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1) Bowdrie
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It was a name that caused the most hardened gunmen to break out in a cold sweat. Chick Bowdrie. He could have ridden the outlaw trail, but the Texas Rangers recruited him because they didn't want to have to fight against him. Pursuing the most wanted men in the Southwest he knew all too well the dusty trails, the bitter cattle feuds, the desperate killers and the quiet, weather-beaten, wind-blasted towns that could explode into actions with
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"Struggling with the death of his wife in childbirth at the end of the nineteenth century, John Kerney gives up his Texas ranch to pursue the outlaws responsible for his brother's murder and participates in nearly half a century of turbulent history in New Mexico Territory." --From B&T.
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While tracking Clell Stanhope, the ruthless leader of the Vultures gang who has left a trail of carnage throughout the Old West, Deputy United States Marshal Spurr Morgan is ambushed and loses all hope until a half-breed named Yakima Henry offers his assistance.
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Smoke Jensen couldn't have cared less that a range war had erupted in Montana. But his cousin Fae was stuck right in the middle of a hundred-gun showdown that was about to explode in bullets and blood. When Smoke strapped on his Colts and went to Fae's aid, he knew the deck was stacked against him. Even when he was joined by four old friends, it looked like it was going to be his final stand. But if anyone could buck the odds, it was Smoke Jensen,...
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John Henry Cole, working as a deputy US marshal out of Judge Isaac Parker's court in Fort Smith, Arkansas, was on assignment in the Indian Nations when he was shot and seriously injured. Now, fifteen years later, employed as a deputy for Judge Roy Bean in Texas, Cole receives a personal summons from Judge Parker to appear in his court within thirty days. Cole isn't inclined to go, but he knows whatever's on Judge Parker's mind is serious and decides...
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Falcon was called to Sorrento by a crusading newspaper reporter trying to expose a conspiracy of greed and corruption--with innocent men dying at the end of a court-ordered rope. As acting U.S. Marshal, Falcon quickly makes some very dangerous enemies. Then he himself is sentenced to hang. But in twenty-four hours he'll be out of jail, out on the streets, and shooting lead against a small army of gunmen. Because he knows the three men who have taken...
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Caleb Marlowe novels volume 1
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Caleb Marlowe carved out his own legend as frontier scout and lawman before arriving in the Colorado boomtown of Elkhorn. Famous for a lightning-quick draw and nerves of steel, he is mysterious, guarded, and unpredictable. Now, he wants to leave the past behind. But the past has a way of dogging a man. When Doc Burnett, Caleb's only friend in town, goes missing, his daughter Sheila comes seeking Caleb's help. Newly arrived from the East, she hotly...
10) Wanted: Sam Bass
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The Pinkerton Detective Agency had a competitor. Who knew? Wanted: Sam Bass introduces the Great Western Detective League and a colorful cast of law enforcement professionals operating across the west in the late eighteen hundreds. Sam Bass launches his outlaw career in 1877 with high stakes stage and train robberies. Wells Fargo and Union Pacific want Bass and his gang. Crafty bounty hunter Briscoe Cane takes the case for the league. Pinkerton assigns...
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"He was only eighteen and not quite a deputy, but Jason's lawman instinct alerted him to the sound of gunfire ripping the early morning calm. Up the street a stranger with six guns ablaze and murder in his eyes ran out from Satterfield's general store, his sack bulging with stolen gold. Dropping on one knee and calling on the perpetrator to halt, Jason drew his .36 Colt and fired at the retreating desperado, who continued his wild dash out of town....
12) Desperate ride
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Texas Ranger Will Kirkpatrick volume 02
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2023.
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"[A] series of adventures for veteran Texas Ranger Will Kirkpatrick, and his young Ranger recruit, Jonas Peterson ... Receiving orders to clean up a huge swath of west Texas, the Rangers begin encountering outlaws and renegades before they even reach the heart of the crime-infested range. In saloons, at camp, on steam trains and stagecoaches, Will and Jonas face down bandits, fugitives, crooked lawmen and trigger-happy drunks ..."--
13) Texas sheriff
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Beautiful, mysterious Shirley Randolph stood at the faro table and gambled like a man. Watching her through a screen of cigarette smoke, Sheriff Curt Thompson suspected that she could also ride like a man, rob like a man, and shoot like a man. But when he looked at her he wondered only whether in his arms she could love like a woman. Curt was on the trail of the Trackless Bunch - phantom gun-slicks who killed for sheer sport. Did Shirley's slim white...
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"Cajun box man known as Duval blows a safe in San Francisco and makes off with sixty thousand dollars in diamonds and precious stones. Insurance Company of North America engages Colonel David Crook's Great Western Detective League. Veteran investigators Beau Longstreet and Briscoe Cane take the case. The Jeweler's Protective Association turns to the Pinkerton Agency. Partnered with the ultra-secret criminal syndicate El Anillo, the real money from...
15) The old wolves
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"Spurr Morgan is ready to retire--but only after one last job. Deputy U.S. Marshal Spurr Morgan's ticker isn't what it used to be. After Spurr suffers a heart attack on the job, the Chief Marshal convinces him it's time to step down. Unwilling to go out on a sour note, Spur asks for one last assignment. The Chief sends him to bring a prisoner back to Denver from the Medicine Bow Mountains. The mission seems routine for an old hand like Spurr, until...
16) Starvation camp
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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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Great Western Detective League volume 2
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An anonymous New York investor sets in motion a hostile railroad takeover financed by more than a million dollars in counterfeit bearer bonds issued by a rival railroad. The work is carried out by a ruthless, ultra-secret crime syndicate using an enigmatic beauty hired to beguile unsuspecting bankers while passing the bogus paper. The Texas & Pacific Railroad turns to Pinkerton to stop the fraud while victimized banks retain the Great Western Detective...
19) Trail town
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Dan Mitchell was the sheriff of River Bend. But River Bend had its conflicts: on one hand, the gamblers and saloon keepers catered to the wild cowboys who rode into town with the Texas cattle; on the other hand, the respectable citizens objected to the wilder elements in town. Dan knew someday he would be in the middle, friend to no one.
20) The long rope
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Matt Trinity had two ambitions: to become sheriff of High City and put an end to the lawless vigilante rule; and to win Sharon Wickford, the belle of the valley. But when a stranger comes to town, he struggles to keep his jealousy over Sharon separate from his dedication to law and order.
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