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4681) Way of the Gun
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Fired from the Provost ranch and humiliated in front of the whole bunkhouse, Duke Latham swears vengeance on the owner Maynard Provost. Pursuing a life of crime and violence at the head of a small gang of outlaws, six months later Latham kidnaps Provost's beloved daughter Dulcie. Provost's ranch hands scour the country searching for the girl, but in vain. Then fate throws them, and Provost himself, into the path of notorious bounty hunter Wesley Sumner,...
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Beecham had planned to control the territory and its rich gold deposits around Prescott, Arizona. He had been stopped dead in his tracks by the relatively unknown young man from Texas named Haddok. Haddok had given him such a beating that Beecham shuddered in fear of ever seeing him again. But Haddok stood between him and his plans. Haddok had to die. But how?
The answer came in the form of a large price on Haddok's head payable to whoever killed...
4683) The Devil's Treasure
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New Mexico Territory, 1851The Grand CanyonSomewhere down there, silver is lying around on the ground, left behind by the Spanish, just waiting to be picked up.At least, that's what Chaddock and the others have been told. Never mind the curse of El Tesoro del Diablo-the reason why it was left behind.A Weird Western Novelette by Sam Knight
4684) Dynamite
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"You ready to tell me what we're carrying?" "Why is it so important for you to know?" "Well first place, if it was nitroglycerin, then I would take another route. If it was whiskey I'd stop for a drink any time. Why is it you don't want to tell me?" "Alright, if you must know, it's dynamite." "Dynamite! Why in blazes didn't you tell me that when we started?" "If you had known would you have agreed to carry it?"
4685) The Line Rider
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With his job as a line rider under threat, Mack Cambray hopes to settle down with his bride as a homesteader. However, in trying to solve the mystery of his wife's untimely death, Mack ends up in the middle of a violent range war.
4686) Tumbleweed Trail
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Jake Preston, travelling with his wife and children, takes the Tumbleweed Trail, heading for Kansas City. And if the mile after mile of inhospitable terrain was not enough to contend with, there is the added complication of a gang of marauding bandits led by the notorious Sam Brady who have vowed to kill Jake and his entire family. The family have only one hope and that is the mysterious stranger named Arkansas Smith, a man who some claim is an outlaw...
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The year is 1833 and adventurers Magdalena decides to become a Mail Order Bride.In 1833 small town Tampa, Magdalena, the second of three sisters, is tired of living in a sleepy little world. She dreams of travel and adventure, and a life where she can find love and fulfill her dreams. Her sister Felicia had written back to one of the matrimonial advertisements in the newspaper, and had traveled to the Wild West to find love and bliss in marriage....
4688) Bleak Winds of Destiny
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The Rebel Raiders are heading for New Mexico territory to rob the bank in Tucumcari. Major Deke Hogan, a Civil War guerrilla fighter, heads the contingent. The proceeds of the attack are intended to support the Confederacy in a last ditch effort to regain the initiative. But destiny has played a mean trick when Hogan discovers that the surrender had been signed by General Lee three weeks previously. From being a legitimate fighting force, the Raiders...
4689) Sawtooth Ranch
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Excerpt: "Quirt Creek flowed sluggishly between willows which sagged none too gracefully across its deeper pools, or languished beside the rocky stretches that were bone dry from July to October, with a narrow channel in the centre where what water there was hurried along to the pools below. For a mile or more, where the land lay fairly level in a platter-like valley set in the lower hills, the mud that rimmed the pools was scored deep with the tracks...
4690) A Texas Ranger
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A study in contradictions, prolific writer of Western novels William MacLeod Raine was born in England but relocated to a remote cattle ranch on the Texas border ten years later. Pairing his academic studies in literature and journalism with his real-world experience on the range, MacLeod produced a series of beloved novels chronicling the bravery and courage of Western heroes from every walk of life, including the intrepid lawman referred to in the...
4691) Break in The Wind
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She escapes slavery only to face Pakwis, the Ojibwa chief, again when she needs his help. She fears that he will want his slave back and she will lose the man she has fallen in love with. But without his help they could be attacked by the Americans who are receiving shipments of a newer and more powerful rifle than the Brown Bess that the people in Upper Canada are using.
Lucas Sievers is a trapper and as wild as the Indians. He drifts between cultures....
4692) Rim o' the World
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Black Rim country is called bad. The men from Black Rim are eyed askance when they burr their spur rowels down the plank sidewalks of whatever little town they may choose to visit. A town dweller will not quarrel with one of them. He will treat him politely, straightway seek some acquaintance whom he wishes to impress, and jerk a thumb toward the departing Black Rim man, and say importantly: 'See that feller I was talking with just now? That's one...
4693) The Phantom Herd
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Luck Lindsay is a movie creator and director, specializing in "Westerns". This is in olden times when movies were silent. But, he got sick of the formulaic shoot-em-up movies that Hollywood was turning out and wanted to produce something that represented the "real" west of olden times, i.e. real cowboys chasing real cows in difficult situations, but still succeeding. Luck meets an old timer at a train station and is directed to a slice of Montana...
4694) Starr, of the Desert
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Woman Hero! Around 1900 Bower started to write about the wild west - and she was one of a few women writers that 'wrote like a man' and fooled most of her readers at the time. But she knew what she was writing about, and grew up in the west, listened to all the tales, and wrote with a passion about the life, the men, the women, and the harsh conditions of the time. Not afraid to write about the violent times she is one of the best western writers...
4695) Robbed Blind
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A stunning robbery threatens to bring Lydelton's economy to its knees, and constables Raedrick Baletier and Julian Hinderbrook must find the culprits.A team of Royal Marshalls is in town to help. But they have an agenda of their own, and Raedrick and Julian must tread carefully to avoid revealing the secret of their own past. With few leads and little time, the Constables will need all of their skill and wit to solve the case and save their adopted...
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This is an interesting twist on a Western, where an author returns to the land where he was born to get some "local flavor" for his novels. He gets much more than he expected, going on long trail rides and nearly freezing the end of his nose off in the winter shacks. Something-it couldn't possibly be the beautiful Mona-could it?-keeps him on the range all year. (Goodreads)
4697) Montana gundown
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In William Johnstone's bestselling The Last Gunfighter, Frank Morgan is the last of his kind--until he confronts a young gun who shares his name, skill, and maybe even his blood. . .
Like Father. Like Son. Like Hell.
Frank Morgan has one son he knows of--and Kid Morgan has become famous in his own right. But in Montana, Frank comes face-to-face with a young man with a deadly swagger and a stunning claim: that he's Frank's son, too. And he's here...
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William W. Johnston's breathtaking Mountain Man series set the standard for Western adventure. Now a new saga begins as the adopted son of Smoke Jensen takes his place on the unforgiving and violent American frontier... BORN TO BE BRAVE. Matt Cavanaugh was nine years old when a band of outlaws slaughtered his family... Now Matt is 18, honed by hardship, steeped in survival and carrying the last name of the man who raised him: Smoke Jensen. With Smoke's...
4699) Catfish Charlie
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A once famous Texas Ranger who left for a peaceful retirement is lured back in the saddle.
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"Duel McClain has lost everything he's ever loved: his wife, his son, his sense of self. But when a strange twist of fate--and a poker game he'll never forget--leaves an innocent little girl in his care, Duel vows to defend his new family to his very last breath. If only he knew a single thing about taking care of babies...Just as Duel swears his life can't get any more complicated, a beautiful woman stumbles into the light of his campfire, desperate...
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