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Bobby Eckstrum is known around the town of Columbia as a drunk. In a surprising turn of events, he is thought to have murdered and robbed Roger Simms, a local rancher. A posse is organized, and they hunt down and kill the man they believe to be Bobby. But Destiny Eckstrum, Bobby's daughter, believes they did not kill her father, but rather his equally shiftless brother who is said to live elsewhere in Colorado. When no one will listen to her, she...
62) The lonely breed
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Yakima Henry western volume 1
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Half Indian and half white, Yakima Henry considers himself lucky to have any job - even if it means just sweeping up the local brothel. But when four hombres attempt to carve up one of the house girls, Yakima gives them a taste of their own medicine with his Arkansas Toothpick. Now, he's become the girl's protector, and is on the run from a vicious bounty hunter.
65) The Keystone Kid
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"He came all the way from Pennsylvania to be a cowboy, and stepped off the train in a a freshly bought Western outfit. It was no surprise that he became the butt of jokes in the local bar. What was surprising was that he made no attempt to fight back. He gained two things that day--his name, the "Keystone Kid, " and his reputation as a coward. Once someone helped him learn the ropes, he took on the look and ways of a true cowhand. But there was still...
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Bullet for a Bad Man features brothers Boone and Epp, who have little in common besides a God-given ability to draw steel with eye-searing speed. Happy raising cattle, Boone wonders at his brother's lawlessness. But he never thought Epp's ambitions would turn brother against brother-nor imagine he'd face the prospect of sending his own kin to the next world.
67) Fool's coach
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Aristotle Schrimshaw plans a midnight stagecoach run through a bandit-infested wilderness. He, himself calls it a fool's coach but is willing to risk it and will take others if they dare!
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Zane Grey's bestselling novels have thrilled generations of readers with heart-and-guts characters, hard-shooting action, and high-plains panoramas.
When his brother, Barse, pulled one of the biggest hold-ups Texas had ever seen, Bruce Lockheart took the blame for it, leaving Barse clear to marry the beautiful Trinity Spencer. Bruce takes to the fugitive trail for a crime he didn't commit and is hotly pursued by a relentless ranger and the woman who...
69) Sam Hook
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Meagher County, Montana, is Hereford country. All the ranchers are raising Angus or Hereford cattle--all except Sam Hook. He is the only holdout, continuing to herd longhorns as he has for years.
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Dick Rutherford, known simply as the Colonel, had set out into the West to find his fortune, accompanied only by his young companion, Christy Deever. But it looked like the frontier would provide more danger than money...until the Colonel and Christy met Stone-That-Shines, a Mandan warrior who possessed a medicine stone that gave him his name. As soon as the Colonel got a close look at the medicine stone, he knew immediately what made it shine a rich...
71) Comanche dawn
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A singer/songwriter and author, Mike Blakely is a two-time winner of the Spur Award. In this heartfelt novel, Comanche warrior Horseback is born on the same day that the first horse comes to his people. Maturing into a powerful leader of uncommon wisdom and vision, Horseback falls for Teal, the most beautiful woman in his tribe, as he forges a new direction for the Comanches.
72) Pecos crossing
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Johnny Fristo and Speck Quitman, young, hard-working cowboys from Fort Concho, Texas, have worked six months at $20 a month on the Devil's River. Their boss, a hawk-faced cow trader named Larramore, reneges on the money he owes the boys and sneaks out of the cow camp, and heads for San Angelo. Fristo is tall and thin, his mind a hundred miles away; Quitman is short, bandy-legged, and “bedazzled by the flash of cards and the slosh of whiskey.”...
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Owen Burke is at loose ends in the Mexican town of San Rafael. While at the local cantina, he overhears a conversation between two Mexican vaqueros seated nearby and decides to introduce himself. The two men work for Don Enrique Hernandez de Allende at a horse ranch some distance south. The don is planning a horse drive to the north and then west to California, where the don's brother-in-law has a ranch. Owen knows those trails and hopes the don,...
74) Corrigan
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Compared to such Western giants as Max Brand, Luke Short, and Louis L'Amour, he has been called the New Voice of the Old West. With over one million of his books in print, Cameron Judd powerfully brings to life, as no one else can, the struggles of a generation of Americans on harsh and beautiful frontier.
He was young and green when he rode out from his family's Wyoming ranch, a boy sent to bring his wayward brother home to a dying father. Now,...
75) Flaming irons
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Les Tarron was just a boy when five strangers rode into his life and changed it forever. Years later - jailed, hunted and betrayed - Les felt the hatred burning inside him like a fever and set out to even the score…
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John Ermine of the Yellowstone (1902) is Frederic Remington's greatest literary achievement. A tragic and realistic story about race, identity, love, and the frontier is still a favorite of American readers today. John Ermine, known to his Crow tribe as White Weasel, must choose between the tribe that became his family and his white heritage. Although John sees himself as Native American at heart, he chooses to side with his white forbears and serve...
77) Arizona guns
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"You're on your way to HELL!"
The outlaw Roush brothers whirled from the bar at the sound of the harsh voice. What they saw was a kid not yet eighteen - but what a kid! He was Jimmy Clanton, a tough rawhider who had notched his first killing two years before. "What do you want with us?" growled Dave Roush. His brother Hugh moved slowly along the bar.
The kid, hands propped on his hips, watched quietly. "I'm here to settle for what you two did to...
78) The false rider
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One of a series of pulp Western novels by Max Brand featuring Silvertip, a heroic lone rider who metes out justice to various wrong-doers he runs across in his travels.
79) The big dry
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RENEGADES MUST DIE !
"No peace. There is war among us. White man will die the Apache way. White man will see his fields and houses burn. Your squaws will be treated the Apache way."
An Indian chief betrayed by a white man who breaks a treaty - and a white settlement thirsting for vengeance - make a blazing story of frontier life in the bloody days of the Apaches.
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In a small Montana town, a poor boy gets a chance at being a lawman. Mac McPherson shivers beside the open grave, taking notes for a newspaper story for which he has been promised twenty-five cents. When he files his piece, the editor gives him only two dimes, but Mac is not too proud to take it. Only fourteen years old, he has his mother to think of and his own hungry belly to feed. One night, town sheriff Frank Drinkwalter gives Mac a better offer:...