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81) The untamed
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With uncanny abilities, Whistlin' Dan Berry keeps the toughest of situations under control. The protagonist of Brand's first western novel was radically different from earlier, more realistic characters. In 'The Untamed', readers are introduced to the modern conception of the west as a violent world of fairy tale.
82) The forbidden
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Outlaws smashed his life, left his wife dying, and took his young son. Now all Frank Morgan wants is to hang up his guns and settle down. But when he rides into the middle of a Montana range war, his legend proves to be as dangerous as his guns.
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Max Brand's first novel and one of the first in the genre of Westerns along with Zane Gray. Has everything a Western needs: a unbeatable stallion, other horses, a semi-tamed wolf, a young lady "purtier than any filly", unbounded plains, hills, and mountains, untamed skies and weather, and of course--desperados. (Goodreads)
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Rivers West volume 6
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Eastward, as far as the eye could see, stretched the Great Plains. Westward rose the Rockies, snow-capped peaks of grandeur. In the middle flowed a mighty river - silent, glistening, and turbulent - the bloodline of a wide and wild land. Three hard, tough men staked their claims on its potent shores; Jake Stonecipher, pioneer merchant, seeking his fortune, yet finding a war. Will Burke, a mountain man as savage as the wilderness itself. And Francisco...
85) Trapper's blood
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Wilderness volume 17
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When trappers start turning up dead, their bodies mutilated, Nate and his friends vow to track down the merciless killers.
86) The Smoky Hill
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Rivers West volume 2
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Through the rolling grasslands of Kansas runs the Smoky Hill River, a rich source of opportunity for those bold enough to risk the dream-killing territory. For Gabe, mountain-man and scout, the river means freedom and a chance to map unexplored territory with the Great Pathfinder, John Charles Fremont. For Lem, an Illinois farm boy in pursuit of gold, it is a cruel foe who robs him of his family and his youth. For Jesse, a young Union corporal, this...
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Mountain man volume 20
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Johnstone Country. Where the Good Die Young. The Bad Die Sooner.
A SHORT RIDE TO HELL
Outlaw Joe Wales has a score to settle in Pueblo: find Jacob Murdock and the band of vaqueros who attacked his wife and drown them in their own stinking blood. But when Wales's hunting party is ambushed, the only gunfighter he can count on for cover is Smoke Jensen, the trigger-ready legend of the High Lonesome. Jensen's more than willing to strap on a brace of...
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Blood bond volume 7
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Johnstone Country. Patriots Welcome.
Young Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves became blood brothers on the day the rancher's son saved the halfbreed's life, forging a bond no one could ever break. As years passed, a legend grew of the breed and the white man who rode together—and who could jerk killing iron with the best of them...
SAN ANGELO SHOWDOWN
Trigger-happy outlaws are giving the Texas Rangers a lot...
Young Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves became blood brothers on the day the rancher's son saved the halfbreed's life, forging a bond no one could ever break. As years passed, a legend grew of the breed and the white man who rode together—and who could jerk killing iron with the best of them...
SAN ANGELO SHOWDOWN
Trigger-happy outlaws are giving the Texas Rangers a lot...
89) Come sundown
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Reluctant hero, Honore Greenwood, has a knack for embroiling himself in the most violent conflicts of the Southern Plains. Known as Plenty Man to the Comanches, Honore serves as ransom negotiator for captives among the Indians. As if his life wasn't in danger enough, Honore has offered his services to the New Mexico Volunteers in the Civil War. But as Honore's luck would have it, he's in the same unit as Luther Sheffield, a man whose grudge against...
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With more than two million copies of his books in print, Cameron Judd has delivered pulse-pounding tales of the Old West to countless fans. In The Treasure of Jericho Mountain, Jeremy Prine is reunited with old Civil War buddies to go after close to a million dollars in stolen loot. But despicable killers have also caught scent of the treasure-and before it's all over more than one corpse is sure to be planted in the local bone orchard.
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Kelton presents two stories of his beloved West Texas, cowmen, and cow country in this 'OMNIBUS EDITION.' In 'Pecos Crossing, ' Johnny Fristo and Speck Quitman have been cheated out of six-months' wages by their rancher boss and intend to get it. In 'Shotgun, ' rancher Blair Bishop has to contend with a rival cowman whose herd is encroaching on Blair's land, and a recently released ex-con who has a score to settle with Blair.
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Kent Conwell combines murder, mystery, and the lure of the West in The Last Way Station. Jake Slade and his partner, Three-Fingers Bent, arrive in a small Texas town with plans to start up a stagecoach way station. But when Bent is accused of murder, Slade's got to find the real culprit before his friend's day in the gallows arrives.
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Formats
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They came from the sea, a former ship captain named Owen Bird who inherited a Texas ranch from his brother. A former pirate named "Black Terrance" Malone, who has arrived in the once peaceful Rattlesnake Valley with a crew of sea dogs to do his dirty work. And dirty work it will be, as Black Terrance begins a campaign of thieving and threatening, even targeting Bird's beautiful young niece. Into this storm rides the Loner, Conrad Morgan, son of the...
95) Desperate riders
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In this Western, the action begins as Kansas Red rescues young Billy from a card-game shootout. The boy asks Red for help protecting his family from outlaw Thorn, who has just kidnapped Billy's mother, Carol. As Red and Billy ride off to rescue Carol, they run into beautiful, tough-as-nails Leslie, who's managed to escape Thorn's men. They race to stop Thorn's wedding to Carol with guns a-blazing but does she want to be rescued?
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Plainsmen volume 5
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Book four of the author's series based on the Indian Wars. The novel is set in 1872-1873 near the Oregon Territory. The Modoc Indians and the American officials are on the brink of war. A Modoc chief, Kientpoos, murders a Civil War hero during negotiations, and triggers a U.S. Army offensive against the Modocs. Besieged in Lava Beds near Tule Lake, the Modocs fight for seven months before being defeated when Modoc defectors help turn the tide against...
97) Jedidiah Boone
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Jedidiah will need all his skills and more as he battles the harsh elements of the vast New Mexico deserts.
98) Cowboy
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Cowboy thought he was going to get a chance to buy the land that he had worked and saved so long for, but instead he ends up trying to help the original owner of the Triple X Ranch save her land from unscrupulous speculators.
99) The sheep queen
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This starkly elegant story details the lives of Emma Russell Sweringen and her family in the early 1900s. Emma's daughter Beth secretly gave up a baby girl for adoption many years ago. Now, Beth's secret life is being unraveled as her daughter comes looking for her long-lost family.
100) Leaving Kansas
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The disappearance of his uncle, from whom he stands to inherit the Running W Ranch, the appearance of a rough rival for the heart of his ladylove, and the crooked dealings of a local bank teller put an end to Harrison Wilke's boring life in Red Bluff, Kansas.
