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Mile upon mile of prairie covered by great buffalo herds; reckless, hard riding plainsmen, buffalo hunters, Indians, bandits-the whole colorful epoch of the pioneer, in a story which centers around the destruction of the thundering herds of buffalo. In this breathless tale of bravery and battle, of white man's courage and red man's daring, Zane Grey has written one of his finest novels.
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When Alabama Joe drifted into Fort Anxious, he seemed to be a shiftless, easygoing tramp. But he didn't fool Stanley Parker. He'd gunned down the notorious Bob Dillman. He'd known that one day Dillman's outlaw partner would appear to avenge death. The Stingaree was fast on the draw and deadly as a snake. Parker knew he'd have to draw first or die! Here are the perils of hired guns and wilderness traps and a bitter conflict with his own code of honor....
3) "Nevada"
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Alone again! Just like his orphaned boyhood. Those are Nevada's thoughts as he turns from the only home and happiness he has ever known. But it had all been a lie, at least on his part. He had been hiding his true identity from his best friend Ben, and the woman he loved, Hettie. They knew him as Nevada, a man they care for and respected, when in truth he was a wandering fugitive gunman, notorious from Nevada clear to Tombstone, Arizona. And now he...
4) Sam Hook
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Meagher County, Montana, was Hereford country. All the ranchers were raising Hereford or Angus cattle-all except Sam Hook.
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Belles of Timber Creek volume 2
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Audrey Pride is trapped in Thunder Ridge. The typically dry-as-a-bone small town is deluged with rain for weeks, preventing travel in or out--and the wagon train that gets stranded in town is plagued with a violent illness.
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"Driscoll made a mistake and he paid for it. They caught him rustling and stuck him in a cell -- with a man condemned to hang the next morning. Driscoll learned a lot about his cellmate, about how he robbed a bank and killed a man...and about how the money was never recovered. But he never learned where the money was. After Driscoll served his time and drifted back into town, he learned two more things -- that the loot was still hidden and that just...
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Ex-gunslinger Dodge Mercer, hungry for the quiet life, drifted west, looking for a spread of his own. He settled in the rugged, dangerous Tonto Basin country, joining up with the Lilley clan. But moonshiner Buck Hathaway held a handful of markers over Lilley's head, riding them heavy into debt and planning on taking over their ranch. The Lilleys seemed helpless and Dodge vowed to save their hides. Even if he stepped into the middle of a blazing showdown--even...
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"Stretching across the wild western frontier, the railroad needs guardians like Wells Fargo detective Wolf Stockburn. Known as the Wolf of the Rails, the steely Scotsman is as cold and hard as the tracks he rides -- and those too foolish to fear him will soon lie dead at his feet . . . When train robbers hit the Boot Hill Express -- so called because of all the people riding it who have ended up dead -- with a full head of steam, Wolf Stockburn makes...
10) The Baron brand
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It is the eve of the Civil War, but the ranchers of the Rio Grande Valley are already fighting--amongst themselves and with the fierce Apaches. Martin Baron finds himself in battle against his own neighbor, Matteo Aguilar, and must fight daily to keep his family safe.
Martin's proud and heart-sick son Anson, must leave leave all he knows and loves to head off an attack by an Apache chief against the ranch's settlers. But without his son at home to...
11) Fool's coach
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When three people need to leave Virginia City, they face a jarring stagecoach ride across the plains toward Salt Lake through an area infested with ruthless road agents.
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There were some who knew Smoke Jensen as a hero...and there were others who believed the dark side of the legend that he was an outlaw who'd killed over 300 men. But when Smoke wakes up with a gut-wrenching headache in a New Mexico jail cell, he feels as helpless as a newly whelped cougar cub with a lease on his life shorter than the blink of an eye. Somehow, Smoke's got to make it out and escape the hid-hungry lynch mob that's after him for a murder...
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Peter Dunstan is a big rancher who wants to become bigger, to control more land. So when he buys Dr. Henry Morgan's ranchland that has been unsuccessfully converted to farming, it is his intention to return it to open range. The only stipulation the doctor makes is that Dunstan must retain Sandy Sweyn, who has more or less been Dr. Morgan's ward. Though the man is of age, he is generally considered a half-wit, even by the doctor. Still, Sandy has...
15) Buffalo wagons
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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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Young Jim Curry's father is killed unjustly by an enraged mob, and the boy barely escapes the same fate. He shoots two pursuers and assumes they are dead, and in desperation becomes a most unusual outlaw, the Red Devil. He never kills, takes only ill-gained money, secretly returns it to the rightful owners, and escapes every pursuit on his remarkable horse, Meg.
Spoiled Charlie Mark has left home to seek thrills and easy money. He vows to find the...
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Elias Henders is the prosperous owner of a ranch and a gold mine. Competing for his daughter Diana, ranch hand Colby sabotages recovering alcoholic foreman Bull, and takes his job. The local stage is repeatedly robbed of gold bullion from the owner's mine, and Bull is suspected. The cowardly sheriff does not take action on the robberies. Rich Easterner Wainwright tries to buy the mine and ranch for a low price, but Henders refuses the offer and discusses...
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"Searching for a missing man in the Arizona territories was a job Henry Logan was eager to take. His lungs, damaged from malaria during the Spanish-American War, could use a rest. But when the people of Nogales got the mistaken impression that he was a gunman instead of a gunsmith, Logan suddenly found himself the target of jeers -- and bullets. All of which made it harder to uncover the truth about the missing Rip Parrish, especially when the evidence...
19) Marauders' moon
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A captured outlaw gets caught up in a bloody range war in this thrilling tale of the Old West from a Levi Strauss Golden Saddleman Award–winning author.
Lawbreaker Webb Cousins is headed for a short trial and a long stretch in jail. A bounty hunter has him cuffed and covered, with no chance of escape. But when the prisoner and his captor ride into the town of Wagon Mound, death rides with them.
In a flash of rifle fire and a spray of blood, Cousins...
20) Mattie
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Mattie, a poor, illegitimate girl, gets a job as companion to a doctor's daughter, assists the doctor with his patients, eventually goes to medical school, and becomes a doctor who practices among the farmers on the plains.
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