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"Territory of New Mexico, 1875. Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy needs money to complete the new cathedral he's building in Santa Fe. He comes to see Father Clement Grantaire, pastor of a small parish near the Texas border, for help. Father Grantaire has a checkered past, but he also has an idea: he can use his less-than-priestly skills to obtain money for the cathedral. After a night of gambling, Grantaire wins over a thousand dollars from a group of...
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A son sets out to make things right and avenge his father's death in this dark Western noir. Ethan Wilder has been off in the mountains hunting for the last several months. Upon his return to the family Bar Five Ranch, Wilder finds his life in chaos. His brother, Ben, after taking his father's rifle without permission, has locked his father in the outhouse to avoid punishment. Another brother, Vic, is in jail, accused of beating up a girl in town,...
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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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In "Dead Man's Gold, " Ken Gregory comes upon a lynching and is able to disperse the mob. Sam Petnell, whom the mob had unjustly accused of horse stealing, tells Ken he knows the location of a buried cache of gold on the Box-T ranch. Then Sam is murdered on the trail... In the title story, Ray Donovan, adopted as a child and raised by Aunt Kate Donovan on the Box D Ranch, returns to do a favor for his cousin and becomes embroiled in a bitter right-of-way...
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In "Outlaw's Hide-Out, " drifter Hap Thompson has lived in a secluded valley since robbing a bank made him a wanted man. But his tranquil life is interrupted when he discovers a strange horse and tracks it back to an injured young woman. He takes her back to his cabin even though he knows that her presence there means he will soon have to flee his valley. Wesley Potter is the "Sheriff of Hangtown, " and friend to Dick Ruffin, an old-timer who has...
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Determined to find her family's murderers, fifteen-year-old Clementine Webb vows to hunt them down, one by one. Texas Ranger Lucius Dodge tries to talk some sense into the little lady. Trading lead with stone- cold killers is men's work. At least it's what Lucius always thought until darling Clementine shows her aim is true.
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Once he was Tom Cade, lawman and gunfighter. Now he's Amos Hood, preacher. When he rides into Gold Town, it's clear the place is badly in need of two things: the law of God and the law of man. Now a man of peace, Hood sets about building a church and gathering a flock. But the townsfolk, desperate to control the mayhem, hire a shootist with a trail of corpses behind him to wear a badge. With Gold Town poised to explode into a range war, Amos Hood...
13) Mule man
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They called Brice Corrigan "Mule Man" because of the animal he rode, but they might as well have called him that because of his disposition, for he was surely as stubborn as his beast. Hell, half of why he signed on to this godforsaken crew was because the lady who hired him suggested that he didn't have the guts to do the job. And an odd job it was. A crew of ten, led by an anthropologist, was going into Arizona's Chaco Canyon to dig for relics of...
14) Wagons east!
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The flint-eyed Texan was a man with a mission: get the wagon train across the treacherous prairies and ambushed mountains, and deliver its cargo into the hands of the Confederacy. None of the homeward-bound pioneers knew that five million dollars in contraband gold was hidden beneath the false floors of their Conestogas. No one guessed that their wagon master was a rebel officer - a man who was going to win the war for the South single-handedly...or...
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One stormy night in Devil's Drum country, Texas, a freight train is halted by a landslide. Two teamsters with fake orders from one of the railroad's top officials ride up, requesting twenty cases of preserves from the startled crew - but are waylaid and murdered on their way into town. So begins one of the most mystifying jobs that detective Gregory Quist has ever taken on; and murder is committed again before he learns what was in the cans innocently...
16) Sorrel moon
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"Ethan Kerry, blinded by a wild horse, continues to run his growing Texas ranch--with the help of his two brothers, Cole and Luther, and his strong wife, Claire. Notorious outlaw Glory Van Camp, posing as a fake Uvalde minister, and his brother, appearing to be a town bum, have their sights set on taking control of the massive Bar K. They are joined by their evil stepfather, Heredith Tiorgs, and stepsister, Jinette Six, and recruited gunmen. Their...
17) Dark prairie
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In the 1890s, a stranger named Dunbar rides into the town of Winsome, Wyoming. He goes to work at the Little Six ranch and begins to look into the affairs of Tut Whipple, a water project developer who built a dam near the town. The investigation starts with missing cattle, but extends to the disappearance of a young girl. Whipple's men come after him, first with fists and then with guns -- leading to a showdown on the dark prairie.
19) 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...
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" Can the walls of an abandoned house absolve a man accused of a thirty-year-old murder? Not before Silent Cooper and Dempsy Nealy battle Apache thieves, Pancho's Villistas, marauding outlaws, and El Tigre of the Playas Valley. The loss of a letter beneath the ruins of a famous Arizona ranch house thirty years ago led to an untimely marriage for Dempsy's Aunt Cindy, who now runs three ranches with an iron will and a shotgun loaded with buckshot. No...