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In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa...
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2016.
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At the Sugarloaf Ranch, Smoke and Sally Jensen prepare to welcome Preacher home for the holidays unaware that their friend is trailed by a storm full of trouble. On a mission of vengeance, an old trapper is rescued by Ace and Chance Jensen from ruthless outlaws and wanted by a driven bounty hunter named Luke Jensen. And, just released from prison, a criminal mastermind assembles a vicious gang of cutthroats to extract his final revenge against his...
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" In 1883, young Wes Montana, hired gun for the cattlemen in Montana Territory, lives a dark life, but he is so dangerous, no one dares call him a breed. Down in Arizona Territory at the Claymore Ranch, his Arapaho mother is murdered. That's when he learns that Ray Eastman, the white father he believes had abandoned them before Wes was born, is still alive and may have sent the killers. Wes swears vengeance on his own father. Eastman is wealthy with...
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Down on his luck, Smoke Jensen contracts to deliver 3000 head of cattle. Then a renegade Cheyenne warrior uses an early winter blizzard to attack Smoke and his crew. Too bad it's only the first step in journey built to test Smoke's mettle, because some people are hunting a payday of their own--for killing Smoke Jensen. Soon the streets of Laramie will run with blood.
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"As sleepy as Buffalo Peak's been, legendary marshal, Elwood "Firestick" McQueen, and his deputies "Beartooth" Skinner and "Moosejaw" Hendricks never expected a couple of drifters to wake it up--by kidnapping two lovely ladies in town. Hardly the sharpest quills on a cactus, these dim drifters call it courtin'. Firestick doesn't see it that way. Now the woman snatchers are heading for West Texas with their reluctant brides-to-be--and unwittingly plunging...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
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When word of the Pony Express being formed reached Texas, Clay Roswell decided to get a job as a rider. At a way station in Kansas, he was told his best chance was along the desert stretch in Nevada Territory, so he headed there. Along the way, he met up with two brothers, Jess and Hoke Pickard. That night the Pickards clubbed him to death, stole his money and his horses, and left his body behind. Only Roswell wasn't dead. And now he has a score to...
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Thorndike/Chivers
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2009
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Jeremiah Cole has been convicted and sentenced to hang for lynching a priest, a crime that shocked all New Mexico Territory. Yet most people believe that Cole, the son of wealthy Senator Roman Cole, will never be executed. Father Virgilio is so convinced that he will escape execution at Chama that he has raised a reward for anyone who will successfully transport the prisoner there. Britton Wade, a gunfighter and gambler, is determined to do just that....
8) Firestick
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2021.
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In his mountain-man days, Elwood 'Firestick' McQueen was practically a living legend. His hunting, tracking, and trapping skills were known far and wide. But it was his deadly accuracy with a rifle that earned him the Indian name 'Firestick.' His two best buddies are Malachi 'Beartooth' Skinner--whose knife was as fatal as a grizzly's chompers--and Jim 'Moosejaw' Hendricks, who once wielded the jawbone of a moose to crush his enemies in the heat of...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2020.
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"Once every year, Perley Gates and his brothers lead the Triple-G crew on its annual cattle drive. It's a treacherous journey along the Great Western Trail, with a herd of two-thousand cows on one side and many opportunities for trouble on the other. This year, trouble shows up in the form of a beautiful young woman, her little baby, and her bizarre traveling companion-a colorful old cuss who goes by the name of Possom Smith. They're heading to a...
10) West Texas kill
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Thorndike Press
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2011
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Between the Pecos and the Rio Grande a vast, harsh land was ruled by Texas Ranger Captain Hector Savage. Savage's motive wasn't duty, it was money: he's turned this desolate place into a bloodied, terrorized kingdom. Now his protégé, Sergeant Dave Chance, has come with a prisoner - a big-talking murderer - shackled at his side. A decent, honest Ranger, Chance can't stand by while Savage runs roughshod over the territory. But he'll need help ...
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Thorndike Press
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2010
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It starts at a high-class auction for a pureblood Hereford bull. Smoke Jensen wins the bidding - and the hatred of Pogue Quentin, Santa Clara's leading citizen and a man living on bloodshed and lies. Then Smoke's friend Pearlie drifts to Santa Clara, and when he runs afoul of Quentin, all hell breaks loose. Now Smoke Jensen is heading to Santa Clara to face a man who already wants him dead - but Pogue Quentin never met anything like the fire of a...
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Thorndike Press
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2006
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The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century
Frontier Justice Runs in the Family
Falcon MacCallister couldn't duck his father's legacy as a shootist in the Wild West--and he's never tried to. A man who lives between two worlds, Falcon has a reputation of his own--and it's about to plunge him into a different kind of war.
On a stagecoach in southern Arizona, Falcon is ambushed. But the only people who die are the shotgun guard and a beautiful...
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In 1871 Utah, young Jane Withersteen is courted by Elder Tull, the leader of her polygamous Mormon church. When Jane refuses, the local Mormons persecute her. Meanwhile, Jane's friend, Bern Venters, is captured by Tull's posse and faces a harsh sentence. Jane defends him, causing even more friction with the Mormon populace. Enter Lassiter, a friend to Venters and an infamous gunslinger. His appearance causes Tull and his men to release Venters and...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2021
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"They rode into town like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Four armed outlaws bringing their own brand of hell to Paris, Texas. First they rob the First National Bank. Then they take a woman hostage as insurance. When Perley Gates learns that local waitress Becky Morris is in the hands of these tough customers, he rides alone to get her back. Problem is, the outlaws are heading toward the Red River--straight into Indian Territory. That's where...
16) The cowboy way
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"No one writes the old west like Seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton. In The Cowboy Way, Kelton captures the action, adventure, brotherhood and betrayal of the old west, chronicling the highs and lows of cowboy life in these sixteen stories, collected together for the first time"--
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Thorndike Press
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2011
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A big city like St. Louis is the last place where a mountain man like Preacher would pick a fight. But how else would he get at the ruthless power broker who is using fear and bloodshed to take over the western fur trade? Shaving his beard, posing as a greedy hayseed from Ohio, Preacher comes face-to-face with Shad Beaumont, who is leaving St. Louis with an army of hired gunmen - with Preacher on his tail. The odds couldn't be worse and the battleground...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2020.
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"There are some things in this world that can't be stopped. Like progress, a moving train, and the American Dream. When the bigwigs in Washington decide to build a transcontinental railroad to the West Coast, they need a man who's just as unstoppable to clear a path through Mexican territory. That man is Jamie MacCallister. Jamie knows it's a tough job. The territory is overrun with Apaches. The Apaches are gunning for a fight. And the first patrol...
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