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Calloway series volume 2
Hewey Calloway volume 1
Thorndike large print Western
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Hewey Calloway volume 1
Thorndike large print Western
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
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Hewey Calloway has a problem. In his west Texas home of 1906, the land and way of life he loves are changing too quickly. As Hewey struggles against the relentless stream of progress, he comes to realize that the simple life of his childhood is vanishing - and that every choice he makes requires a sacrifice. --
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In later years people often asked Hugh Hitchcock about the Canadian River cowboy strike of 1883. Wagon boss Hugh Hitchcock knows the cowboy life better than most: In 1883 if you're a cowboy, you can't own a cow and you are stigmatized as a drunk. Worse, you are exploited by the wealthy cattle owners who fence the range, replace traditions and trust with written rules of employment, refuse to pay a livable wage and change things that ought to be left...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
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To the ranchers and farmers of 1950s Texas, man's biggest enemy is one he can't control. With their entire livelihood pegged on the chance of a wet year or a dry year, drought has the ability to crush their whole enterprise, to determine who stands and who falls, and to take food out of the mouths of the workers and their families. To Charlie Flagg, an honest, decent, and cantankerous rancher, the drought of the early 1950s is a foe that he must fight...
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In Texas standoff, Ranger Andy Pickard and his partner, Logan Daggett, are sent to central Texas to investigate a series of killings and cattle thefts. The two biggest cattlemen in the area blame each other for the violence, but it seems to Andy that neither man may be guilty. The case is complicated by the rise of a gang of "regulators"-masked vigilantes-and the arrival of a notorious hired gunman whose employer is unknown. The murder of a captured...
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Former Texas Ranger Andy Pickard, struggling to adjust to life as a farmer after becoming engaged to Bethel Brackett, takes a "time out" to visit his friend Sheriff Tom Blessing and is drawn back into the Rangers when a trio of bank robbers escapes from the county jail and Blessing is killed in the ensuing chaos.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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For Gage Jameson, the summer of 1873 has been a poor hunt. A year ago, he felled sixty-two buffalo in one stand, but now the great Arkansas River herd is gone, like the Republican herd before it. In Dodge City, old hide hunters speak is awe of a last great heard to the south-but no hunter who values his scalp dares ride south of the Cimarron and into Comanche territory. None but Gage Jameson...
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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In the spring of 1874 the Ranger companies that protect settlers against Indian raids and outlaw bands are being reorganized, and Dave "Rusty" Shannon is the most sought-after veteran reenlistment. But Shannon has new goals for his life: he is in love with Josie Monahan, daughter of the family that adopted him, and intends to marry her and take her to his farm on the Colorado River.Then an unspeakable tragedy changes Rusty's plans for a quiet farmer's...
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"An action-packed collection of stories of the old West, Law of the Land includes the never-before-published "Biscuits for a Bandit." Sixteen stories, where good meets bad, and everything in between, from the legendary author of the west, Elmer Kelton. The Law of the Land chronicles some of his most exciting and dangerous tales of the old west, collected together for the first time." --
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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...
10) Texas vendetta
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 5
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Andy, a young Texas Ranger, joins forces with Farley, a Confederate soldier turned ranger, to deliver a prisoner to stand trial for murder, but the two lawmen soon find themselves in the middle of two warring families.
11) Eyes of the hawk
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A six-time winner of the Western Writers of America's Spur Award, Elmer Kelton is the premier Western storyteller of his time. Eyes of the Hawk, winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Novel, is an outstanding tale of Texas-filled with authentic characters and history, and telling the story of the outstanding courage and determination of the men and women who challenged an unyielding wilderness to build a frontier legend.
Thomas Canfield descends...
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Young, unproven Lieutenant David Buckalew is returning to Texas with a group of nineteen soldiers, after the first great defeat of the Confederates in the West. When an opportunity arises to capture a secret cache of armaments in New Mexico, Buckalew grabs it, despite the hostility of his own men and the seeming impossiblity of success.
13) Badger boy
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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After the Civil War, David Shannon makes his way home to the Red River. But his girl has married someone else, and his past as an Indian captive returns to haunt him.
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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This is a story of the early days when...
An intense, red-haired young man named Rusty Shannon rides into Fort Belknap on the Brazos River and joins the Texas Rangers. Years before, Mike Shannon rescued Rusty from a Comanche war party and became his adoptive father. Not long ago, Mike Shannon, was bushwhacked and killed, and his death still haunts Rusty. Rusty thinks he knows the identity of Mike's killers. But with Texas now in the throes of seceding...
15) Hanging judge
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In Hanging Judge, Justin Moffitt is eager to help keep the peace as a deputy marshal in small-town Texas. That is, until Justin is assigned to the wrong marshal, a "hanging judge" who is as famous for his ruthlessness as he is for his commitment to justice. When Justin's boss hangs a controversial criminal, Justin must defend himself against an army of friends and relatives, desperate for revenge.
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Texas tradition volume no. 32
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During the wildcat oil boom of the 1920's, Sheriff Dave Buckalew binds a small Texas town together with his commitment to the law--when Big Boy Daugherty arrives, determined to control every racket and legitimate business in town.
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Texas Ranger Andy Pickard is sent to apprehend Donley Bannister, a horse trader, for the murder of Cletus Slocum--shot for stealing one of Bannister's horses--but the task is full of unexpected turns and detours, forcing Pickard to track Bannister from his hideout to the town of Junction, where one of Slocum's brothers is determined that Bannister will not live to stand trial.
19) Many a river
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Brothers Jeffrey and Todd Barfield, having been separated seven years earlier when their parents were killed by Comanche Indians, are reunited during the Civil War, however they are on different sides of the battle.
20) Joe Pepper
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Joe Pepper is a Texas badman with quite a past. In fact, there isn't much that Joe hasn't done in his forty years of living on both sides of the Texas law-except face the hangman. Now, convicted of murder, Joe is about to get that privilege. But, before he goes, Joe has a few things he wants to say, and a few stories that he wants to set straight. With Joe Pepper, legendary Western writer Elmer Kelton tells a fine and moving tale of the history of...
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