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1) True Grit
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search...
2) True grit
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshall with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution....
Language
English
Formats
Description
This epic, action-packed Western tells the incredible true story Bass Reeves (David Gyasi), the first black U.S. Marshal in the Wild West. Having escaped from slavery after the Civil War, Reeves arrives in Arkansas seeking a job with the law. To prove himself, he must hunt down a deadly outlaw (Frank Grillo) with the help of a grizzled journeyman (Ron Perlman). As he chases the criminal deeper into the Cherokee Nation, Reeves must dodge bullets and...
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Blue steel: U. S. Marshal John Carruthers goes undercover to save the ranchers of Yucca City from the ruthless Polka Dot Bandit. Winds of the wasteland: Two former Pony Express riders buy a stagecoach line to a ghost town and try to win a stagecoach race with a lucrative government mail subsidy as the prize. The dawn rider: John Mason, who was injured during a bank robbery that also killed his father, swears revenge against the bandits, not knowing...
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Returning to the scruffy town of Valentine, Texas, after many months of tracking wanted criminals, Cahill learns that there's been trouble at home as well. The local sheriff and deputy have been murdered by a masked gang of bandits. These outlaws robbed the bank and then disappeared into the hills. Deputizing his elder son, Cahill sets out to routinely track and capture the dangerous desperadoes. Instead, the gritty marshal finds himself up against...
7) The marshall
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A movie company comes to Oklahoma to convince legendary lawman Bill Tilghman to star in a silent film about bank robbers featuring real outlaws. Tilghman reluctantly agrees, not realizing the outlaws have a different ending in mind for this film."--Back of insert.
Series
Criterion collection volume 732
Language
English
Description
Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Rio Lobo: A spectacular robbery of a Union pay train by Confederate guerillas leads to the train's colonel befriending the leaders of the robbery when the war ends. Together, they seek the Union traitors responsible for a string of Confederate train robberies.
True Grit: U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn is hired by a 14-year-old girl to kill the man who murdered her father and stole the family nest egg.
Series
Pub. Date
[2021?]
Language
English
Description
McLintock!: Cattle baron George Washington McLintock fights with his estranged wife who wants nothing from him except a divorce. His daughter and the local political land-grabbers are fighting with McLintock as well. Along with taming the West, McLintock finally "tames" everyone who has been fighting with him.
Unforgiven: A former desperado agrees to go on one last bounty hunt, but finds his past cannot escape him.
Once upon a time in the West:...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Cattle baron John Chisum tries to protect his empire from a land-grubbing developer; hoping to clear her husband's name, the widow of a bank robber hires three cowboys to help her recover the stolen gold, but her husband's former partners have a differentplan for the buried loot; a widowed marshal fears that his two sons may have been involved in a bank robbery and murder; a Seattle police detective seeks revenge on the gangster who killed his friend....
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
McLintock!: John Wayne's most popular film of the 60s is a broad, boisterous comedy-western loosely based on William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Wayne, in his two-fisted best, stars as a George Washington McLintock, a middle-aged cattle baron who has his hands full with his estranged wife, played by Maureen O'Hara. Verbal fireworks explode, slapstick pratfalls bloom, and the Wayne-O'Hara reconciliation culminates with the biggest mud-hole...
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