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Recently, a number of Western stories have been discovered among Max Brand's unpublished works and the first story in this book, The White Streak, is one of them. Its protagonist is twenty-one-year-old Jimmy Babcock, a former football star, but now a worker at the local bank run by William Parker in the town of Dresser, which has changed from cattle country to one made up of oil and alfalfa fields. When Parker fires Jimmy, all Jimmy can think is how...
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While a battle rages between two outlaw gangs in a remote Utah canyon, Jim struggles to rescue Helen Herrick, who has been captured and held for ransom. Robbers' Roost tells the story of their personal struggle to escape the clutches of the murderous outlaws while simultaneously safeguarding their passion, one that is not likely to survive the beautiful, yet deadly, terrain and people of the old American West"--
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"In 1895, Antonio Sonoro is the latest in a long line of ruthless men. He's good with his gun and is drawn to trouble but he's also out of money and out of options. A drought has ravaged the town of Dorado, Mexico, where he lives with his wife and children, and so when he hears about a train laden with gold and other treasures, he sets off for Houston to rob it--with his younger brother Hugo in tow. But when the heist goes awry and Hugo is killed...
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Only his thirst for blood equals his lust for wealth and power. In his vicious seizure of the coveted land around Taos, high among the Rocky Mountains in the New Mexico Territory, plenty of innocent blood will be spilled. Robber Baron Clifton Satterlee's plan is twofold and simple: to wrest the timber-thick hills from the Tua Pueblo and then populate the town with his own labor force.
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Will Tanner novels volume 4
Will Tanner U.S. deputy marshal volume 4
Will Tanner U.S. deputy marshal volume 04
Will Tanner U.S. deputy marshal volume 4
Will Tanner U.S. deputy marshal volume 04
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"He's the most notorious cattle rustler in all of Texas. His name - Jebediah Cotton - strikes fear into the hearts of every rancher in the territory. So it's more than a little strange that someone would shoot Cotton's youngest son in the back. Whoever did it is either a coward, a fool, or a crazy man. Whoever did it must die. Even if he's a U.S. deputy marshal named Will Tanner... So begins not one, but two of the deadliest manhunts in frontier history....
6) Desert gold
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"A border town like Casita is no place for a drifter - especially a rich man's son looking for adventure. From the moment Dick Gale steps into this stinking, sun-baked hellhole of gambling and corruption, revolution, and revenge, he gets more than a bargained for. His old friend Thorne is in love with a beautiful senorita who's been targeted by the Mexican rebel Rojas. A bold, sneering devil of a man, feared, envied, and idolized by his people, Rojas...
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Reddick "Tiller" McRae is on the run again--this time from the ruthless band of thieves he's been part of since leaving North Carolina years ago. Seeking the fulfillment his outlaw life denied him, Tiller winds up on the doorstep of Bell's Inn, where the sweet-faced proprietress, Mariah Bell, captures his interest. But Mariah is looking for a weak husband to hide behind so she can carry on as the new owner of the inn. Handsome, take-charge Tiller...
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Sixkiller, U.S. Marshal volume 1
Sixkiller US Marshal
Sixkiller U.S. Marshal volume 1
Sixkiller U.S. Marshal volume 01
Sixkiller US Marshal
Sixkiller U.S. Marshal volume 1
Sixkiller U.S. Marshal volume 01
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"He was born in the Going Snake District of the Cherokee Nation - and forged a destiny as bold as his name. John Henry Sixkiller was a fearless as they come. He fought in the 2nd Cherokee Mounted Rifles, his father's regiment during the Civil War. Served with the Longhorse Police in Indian territory upholding the law among five tribes in a time of violence and change. But now, Sixkiller faces his greatest challenge yet. As a U.S. marshal, he must...
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Big for his age, young and impressionable drifter Charlie Chilton is taken in by the gruff leader of a gang of small-time crooks. While Grady Haskell sees something of himself in kindly, wayward Charlie, the ruffian pushes all feelings aside for a potentially big score.
10) Shotgun Johnny
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Shotgun Johnny volume 1
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"Armed with his weapons of choice--two sawed-off, double-barreled shotguns in custom-made holsters for pistol-quick draws--Shotgun Johnny ain't stopping for no one . . . not unless they want to die. Johnny Greenway was once a family man. A well-respected marshal who always played fair. Then his wife and son were killed by cutthroats. Johnny killed the killers. Then he hung up his badge and picked up a bottle. Now a shadow of his former self, he has...
11) Sunset Pass
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"Trueman Rock is a daring young cowboy and rider. Six years ago he had to leave the cowtown of Wagontongue because of a history of gunfights and run-ins with bad hombres. Since then, he's become a man who only uses his gun when he needs to, on rustlers and crooks. Now, he's returning to his hometown. But things have changed. The town and its people aren't what they used to be. He expects to find some of his enemies there to welcome him, but instead...
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"Damnable news has reached Fort Verde. Outlaw Jessup Henry and his gang of thugs are raising hell north of Santa Fe, one homestead massacre after another. Now they're on the run in Arizona Territory, evading the law. Cavalryman Tom Skinner's command: charge south with his patrol and wipe them out. But Skinner knows the land. Military decree be damned, he's deserting the wayward route--against orders--for the right one. There's more at risk than his...
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Sophie's daughters volume 2
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On her way to Montana, Sally McClellan's party is attacked and robbed. But then artist Logan McKenzie saves the badly wounded cowgirl who has been left for dead. Can this landscape painter tame the tomboy without breaking her spirit? Sally doesn't know much about ribbons and lace, but Logan's presence makes her want to connect with her feminine side. Will this fractured female discover a way to capture the artist's love- or find herself captured and...
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"Introducing a rail blazing new series set in the early days of the transcontinental railroad - when America headed West, outlaws climbed on board, and one man risked his life to stop them in their tracks. . . The newspapers call them the Devil's Horde. A well oiled team of cutthroat bandits who terrorize the Northern Pacific Railway on route to the coast through Dakota Territory. They dynamite the tracks, blow open the express car door, murder the...
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"He was a mystery among frontier bandits- a masked gunman who never showed his true face or spoke in his honest voice. A loner by design, The Whisperer held that it was foolishness for a man to have a partner in crime if he hoped to ride free. But a gent who played a lone hand would never make a big killing. So The Whisperer decided to do something either wildly desperate or extremely clever. He planned a spree of daring robberies that would make...
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When Yakima Henry leaves his remote cabin on Mount Bailey for supplies, he rides right into the middle of a deadly battle between the Saber Creek townsfolk and the Thunder Riders, a vicious gang of stagecoach robbers who steal his horse and kidnap a beautiful saloon girl.
17) Bad River
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"Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack is back-and hot on the trail of the worst desperados in two countries Following a tip from a prisoner in Yuma Penitentiary, Ranger Sam Burrack is riding to the Mexican Valley to hunt down the Cowboy Gang, notorious bandits who have topped the Most Wanted list for the past year. The crooks have fled to Rio Malo and settled in under the protection of corrupt town officials. Now, with new recruits including the infamous Russian...
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The loner volume 14
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"When The Loner is hired to go undercover as a train robber to discover what happened to Katherine Lupo's father--an outlaw who was murdered after being busted out of jail--he comes face to face with a cold-blooded master criminal who deserves to be put six feet under"--
19) Deputized
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"Frank Whittaker is just an unemployed trail hand trying to recover from a night of celebration when he witnesses a bank robbery and is deputized into a posse to track the outlaws. Frank is reluctant and resentful until he finds a way to make money at it by signing on as a guide for a U.S. marshal in pursuit of the same bank robbers, Dandy Jim Beudreaux and his gang. Marshal Dayton Howard and his manhunters leave a bloody trail in their pursuit of...
20) Red River ruse
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"Billy Cambridge is a Texas lawyer 'round about 1887, but in his younger days, he was a Texas Ranger. Entrusted with transporting $20,000 across northern Texas, he enlists the aid of his ranch foreman, Nacho Graves. Both expect an uneventful trip but lay that thought to rest when their stage is held up by six bandits who have been very active in the area lately but who have managed to escape the law. Billy and Nacho, interested only in their own money,...
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