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Texas was a huge wide place full of frontiersmen, ranchers, farmers, cowpokes, shiftless no-accounts, shootists, rascals, and politicians, all of them blended together into a single state. The Rangers-lawmen, Texas Rangers-were outnumbered a thousand to one, and in one county, Pecos County, the law was all but helpless. Until Ranger Vaughn Steel went to Pecos looking for revenge.
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"Clint Belmet's parents were killed in a Comanche raid when he was young, but that hasn't stopped him from taking a job leading freight caravans on the old Santa Fe Trail, from Saint Louis, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico-a route that goes right through Comanche territory. Here is the raw, primitive West of the early pioneers, great caravans of freighters rumbling across the deadly prairies, risking attack by Comanche. In this action-packed adventure...
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Andrew Bonning came west, a raw novice, to make his fortune; and he had to learn fast in order to survive. This is the story of a rash of cattle rustling, a crooked sheriff and only one raw tenderfoot with a pistol to set things straight. From Amazon website.
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"Although he doesn't know cattle or cowboys, Missourian Jim Traft finds himself as the foreman of a tough Arizona outfit tasked with fencing a hundred miles of open cattle range. Brought on by his wealthy uncle, he faces this difficult trial with youthful aplomb. But Taft faces a community that stands to suffer because of this new drift fence, and he must walk a fine line in order to honor his uncle's business while not incurring the wrath of longtime...
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Gloriana Traft gets more that she bargains for when she visits her tenderfoot brother in Yellow Jacket, Arizona. The notorious Hash Knife Outfit has taken control of the beautiful valley, stealing the ranchers' cattle and kidnapping the women of the town. They are about as bad as any Western rustlers come. Drunk on the excitement of the West, Gloriana falls for a true Hash Knife desperado and becomes a captive of the most dangerous man in Arizona....
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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"--
7) Boulder Dam
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Straddling the great Colorado River, a huge structure is slowly rising -- a dam that will alter the course of this ravaging river and harness its awesome power. Men from all over America have flocked to the site, laboring at the dam by day and filling the nearby Las Vegas gambling houses by night. To Lynn Weston, a rich man's son, working on the dam means independence and the chance to prove his courage. But an even greater challenge faces Lynn: he...
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John Hare lies gruesomely dying in the desert until he is discovered and rescued by the kind and generous rancher, August Naab. As Hare is nursed back to health on Naab's ranch, he finds himself irresistibly draws to Naab's adopted daughter, Mescal, and the two clandestinely fall in love. Unfortunately, Mescal is already promised in marriage to Naab's first-born son, and she is also relentlessly pursued by Holderness, a man known to be ever so deceitful....
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Buck Duane's father was a gunfighter who died by the gun and, in accepting a drunken bully's challenge, Duane himself was forced into the life of an outlaw. He roamed the dark trails of southwestern Texas, living in outlaw camps, until he met the one woman who could help him overcome his past—a girl named Jennie Lee.
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Fort Henry saga volume 4
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The story of George Washington from birth to early surveying trips, to his role in General Braddock's disastrous campaign, to taking command of the Continental army in 1775.
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Betty Zane: In the last battle of the American Revolution, British forces besiege Fort Henry. With the defenders running out of food and ammunition, sixteen-year-old Betty Zane volunteers to retrieve a gunpowder cache hidden outside the fort. Her brazen bravery--she make the trip in broad daylight--stuns the Americans' enemies and inspires her countrymen to successfully resist the siege.
To the last man: The range wars have been raging in the Tonto...
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