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1) 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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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....
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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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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.
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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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It's been eight years since Sam Holt brought his family overland from the Willamette Valley to Paradise Valley and began the Rainbow Ranch. Along with his wife Helen, son Bruce, and daughter Mary, Sam brought Morgan Drew, the orphaned son of his banker friend. Since then, Morgan has created his own Big D ranch, the area's second largest, and has got his eye on the largest. Romances blossomed, rivalries formed and feuds erupted. But now the Paiutes...
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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.
9) Tough hand
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Jim Sullivan never expected to land in the middle of a range war when he fell for beautiful Troy Manders. But Troy was out to destroy the swindling no-gooders who had stolen her father's land, and she had gathered a hard-fisted crew of murderous outlaws to help her. With the smell of acrid gunsmoke dogging his every step, Sullivan took a gamble and cast his lot with the desperadoes. The odds stacked against him, he would need a keen eye and a fast...
10) 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.
11) 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"--
13) Sun on the wall
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In the 1860s ands 70s, men still got up with the sun--and to young Jim Glenn, his father's phrase "sun on the wall" meant the boy was already late. Daylight, the time when an honest, small farmer could work, was precious. Jim absorbed the hardscrabble thinking and fundamental honesty of his upbringing. So when, as a very young man, Jim started wandering west, he stacked the raffish, brawling world exploding about him up against a set of values that...
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Shadow of a Lobo is the story of Cliff Jenson, a mercantile store owner in Palisade who has run into some trouble. In Beyond the Law, Sherman Rawls owns the largest spread in the Red Rock Mesa country. The only law in the area, Rawls hangs Billy Combs after accusing him of stealing horses-- but the more likely reason is the attention Combs had been paying to Rawls' teenage wife.
16) Red snow
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Rick Proctor wasn't a killer. But his father was. And now old Jay Proctor was out to kill a man who had once been his friend and the father of the girl Rick planned to marry. That's when Rick strapped on his Colt. He didn't relish gunning for his own kin, but he didn't have a choice - two of his father's men had already come to kill him ...
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