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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....
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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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In the days of the frontier West, it was not unusual for desperadoes and fugitives from justice to seemingly disappear from the face of the earth. Shadow on the Trail by Zane Grey, one of the bestselling authors of all time, is the story of one such man who returned to reestablish himself in a law-abiding society. In Texas, young bank robber Wade Holden, once the toughest, fastest trigger man in the notorious Simm Bell gang, makes a promise to his...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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Rafe Caradec--gambler, wanderer, soldier of fortune--was as hard a man as the battlefields and waterfronts of Latin America could fashion, but he was as good as his word. As Charles Rodney lay dying in a dank ship's fo'c'sle, Rafe swore to make sure that Rodney's Wyoming ranch went to his daughter, Ann. In Painted Rock, Wyoming, Caradec found land for a man to love, miles of rolling grasslands and towering mountains. He also found that one of the...
5) Black mesa
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When Paul Manning set out in search of adventure, he didn't realize what was in store. He'd never been in a blistering hell-hole like Bitter Seeps ... or met a man as crooked as Belmont. And he'd never laid eyes on a woman as good as Belmont's wife, Louise. Manning had an awful lot of growing up to do if he wanted to stay alive.
6) Death ground
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Bounty hunter Leo Guild is on the trail of a wily mountain man wanted for a deadly bank robbery, but he's not entirely convinced his quarry is the true guilty party.
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"To a man like Cole Dagget, eight hundred dollars meant a lot of hard hours in the saddle - and just enough to return to Texas, settle down and get married. So when the money was stolen from him in a small-town holdup, there waws no way he was going to let the robbers just ride off with it. And he wasn't about to wait for the people of Solitude to form a posse. But he couldn't guess was that there was even more trouble behind him. The people of Solitude...
10) Judgment day
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Not everyone is glad to see the railroad coming to Wind River. Caught in the middle of those for and those against, Marshal Cole Tyler must keep the peace even as events force him to choose sides in the battle for the future of the town
11) 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...
12) Black Mesa
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Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack is hunting the infamous Black Mesa Gang, including Ella Lang, "The Queen of the Outlaws," who has a murderous temper, fueled by booze, dope, and reckless sex. Burrack chases the gang into Indian territory, where he's free to get mean and dirty. But now Sam must deliver Ella-the woman he once loved-to face life in prison...or death at the end of a rope.
13) Shotgun
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Rancher Blair Bishop of Two Forks, Texas, has too many enemies...and they are closing in on him. Macy Modock, whom Bishop sent to prison ten years ago, is out of the hoosegow. Modock is returning to Two Forks along with his sidekick, who is known to be a mean gunman. Also arrayed against Bishop is rival cowman Clarence Cass, who is running his animals on Bishop's land.
Complicating matters, Cass's daughter, Jessie, and Bishop's son, Allan, are in...
14) Shower of Gold
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When young Richard Gale arrives in the Arizona border town of Casita, he finds himself surrounded by Mexican and American troops, bandits and renegades--and makes an enemy of Rojas, a vicious Mexican bandit leader.
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When Milt Dorn hears, by the sheerest accident, that Beasley, an ambitious rancher, and Snake Anson, an outlaw, plan to take over Al Auchincloss' holdings, Dorn rescues Auchincloss' nieces, Helen and Bo Rayner, from Snake Anson and his gang. The gang begins a ruthless search for the nieces.
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John Hare lies gruesomely dying in the desert until he is discovered and rescued by the kind and generous rancher, August Naab. As Hare is nursed back to health on Naab's ranch, he finds himself irresistibly draws to Naab's adopted daughter, Mescal, and the two clandestinely fall in love. Unfortunately, Mescal is already promised in marriage to Naab's first-born son, and she is also relentlessly pursued by Holderness, a man known to be ever so deceitful....
17) Gun country
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"No one outruns Fast Larry Shaw--especially when he runs with them. In the delirium of a mysterious head wound, Shaw stumbles upon Dexter Lowe's boys on their way across the border. They're about to meet with Corio's Black River Guerrillas and heist a U.S. armament in the badlands. What better way to nab thieving scoundrels than to have them as your very own tour guides to the scene of the crime? But in his weakened condition, Shaw will need backup....
19) Not a rustler
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Someone has started gunning down cattle ranchers in the area and Spencer Prescott has become both a suspect and a potential victim.
20) Preacher's fire
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A big city like St Louis is the last place where a mountain man like Preacher would pick a fight. But how else will he get at the ruthless power broker who is using fear and bloodshed to take over the Western fur trade? Shaving his beard, posing as a greedy hayseed from Ohio, the Preacher comes face-to-face with Shad Beaumont - who is leaving St. Louis with an army of hired gunmen...with the Preacher on his tail. The odds couldn't be worse and the...
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