a restless...
6) Timber Creek
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Compared to such Western giants as Max Brand, Luke Short, and Louis L'Amour, he has been called the New Voice of the Old West. With over one million of his books in print, Cameron Judd powerfully brings to life, as no one else can, the struggles of a generation of Americans on a harsh and beautiful frontier.
Young Luke McCan came to the gold-rich Black Hills of Dakota seeking his fortune. What he found was Deadwood, a whiskey-soaked, blood-drenched...
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Captain Josiah Edward Stewart, 5th Battalion, 1st Cavalry, assigned Fort Archer, Arizona territory has been accused of negligence & cowardess in the face of the enemy.Found not guilty, Colonel Bream gave Captain Stewart and Captain Allen Moody a two week furlough.During an Apache attack against a stagecoach they were on, Captain Stewart was bound while Captain Moody was wounded. Captain Stewart and Captain Moody outfitted themselves to track and find...
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Embark on a captivating journey with Kat Christensen's upcoming novel-a narrative that breathes life into the pages of American history.
Set against the expansion of a nation, from the aftermath of the War of 1812 to the era preceding the Civil War, this story ushers you into a world teeming with romance, jealousy, murder, and the unyielding spirit of survival.Meet Easter, a formidable young woman who carves her homestead from the 1830s American...
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When outlaw Bart Granger, swore to a dying woman he'd spare her young son, he had no idea he'd end up raising the boy as his own. Now a grown man, Johnny must decide which path he will follow. Life gets more complicated when Stormy enters his life. A feisty young woman on a quest of her own.A match made in heaven? Might be, unless she finds out it was his pa that murdered her family.
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After a hearty breakfast of eggs, biscuits and gravy, and fried potatoes, the James family left the family dining room and retired to the living room. In the fireplace, a hot, glowing fire released its warmth and permeated throughout the room. With it being the dead of winter in Parkersburg, West Virginia, near the fireplace was where Jericho wanted to be. Assembled in the living room were Jericho and his wife of forty years, Sarah. Also, Asa, along...
12) Abiqua
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John Bitter scanned the hilltops with his field glasses, blaming unfamiliar territory for his uneasy feelings, but past experience taught him not to ignore his hunches. Something's brewing, he thought.
Following Lee's surrender of the Northern Army of Virginia to Grant on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox, Captain John Bitter of Abiqua Creek, Oregon musters out of the 40th Missouri. A loner, Bitter plans a quick ride home over the Oregon Trail. The good...
14) Indebted
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The latest Western adventure from Scott Howie! This is "Slade: United States Bounty Hunter." Action, adventure and frontier law from one of the greatest Western authors of today!Slade is rescued by a woman who turns out to have her own trials and tribulations.As matter of course, Slade is indebted to the woman and her daughter for saving his life. He refuses to leave her to fend off the unwanted advances of the cruel and vindictive Frederick Finch...
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Siege at Bear River', is a glimpse in time of two brothers, one a major, the other a captain in the United States Cavalry in the year, 1868. The story embellishes the love and affection, as well as, the comradery, and hi-jinx they had for each other. Together, they faced a formidable enemy, The Shoshone, the Nez Perce, and the Hidatsa Indians in southeastern Washington State. Both men were assigned to Fort Reerdon with Colonel Karl E. Mathison as...
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Boy Mora is asked to rescue the kidnapped daughter of an old friend. Boy sets out after the outlaws without knowing that he has become the object of the wrath of an Apache chieftain and his two sons. So, while Boy is tracking the outlaws, the Indians are tracking him. Who is going to survive the battle that is getting closer with every dusty mile of this chase?
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The year is early nineteen-seventeen. It is near the end of winter in Parkersburg, West Virginia. The snow has blanketed the landscape in white. The wind howled something fierce the day before, which had caused Jericho to put more wood on the fire in the fireplace in the living room. There were snow drifts everywhere. The wind had scattered the snow into piles. Trees were covered with snow to the point that most of the thin trees bent from the weight...
18) A Wisp of Smoke
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Pearce Hanlon and a troop of Cavalry, commanded by Lieutenant Wesley Coleman, left Apache Station who then become harassed, and attacked by a combined force of Yaqui, Tonto, Mescalero, and Chiricahua Apache in the southeastern desert of Arizona. This is a tragedy about the death of so much humanity, Indian and white man is so outstanding, it's frightening. This is a life and death struggle for the troop as they frantically try to make it back to Fort...
19) The Reckless Gun
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Fred McCoy survived that miserable war. He survived losing his wife when she died giving birth to their son. But when a monstrous hurricane struck his small farm near the Florida coast, tore his young son from his very arms, and lost him to the raging black waters, Fred McCoy lost his humanity.He drifted west, leaving a trail of bodies behind him. Eventually, he drifted into Arizona Territory where he found a refuge with a Mexican family. He began...
20) Drifter
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It took Beacher longer than he figured to find the Colorado River. By the time he made camp, the sun was at the west back. "Just right," he said to himself. He cut some bank poles and found some toad frogs. "The smaller ones work better," Beacher thought. "Now all I need are some hooks and line, with no weights. Just run your hook under the frog's backbone near his hind legs, and he won't bleed a bit. He'll swim toward the bank all night." Tolbert...
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