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Louis L'Amour is now one of the most iconic western writers of all time, but once upon a time he was Jim Mayo, a regular writer for the pulps. And some of the stories he wrote in those days stuck with him enough that he revised and expanded them into novels."The Trail to Peach Meadow Cañon" first appeared in Giant Western in October, 1949. The text was expanded and substantially changed when it subsequently was published as an original paperback...
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"Fight for Freedom is a story of determination, passion, loss, betrayal, and ultimate triumph. Take a wagon train of former slaves and freemen heading to start a new life in west Texas, add some men determined to keep them from reaching their destination, toss in a rancher who will do anything to drive the settlers from the land they've chosen for their new town, add in an order from the Governor to protect the emigrants, and you have a recipe for...
24) Chancy
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Chancy started out with nothing until fate dealt him four of a kind--all bullets. The young drifter plays his hand for keeps--taking on crooked sheriffs, deadly gunmen, and renegade Indians. When the smoke clears away, he stands alone--boss of his own cattle outfit. But the game isn't over yet.
26) Tillman's bounty
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After the mining company he works for goes belly up, young Max Tillman has a chance encounter with a man who has a bounty on his head. He soon takes up tracking other wanted men, but realizes he may be in over his head as he travels through some of the most dangerous towns in the West and crosses paths with those who survive by taking what is not theirs. Max meets people who draw him toward a more settled life, but is a peaceful life possible for...
27) The devil to pay
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Kerrigans a Texas dynasty volume 5
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"It begins with a simple act of kindness--and ends in a shocking night of violence. A homeless family shows up on Kate Kerrigan's doorstep, seeking refuge from a vengeful rancher's wrath. Seeing their desperation -- and fear -- the West Texas matriarch welcomes the family into her home. But her charity turns out to be an invitation to disaster. First, the rancher and his henchmen come gunning for her houseguests. They break into Kate's mansion. They...
28) Cutthroats
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Slash and Pecos western volume 1
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"Not every Western hero wears a white hat or a tin star. Most of them are just fighting to survive. Some of them can be liars, cheaters, and thieves. And then there's a couple of old-time robbers named Slash and Pecos . . . After a lifetime of robbing banks and holding up trains, Jimmy "Slash" Braddock and Melvin "Pecos Kid" Baker are ready to call it quits, settle downf,,"f,,ef,,"though not completely by choice. The youngest members of their old...
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Mark Girard was a young boy during the boom period of Angel's Landing, a mining town near Banjo Creek. When the boom played out, Mark's father moved on, but his mother refused to leave. When the job as sheriff opened, Mark ran for the office and won. It was a relatively easy job until a new gold strike on Banjo Creek brought brawling lawbreakers back to town. Now the question is whether or not Mark can handle them.
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Peaceful Jenkins and his partner Applejack Peters ambled into the boomtown of Spanish Wells, and after outsmarting some troublemakers, Peaceful was made town marshal. In that capacity, he waged war against the men who controlled the town, but in the desperate and bloody battle, some deadly secrets would be revealed.
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Alec the Great: "Set in Alaska during the gold rush days of the 1890s, the background of the bitter enmity that destroyed the once great friendship between Hugh Massey and Arnie Calmot is explained. (The events preceding the clase of these two titans for possession of a most extraordinary and powerful dog are told by young Joe May in Sixteen in Nome.)"--product description.
Riding into Peril: "Kantwell Irving Dangerfield, commonly known as the Kid,...
32) Home to Texas
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"Doctor Travis Sasser, the chief surgeon of General Hood's Texas Brigade, has served with distinction since the beginning of the war. Unfortunately, he is captured during the Chattanooga campaign and sent to the POW camp at Rock Island, Illinois. As the time drags by and the war nears its end, Travis receives word that his family's ranch in Texas is about to be grabbed by carpetbaggers for nonpayment of taxes. In desperation he breaks out of prison...
33) Guns of darkness
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"Owen Conagher was ambushed as he rode through the town of Bitter Creek in the evening darkness. Wounded in the initial attack, he became the target for a group of vigilantes so crazed for blood that they never suspected that their target was the wrong man"--
34) Long hard ride
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Rough riders volume 1
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One lucky woman is in for the ride of her life with three sexy cowboys... During summer break, wannabe wild woman Channing Kinkaid is offered the chance to shed her inhibitions and horse around on the road with a real chaps-and-spurs wearing rodeo cowboy. From the moment Colby McKay?bull rider, saddle bronc buster and calf roper?sets his lust-filled eyes on the sweet and fiery Channing, he knows she?s up to the challenge of being his personal buckle...
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Christmas volume 7
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"Like most families, the Jensens gather together to celebrate the holidays. This year, since half the clan is scattered across the American West, they've decided to split the difference and meet up in Tucson. Matt and Luke will be there, for sure, and maybe Ace and Chance, too. That leaves Sally, Preacher, and Smoke Jensen, who've reserved three seats on a westbound stage to make sure they don't miss out on the festivities. What could possibly go...
36) Rancher's law
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"In a hot Arizona river basin, three bodies sway from ropes--executed by their fellow ranchers. Hundreds of miles away, in the muddy streets of Forth Smith, Arkansas, a deputy marshal hunts down a killer, the first of eight outlaws on his list. Now, the manhunter is about to be chosen for a mission to Arizona Territory. Major Gerald Bowen wants Luther Haskell to go undercover and find the truth about what happened. Bowen is on a campaign to bring...
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Five Trails West volume 2
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"Silver bullets, bears, blizzards, and buffalo occupy the Harris family as they settle into their new life on the Middle Fork of the Little Red River. Add Big Sam Meeker to the mix and things really start to happen, like bear wrestling to the death, a Cherokee wedding, a battle with thieves at Half Moon Mountain, and a fight with white renegades over silver bullets. Jerry Harris visits White Wolf and Morning Starr on Swan Creek and gets a new name...
38) Dream catcher
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Setting out one last time to hunt for the man who kidnapped his wife, Jonah Hook enlists the aid of his Comanche-raised son, Jeremiah, and his aging Shoshone warrior friend, Two Sleep. Reprint. PW.
39) Grand Mesa
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"Ken Barry, advance scout for a group of Michigan settlers, turns into bad luck in Dos Rios where he is first accused of cattle rustling and then faced with a deadly double charge of bank robbery and murder. He cannot understand the enmity of Dale Cummings, the town's leading merchant who seems eager to dispose of him. In his favor, Channing has the support of the town's sheriff and judge over whom he holds political power, a group of unsavory gambling...
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"John Sherburn, a troublemaking gunfighter rides into Amityville, Texas, where Peter Gresham, the most successful businessman in town, asks Sherburn to oversee his business interests while Gresham devotes his time to finding and killing Red Hawk, the renegade chief that killed his brother, forming a partnership that puts them both in danger"--