Bill Pronzini
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"Nothing much happens in Peaceful Valley, Montana. And that's just how Sheriff Lucas Monk likes it. Aside from the occasional drunken brawl or minor disturbance out on the reservation, he hasn't had to resort to his fists or sidearm in years. That is, until mid-October, 1914, when the theft of a wooden cigar store Indian sets off a crime wave like nothing Lucas has ever seen. Teenager Charity Axthelm goes missing, Reba Purvis's housekeeper is poisoned...
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Give-a-Damn Jones, an itinerant typographer, arrives in the small Montana town of Box Elder. The town is rife with tensions related to a convict's efforts to prove his innocence, a cattleman's demand for respect, a snooping editor, and a feud between a dentist and a blacksmith. Jones keeps finding himself in the wrong place at the wrong time-- but this time, he may be the hero that this town needs.
3) Border fever
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Meet Oak M'Candliss Hardened and wordwise Ranger Oak M'Candliss was a loner. His brothers had been massacred during a Chiricahuas border raid and the wife he adored had been murdered by a pack of vicious outlaws. All he had left was a devotion to justice and a determination to uphold the law.
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Henry W. Halloran is almost a legend. Better known as Horse-Shy Halloran, though few dared call him that to his person. A gaunt figure in black broadcloth and a long face, well-suited for a traveling preacher, one of his favorite disguises. Today's the most glorious day of Halloran's intermittently honest life--sum total of one escape from the infamous Burgoyne Gang, one escape from the law, three sacks of stolen gold tied to his saddle horn, and...
7) Firewind
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A trio of outlaws inadvertantly set off a forest fire that threatens the entire valley. They attempt to evacuate the town by train through the inferno.
8) Quincannon
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Carpenter and Quincannon novels volume 1
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2005-0020.
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Corporal Zachary McQuestion of the North West Mounted Police finds, at Molly Malone's roadhouse, an emptiness that can only mean death. His desire for vengeance takes him on a hunt through the wilderness and down to San Francisco's Barbary Coast, where the killer's trail leads him into his own tragic past.
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Ruel Starrett, from the Red River region of Texas, purchases a half interest in the great Spade Ranch from Susana Dahlhart. This will give him a chance to carry forth his experiment to cross Brahma bulls with longhorn range cattle. But there is the problem of Zack Markley, the Spade foreman, who Ruel Starrett wants to fire, but who claims ownership of the Mission Creek section of the ranch and who will fight for possession of it.
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"Two short western novels: 'Trouble at Temescal' tells the story of two entrepreneurial mustangers in Los Angeles after the Mexican-American War and 'King of the Defiances' involves a greedy rancher in Arizona who is trying to make a fortune in logging through devious means and the man determined to stop him" --Provided by publisher.
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"At the ferry crossing where the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers merge, an impending storm forces travelers to stop and take shelter in the home of the ferry master and his wife and teen-aged daughter. Waiting out the storm are a man and woman who seem to be on the run from something, a self-described "fallen woman," an undercover Pinkerton detective, and a slick traveling salesman with mysterious wares who sees their predicament as a way to make...