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Explores the concept of land ownership and how it has shaped history, examining how people fight over, steward, and occasionally share land, and what humanity's proprietary relationship with land means for the future.
"Land examines in depth how we determine where the land lies, how we acquire it, how we steward it, how and why we fight over it, and, finally, how we can, and on occasion do, come to share it. Ultimately, Winchester confronts the...
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Bad men of the West volume 3
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"One hundred years ago, American patriots picked up rifles and fought against British tyranny. That was Boston. There the enemy was King George III and his British troops. Now, In Last Chance, Texas, in the Big Bend River country, it's Abraham Hacker, a ruthless cattle baron who will slaughter anyone who tries to lay claim to the fertile land and everything on it. For Last Chance, freedom is under siege one violent act at a time. Until wounded Texas...
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Born into a respected Irish-Anglo family in 1860, Charles O’Brien loves his native land and its long-suffering but irrepressible people. As a healer, he travels the countryside dispensing traditional cures while soaking up stories and legends of bygone times.
At the age of forty, summoned to Paris to treat his dying countryman–the famous and infamous Oscar Wilde–Charles experiences the fateful moment of his life. In a chance encounter...
At the age of forty, summoned to Paris to treat his dying countryman–the famous and infamous Oscar Wilde–Charles experiences the fateful moment of his life. In a chance encounter...
4) 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...
5) Ranchero
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Stanton saga volume 2
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022, 1974
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"Spencer Stanton's word was law. He had killed many to win his vast cattle spread, and would do anything fair or foul to keep it. Every ranchhand, every neighboring landowner, every roaming Indian tribe knew better than to cross this man's power, this man's pride. But some hadn't gotten the message: a trio of vicious gunmen who murdered and raped as naturally as they drew breath, a giant bull-like cattle baron who lusted after Stanton's prime beef,...
6) Gut shot
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Dan Quaid had a chance to buy prime cattle range in Central Oregon at $2.00 an acre. And he wanted to get his boy out to the country where a man could breathe without knocking down his neighbour.So the Quaids pulled stakes and moved. Dan didn't know that the company selling him the land was at war with the squatters already on it, and that the squatters were led by a vicious, violent man who thought nothing of murder when it came to keeping people...
7) Blood memory
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
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Catherine McLeod is an investigative reporter for the "Journal, " one of Denver's major newspapers. Her recent coverage of the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes filing a claim for twenty-seven million acres of their ancestral lands has made her the target for assassination. Her investigation uncovers a conspiracy involving her ex-husband's wealthy family and state politicians. And as Catherine unravels the truth, she discovers some startling facts about...
11) Joe Kidd
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Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
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Joe Kidd, which concerns a land war in New Mexico at the turn of the century, marks Clint Eastwood at the top of his form as a western hero. Like a very classic western, it has gunfights, conflicts, and a slambang finale which has a locomotive being driven through a saloon where the bad guys are hiding.
12) Range boss
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022, 1977
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"Rick Thompson had come to Willow Crossing because he had a chance to buy a ranch cheaply and because his brother Les was buried there. Rick was just a kid when Les was killed. Les was some years older and wild. Legendary town tamer Vince Kirby had claimed to have caught Les robbing an express office. But from what Rick learned of Kirby after arriving in Willow Crossing, he began to wonder if Kirby was lying about Les's death. Now an old family wound...
13) Indian country
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Viking Press
Pub. Date
1984
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The author examines the white man's encroachment on the lands of the Miccosukee, Hopi, Cherokee, Mohawk, Yurok, Karuk, Dakota, Chumash, Paiute, Shoshone, Ute and Navajo.
15) Ambush range
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Center Point Large Print
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2023, 1955.
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"Say you're me -- Jim Bannister. You scrape a cattle herd together and move it onto free grass. But the land-hungry Crescent spread tells you to get out. You tell them you're staying, come hell or high water. Then they gun-whip you, rustle your cows and frame you for a drygulch killing you never committed. I don't know about you -- but me, I'm going after Crescent with guns smoking. Ambush Range tells the violent-paced story of Jim Bannister, who...
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023, 1988.
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"When Ben Moore rode into Wileyville, he was not expecting much. He had won a deed in a poker game and wanted to check out the place for himself. From the start, though, he could tell that he was buying into a pack of troubles by claiming the old Oakley place. When he went out to look it over he was surprised by two things: the relatively good shape the property was in-the buildings needed work, but the structures were good and the surrounding land...
17) Rimrock rider
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Only a hunted fugitive stood between a logger baron and an empire of ruined ranches! When Buck Temple got out of the Territorial death house, he headed straight back to Coppertooth Pass with vengeance in his triggers. A liar's perjured testimony had cost Buck his ranch, his friends, his girl -- and almost his life. But there was more behind that frame-up than Buck realized. It took a bushwhacker's bullet to show Buck that he was in a bigger fight...
18) High prairie
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
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"When the snow melted, tempers tightened in the Big Horn Basin. Men muttered of trouble coming - between small ranchers and big combines - between nesters and cattlemen. Big trouble, killing trouble. Over in Johnson County, they said, the war had already started. Hired gunmen, a small army of professional killers, were raiding and burning, slaughtering anyone who stood against them. Dave Ashmead was an honest, hard-working, small rancher who wanted...
19) Bancroft's Banco
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
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"Bancroft Benson was a con man, glib enough to talk himself into half ownership of a ranch on the Texas side of the Rio Grande. Now that he was an established land owner, he was ready for the next time the Rio Grande changed its course and cut a more southerly path into Mexico. Since the river was his boundary, the change would give him more land as long as the Mexican landowner didn't decide to become an American and retain his claim on the banco....
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023, 2004.
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"In "Drifter's Choice," Wade Pierce has no particular ambition and a reputation for irresponsibility. No one is more surprised than Pierce when he learns he has inherited his dead uncle's controlling interest in a small bank. When he is confronted by Sam Leavitt, who tries to force him to sell out, Pierce becomes stubborn. But he is not a gunman and he isn't prepared to commit murder. In "High Desert," María Mulrooney is held a virtual prisoner in...
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