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2) Lassiter
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Before Lassiter has a chance to become a legend, he must survive his hard-scrabble younger days. Throwing everything he has into a partnership on a cattle ranch, he hopes to make his mark honestly. But an unscrupulous rival quickly emerges and threatens to derail Lassiter's dreams before they even leave the station. It isn't long before the daring young man with deadly aim finds himself hunted by a bunch of thugs with plenty of kills to their credit....
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"Big Charlie Chilton knows better than to lose his temper, but when a loudmouth threatens to expose his long-buried secrets, he can't help but teach the man a lesson about being quiet. Unfortunately, it turns out the man was about to make an important supply run for the town's marshal, and Marshal Watt knows just enough about Shotgun Charlie's past to draft him into service in his stead. The trek north would be treacherous enough with the snow and...
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Tom Kedrick is hired by a financial syndicate to run off a gang of vagrants and outlaws who are occupying a sizable strip of land that the syndicate has filed, claiming it is unusable swamp. To Kedrick's dismay, these "vagrants and outlaws" turn out to be hard working ranchers and farmers who have improved the lands they have claimed and are determined to resist any effort to disenfranchise them.
5) Kid Rodelo
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Harbin was the gunslinger. All he wanted was the gold. Badger was just a little weasel, waiting to see where the chips fell. Nora was an orphan, searching for news of her lost parents. But Kid Rodelo? He was the mystery man--the only man who could save his companions.
6) MacKinnon
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"In southern New Mexico, Sam MacKinnon is double-crossed by his partners after robbing a saloon and left with busted ribs, a banged-up head, no gun, and no horse. Overlooked by a posse, he finds his horse and starts out on the vengeance trail. Stopping to help Katie Callahan and her siblings alters his plans"--
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Starting your life over in a big city like Austin, Texas, is no easy task, especially for a man raised in the country like Texas Ranger Josiah Wolfe. Now, after uprooting his son to the state's capital, Josiah must leave Austin to meet up with the rest of the Texas Ranger Frontier Battalion. But before he can get to work, Josiah has to make a quick stop to check on his old friend Juan Carlos, who's no stranger to trouble.
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Hopalong Cassidy volume 3
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Jim Meeker came down from Montana to run Texas cattle only to find that Hopalong Cassidy's Bar-20 ran the water. When a trio of snake-mean rustlers started themselves a cattle war, the powder was primed, and the guns were cocked. It's friend against friend, brother against brother, and gun against blazing gun. All hell has broken loose and Hopalong Cassidy is smack in the middle of it all. Hoppy and the Bar-20 crew must stop a range war before the...
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"The Civil War is over. The future of the American West is up for grabs. Any man crazy enough to lead a herd of Texas longhorns to the north stands to make a fortune - and make history. That man would be Nelson Story. A bold entrepreneur and miner, he knows a golden opportunity when he sees one. But it won't be easy. Cowboys and bandits got guns, farmers got sick livestock, and the Army's got their own reasons to stop the drive. Even worse, Story's...
11) Absaroka ambush
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First mountain man volume 3
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Preacher brings his own brand of justice to a gang of grifters in this classic Western from the New York Timesbestselling author of Blood on the Divide.
The Price of Gold
A wagon train winding through the remote reaches of the Rocky Mountain high country can attract plenty of scavengers—some of them human—like Vic Bedell and his gang of cutthroats. All he wants is the women, who can be traded...
The Price of Gold
A wagon train winding through the remote reaches of the Rocky Mountain high country can attract plenty of scavengers—some of them human—like Vic Bedell and his gang of cutthroats. All he wants is the women, who can be traded...
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"An action-packed collection of stories of the old West, Law of the Land includes the never-before-published "Biscuits for a Bandit." Sixteen stories, where good meets bad, and everything in between, from the legendary author of the west, Elmer Kelton. The Law of the Land chronicles some of his most exciting and dangerous tales of the old west, collected together for the first time"--
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Hewey Calloway has a problem. In his west Texas home of 1906, the land and way of life he loves are changing too quickly. As Hewey struggles against the relentless stream of progress, he comes to realize that the simple life of his childhood is vanishing - and that every choice he makes requires a sacrifice. --
15) Jigger bunts
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"Two connected stories discovered among unpublished works by Frederick Faust are combined to create this western story about a young man whose fascination with tall tales told about a fictional hero causes him to make a decision that sends him down a path outside the law"--
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In the 1870s, Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. One of these men regales Will with tales of the immense buffalo herds hidden away in the Colorado Rockies and convinces him to join an expedition to track them down. At the end of a grueling journey,...
17) Santa Fe passage
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Kirby Randolph, a tough mountain man, promised himself he'd get the wagon train to Santa Fe because Aurelie St. Clair was in one of the wagons. She was a half-breed, the most beautiful, and the toughest girl he'd ever seen.
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Will Tanner volume 4
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"He's the most notorious cattle rustler in all of Texas. His name--Jebediah Cotton--strikes fear into the hearts of every rancher in the territory. So it's more than a little strange that someone would shoot Cotton's youngest son in the back. Whoever did it is either a coward, a fool, or a crazy man. Whoever did it must die. Even if he's a U.S. deputy marshal named Will Tanner...So begins not one, but two of the deadliest manhunts in frontier history....
19) The Hondo kid
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He was fourteen. The Comanche slaughtered his parents and burned his house to the ground. His only brother never returned from the Civil War. Now the kid from Hondo, Texas had nothing or no one.
20) Bull Hunter
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Bull Hunter is a big, strong, gentle man who means no harm to anyone, but there are people who mean to harm him. They find Bull a tough man to beat.
