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81) Silverspurs
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Green cover with dark green outline of a cowboy riding a bucking bronco.
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The Snow Range Gang: "Claude Duval thought he was through with rustlers and killers when he left Texas for Wyoming. But the retired livestock detective soon finds ranch hands turning up dead and cattle missing. It looks like the work of Lone Wolf Wolverton, who murdered Duval's partner years ago. Wolverton, who has done his time and gone straight, rides to Duval's ranch to prove he's being framed. The lawman reluctantly accepts help from the man he's...
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?In South of Rising Sun, author J.D. McCall tells the story of a US Marshall, Al Taggart, and his efforts to solve Kansas rancher James Harper?s trouble with some highly resourceful cattle rustlers. In attempting to solve the mystery of the missing cattle, Taggart is sidetracked by a Missouri slave-owner whose slave has run off. It?s Kansas, and although a free state, Federal law requires Taggart to find and return the slave. But Taggart can?t bring...
84) Straw boss
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"Everybody called Johnny Moran "Stupe" until he gunned down a band of rustlers. The local paper made him out to be a hero and Rance Whitaker sent word he wanted to hire Johnny to track down the rustlers in his area. Johnny accepts the job knowing this will be his chance to change the way people look at him-if he can just quit making careless mistakes"--Provided by publisher.
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"Detective Jonas V. Brighton and Detective Jennie Hudson work two cases. One ends up in controversy and the other makes national news as they solve the Doctor Perry Talbott case. Brighton is a marksman with pistol and rifle, a skill he gained from his Civil War experience. He gains a reputation as a man to avoid, and his partner, Wes, gives him the nickname "Rawhide Jake." The two of them roam the countryside, saving each other's lives more than once...
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Linc Bradway comes to Wyoming to avenge his pardner's murder. He meets the passionate Kit Brandon whose beauty brings her rustled maverick cattle from local range-riders. Though he plans to steer clear of her, Linc finds himself fighting past crooked gamblers, gunslingers, lynchings, and a range war on a trail that leads him closer and closer to the Maverick Queen.
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"The Rustlers of Pecos County" is another fantastic example of Western fiction by the master of the genre, American Author Zane Grey. This book is highly recommended for all lovers of Western fiction and constitutes a must-read for fans of Grey's seminal work. Contents include: "Vaughn Steele And Russ Sittell", "A Kiss And An Arrest", "Sounding The Timber", "Steele Breaks Up The Part", "Cleaning Out Linrock", "Enter Jack Blome", "Diane And Vaughn",...
88) Lone Star legacy
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"South Texas, 1854. Regis Royle is determined to turn eighteen-thousand acres of raw prairie into the greatest cattle ranch in the world. But he can't do it alone. The region is wilder than a herd of mustangs--and crawling with rustlers. Teaming up with the Cattlemen's Justice Consortium, Regis hopes to stop the rustling and start laying tracks for a new railway. Problem is, the cattlemen--including Jarvis "Bone" McGraw, Regis's own ranch manager--can't...
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Ben Ide is a failure in the horse trade because he loves horses more than money. A few bad deals have turned the world against him. His greatest adversary is his father, who thinks Ben good for nothing. Determined to show what he is made of and what he can do, Ben pursues a herd of wild horses. The herd leads him directly into danger: cattle thieves with connections in high places. Distrusted by the woman he loves, menaced by killers, and hounded...
90) Sunset pass
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Six years ago Trueman Rock had killed a man in New Mexico. Now he's back and there's a different trouble, a rustling family whose crimes are terrorizing the whole valley around Wagontongue. Rock sets out bring them to justice, but then he falls in love with their daughter.
94) Gunsmoke trail
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Wes Traynor had ridden a long way from Texas on the trail of the escaped convict who had murdered his father. It was away up near Fargo that he hired out to Major Jefferson Calhoun, biggest cattleman in Calhoun County, to track down rustlers who were stealing the major's cattle.
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Pearl Hawthorne is a sworn-in vigilante hell bent of catching Rustlin' Rita, a lowlife cattle thieving hussy. Rita absconded with Pa Pecker's cattle, and Pearl's not the only vigilante aiming to collect that bounty. However, Pearl catches more than just cattle in this story because Luther Van Buren III, the most infuriating inept Bostonian ever to grace the West, is about to invade her life and maybe even her heart in this western comedy set in the...
96) Six-gun melody
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"Melody" Madigan came by his moniker for two reasons, the first being his talent for loud but tuneless singing under all circumstances and without provocation, the second, his ability to make his six-guns play a melody that struck terror into the hearts of such bad men as the Du Sang tribe of cattle rustlers and swindlers. Cleaning out the Du Sang nest of vipers out of a once peaceful Southwestern cattle town was a job right up his alley, and when...
100) Sleepy horse range
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Cowboy troubador Jinglebob Jenkins rides into the dusty settlement of Padre Wells - and straight into a range war. Despite the songs and the music, he's a tough hombre to cross.