Garrett Jack
1) Dakota
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HE CAME WEST HAUNTED BY DEATH AND GRIEF...a Harvard-educated legislator from New York set off for Dakota Territory. Staggered by the deaths of his mother and wife on the same tragic night, Teddy Roosevelt was returning to a place he had visited the year before, a place that had struck him with its fierce beauty and its bounty of big game and big opportunity. By the Little Missouri River, Teddy Roosevelt established a ranching empire, and soon stood...
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Sam Houston is a living legend in 1861. The hero of the Battle of San Jacinto, he had defeated Santa Anna to win independence for Texas back in 1836. He had twice served as president of the Republic of Texas, helped Texas join the Union, and served as senator and governor of Texas. Before settling in Texas, he had been a hero of the Creek War and governor of Tennessee. He had been friends with Andrew Jackson and Davy Crockett, and had been adopted...
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State secrets: Secret Service agent David Goddard never expected to spend his Christmas surveilling the president's cousin but now he wonders is it her secrets that fascinate him ... or Holly herself?
The five days of Christmas: Morgan Trayhern's toughest mercenary, Colt Hamlin, is looking to lie low this Christmas, but he may just have a change of heart when his matchmaking boss puts him in the path of Montana's prettiest widow.
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Rivalries volume 1
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"Frank Culhane may be the wealthy patriarch of one of Texas' most prestigious families, but his party girl daughter, Jasmine, is only interested in the money the ranch brings in--and the cowboys. Until the day she heads to the stables in search of their hot horse trainer and instead discovers her daddy's body in their prize stallion's box stall. Roper's rodeo career was cut short by an injury. Now, he's hungry to compete in reining events, like the...
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New Americana volume 8
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"Determined to save the family farm from foreclosure, Derby-winning horse trainer Jo Beth Ellis reinvents the property as a healing retreat for horses and makes a deal with her handsome neighbor in hopes of winning a trifecta--a champion horse, a happy family and a forever love."--
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"Captain Dan Gentry was court-martialed after his men were massacred by the Apache. His plans to start a new life elsewhere change when he finds a young woman still alive at the site of another Apache attack. He determines to help her and catch the man he feels is responsible for these attacks"--
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Wells Fargo Trail volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Civil War veteran Zachary Cobb, now working as an undercover agent for Wells Fargo, is led into a confrontation with powerful underworld figures when he sets out to investigate a series of payroll holdups in the Mohave Desert.
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Zachary Cobb goes undercover to investigate a gang of vigilantes, which, under the control of corrupt federal officials, has been prosecuting and persecuting men suspected of a series of unsolved gold robberies.
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There's trouble on the trail drive in this USA Today bestselling series... Chancy Gantry and Ollie Teal are honest cowpunchers, riding herd on fifteen hundred longhorns from Texas to Kansas. Their trail boss, Lucas Stout, is tough but fair. He's never lost a hand on a drive and doesn't aim to start now. So when a cowhand needs a sawbones bad, Stout sends Chancy and Ollie to escort the man to a town called Prosperity, which none of them has ever heard...
11) The rail kings
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They would pay any price and stop at nothing to win.As an undercover agent for Wells Fargo, Zac Cobb isn't the kind of man who goes out looking for trouble, but trouble seems to have a way of finding him. And he isn't the kind of man to run away from trouble, even if it means putting himself in harm's way.When Zac foils an attempt to kidnap the family of the oldest daughter of General Sydney Roberts, the President of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad,...
12) Comanche dawn
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Horseback, a young Comanche Indian, must trust the spirits that protect his tribe to help him save his village from being destroyed by white men.
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The crescent scar: The Gila River Kid has gone straight under the name of Sadler Carrel, but he still hates the railroads.
The man without a gun: Ex-convict turned respectable businessman Jack Swift tries to protect a young nephew from a cruel uncle, even though he cannot legally own a firearm.
14) The manhunters
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Texas tradition volume 22
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Working faithfully for a Texas rancher despite his family's warnings, Chacho Fernandez steals his payment when his dishonest employer refuses to compensate him and is falsely accused of murdering a lawman.
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When Texan-born Josh Buckalew met Teresa, a young and beautiful Mexican woman, it was love at first sight. But with the Alamo recently sieged and destroyed, Josh knew this rosebud love would be unobtainable on account of the war thorns harrowing the country.
So the Buckalew brothers, Josh and Thomas, along with Josh's friend Muley, the man-child, come together with other Texans to protect their land at Goliad against the Mexicans who have just ravished...
17) Daniel's Bride
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Standing in a hot noon sun, a noose around her neck, fair-haired Jolie McKibben - the prettiest accused band robber the town of Prosperity, Washington, has ever sentenced to hang - needs a miracle to survive. Suddenly, a golden giant of a man steps out of the crowd. He alone can stop the hanging - by invoking the town's "wedding" ordinance. But to stay alove, Jolie must marry this total stranger on the spot!
18) A ship possessed
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J.D. Stanton mysteries volume 01
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J.D. Stanton investigates the mysterious appearance of a sunken submarine that has returned fifty years after it was presumed lost in the Atlantic.
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A surprising portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman, the Civil War general whose path of destruction cut the Confederacy in two, broke the will of the southern population, and earned him a place in history as “the first modern general”. Yet behind his reputation as a fierce warrior was a sympathetic man of complex character.
20) Texas bluff
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Professional gambler Ty Butler knows he should keep moving to stay ahead of the killers who wiped out his family and are now gunning for him. But when a serious card player finds a challenging game in an honest house, he wants to stay awhile. For Butler, a certain gambling hall is paradise-though the emporium's notorious owner, Little Luke Short, can't seem to steer clear of Hell's Half Acre, a corrupt and festering boil in the middle of Fort Worth....