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Young Bill Varney just can't get ahead. His father treats him like just another hired ranch hand while lavishing attention on his twin sister, Vida, his girlfriend can't commit to marry him, yet entertains attentions from a wealthy shop owner twice her age, and now a gunfighter named Ace Kehoe has come into town challenging his aging, arthritic father to a gunfight and his sister wants him to take his father's place.
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In the title story, Murdo Morgan left Paradise Valley sixteen years ago, after his brothers had been killed at the hand of the Turkey Track outfit. One year later, his father died a broken and defeated man. Broad Clancy, owner of the Turkey Track, has remained the controlling force in this area of high desert in Oregon, considering all the land to be open range, including the six-mile strip on both sides of the old wagon road which belongs to Cascade...
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Mark Girard was a young boy during the boom period of Angel's Landing, a mining town near Banjo Creek. When the boom played out, Mark's father moved on, but his mother refused to leave. When the job as sheriff opened, Mark ran for the office and won. It was a relatively easy job until a new gold strike on Banjo Creek brought brawling lawbwbreakers back to town. Now the question is whether or not Mark can handle them.
6) Nugget City
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"Nugget City was a Colorado mining town that made the transition to a ranching community. But the transition wasn't easy and it left a lot of bad blood. A range war had been brewing for a while, and greed, gossip, and rage were threatening to blow the town apart. The last thing the town needed was a spark to set off the tinderbox. Everyone was afraid that was just what they got when a mysterious stranger stepped off the stage - a stranger who wore...
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Central Oregon is the last frontier, with transportation still by stagecoach and freight wagon. Now there's a movement afoot for a people's railroad. For years, competing railroad barons James J. Hill and Edward H. Harriman have done nothing, but now they both set about building a line there. And for years their front men, Lee Dawes and Mike Quinn, have competed for rights-of-way - and for women. Attracted to Deborah Haig, Dawes is nettled to see...
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When a rancher is attacked by three toughs, a gambler and a former lawman, Dave, come to his rescue. Dave is encouraged by the other two to become the town's sheriff. It is uncertain how anything will play out, and Dave's future unfolds in a totally unpredictable, even danerous way, one in which it becomes exceedigly difficult for Dave to distinguish between foe and friend.
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When he was 19 years old, Neal Clark shot two men who were holding up a bank. A third robber, younger than Neal, got away, but the fellow, Ed Shelly, warned Neal hed be back for revenge. Eight years later, Neal is married, with a young daughter; he's manager of the bank and owner of his late father's ranch, the Circle C. But he's having a problem: a couple of shady characters have come into town looking for investors in their bogus irrigation project....
11) Beyond the pass
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"Dirken's Hole never bothered the outlaws who wintered there if the outlaws didn't bother them. Then one young man broke this rule. Robert Buel was a bounty hunter - a man appointed by the law to hunt down criminals for reward money. Now he was coming home. In the little town of Dirken's Hole, high in the Colorado Rockies, Buel returned to see his father - and to pick up his last assignment"--
12) Hearn's Valley
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When a ruthless and wealthy cattleman takes over his parent's ranch, a young gunman seeks revenge.
13) The violent land
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"In The Violent Land, Dan Nathan is torn between loyalties to his greedy employer and the families who lost their lands to him; in The Judas Gun, an escaped prisoner returns to get revenge on those who convicted him."--NoveList website viewed in July 2007.
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The local banker and financial magnate announces his engagement to Rosella, with whom Mack is in love. Mack had earlier opened a feed store in Axehandle to secure an income to support Rosella. Now he learns that the banker is also planning to open a feed store.
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"Murdo Morgan returned to Paradise Valley, Oregon, expecting trouble. Sixteen years earlier, his father had planned to help hundreds of families settle in the valley. Not wanting to lose their spread, local ranchers had murdered Morgan's brothers and driven his family away. Now Morgan owned half the valley, but he'd had to borrow money from ruthless bankers to buy the land. With the ranchers gunning to stop him from selling his acres to new settlers,...
19) Proud journey
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"Caught between land-hungry settlers and war-hungry Utes, government agent Dave Rand tries to avert an Indian war without compromising what he knows to be right"--
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