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In 1853, Abigail Scott was a 19-year-old school teacher in Oregon Territory when she married Ben Duniway. Marriage meant giving up on teaching, but Abigail always believed she was meant to be more than a good wife and mother. When financial mistakes and an injury force Ben to stop working, Abigail becomes the primary breadwinner for her growing family. What she sees as a working woman appalls her, and she devotes her life to fighting for the rights...
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On November 7, 1908 in the town of San Vicente, Butch Cassidy was killed in a bloody shootout with the Bolivian army. Or was he? In a small Texas town in 1950, a Pinkerton detective interrupts and old- timer's daily game of dominos to learn the truth about Butch Cassidy-- who is alive and well and sitting right in front of him. So begins a novel about the West's most legendary outlaw, as told by America's master storytellers.
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With anxiety, Mr. Sheppard, his nephew, and daughter set up camp in the gathering darkness. They were trying to reach Fort Henry before nightfall but lost their way in the shades of the forest. Their guide had mysteriously deserted them that morning. Suddenly, a band of Indians appeared at the edge of the firelight brandishing tomahawks. As quickly as they appeared, they disappeared. Moments later, a man clad in fringed buckskins silently slipped...
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They called it Hell's Half Acre: a violent sinkhole of dance halls and brothels, gaming dives and busthead saloons. To some citizens of Fort Worth, the only hope for Hell's Half Acre was to reform it. To others, it was a gold mine. And for one man, a shootist and gambler name Luke Short, it was a place to make a stand.
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Born to the life of an educated Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday is given a choice at the age of twenty-two: die within months in Atlanta or leave everyone he loves in hopes of finding health in the West. Young, scared, lonely and sick, he arrives on the rawest edge of the Texas frontier in time for an economic crash. Soon he's gambling professionally and living with a high-strung Hungarian whore who insists that they follow the money to...
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Big, brash and fearless, Buffalo Jones is in pursuit of the greatest mountain lion ever spotted in the remote Arizona desert. Determined to bring the beast home alive, Jones leads a colorful band of brothers into a wild land, across the Colorado River to Buckskin Mountain at the red mesa rim of the Grand Canyon. But while Jones has foresworn all killing, even smashed his rifle on a wagon wheel in a vow to save the species, he and his men are entering...
10) Buffalo girls
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Tells of the life and times of Calamity Jane and others whose pasts embrace the violent history of the West.
Calamity Jane is about to ride again. When her old friend and rival Buffalo Bill Cody sweeps her into his rag-tag band of legends on a Wild West tour of Europe, Calamity Jane begins her last, bittersweet adventure: a journey of memories, fellowship, humor, and love.
11) Zeke and Ned
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A case of adultery spirals into racial violence in 1870s Oklahoma Territory. The story begins when a white man seeks justice because a halfbreed is sleeping with his wife. There is a shootout, the races take side and blood flows.
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He was to become a legend of the Southwest known as Judge Roy Bean; but here is the story of Roy's early years and the experiences that shaped him during his youth in Kentucky, from a hunt for a hidden treasure and being smitten by two deadly women to his time in the gun sights of California's most vicious bandido.
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"Based on an actual historical event but told through fictional diaries, this is the story of a remarkable woman who travels west in 1875 and marries the chief of the Cheyenne Nation. One thousand white women begins with May Dodd's journey west into the unknown. Yet the unknown is a far better fate than the life she left behind. Committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for the crime of loving a man beneath her station, May finds that...
15) The revenant
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The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Trapping beaver, they contend daily with the threat of Indian tribes turned warlike over the white men's encroachment on their land, and other prairie foes -- like the unforgiving landscape and its creatures. Hugh Glass is among the Company's finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face...
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The massacre at Fort Mims is what spurred young Davy Crockett to leave his family and become a volunteer scout in the military campaign between American militias and the Creek Indians. It was while serving in this capacity that Crockett earned his reputation as a first-rate scout, which added to his already established reputation as a crack shot. Like many volunteers serving in militias, Crockett also had to concern himself with protecting his wife,...
17) The Kid: a novel
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"Born Henry McCarty, Billy the Kid was a diminutive, charming, blond-haired young man who, growing up in New York, Kansas, and later New Mexico, demonstrated a precocious dexterity at firing six-shooters with either hand--a skill that both got him into and out of trouble and that turned him into an American legend of the old West. He was smart, well-spoken, attractive to both white and Mexican women, a good dancer, and a man with a nose for money,...
18) Paradise sky
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Young Willie is on the run, having fled his small Texas town when an infamous local landowner murdered his father. A man named Loving takes Willie in and trains him in the fine arts of shooting, riding, reading, and gardening. When Loving dies, Willie rechristens himself Nat Love in tribute to his mentor and heads west. In Deadwood, South Dakota Territory, Nat becomes a buffalo soldier and a friend to Wild Bill Hickok. After Nat wins a famous shooting...
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Benjamin Sippy, a successful but unfulfilled pulp fiction writer in midlife crisis, flees his stable Philadelphia life and wife and nine daughters in search of the lawless West of his stories. After a comically abortive attempt at train-robbing, he happens quite by accident upon a cowboy and his sid ekick, a kid of 20 named Billy Bone, whose one accidental shooting has earned him an undeserved but welcome reputatio n as a dangerous gunslinger. In...
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