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Kent Rasmussen, approached by Nellie Newburn to work for her briefly as a security guard, does not know that he is walking into the midst of a long-standing feud between two Southern families, the Newburns and the Claytons, who both know about the Confederacy's cold cache.
3) Flying eagle
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Former policeman Jay McGraw's job as a messenger for Wells Fargo takes him east on the San Francisco to Chicago run of the Central Pacific. While often routine and boring, guarding the famous Wells Fargo treasure box is a steady job. Rarely does he envy his close friends who still walk a beat in Chinatown.
But trouble soon comes his way. Not long into the run, a gang of masked bandits blow up a key bridge on the trail. Jay knows they are after...
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A wild race to claim a fortune in buried gold pits such adversaries as a kidnapped hostage, a gambler, a group of prison escapees, a hired detective, and the gold's rightful owner against each other on a dramatic Southern Pacific train ride bound for Los Angeles.
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Kansas 1868. Matt Talbot is one of a trio of scouts who are meeting with a Cheyenne chief, Bull Bear. After the meeting, some renegade Cheyennes attack the scouts, killing one and leaving another for dead. Talbot manages to escape in one piece, but he soon learns that making his way out of this now-hostile territory unscathed is only the beginning. Surviving the attack will require more than being physically unharmed, as putting his near-death experience...
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"When Confederate officer Brady Brandau returns to Mississippi at the end of the War Between the States, he finds his family estate devastated and his relatives dead or missing. It is then that he decides to continue the war in his own way and heads west, accompanied by Ann Gilcrease, a beautiful Confederate spy. The phantom legion that they gather in Arizona Territory cannot even be proven to exist, but their mayhem is having a serious impact on...
9) The wild west of Louis L'Amour: an illustrated companion to the frontier fiction of an American icon
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"A commemoration of themes and characters found in Louis L'Amour's books. Explores geography of the west, lone heroes, gunfighters, mining and ranching, women, Native Americans, food, and transportation as portrayed in L'Amour's books"--
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Gil Ross is a government mine inspector who faces some stiff, deadly interference. Tasked with preparing a mineral report as Nevada seeks statehood, Gil travels to Virginia City, Nev., and befriends newspaper editor Martin Scrivener, who has written editorials excoriating Virginia City's gang of greedy swindlers led by Ben Holladay, the wealthy owner of the Blue Hole Mine. The violence and intrigue escalate with the newspaper offices firebombed, the...
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After recovering from a rattlesnake bite in the Southwestern desert with the help of a friendly Tarahumara Indian named Quanto, prospector Dan Mora is heading north for the border. Quanto warns him, in the limited words and gestures they use to communicate, of Apaches to the north and bandits everywhere. On the trail, Mora comes upon the ruins of an abandoned mission. He cannot know that he has stumbled into a search for a legendary gold deposit and...
12) Deadly season
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In 1880s San Francisco, detective Fred Casey teams up with visiting detective Sherlock Holmes to solve a murder in Chinatown. A tale of opium smuggling.
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In the wake of an agreement with Mexico on cross-border pursuit, the U.S. Army mounts an expedition to capture the Indian warrior, Geronimo. The hero of the tale is Russell Norwood, a cavalry officer, the heroine is a Mexican seþorita, and the villain is Tom Horn, the ruthless chief of scouts.
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When gold was discovered in California in 1849, the news spread like wildfire through the country. There was three ways to get to those gold fields and the promise of incredible riches. Those who survive their arduous journeys meet in California with unexpected results.
16) The survivor
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Express messenger Jay McCraw is given the task of transporting the memoirs of former French Foreign Legionnaire Marcel Dupre across the country and placing them in the waiting hands of a publisher, but the two men find themselves pursued by agents of the French government who will do anything to halt publication.
17) Swift thunder
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Lance Barlow and a slave named Shadrack, that he had rescued head West to work for the Pony Express. Pursued by the Missouri militia and a Marysville slaver, the friends ride into the threat of attacks on the Pony Express by the Paiute Indians.
20) Border reprisal
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After narrowly escaping serious bodily harm in a train robbery, Wells Fargo courier Marc Charvein makes his way into Mexico to find out whos responsible for a wave of similar robberies and whether the culprit has anything to do with an unidentified individual whos been handing out gold coins to the poor. Is there a modern-day Robin Hood operating along the Mexican border, or is something else going on, something a lot darker?
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