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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Captain Jed Foster is more than a thief. He's a traitor. With a handful of murderous rogues, he's run off with four wagons containing new Springfield 1880 rifles, bayonets, and ammunition meant to resupply the troops at Fort Bowie in Arizona Territory. Foster plans to sell the weapons to the highest bidder whether it's Apaches, Mexican revolutionaries, or Confederate veterans who still dream of destroying the Union. But that's the least of Foster's...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Young Gillom Rogers has just given the coup de grace to a famous gunfighter involved in a bloody saloon shootout in 1901 El Paso, Texas. After swiping J.B. Books's matched Remington pistols off his body, Gillom thinks he may be able to ride this spectacle to fame and glory as the last shootist. But Gillom is an eighteen-year-old with lots of growing up to do, and showing off his new pistols quickly gets him into a gunfight he didn't bargain for.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Academy Award-winner Larry McMurtry offers his most ambitious Western novel since Lonesome Dove Nobody writes better about the West than Larry McMurtry, and in Telegraph Days he offers the big novel of Western gunfighters that people have been hoping for years he would write. When Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned by their father's suicide, they make their way to the nearby town of Rita Blanca. Once there, Jackson...
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"A collection of short stories. Convicts and cowboys, thieves and tin stars - the Old West was full of them, and the sun never set on a day when some hombre wasn't following a trail to danger or death. Into gunfights and range wars, fiery deserts and freezing mountains - anywhere six-shooters could blaze and life was worth less than a gut full of lead. For fame and freedom, revenge and riches - whatever reason a man needed to risk all he had to claim...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Locked in a deadly feud, cowboys Randy Locke and Frank Farmer have spent decades attempting to annihilate each other any time they are within shooting distance. So far, the men are even. One of Frank's bullets has given Randy a permanent limp. Vain Frank wears a prosthetic ear, his own lost to Randy's assault. If either of them remembers the original reason for the feud, it seems moot now. Their quest for revenge has led them on a merry chase through...
7) Trail's end
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Jim Silcott was filling in as editor of the Powder Horn Sentinel after the former editor and owner, Carl Rogers, had been shot down from ambush because he dared to buck the mighty Hat T gang. And Jim was carrying on Roger's fight against dictatorial Russ Mosely in the feud over the conflicting land grants to former Spanish landholders which affected the lives of nearly all the settlers on Tincup Creek. He had carried it to the point where his own...
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Series
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2015, 1932
Description
So begins Jim Wales's story in Robbers' Roost. While a battle rages between two outlaw gangs in a remote Utah canyon, Jim struggles to rescue Helen Herrick, who has been captured and held for ransom. Robbers' Roost tells the story of their personal struggle to escape the clutches of the murderous outlaws while simultaneously safeguarding their passion, one that is not likely to survive the beautiful, yet deadly, terrain and people of the old American...
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Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
John Wayne returns with the following three western movies: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (a senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed); The Sons of Katie Elder (four sons who reunite in their Texas hometown to attend their mother's funeral); and The Shootist (A dying gunfighter who spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and...
Publisher
Radio Spirits
Pub. Date
2014
Description
The man in the saddle is angular and long legged; the gun in his holster is gray steel, its handle unmarked. Lean of figure and tanned of skin, his steely eyes gaze out over the violent frontier of the American West. He's a quiet man -- but one not to be crossed. He's film legend James Stewart in his only continuing radio role as Britt Ponsett: The Six Shooter. Here are twenty episodes from the 1953-54 series -- including the original audition recording....
12) Prairie fire
Author
Series
Luke Jensen bounty hunter volume 9
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
When outlaws start setting fires to distract the locals while they rob their banks and loot their towns, Luke Jensen, as their fiery reign rages out of control, infiltrates the gang, fighting fire with gunfire.
13) Aces 'n eights
Publisher
Genius Products, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
Description
A group of landowners band together against a ruthless railroad tycoon looking to take their land and lay his tracks.
14) The Ranger way
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"It looked like Denver Jones was going to end his young life on the end of a Texas rope. Arrested for robbing the local bank and slitting the throat of its cashier, his guilt seems certain when three men deliver him from jail and a train is robbed the next day. The sheriff, who hates Jones for personal reasons, takes an armed, lynch-minded posse into the hills - and the only man in Texas who will stand by the fugitive is a Ranger named Shelley Raines...
15) Pound of flesh
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
In China to donate his kidney to his dying niece, former black-ops agent Deacon awakes the day before the operation to find he is the latest victim of organ theft. Stitched up and pissed-off, Deacon descends from his opulent hotel in search of his stolen kidney and carves a blood-soaked path through the darkest corners of the city. The clock is ticking for his niece and with each step he loses blood.
17) The ghost rifle
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"Descended from a long line of ramblers and rogues, Jack Picaro came to America to seek his fortune. But after killing his best friend in a drunken duel, the apprentice gunsmith flees westward, leaving everything he knows behind. As Jack ventures up the Missouri River, he finds an unspoiled land where a man can live free - and also be attacked by an Arikara war party. His rifle stolen in the bloody skirmish, Jack sets out alone to reclaim it. His...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019, 1939
Description
When Red Clark's buddy, Shorty Dock, asked him to ride over to Wesco and search for a black-bearded man who had an annoying habit of shooting good men from ambush, the hard-riding redhead soon found himself in a tangle of trouble. But Red Clark's trigger talk carries conviction, and when the black-bearded stranger was finally unmasked, Red had things well in hand. Gordon Young has exercised all his notable skill in this tightly knit action story that...
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two rival crime families. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances between them, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, he takes the law into his own hands in a deadly race to remain the last man standing.
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