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690L
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Owen Chantry arrives at his brother Clive's ranch to find him murdered and two squatters occupying his cabin. The unlikely trio--and a beautiful stranger--soon find themselves in a deadly feud with Clive's killers, the Mowatt gang, who return in search of Clive's rumored buried treasure.
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Great western edition volume 25
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English
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Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872-October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his bestselling book. The success of Grey's The Lone Star Ranger (the novel was adapted into four movies: 1914, 1919, 1930, and 1942, and a comic book in 1949) and King of the...
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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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820L
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"In the law of the gun, a man must shoot his way to innocence. At least that's how Captain McKelly of the Texas Rangers puts it to Buck Duane. On the run for killing a man to save his own skin, Duane must now infiltrate the deadly Chelsedine gang. These ruthless rustlers are running amok in Texas and it's going to take a matchless gunfighter to stop their rampage. With the legendary Rangers providing firepower, Duane has more than a fighting chance....
5) Wyoming
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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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Elmer Kelton writes of his boyhood in the sandhills of West Texas. The sons of Buck Kelton, a respected third-generation cowboy and ranch foreman, were expected to follow in Buck's footsteps, but Elmer strayed. Never much of a horseman, nor adept at the cowboy's trade, he went off to college and then into journalism and novel writing -- a good career choice, as it turned out.
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Elizabeth Cornish raises the infant son of outlaw Black Jack Hollis as her own, building up the legend of the Colby name, making the boy, Terry, believe he is descended from aristocracy. Then Elizabeth makes it known that Terry will inherit the family ranch on his twenty-fifth birthday, not her ne'er-do-well brother, Vance. As the celebration nears, Vance decides that he must make Terry aware of his outlaw heritage, and who better to set the record...
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2021.
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"A daring young woman pushes back against societal constraints in a feminist, coming-of-age Western romance from New York Times bestselling author Susan Andersen. It's a new era for Hattie. In the small but bustling town of Mattawa, turn-of-the-century Oregon offers a new kind of frontier: a vast and exciting range of possibilities for women--to a point. It's a time for change, and no one is more eager to embrace new roads than self-proclaimed black...
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This first volume covers the period from 1892 up to the start of World War II in 1939 and includes 10 classic Western stories by Owen Wister, Mark Twain, Frederic Remington, Bret Harte, John G. Neihardt, Willa Cather, Zane Grey, Max Brand, B.M. Bower and Ernest Haycox. The second volume covers the years 1940-1994 and includes 10 Western stories by Peter Dawson, T.T. Flynn, Walter van Tilburg Clark, Dorothy M. Johnson, Les Savage Jr., Louis L'Amour,...
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2021.
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"Fresh from a successful trail drive, cattle hand Seth Coe is feeling flush, especially after a lucky streak at the poker table. But his good fortune earns him a dangerous enemy, notorious tinhorn gambler Hannibal Fisher. Coe starts the long ride back to Texas with big plans to buy his own ranch. All he needs now is a wife. In tiny Prairie Fire, Kansas, he meets the perfect woman, his childhood love Josette Dubois. But she is under the thumb of her...
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2021.
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"At its heart, The Hi Lo Country is the story of the friendship between two men, their mutual love of a woman, and their bonde-deep allegiance to the the harsh, dry, achingly beautiful New Mexico high-desert grassland. The story is told by Pete, a young ranch hand, whose best friend is Big Boy Matson, a larger-than-life, old-style cowboy. Together they drink, gamble, fight, work, and rodeo. They both fall hard for a married woman--the attractive,...
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