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American legends collection volume 03
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J. T. Latham was interviewed in 1937 as a contributor to the American Legends Collection, a part of the Federal Writers Project. Speaking into an Edison Dictaphone, he narrated the events of a dangerous trek he guided into the badlands of Sonora, Mexico, in exchange for a pardon from the term he was serving in Yuma Territorial Penitentiary. Acting Deputy Sheriff Del Buchman, the man who had originally captured Latham, was the one who made the offer....
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Ethan, eldest son of the Wilder clan, returns home after having been away only a couple of months. He finds his family near the point of self-destruction. One of his brothers is on the run, accused of beating a young girl. His father is warring with another brother, who is presently keeping his father locked up in the privy. As if that isn't enough, Ethan learns that local ranchers are being murdered by an unknown culprit, and when his own father...
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American legends collection volume 02
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Wil Chama gained his reputation as a gunman and sought to bury himself as a driver of a salt wagon in Río Tinto, Texas. What Wil never suspected is that he was engaged to work for the Red Devil Salt Works not because of his skill as a muleskinner but precisely because of his reputation as a gunman. This becomes clear to Wil when Randall Kellums, the owner of the Red Devil, tells him he wants Wil to give up his job as a wagoner and instead serve notice...
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In 1874 Utah territory, young teamster Buck McCready becomes wagon boss for the Kavanaugh freight outfit after his mentor, old Mason Campbell, is murdered. With the Kavanaugh outfit engaged in a wagon train race that will decide whether Kavanaugh or a competitor lands a lucrative freight-hauling contract, Buck vows to find Campbell's killer. But first he must win the race--a difficult task, considering there's a saboteur among his crew and a hired...
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"In 1832, Scotsman Big John McTavish has lived among the metis of the Red River Valley for 30 years. He also enjoys the friendly relation with the neighboring Chippewas, but that may come to an end when he is forced to shoot a Chippewa named Wolf Slayer while defending Pike, a mountain trapper, who has come in search of two men who murdered his partner... His quest for vengeance will bring anguish and destruction far beyond either man's imaging."--Jack...
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"Half-frozen and nearly dead, Gil Ryan rode into the little mountain town of Larkspur just ahead of a raging late-winter blizzard. He'd lost everything he owned except for his mount and the clothes on his back when his pack horse fell through the ice on the Big Sandy River. Racked with fever, early-stage pneumonia, and a barely healed gunshot wound, all he wanted was a little medicine and a warm place to wait out the storm. But Gil had no way of knowing...
10) Villa lobos
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"Sergeant Andrew Cade and seven troopers are hard on the trail of the Hollister Gang, determined to free a trio of women Ben Hollister and his men have taken captive after a raid on the town of Rio Largo, Texas. Crossing the Rio Grande into Mexico should have guaranteed the outlaws' safety. But they hadn't counted on the iron-tough sergeant's determination to finish his mission. Meanwhile, in Mexico, José Yanez and his Hunters have just massacred...
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"In 1904, sixteen-year-old Billy Pinto watches as the three men accused of murdering his Shoshone mother are set free, simply because the judge and proecuting attorney don't believe they can successfully try white men for the killing of an Indian. Stunned by the court's decision, Billy decides to take justice into his own hands. He ambushes the three killers outside of town, then kidnaps the judge's granddaughter before fleeing into the remote San...
12) Charlie Red
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"Tom Slade is riding shotgun for the Colorado and Prescott Stagecoach Company, in charge of delivering 45,000 dollars in cash to the mines in central Arizona, when the stage is robbed at an isolated way station. Most men would have gone on to Prescott for help, but Slade knows he doesn't have that kind of time if he hopes to catch up with the thieves before they disappear into the desert. Alone and riding a worn-out harness mule, Slade grimly sets...
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Nineteen-year-old Gage Pardell didn't intend to kill Henry Kalb, the son of the county's richest man. When he rode into Shelburn, Texas, Gage just wanted justice for what Kalb had done to his sister. Now Henry is dead and Gage is on the run from a gang of bounty hunters hired by Henry's father. With nowhere else to go, Gage heads for the far-flung buffalo ranges of West Texas. There, he learns what it means to stand up for himself against a lawless...
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"Synopsis : In 1885, young Rose Edwards is widowed by Montana vigilantes who hang her husband for an alleged theft, then burn her Yellowstone Valley cabin to the ground as a warning for her and others of her kind to quit the territory. Penniless and illiterate, yet fiercely independent, Rose begins a two-year odyssey to revisit the land of her childhood, a land she once traveled with her father, an itinerant robe trader among the Assiniboines and...
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"Born a slave on an east Texas cotton plantation, Clay Little Bull was captured by the Kiowa as a child. At the age of twenty, he left the only home he'd known in search of freedom. An outcast among whites, blacks, and Indians, Clay came face to face with the hypocrisy and lawlessness that ruled the West and drew first blood escaping from a band of Kansas slave hunters. With every mile he traveled, Clay moved closer to a truth he was born with: freedom...
16) Fandango
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Fandango is the gripping, beautiful, and vividly realistic saga of men who gave their blood and tears to a country as wild as their souls. From the red-tinged Sangre de Cristo Mountains to the snows of the Great Salt Lake, they plunged into a pristine wilderness, pursuing a rich man's vendetta and a missing trove of beaver pelts. Among the high, harsh peaks and embracing valleys they would fight, hunt, and die.
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