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"The year is 1881. Clint Ramsay is a renowned troubleshooter for the Underwood Detective Agency. He has been summoned to San Reale, Texas, by an old friend who needs his help. Ramsay soon discovers that danger is lurking behind every bush and rock in the small cattle town. He finds himself drawn into a complex web of treachery, greed, and murder. Who can he trust? And what is the secret everyone but him seems to know?"--Provided by publisher.
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Give-a-Damn Jones, an itinerant typographer, arrives in the small Montana town of Box Elder. The town is rife with tensions related to a convict's efforts to prove his innocence, a cattleman's demand for respect, a snooping editor, and a feud between a dentist and a blacksmith. Jones keeps finding himself in the wrong place at the wrong time-- but this time, he may be the hero that this town needs.
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In Shadow of a lobo, Cliff Jenson, a mercantile owner, finds his business crippled by usurious fees he has to pay to get supplies through a toll road. A new banker in towns wants to get rid of Jenson's store, but Jenson has other plans. In Beyond the law, Sherman Rawls, a brutal ranch owner, is pitted against Dane Devlin, a gunman hired by a woman to avenge Rawls' murder of her husband. But Devlin has his own problems, including Keno Kane, a man even...
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Matt Talbot was a scout with Sharp Grover and Bill Comstock at a parley with Cheyenne chief Bull Bear along the Solomon River in western Kansas. It was 1868, and the army was concerned about an uprising among the young braves. Comstock was so confident that the trio arrived unescorted. The chief would tell them nothing, but granted them safe conduct out of the camp - until the sentinels were replaced by a band of hostile braves who attacked them,...
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"Elwood Lawrence--top hand at the Crown Butte ranch--tries to find out where the cattle are disappearing to. It looks like an inside job. His work becomes complicated when he develops an interest in a woman who comes to visit the ranch and behind it all is the disappearance of a flashy stranger who is said to be a bank robber"--Amazon.com.
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The undertaker's wife waits; she weaves; she builds.
The undertaker practices his art, the Dismal Trade, with consummate skill. He has raised it to an art through the high craft of the Connable Method. Through it, he has managed to transform the ugliness of death into a thing of dignity and beauty. Victims brutalized by war, street fights, tavern brawls, ambushes, fires, and every hazard in a raw West, these, in his hands, become presentable. Everywhere...
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After the surrender of the Confederacy and the death of his wife, Jed Adams strikes out west to build a new life for his sons and himself. Tom Waldron fought to keep the Union intact and now believes the unsettled land of the West can be cultivated into good fortune for his kin. The former soldiers have decided to call the fertile valley of the Guadalupe Mountains their home. But their future is threatened by Indians and outlaws. The only way the...
56) Forty loads
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When the beautiful McGaffney twins hire Faro Wells to escort them to New Mexico to claim their inheritance, Faro thinks his luck has finally turned. But a world of trouble stands between him and the supposed fortune: a raging war, hostile Indians, and every raider on the wild frontier. Not to mention the South's most famous villain, the Black Knight, is hard on Faro's trail. And the twins may be the worst trouble of all . . .
57) Fighting men
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Civil War veteran and former schoolmaster Sherman Dahl rides the Southwest as a gun for hire. Known to the law and the lawless as "the Teacher, " Dahl sells his services to those seeking justice. Chester "Big Chicago" Goines and his band of outlaws have been raising hell across Arizona, thieving and killing everything in their path. When he learns that Dahl is on his trail, Goines welcomes the opportunity to settle an old score.
58) Wyoming showdown
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The High Plains of Wyoming's open range are a chance for men to make a killing--or just to kill. Rourke, a bounty hunter with a trail of graves and gunfights behind him, is drawn into a high-stakes game where the greedy and powerful want to exploit the West for their own gain, regardless of the rules. In a time and place where death and violence are as much a part of life as untamed herds of buffalo and the wild freedom of the raging winds, Rourke...
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"It's 1876 and Cheyenne--long a haven for thugs and thieves--has taken on an air of civility. Until Wild Bill Hickock comes to town and humiliates a local gunman's mentally-challenged brother to the point of suicide. Ira Drang promptly vows to hunt Wild Bill and kill him. Broke, Ira takes work as a shotgun messenger on the notorious Cheyenne to Deadwood stage--to make it across the Black Hills after Wild Bill. It's a sporadic route through rough country...