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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Description
The only way to escape the purgatory of the Florence Stockade was to die. So on February 3, 1865, Zebulon Hogan died and was buried in the prisoners' cemetery. It was young Ebenezer Chase, a runaway slave, who saw his hand clawing out of the dirt over the shallow grave. Zeb swore an oath to the other prisoners to hunt and kill a traitorous sergeant, but he knows nothing of the surrounding country. Ebenezer does. Together, they may get where they want...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Description
The McCloud brothers know the Bitterroot Mountains better than anyone, but they rarely have time for sightseeing. That is, until lovely Roberta Morris asks them to help find her uncle, who went missing while mining for gold. The brothers are happy to oblige. A pretty little lady can't face the Indians all by her lonesome. But she's not alone. Frank Burdette and his gang are hot on her trail . . . and they know what lies in those mountains.
64) War cry
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Description
After saving a widow named Sarah from the Cheyenne, scout Will Cason is now the mortal enemy of Bloody Hand and his band of warriors, who are determined to avenge the deaths of their own by taking down the "white devil."
65) West Texas kill
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Description
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 ...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Tom Barker returns to the small cow town of Beatty fifteen years after his mother had abandoned him, his father abused him, and the town stood by and did nothing to help. Now Barker is a man of financial means, and intent on evening the score with the very people who once made his life miserable.
68) Forty loads
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014
Description
When the beautiful McGaffney twins hire Faro Wells to escort them to New Mexico to claim their inheritance, Faro thinks his luck has finally turned. But a world of trouble stands between him and the supposed fortune: a raging war, hostile Indians, and every raider on the wild frontier. Not to mention the South's most famous villain, the Black Knight, is hard on Faro's trail. And the twins may be the worst trouble of all ...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014, 2005.
Description
Nick Graves has had a life full of more death than any man can handle. Graves has dealt death as well -- as an outlaw, running with some of the West's most feared gunslingers. Nick's ready to turn his back on his dark past, and live out his existence in the family business -- as a mourner, paid to see to the details of funerals and wakes. But a man's past has a way of staying with him, and soon Nick crosses paths with Barrett, his old partner in crime....
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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...
71) Shadow river
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack is a predator lying in wait. He's undercover as an outlaw to infiltrate a pair of vicious border gangs and bring them down. This mission has already had its share of casualties, and if Burrack has his say, there will be more. A cloud of dust rises as four men ride toward the Twisted Hills. The only thing between them and certain death at the hands of the Apaches is Sam, who also wants those men dead. But fighting in a land...
72) Border reprisal
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Is there a connection between a series of train robberies and a mysterious nightrider who delivers hand-minted gold coins to poor Mexicans? Marc Charvein, Wells Fargo express messenger, and two of his old friends, Carlos Sandoval and Lucy Barkley, cross the border to find out.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
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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Description
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...
75) Carly's revenge
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Carly Barton thought moving from Ohio to a small Kansas farm was hard. Then life got much harder. In Kansas, she was raped by escaped convicts who killed her parents. That's when Carly decides to find and kill the murderers. Beautiful, bitter and vengeful, she turns to a gunfighter turned town drunk to learn how to shoot to kill. It's Carly's job, and she's going to do it by herself.
76) A civil issue
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Toward the end of the Civil War, a large number of gold payroll shipments from both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line have mysteriously disappeared. In the confusion of war, either side thinks the other is to blame. But General Grant holds the quiet persuasion that an unknown third party has masterminded a plan to use the acquired funds for some purpose that poses a threat to the reunification of the Union. He secretly sends out a group of his finest...
77) Good water
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Ranch hands Tommy and his pal Red make friends with the Mexican people who live nearby. Their foreman tells them to stay away from the Mexican girls, but the boys do not heed the warning and are fired. Then they find out that their former employer, Vinch Cushman, is trying to force the Mexicans off their land by damming the creek that supplies their water. When Red goes to sabotage the dam, he's shot dead. Tommy joins the Mexicans in their exodus,...
78) Killing blood
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017, 2016.
Description
"What sort of men rob a train, collect the loot and then start shooting everyone on board? Billy Young doesn't know the answer to that question. But one of the passengers was his brother, and he intends to do whatever it takes to find out. And once he does, he'll exact his vengeance with pleasure. And he'll exact it in blood. Wyoming is now a state, but not much has changed on the range. The big outfits still make the rules, and that is a lesson they...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Bullets graze Buffalo Bill's wife in Hannibal, Missouri, and Annie Oakley's horse in Kansas City -- as well as a performer riding next to her. Journalist Jemima "Jemmy" McBustle hatches a daring plan to find a great story and keep her newspaper job by ferreting out the evildoer plaguing "Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World."
80) The rusted sun
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Half-frozen and nearly dead, Gil Ryan rode into the little mountain town of Larkspur just ahead of a raging late-winter blizzard. He'd lost everything he owned except for his mount and the clothes on his back when his pack horse fell through the ice on the Big Sandy River. Racked with fever, early-stage pneumonia, and a barely healed gunshot wound, all he wanted was a little medicine and a warm place to wait out the storm. But Gil had no way of knowing...
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