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Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic of the Western genre. Lassiter, a gunglinging avenger in black, shows up in a remote Utah town just in time to save the young and beautiful rancher Jane Withersteen from having to marry a Mormon elder against her will.
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"In the law of the gun, a man must shoot his way to innocence. At least that's how Captain McKelly of the Texas Rangers puts it to Buck Duane. On the run for killing a man to save his own skin, Duane must now infiltrate the deadly Chelsedine gang. These ruthless rustlers are running amok in Texas and it's going to take a matchless gunfighter to stop their rampage. With the legendary Rangers providing firepower, Duane has more than a fighting chance....
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Beautiful, mysterious Shirley Randolph stood at the faro table and gambled like a man. Watching her through a screen of cigarette smoke, Sheriff Curt Thompson suspected that she could also ride like a man, rob like a man, and shoot like a man. But when he looked at her he wondered only whether in his arms she could love like a woman. Curt was on the trail of the Trackless Bunch - phantom gun-slicks who killed for sheer sport. Did Shirley's slim white...
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The historic Don Carlos Rancho stood at the gateway of the pass through which the Old Santa Fe Trail wound off to the Great Plains. Col. Ripple had married the glamorous Spanish daughter of the proprietor. As the years went by, their beautiful daughter, Holly Ripple, grew up, sheltered far away in a boarding school in the East. At her father's death, Holly was plunged onto the throne of this cattle empire, a bewildered girl who knew nothing about...
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When Steve Ware came home to Verde County proud of his new rank as Ranger, Verde greybeards refused to treat him as anything but the cowboy who had worked on their outfits. As a Ranger, Ware couldn't fight back against their insults as if he were still a cowboy; he could only wait for a chance to prove himself. That chance came unexpectedly soon when Fyeback, the storekeeper, was mysteriously murdered at the same time that Black Alec Pryde's gang...
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When Brazos Keene, a haunted cowboy with an honorable streak, comes across Twin Sombreros Ranch, he finds himself dragged into a vicious family feud. A convenient fall guy, Brazos is accused of the murder of Allen Neece, son of Abe Neece. The Neeces are the former owners of Twin Sombreros, but they lost it to the Surface family when their $50,000 herd of cattle mysteriously disappeared, turning the once proud Abe into a broken man as he and his twin...
7) Desert gold
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"A border town like Casita is no place for a drifter - especially a rich man's son looking for adventure. From the moment Dick Gale steps into this stinking, sun-baked hellhole of gambling and corruption, revolution, and revenge, he gets more than a bargained for. His old friend Thorne is in love with a beautiful senorita who's been targeted by the Mexican rebel Rojas. A bold, sneering devil of a man, feared, envied, and idolized by his people, Rojas...
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A herd of cattle at his side, a gang of rustlers and killers in front of him, and a death-jammed gun at his back-this was Rusty's life.Now he had to find the men who had killed his foreman, rustled his herd, and robbed his 'punchers. He found them-waiting in ambush, their death trap ready to spring. Rusty knew he was headed for the toughest fight of his gun slinging life.
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In the days of the frontier West, it was not unusual for desperadoes and fugitives from justice to seemingly disappear from the face of the earth. Shadow on the Trail by Zane Grey, one of the bestselling authors of all time, is the story of one such man who returned to reestablish himself in a law-abiding society. In Texas, young bank robber Wade Holden, once the toughest, fastest trigger man in the notorious Simm Bell gang, makes a promise to his...
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There was room enough in the valley, but Ike Quarles didn't think so. Now he and his hired killers had served notice on Brad--drift or die!?I'm about through drifting,? Brad said slowly.?I was thinking about taking up a homestead.? Then he was silent, watching them sit their horses, waiting for the abrupt twitch of a hand--the sudden, lunging move that would explode this whole valley into murderous, bullet-screaming range war!
11) Utah hell guns
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Reno Keegan lived in hell, a camp of drunken bully boys on one side, a range full of killers on the other. Reno was working on the rail line and tons of rock needed to be blasted through, but would he live to see the jobs he'd started be finished?
13) Crossfire trail
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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790L
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Rafe Caradec--gambler, wanderer, soldier of fortune--was as hard a man as the battlefields and waterfronts of Latin America could fashion, but he was as good as his word. As Charles Rodney lay dying in a dank ship's fo'c'sle, Rafe swore to make sure that Rodney's Wyoming ranch went to his daughter, Ann. In Painted Rock, Wyoming, Caradec found land for a man to love, miles of rolling grasslands and towering mountains. He also found that one of the...
14) Black mesa
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When Paul Manning set out in search of adventure, he didn't realize what was in store. He'd never been in a blistering hell-hole like Bitter Seeps ... or met a man as crooked as Belmont. And he'd never laid eyes on a woman as good as Belmont's wife, Louise. Manning had an awful lot of growing up to do if he wanted to stay alive.
16) Buffalo wagons
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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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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Sam Ashby had three sworn enemies. One of them was willing to die if he could take Sam with him. But who hated him enough to kill his wife? Was it the proud and rebellious young Mexican who'd seen a group of men led by Sam Ashby burn his shack to the ground? The cowardly bully who'd been beaten by Sam until he groveled in the dirt? Or was it Milo Squires, a man with fanatical pride and domineering strength who had been publicly humiliated by Sam ......
20) Deadman Canyon
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"They were laying for Clay Belden when he came out of the pass into the Wildhorse Valley. He didn't see them. He didn't know they'd be there. He didn't think they would remember him. But they were waiting, with their rifles neatly trained from the rocks, and their fingers tight on the triggers. The first shot was a warning. The second sent Clay rolling on the ground looking for cover. The third shot was Clay's. And though he never saw at whom he was...
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