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Trail drive series volume 7
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Nelson Story has money from his gold claim but is a marked man. The Plummer gang is after him for hanging the outlaw sheriff, Henry Plummer. So Story and his partners go to Fort Worth, buy cattle, and head for Illinois markets, but poor grass and high tolls turn them toward Montana and dangerous Sioux lands.
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A true-to-life narrative of the escapades and challenges of the frontier's legendary event: the cowboy cattle drive.
The Log of a Cowboy brings to life an important, yet short-lived, piece of the American Old West. It's here that the cowboy earned his reputation and admiration, and it's through protagonist Tommy Moore that we learn of some of the challenges of the legendary cattle drive. Run-ins with Indian tribes, cattle hustlers, shoot-'em-ups,...
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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...
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"The Log of a Cowboy is an account of a five-month drive of 3,000 cattle from Brownsville, Texas, to Montana in 1882 along the Great Western Cattle Trail. Although the book is fiction, it is firmly based on Adams's own experiences on the trail, and it is considered by many to be the best account of cowboy life in literature. Adams was disgusted by the unrealistic cowboy fiction being published in his day; The Log of a Cowboy was his response."--Google...
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Trail drive series volume 2
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English
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Benton mcCaleb and his band of cowboys brave more than 1000 treacherous miles to drive 2,4000 head of cattle into Wyoming's Sweetwater Valley, encountering a ruthless railroad baron along the way.
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Trail drive series volume 5
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After hard years of ranching, Gil and Van Austin, two Texas brothers, are eager to sell their well-grazed longhorns in California, and they set out on their journey, encountering Indian attacks, outlaw trouble, and brutal Mother Nature along the way.
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Trail drive series volume 3
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English
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From the Texas brakes to the Canadian river they blazed a trail. Armed with only a Colt rifle and a Bowie knife, Ten Chisholm leaves New Orleans with a price on his head. His only crime--loving the daughter of a powerful gambler. With a vow to return, Ten rides into the brakes.
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Trail drive series volume 10
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1997.
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English
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Gavin McCord and his brawling cowboys came to Missouri with a problem: 3,500 longhorns and not one buyer. That's where Gladstone Pitkin came in - a man with money and a dream of ranching in New Mexico, Pitkin bought McCord's cattle and hired his Texans for a trail drive from Independence to Santa Fe. But with an ill-fated gambler on the drive, the riders were heading into a death trap.
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Trail drive series volume 6
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English
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Driving two thousand head of cattle north from Texas, Cajun cowboy Long John Coons must brave stampedes, cattle rustlers, renegade Indians, and the love of a beautiful woman with a sordid past to get his longhorns to the Kansas railroad.
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Trail drive series volume 8
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English
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Returning home after the Civil War, Texas rancher Dan Ember and his neighbors find that their only chance of survival is a dangerous cattle drive north across the Llano, an area overrun with killers, gunslingers, and Quanah Parker's Comanches.
11) The Oregon trail
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Trail drive series volume 9
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"The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns--and the brains, brawn, and boldness to make the journey to Missouri, where further danger awaits ..."--Pg 4 of cover.
13) Cade's revenge
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Follow Cade McCall as he rides the Chisholm Trail, crosses raging rivers, faces cattle rustlers and fights marauding Indians while taking a herd of longhorns north to Kansas. He reaches his destination only to be devastated by the most heinous act he has ever encountered. Driven by a rage-filled determination, Cade begins his search for justice, a search that ends with Cade's Revenge.
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[2010]
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IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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An account based on the experiences of actual cowhands follows the experiences of a fifteen-year-old rider on the Chisholm Trail, who describes his fortune-seeking efforts to drive cattle despite numerous dangerous obstacles.
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