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His eyes had seen the glory—of the wild, wild, West...The life of Buffalo Bill Cody was as epic and exciting as the story of the West itself. Cowboy, Pony Express rider, Indian fighter, Union soldier, scout for General George Custer, slayer of Tall Bull and Yellow Hand—he saved Wild Bill Hickok's life, and beat the paths that made way for the railroad and the nation in America's rugged frontier.But now, in his final hours, old Bill Cody faces...
5) The revenant
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The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Trapping beaver, they contend daily with the threat of Indian tribes turned warlike over the white men's encroachment on their land, and other prairie foes -- like the unforgiving landscape and its creatures. Hugh Glass is among the Company's finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face...
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A sharp, funny and exciting western centering on Isaac C. Parker (1838-1896), the notorious federal Hanging Judge for Arkansas and the Indian Territory (Oklahoma) from 1875 until his death. Aided by his malevolent and ruthlessly efficient executioner, George Maledon, and a small army of deputy marshals, Estleman's Parker crusades to rid his jurisdiction of murderers, rapists, thieves and other unfragrant owlhoots. Without using fictional characters,...
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He was to become a legend of the Southwest known as Judge Roy Bean; but here is the story of Roy's early years and the experiences that shaped him during his youth in Kentucky, from a hunt for a hidden treasure and being smitten by two deadly women to his time in the gun sights of California's most vicious bandido.
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On November 7, 1908 in the town of San Vicente, Butch Cassidy was killed in a bloody shootout with the Bolivian army. Or was he? In a small Texas town in 1950, a Pinkerton detective interrupts and old- timer's daily game of dominos to learn the truth about Butch Cassidy-- who is alive and well and sitting right in front of him. So begins a novel about the West's most legendary outlaw, as told by America's master storytellers.
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They met on the battlefields of Vicksburg. General Ulysses S. Grant, George Armstrong Custer, and the Rebel Johnny Yuma. Three men united by fate - in a nation divided by war - they were dedicated to freedom, driven to extremes, and destined for greatness. Of the three, Johnny Yuma was the most elusive. A Confederate soldier during the war, he was about to play a key role in Grant's victory for the Union, Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and Custer's...
12) American meteor
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"In this panoramic tale of Manifest Destiny, Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific, just as the railroad unites the continent. Propelled westward from his Brooklyn neighborhood and the killing fields of the Civil War to the Battle of Little Big Horn, he befriends Walt Whitman, becomes a bugler on President Lincoln's funeral train, apprentices with frontier photographer William Henry Jackson, and stalks...
13) Paradise sky
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Young Willie is on the run, having fled his small Texas town when an infamous local landowner murdered his father. A man named Loving takes Willie in and trains him in the fine arts of shooting, riding, reading, and gardening. When Loving dies, Willie rechristens himself Nat Love in tribute to his mentor and heads west. In Deadwood, South Dakota Territory, Nat becomes a buffalo soldier and a friend to Wild Bill Hickok. After Nat wins a famous shooting...
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Rising out of the Oklahoma dustbowl, Charles Arthur Floyd became the most wanted man in America. While Bonnie and Clyde were robbing and shooting their way across the Southwest, Charley was robbing banks from Kansas City to Ohio. The news was full of stories about Dillinger and Capone, but no one had what "Pretty Boy" Floyd had: a taste for fancy clothes, fancy cars, and beautiful dames, and uncommon good luck.
15) The Kid: a novel
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"Born Henry McCarty, Billy the Kid was a diminutive, charming, blond-haired young man who, growing up in New York, Kansas, and later New Mexico, demonstrated a precocious dexterity at firing six-shooters with either hand--a skill that both got him into and out of trouble and that turned him into an American legend of the old West. He was smart, well-spoken, attractive to both white and Mexican women, a good dancer, and a man with a nose for money,...
16) Roosevelt's boys
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When the troubled adopted son of an Arizona rancher is convinced by his idealist brother to join Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, he embarks on a journey of heartache and self-discovery, finding love, comradery,and true purpose as he fights his way through the disease-ridden jungles of Cuba, to the top of San Juan Hill.
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"GREAT FOR FANS OF GARY PAULSEN'S SURVIVAL STORIES AND READERS WHO ENJOYED THE REVENANT BY MICHAEL PUNKE. In autumn, 1849, 14-year-old Janette Riker travels westward to Oregon Territory with her father and two brothers. Before crossing the Rockies, they stop briefly to hunt buffalo. The men leave camp early on the second day ... and never return. Based on actual events, and told in diary format, Stranded is the harrowing account of young Janette...
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"In Wichita, Kansas, Wyatt Earp answers his most innate calling and returns to law enforcement, where he excels by sheer forced and an utter lack of fear. When town leaders become disenchanted with his hardline methods, he moves to a place where an iron-rule is needed--Dodge City. With him comes Mattie, a runaway prostitute, who, like Wyatt, is searching for a chance at a better life. =520 \\
As assistant marshal in Dodge, Wyatt stands at the center...
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"Changing Flags" is the true story of John Riley, a cocky Irish professional soldier who deserts the U.S. Army to fight for Mexico at first for money, then for something loftier in the Mexican War of 1846-48. With gritty action, romance, and humor, it brings to life his torturous journey of reformation and that of rowdy Irish and German fellow deserters who follow him in pursuit of a shared dream. Their epic tale begins in Michigan when Riley launches...
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"Deception defined Wyatt Earp and the two women who were married to him longest. Their stories remained elusive, buried by the legend that emerged around Wyatt. Mattie Blaylock lived with him during the years when prostitution and corruption ran their lives, clinging to the lies she told herself and fighting to remain her own woman. Josephine Marcus deceived others her entire life, hiding her less-than-desirable past and opening doors to the role...
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