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On a trip to buy ponies, Frank Ross is shot dead by Tom Chaney, one of his own workers, for a horse, 150 dollars cash, and two California gold pieces. When Ross's unusually single-minded fourteen -year-old daughter, Mattie, arrives to claim his body, she discovers that the authorities are doing nothing to find Chaney. Then she hears of Rooster Cogburn--an ornery U.S. Marshall who, she's told, has grit and convinces him to join her in a quest into...
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Danny Duggin novels volume 1
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In the aftermath of the Civil War, a blacksmith from Missouri decides to travel to Texas to purchase a cattle herd. He hopes to sell the herd up north and turn a profit for his family to live on. However, the blacksmith had not reckoned on the dangers of the lawless plains, and is set upon and killed by a band of outlaws. When news of his death reaches his family, his eldest daughter straps on her father's colts and sets off on her father's chestnut...
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Eagles series volume 13
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When Garrison Wade, who is building a railroad to connect Higbee to the Sante Fe, is brutally murdered by the Clinton clan, Falcon MacCallister vows to avenge the senseless death of his friend in a dangerous town that is bitterly divided.
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"In the winter of 1897, three killers descend upon an isolated farm in upstate New York. Midwife Elspeth Howell returns home to the carage: her husband and four of her children, murdered. Before she can discover her remaining son, Caleb, alive and hiding in the kitchen pantry, another shot rings out over the snow-covered valley. The twelve-year-old boy tends to his mother until she recovers enough for them to take to the frozen wilderness in search...
6) Arizona Ames
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"Not all outlaws are bad mend. Rich Ames didn't set out to be a gunslinger-it was forced on him. When two men roughed up his sweet sister, Rich reached for his trusty Colt and let loose on them. When the smoke cleared, Rich was the only one standing, now a fugitive of the law and forced to abandon his quaint home and family in Tonto Basin. Rich soon acquired the name "Arizona Ames" and for years after that fateful day his name struck fear into the...
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Tim Colter novels volume 1
Wheeler large print western
South Pass volume 01
Tim Colter Westerns volume 01
Wheeler large print western
South Pass volume 01
Tim Colter Westerns volume 01
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"Leaving their Pennsylvania home to forge a new life in the untamed Oregon Territory of 1845, the Colter family is ambushed by a kill crazy gang of Indians on the Oregon Trail. Fifteen-year-old Tim Colter manages to escape and hide--only to return and find his parents butchered, his sisters Nancy and Margaret missing. Forced to fight for his life, the young Colter embarks on a perilous journey across a lawless wilderness, hoping to save his sisters...
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The Byrnes family came to Texas and carved out a place on the land. Three generations who paid in blood and treasure. Children carried off by Comanche. A brother lost to war. Lives shattered. Chet Byrnes was trying to hold the ranch together through one more winter for one more cattle drive when he hanged three horse thieves this side of the Red River - and a blood feud erupted...A family wants revenge - no matter how just the hangings were. From...
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First mountain man series volume 10
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When a girl from Preacher's past is murdered, Preacher knows the time has come to leave the high, wild country--for truth, justice, and a new reason to kill.
10) Sons of Texas
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In 1816, Mordecai Lewis, a veteran of Andrew Jackson's Indian campaigns and battles against the British, moves his family into the western Tennessee canebrakes. But Mordecai, a born wanderer, is not satisfied with farming, and with his sons Michael and Andrew and some other backwoodsmen, he leads a foray into Spanish-held Texas to hunt wild horses and return the mustang herd to sell in Tennessee. Crossing the Sabine River, Mordecai's party encounters...
11) Remington, 1894
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"Johnstone Justice. What America needs now. Bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone celebrate a legend of the American West and the weapon that shaped a nation's destiny. As a teenager, John McMasters won the Medal of Honor as a sniper for the Union Army during the Civil War. Thirty years later, McMasters lives a peaceful life in the Arizona Territory, raising a family and running cattle. These days, he needs eyeglasses to hit...
12) Powder burn
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Will Tanner novels volume 3
Will Tanner U.S. deputy marshal volume 3
Will Tanner U.S. deputy marshal volume 03
Will Tanner U.S. deputy marshal volume 3
Will Tanner U.S. deputy marshal volume 03
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"U.S. Deputy Marshal Will Tanner earned his badge the old-fashioned way. He shot the bad guys, saved the good guys, and won the fear and respect of everyone in between. That's how legends are born. But when he visits a friend at his ranch and ends up confronting a trigger-happy horse thief, Will earns the wrath of the deadliest, lowlife killers west of the Mississippi. This is how legends die . . . Turns out Will Tanner is nothing but a moving target...
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"Shotgun Johnny Greenway thought he'd hit rock bottom when he lost his wife and son, hung up his badge, and hit the bottle. But a pretty young woman gave him a second chance. Offered him a job riding shotgun for the Reverend's Temptation Gold Mine. Gave him a reason to live. But even she can't save him when the Starrett gang tries to rob the gold--and Johnny is accused of killing their leader... When the dust clears, Shotgun Johnny is wanted for murder....
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"Tom Fuller, a scrupulously honest fellow, a person of extraordinary physical strength and owner of a savage horse, Rusty, that he alone was able to tame, is generally regarded as a half-wit. He has been summarily fired from every job he has ever had and even comes to regard himself as a failure. He makes one more try when he is hired on as a blacksmith's assistant by Boston Charlie. Finally here is a job that Tom can perform successfully, and his...
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"A contemporary Western debut about two brothers locked in a deadly feud, a woman on horseback trailing her husband's killer, and the inescapable ties of home and family. When Silas Van Loy flees home on horseback to avoid capture for his brother's murder, he is soon followed by both the police and his brother's wife, Lena, who is intent on exacting revenge. She reluctantly lets her trusted stable assistant join her in a journey across the wilds of...
18) Death rattle
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Guns of Samuel Pritchard volume 01
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In 1863, a teenaged boy fled his home in Atherton, Missouri, to escape the power-hungry men who murdered his father and stole his family's land. He joined the Confederacy under an assumed name and led guerilla raids in the Civil War. Then came a decade as a Texas Ranger. Now, after ten blood-soaked years, he is finally coming home and finally using his real name and finally getting revenge against the cold-hearted devils who destroyed his family and...
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First mountain man series volume 19
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When a trail drive led by freewheeling adventurer Wiley Courtland is attacked by an Indian war party led by the cunning Red Knife, Preacher, after an act of treachery opens the gates to a massacre, rises from the carnage and begins his war of revenge - alone.
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The Past Comes Calling With a Gun ...
The good people of Cross Creek, Wyoming, hired gunslinger Brett Kincaid to keep the peace. But the only peace Kinkaid recognizes is the serenity of the grave — and at least one of his bullets has Morgan Atwater's name on it. Atwater hung up his guns a long time ago, and he's only in town to see his wife and son, nothing more. Yet hatred is reason enough for Kinkaid's brand of personal justice —
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