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From the moment Madeling Hammond steps off the train in New Mexico, she walks straight into t5rouble. Almost tricked into marriage by a handsome, drunken cowboy, Madeline quickly realizes she has a lot to learn if she is going to survive life on her brother's ranch in the southwestern territory.
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Life may have been hard on Addie French, but when she meets friendless Emma Roby on a train, all her protective instincts emerge. Emma's brother is seeing her off to Nalgitas to marry a man she has never met. And Emma seems like a lost soul to Addie-someone who needs Addie's savvy and wary eye. It isn't often that Addie is drawn to anyone as a friend, but Emma seems different somehow. When Emma's prospective fails to show up at the train depot, Addie...
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"An expansive, epic tale like Philipp Meyer's The Son, and in the wonderful storyteller vein of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, McGarrity's Backlands showcases his keen eye for historical detail, awe-inspiring scenery, and the bitter harshness of life on the last vestiges of the twentieth-century frontier West. Michael McGarrity returns with the second installment of his sweeping, richly authentic New York Times bestselling American West trilogy set...
4) The drifter
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Once, Frank Morgan had a wife and a future on the land-- until a rich man with a grudge drove him out of Colorado. Since then, Morgan's taken up the one skill that always came easy-- gun fighting-- and drifted to a mining town in the New Mexico Territory. But there is nothing easy about two vicious gangs descending on the town, threatening to wreck havoc.
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IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 12
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The narrative follows Bishop Jean Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant, friends since their childhood in France, as they organize the new Roman Catholic diocese of Santa Fe subsequent to the Mexican War. While seeking to revive the church and build a cathedral in the desert, the clerics, like their historical prototypes, Bishop Jean Laury and Father Joseph Machebeuf, face religious corruption, natural adversity, and the loneliness of living in a strange...
7) 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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"Mac Mckenzie has enough problems on his plate. He's got bounty hunters on his tail, no one on his side, and no place to hide. Just when he thinks it can't get any worse, he hears the rumbling of a cattle stampede-heading straight for his camp. Mac's got two choices: Get trampled like a weed or saddle up and help get the herd under control. At first, the traildrivers ain't too pleased to have a stranger help them out. But once they realize Mac's...
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Page Murdock has been sent to the tough New Mexico of 1881 to track down a man and bring him to justice. But more than a trail of revenge, Murdock finds himself on a desperate odyssey. For in the Southwest a friend can turn out to be one's cruelest enemy, an enemy one's finest friend. And the woman Murdock loves will be as voluptuous as Venus and wicked as sin.
City of Widows shows western author Loren D. Estleman at the top of his game.
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"A soldier returns home to find his parents displaced and their property stolen in this classic Western. "He leaned propped against the rail of the great ship, in an obscure place aft, shadowed by the life-boats. It was the second night out of Cherbourg and the first time for him to be on deck. The ridged and waved Atlantic, but for its turbulence, looked like the desert undulating away to the uneven horizon. The roar of the wind in the rigging bore...
11) Stranglehold
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"Here in America, life is full of surprises. Duff never expected to hear from his old friend Charles McGregor, his batallion commander from the Black Watch Regiment of Her Majesty's army. Turns out McGregor lives in New Mexico now. And he needs Duff's help. He's started a new life as the mayor of Antelope Wells--a mining town that's being targeted by a power-hungry madman Ebenezer Schofield, who wants to declare the whole area an independent principality--and...
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The setting of A Man Called Trent is New Mexico. The story opens to a nester, Dick Moffitt, dead, killed by King Bill Hale's riders. Sally Crane, sixteen and adopted by Moffitt, and Moffitt's fourteen-year-old son Jack witnessed Moffitt's murder from hiding, and then went to a cabin owned by a man named Trent for safety. Trent is actually Lance Kilkenny, a gunfighter hoping to leave behind his reputation. King Bill Hale has decided that he wants the...
13) Murphy's ambush
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Murphy novels volume 6
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"Years ago when Al Murphy left his job as sheriff of Cincherville, he thought that his life as a lawman was finished. But when he arrives in New Mexico, he finds the opportunity to pin on the badge again, as he sets out after the gang who murdered a rancher's wife and daughter."--Amazon.
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Caleb York novels volume 5
Caleb York Western volume 05
Thorndike Press large print Western
A Caleb York western volume 5
Caleb York Western volume 05
Thorndike Press large print Western
A Caleb York western volume 5
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"A killer blizzard sweeping across the Southwest threatens the livelihoods of everyone in the town of Trinidad. But it's two gunshots that fell Sheriff Caleb York's unlucky deputy. As sure as the blood pooling in the snow, York knows it was a case of mistaken identity. The bullets were meant for him. It's the first nasty step in a plan rustled up by former Quantrill's Raider Luke "Burn 'Em" Burnham--eliminate the law, corral a team to rob a bank in...
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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.
16) The bloody spur
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"Rancher George Cullen doesn't like the Santa Fe Railroad's plan to drive a spur through his town. He intends to put up a fight--even though everyone else in Trinidad, New Mexico, including his own daughter, stands on the side of the railroad... Sheriff Caleb York rides out to the Bar-O to reason with his old friend. But Cullen's ex-partner, Burt O'Malley, is back in town after a twenty-year stint in the pen. And hired gun Alver Hollis, aka the Preacherman,...
17) Distant land
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"MATT BRAUN IS A MASTER STORYTELLER OF FRONTIER HISTORY."
—Elmer Kelton
THREE MEN CONQUERED THE FRONTIER
Three Brannock brothers once came West. Now, one of them survives, and Clint Brannock feels the weight of responsibility as he does his job as a U.S. deputy marshal. Hunting down an outlaw in the Indian territories, Clint meets up with two of his nephews—one destined to live or die by the gun, the other
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A ranch for the runaway bride Weeks before her wedding, Emily Weber walks away from her planned society shindig and her cheating fiancé - straight to her cousin's New Mexico ranch. Everyone's advice: Emily's got to work it out of her system, and her childhood acquaintance - all six feet of dark good looks - is just the guy to help. Colin Talbot recognizes someone on the run from their life. Hell, the rootless photojournalist hasn't been on his ranch...
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Ruel Starrett, from the Red River region of Texas, purchases a half interest in the great Spade Ranch from Susana Dahlhart. This will give him a chance to carry forth his experiment to cross Brahma bulls with longhorn range cattle. But there is the problem of Zack Markley, the Spade foreman, who Ruel Starrett wants to fire, but who claims ownership of the Mission Creek section of the ranch and who will fight for possession of it.
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The historic Don Carlos Rancho stood at the gateway of the pass through which the Old Santa Fe Trail wound off to the Great Plains. Col. Ripple had married the glamorous Spanish daughter of the proprietor. As the years went by, their beautiful daughter, Holly Ripple, grew up, sheltered far away in a boarding school in the East. At her father's death, Holly was plunged onto the throne of this cattle empire, a bewildered girl who knew nothing about...
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