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"It's 1980, and Lillian Waters is hitting the road for the very last time. Jaded from her years in the music business, perpetually hungover, and diagnosed with career-ending vocal problems, Lillian cobbles together a nationwide farewell tour featuring some old hands from her early days playing honky-tonk bars in Washington State and Nashville, plus a few new ones. She yearns to feel the rush of making live music one more time and bask in the glow...
2) Prairie Fire
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"Luke Jensen tracks down a deranged Yankee-turned-outlaw with a burning passion to torch the prairies, torment the townsfolks, and turn all he sees into a smoldering cinder.
In the darkest days of the Civil War, Neville Goldsmith set the world on fire. As Captain for the Union Army, he marched with General Sherman through Georgia, setting homes and cities ablaze with sadistic glee. For Goldsmith, starting fires was a lifelong obsession. And when...
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Set against the backdrop of the impending Civil War, the film follows the construction of the Kansas Pacific Railway. As workers progress, they face sabotage from Southern agents, leading to a tense showdown.
1953 American Classic Western Film
Set in the 1860s, just before the Civil War, the U.S. government commissions the construction of the Kansas Pacific Railway to fasten California's ties to the Union. As the construction begins, Southern agents...
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Garrett Kohl novel volume 3
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"After hunting down a rogue spy as part of an elite CIA counterespionage unit, Garrett Kohl returns home to Texas in hopes of settling down and carving out a normal life. While learning the ropes of fatherhood, falling deeper in love with his high school crush, and rebuilding his wildfire ravaged cattle ranch, he is approached in secret by an engineer working at a nearby nuclear weapons plant, who is in desperate need of his help. Utilizing a unique...
5) Noble Outlaw
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Noble Outlaw
Matt Braun
John Wesley Hardin's powderkeg temper earned him twelve bodies by age twenty-and a place at the top of the Texas MOST WANTED list. Now a happy husband and a father, he thinks his fighting days are over and done. Until he's ambushed by an angry loser in a local poker game...
Soon the law is on Wes's trail again, but this time he's got too much at stake. Hardin only wants peace-but he's willing to wage a one-man war to stay...
6) Westbound
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First in Spur Award and Will Rogers Medallion Award-winning author Dusty Richards' newest action-packed western series, The Fighting Harrigans of the Frontier.
From the Spur Award-winning author begins a new western saga with Westbound, chronicling the adventures of the Harrigan family as they brave crossing the American West, fighting to survive in the dangerous wilderness-and against even deadlier people-to forge a better life for themselves....
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The Devil has ridden out...
Montana's most feared outlaw has left his secret lover, Maria, alone in their secluded house deep in the wilds. If he had known that she was pregnant at the time, The Devil might have stayed.
That was almost nine months ago and Maria is still awaiting her lover's return and the arrival of her child. But while Maria waits for The Devil, a vengeful band of gunslingers are tracking him. Led by the relentless Rickman Chill,...
8) The Warlords
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WHILE WORLD WAR I WAS EXPLODING IN FOREIGN LANDS
It's 1915. In Europe, men are dying in trenches. In Washington, sentiment is growing for war against the Kaiser. And, in Mexico, an explosive plot is set in motion by a German agent, a deposed dictator, and an army of murderous rebels.
A NEW WAR WAS BLAZING ALONG THE RIO GRANDE...Amidst the chaos of Pancho Villa's revolution, a force of embittered Tejanos has crossed the Rio Grande, burning ranches,...
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In Hanging Judge, Justin Moffitt is eager to help keep the peace as a deputy marshal in small-town Texas. That is, until Justin is assigned to the wrong marshal, a "hanging judge" who is as famous for his ruthlessness as he is for his commitment to justice. When Justin's boss hangs a controversial criminal, Justin must defend himself against an army of friends and relatives, desperate for revenge.
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A stellar collection of short fiction that spans the beloved master's writing career
The legendary New York Times bestselling author returns with another stellar collection of Western short fiction. In these classic tales that span more than five decades-including the first story he ever published, "The Trail of the Apache"-Elmore Leonard once again demonstrates the superb talent for language and gripping narrative that have made him one of the...
11) Sitting Bull
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Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux tribe is forced by General Custer to react with violence resulting in the famous Last Stand at Little Bighorn. Major Robert Parrish, a friend of the Sioux, tries to prevent the bloodshed but is court-martialed for "collaborating" with the enemy. After the battle, Parrish, aware of a new Army attack plan, leads the Sioux to safety in the North but is court-martialed again. This time he is stripped of his rank and sentenced...
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A rancher discovers just how many times a man's luck can hold out in this thrilling novel in the bestselling Trail Drive series.
After struggling for years to work a raw-patch ranch in the arid flatlands of Texas, young Mitchell Newland learns that his herd of scrubby range cattle will fetch ten times their local price if they're driven to Montana.
He strikes a one-sided deal with the devil, neighboring rancher Corliss Bilks, to back his play with...
14) Brannigan's Land
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JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WHERE VENGEANCE MEETS JUSTICE.
Tynan “Ty” Brannigan traded his tin star for a cattle ranch. But, the men he left to rot behind bars have their own hash to settle with him...
KEEPING HIS OWN PEACE
Once a respected lawman in Kansas and Oklahoma, Ty Brannigan ended his career as town marshal of Warknife, while he was still young enough to marry, start a family, and raise cattle. Now nearly sixty, he's a proud husband, father...
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A cowboy looking for his missing father, poses as an outlaw and joins the gang he thinks is responsible.
1930 American western film directed and written by John P. McCarthy that is a precursor to the singing cowboy genre. It stars Bob Steele in his second talkie film playing the lead role and singing, along with Rita Rey, Al St. John and Charles King as part of the film's cast.
The quiet border town of Santa María has been invaded by a band of...
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Retired Texas Ranger Nash Crawford reunites his former ranger team to fight crime.
1970 American Comedy Family Western Film. It was an ABC Movie of the Week, sequel to the western comedy The Over-the-Hill Gang (1969). Starring Walter Brennan and Fred Astaire. The supporting cast includes Edgar Buchanan, Andy Devine, Chill Wills, Lana Wood and Burt Mustin (all of whom, except Wood, were in The Over-the-Hill Gang). It was written by Richard Carr and...
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La première partie de Lonesome Dove nous a entraînés à la suite d'Augustus McCrae et Woodrox Call, illustres ex-Texas Rangers, sur la route dangereuse du Montana, là o, dit-on, les terres sont encore à qui les prend. De nombreuses épreuves attendent le convoi lors de cet extraordinaire périple à travers l'Ouest. Les hommes devront tour à tour affronter des éléments déchaînés, des pillards et leurs propres démons. Au bout de cette piste...
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The mysterious death of a man who is about to leave a small town in Kansas with his girlfriend sets off a series of unfortunate events that will only end when her brother, the legendary and notorious gunslinger Frank Dalton (Paul Piaget, Hour of Death) exacts a ruthless and bloody revenge.
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The period is the 1820's and the first wagon train leaves Independence heading west to Santa Fe. In order to maintain his power, the ruthless Official at Santa Fe must not let them arrive and he sends out his men to stop them. The wagon train then has to endure repeated attacks but is aided by a mysterious rider that shoots singing arrows and rides a painted stallion.
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The retired town Marshal raised a fearless cowgirl daughter who takes on an outlaw gang with her own brand of western justice.
1953 Classic Western Film
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After his wife's death, Ben Dawson retires and forms a traveling medicine show. His infant daughter Laurie grows up to be a sharpshooter and performer in the show.
A banker named Anderson is behind a criminal scheme cheating ranchers out of their money. He hires notorious gunslinger...
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