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2) City of gold
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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"Determined to recover his family's mules, fifteen-year-old Owen is joined by his kid brother and Telluride's notorious marshal in pursuit of a rustler--all the way to Butch Cassidy's hideout"--
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"Ben Joyner has no argument with the people who built their homes on the grassland near Pecos, but the cattlemen have long considered the range their own domain and now trouble is brewing. Rancher Gus Remarque is Ben's boss and believes that the dollar a day he pays buys not only a man's labour but his loyalty, too. The time is fast approaching when that loyalty might involve killing or being killed, and Ben wants to wash his hands of this dispute:...
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It is 1874. Now that peace has been established between the United States Army and the Comanche nation, citizens who lost children to Comanche raids over the ears are pressuring Congress for their return. The Comanches would rather resume the war than submit to this degradation.
7) Train dreams
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This is the story of Robert Grainier, a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century -- an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime.
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Early one morning in the remote hill country of Texas, a panther savagely attacks a family of homesteaders, mauling a young girl named Samantha and killing her mother, whose final act is to save her daughter's life. Samantha and her half brother, Benjamin, survive, but she is left traumatized, her face horribly scarred.
Narrated in Benjamin's beguilingly plainspoken voice, The Which Way Tree is the story of Samantha's unshakeable resolve to stalk...
10) Mackenna's gold
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With his dying breath, an ancient Apache warrior entrusts Glen Mackenna with the location of the lode called the Lost Canyon of Gold, but Mackenna tragically falls into the hands of the ruthless Francisco Lopez, called Pelon.
11) The son
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930L
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The acclaimed author of American Rust, returns with The Son: an epic, multigenerational saga of power, blood, and land that follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family from the Comanche raids of the 1800s to the border raids of the early 1900s to the oil booms of the 20th century. Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, The Son is an utterly transporting novel that maps the...
13) Diamond spur
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Texas rancher Jason Donavan was known for his temper, his brooding nature and his deep distrust of women. No one at the Diamond Spur ranch could stand his moods -- except Kate Whittman. Kate was young and inexperienced, but she knew that Jason was the only man for her. She wanted him more than anything, but he offered her only brotherly protection -- until the day she discovered that Jason's desire was as strong as her own. But Jason was not interested...
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Eking out a living from the arid plains where he and his family live, Jim Martin tries every possible means of rainmaking until he is the laughingstock of the other ranchers, but when he hears of an oldtimer who is said to be able to conjure water, he thinks of trying one more time.
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The best secret agent the South had was L. L. Henderson. She was also a beautiful woman and a counterspy for the Union army. Her men were dangerous hardcases: hired guns, drunks, drifters, a murderous freed slave and the sweet-talker who was her lover. They set out to win the Civil War by sealing off California and her gold. But they hadn't reckoned with Mangas Coloradas, "Red Sleeves," the Apache chieftain. When his warriors sprung their ambush trap,...
19) The crossing
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Ben Allison series volume 2
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Jud Reeves' upbringing on the frontier is put to the test when he joins a deadly Confederate campaign to secure the region, and he confronts murderous visionary Elkanah Cavanaugh, wild woman Star Cavanaugh, and settler-hating Apache Sobre