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Ten years after the Seventh Cavalry massacred more than two hundred Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, J.B. Bennett, a white rancher, and Star, a young Native American woman, are murdered in a remote meadow on J.B.'s land. The deaths bring together the scattered members of the Bennett family, while exposing their damning secrets. Dulcinea, returned after bitter years of self-exile, yearns for redemption and the courage to mend her broken...
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"Born Henry McCarty, Billy the Kid was a diminutive, charming, blond-haired young man who, growing up in New York, Kansas, and later New Mexico, demonstrated a precocious dexterity at firing six-shooters with either hand--a skill that both got him into and out of trouble and that turned him into an American legend of the old West. He was smart, well-spoken, attractive to both white and Mexican women, a good dancer, and a man with a nose for money,...
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It was high hot noon on the Casket Ridge. Its very scant shade was restricted to a few dwarf Scotch firs, and was so perpendicularly cast that Leonidas Boone, seeking shelter from the heat, was obliged to draw himself up under one of them, as if it were an umbrella. Occasionally, with a boy's perversity, he permitted one bared foot to protrude beyond the sharply marked shadow until the burning sun forced him to draw it in again with a thrill of satisfaction....
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Jackson Miggs was a loner who wintered under the Ute Peak in his log cabin. He liked people well enough, but didn't care much for crowds. He even tolerated the cowmen like Hyatt Tolman who used the high meadows around Ute Peak to graze his herd-even when the animals cropped the forage too closely and drove the elk and deer into the higher mountains. Miggs once told Frank McCoy that if he looked out a window and saw a building less than two hundred...
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At thirty-five, Federal Marshal Buck Fyffe has had eleven years' experience as a lawman. When he and Deputy Steve Larson were charged with taking the outlaw Luther Gibbs to the newly established Yuma Territorial Prison, he wasn't expecting any problems. But when Larson gets snake bit and dies, Fyffe finds himself almost three days away from the Yuma prison with no one to spell him while he sleeps.
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Sidewinders volume 2
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In the west, there's always work for the kind of men willing to get their hands dirty - from rounding stray cattle to stringing barbed wire. Bo Creel and Scratch Morton are just such men. Now they've been hired for the one job they've never tried: wearing badges - in a little stain of a town called Whiskey Flats.What Bo and Scratch don't know is that a gang of outlaws is bent on burning down the town the Sidewinders have been hired to protect. With...
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Sidewinders volume 8
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Bo and Scratch, in a bid to raise desperately needed cash, set off on a trail drive when their rivals steel their herd.
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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.
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The loner volume 6
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"Once he was a young, happily married businessman. Then he lost his wife to human madness and that young man was gone, replaced by the Loner, the wandering son of legendary gunfighter Frank Morgan, and now the current occupant of a cell in the brutal and unforgiving Hell Gate prison. The Kid's crime? He looked too much like an outlaw who escaped from this very prison. So the Kid teams up with a fellow inmate with an escape plan, vowing to hunt down...
13) The evil men do
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When fifteen-year-old bounty hunter Tyree Johnson catches a killer hiding in his town, Marshal Fred Hitch rides with Tyree and his prisoner all the way to Cheyenne--a dangerous journey that teaches them about evil and survival.
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"Found among a group of unpublished works by Frederick Faust, these two Western stories both deal with cowardice. In "Traynor" the title character is believed to be a weak young man, having let Dr. Parker Channing steal his love, Rose Laymon, away from him. When the stage Traynor is driving into Little Snake is robbed and Traynor's best friend and stage guard, Sam Whitney, is killed by the robber, Traynor chases the thief and recovers his dropped...
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"Seventeen-year-old Silver King dreams of becoming a working cowboy. His mother, however, has pushed him to be a baseball player--and King certainly has the arm to be a star pitcher. When the National League forms a team in Kansas City in 1886, both mother and son get their wishes"--
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First mountain man series volume 4
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Back East to see his aging parents, Preacher gets into a rucus with a pack of city bullies and must high-tail it back West when one of them ends up dead.
17) Hang him twice
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Trail West series volume 3
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"When Dooley Monahan saves Buffalo Bill Cody's life, Cody grubstakes him to purchase of a silver mine in the lawless, violent boomtown of Leadville, Colorado. When he guns down three outlaws, the grateful townsfolk make Dooley sheriff. Then he discovers a town tradition: if a sheriff's no good, they hang him. And fingers are starting to point"--
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They struck in a pack, in the dead of night. They crept in like thieves, like the cowards they were ... but it wasn't robbery they had in mind. Smoke Jensen was buying cattle a hundred miles away from his Colorado ranch when he got the news. He rode hard and didn't stop until he reached his wife's side. She had been shot three times and lay close to death.
19) Deadwood gulch
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Sidewinders volume 5
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When they take a job guarding gold shipments from the mining camps--shipments that keep getting hijacked by a gang called the Devils of Deadwood--Scratch Morton and Bo Creel have to go after missing gold and the Devils.
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"When a sixteen-year-old boy learns that his stepmother and a local judge have murdered his father and now plan to kill him, he joins the Kansas City National Bloomer Girls, playing second base and disguised as a girl. Luckily, another Bloomer Girl, Buckskin Compton, alias Dolly Madison, is on the dodge after some shootings and beatings in Wyoming-and he takes the kid under his tutelage. Staying alive won't prove easy for either of the reluctant female...
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