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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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Shaw Dance was a man with a peculiar philosophy - he took from his mountain only the gold and the water and sustenance that he needed. Nor would he let anybody, gold seekers or otherwise, take more than that. The people of the small town at the foot of Shaw's Mountain had long since become accustomed to Shaw's peculiar ways. But now there was a man - one who didn't care about gold because ha had all the money he needed, who came to challenge the right...
3) Lost trails
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"They are the stuff of legend, thundering out of the harsh landscapes and stunning vistas of the American West, vividly lodged in our collective imaginations. From Buffalo Bill to Billy the Kid, from Cochise to Jesse James, these names and so many others screamed across newspaper and dime store magazine headlines while the Wild West was won. Lost Trails features inventive, hard-riding, action-packed stories by America's best Western writers. Louis...
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"After the mining company he works for goes belly up, young Max Tillman has a chance encounter with a man who has a bounty on his head. He soon takes up tracking other wanted men, but realizes he may be in over his head as he travels through some of the most dangerous towns in the West and crosses paths with those who survive by taking what is not theirs. Max meets people who draw him toward a more settled life, but is a peaceful life possible for...
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Framed for murder, Dewey "Mac" McKenzie is running for his life. Though Mac's never even made a pot of coffee, he talks his way onto a cattle drive heading west--as a chuckwagon cook. Turns out he has a natural talent for turning salt pork and dried beans into culinary gold. He's as good with a pot and pan as he is with a gun--which comes in handy on a dangerous trail drive beset with rustlers, hostile Indians, ornery weather, and deadly stampedes....
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"Johnstone Justice. What America needs now. Bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone celebrate a legend of the American West and the weapon that shaped a nation's destiny. As a teenager, John McMasters won the Medal of Honor as a sniper for the Union Army during the Civil War. Thirty years later, McMasters lives a peaceful life in the Arizona Territory, raising a family and running cattle. These days, he needs eyeglasses to hit...
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From the moment they left their homestead unguarded on that scorching Texas day, Martin Pauley and Amos Henry became searchers. First they had to return to the decimated ranch, bury the bodies of their family, and confront the evil cunning of the Comanche who had slaughtered them. Then they set out in pursuit of missing Lucy Henry. In the years that follow, Amos and Henry survive storms of nature and of men, seeking more than a missing girl, and more...
11) Blood and gold
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When gold fever hit the town of Gopher, no man's life was worth a plugged nickel ... Adam Patch, a young doctor, arrived at Gopher at the height of a rampaging epidemic. In trying to stop the dreaded Tonopah fever, Doctor Patch came face to face with the town's lust for gold and the fierce and fatal struggle to obtain it at any cost.
12) The homesman
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A "homesman" is a person charged with taking women who have been driven mad by the conditions of rural life in the 1850's to asylums in the East. Mary Bee Cuddy, an ex-teacher and spinster, who is indomitable, resourceful, and "plain as an old tin pail." Brave as she is, Mary Bee knows she can't make it alone, so she takes along her only available companion: the lowlife and untrustworthy George Briggs.
13) Renegade ramrod
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After the Lincoln County cattle wars, Clay Quantrelle took off his guns "for good". He rode into Taiholt seeking peace and quiet, but the acrid smell of gunsmoke dogged his every step. Clay's old buddy, Apache Pat Tanner, was in a range war up to his ears and it was up to Clay to pull him out. A desperate group of bandit ranchers had formed a pool to drive Tanner off his Big T ranch and there had already been some nasty attacks-now they were sure...
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"Do not open fire until Christmas... T'was the week before Christmas and all through the ranch, not a creature was stirring - because Shad Parker would fill it full of buckshot. Emittered by the loss of his wife and children in the Civil War, Shad relocated his sorry self to Gilead, Texas, where he planted a DO NOT TRESSPASS sign on his land, his heart, and his soul. Intruders beware... Enter the Coats children: three scrappy runaways from the Faith,...
15) Winter kill
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It was a favor to a dead friend: Frank Morgan is shepherding a group of mail-order brides to a brawling Alaska boomtown called Skagway. A bushwhacking, a storm-racked sea voyage, and an anything-but-friendly reception isn't enough to stop Morgan and his blushing brides. But a beautiful woman has a lucrative plot on her mind - in the wild, wild north where men are mad with greed and loneliness. Now the last gunfighter will need skills he didn't know...
16) Winchester 1886
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On its way to a boy in Texas who is waiting for his Christmas present, a brand new lever-action Winchester 1886 and a box of ammunition falls into the hands of a blood-thirsty outlaw, an Apache renegade, a hardscrabble rancher and Deputy U.S. Marshal Jimmy Mann who is trying to solve a murder.
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"John Horton Slaughter fought on the blood-soaked battlefields of the Civil War. He drove thundering cattle across a dangerous frontier, and faced the deadliest outlaws as a Texas Ranger. Now, bestselling authors William and J.A. Johnstone tell the storyof this towering historical figure-the man who tamed Tombstone, Arizona. A HERO AS BIG AND TOUGH AS TEXAS Enticed by the richest poker tournament the West has ever seen, a horde of cheating and ruthless...
18) Bad men die
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"What started as a routine hunt and grab-putting outlaw Thorp McCluskey on a train to Cheyenne and prison-has just gone straight to hell for bounty hunter Luke Jensen. First came the beautiful prostitute who pointed her alluring attentions in Luke's direction. Then came a man who fought by Luke's side in the war-but the war is over and friendships can turn deadly. Luke gets bushwacked, his prisoner is gone, and so is a fortune in gold. Now Luke is...
19) Ambush valley
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Yuma Prison is a fetid hellhole filled with the dregs of humanity--killers, thieves and backstabbers who'd kill over a scrap of meat. Now it's home to Frank Morgan, who's posing as an inmate. A ruthless outlaw named Cicero McCoy has buried a fortune in stolen bank money in a harsh, desolate little piece of hell known as Ambush Valley. To get Cicero to lead him to the loot, Frank has become Cicero's new best friend behind bars--and co-plotter of a...
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The last gunfighter series volume 22
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Frank Morgan survived his first trip to Alaska. Now, in Western Canada, Morgan and a band of survivors encounter an arch enemy with a fortune in ill-gotten gains - money he will use to supply murderous Metis rebels with stolen US Army Gatling guns. And the Last Gunfighter is now in their way. But before the rebels can kill him, a daring US secret agent joins his side. Frank Morgan will soon face the ultimate battle for survival - before an all-out...
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