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Spring, 1849. The first male child born in the newly established Republic of Texas, Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a marauding band of Comanches storms his homestead and brutally murders his mother and sister, taking him captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to life among the Comanches, learning their ways and language, answering to a new name, becoming the chief's adopted son, and waging war against their enemies, including white...
42) Pinebox Collins
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Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When Jonathon "Pinebox" Collins loses his lower right leg to a cannonball in his first Civil War battle, the course of his life is forever changed. While recuperating, he learns "The Dismal Trade" of undertaking, the emerging art of arterial embalming, and coffin construction. His first case turns out to be the victim of Wild Bill Hickok's first showdown, and Collins crosses paths with the legendary gunfighter - and occasionally his victims - across...
45) The Canadian job
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Series
Gunsmith volume 276
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
46) River of blood
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Series
Frontiersman series volume 2
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Breck Wallace was turning into a true mountain man on the American frontier. As a teenager in Tennessee he killed in self-defense, then left behind a woman he loved. With a gun and trap lines he is learning how to survive in the Rockies, braving the punishing elements, ruthless outlaws, and forging an uneasy peace with the Indians. But as dangerous as life is, nothing is worse than a powerful man with a murderous grudge. Breckenridge has left two...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The McBride brothers are in for another matrimonial surprise when an enterprising woman answers their little sister's mail order bride advertisement in this laugh-out-loud historical romance. As the oldest of the McBride siblings, Morgan had to be protector and shepherd since Ma died and Pa ran off. It hasn't always been easy, especially when his heart longs to roam on the trail. But now that his brother Kit is married and settled, the time is right...
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Jensen brand (William Johnstone) volume 3
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Smoke Jensen's daughter Denny can outride, outrope, and outshoot any man who gets in her way. But being a pretty woman, Denny sometimes attracts the attention of unsavory suitors. Like the lecherous Count Malatesta. Denny met the seductive Sicilian on her trip to Europe--and almost fell head over heels for the swindler. What's he doing in America? Seems the heartbreaking hustler has huge gambling debts to pay off--and a deadly scheme to scam money...
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Publisher
Forge, Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen stories, where good meets bad, and everything inbetween, from the legendary author of the west, Elmer Kelton. Law of the Land chronicles some of his most exciting and dangerous tales of the old west, collected together for the first time--including the exciting first publication of a never-before published Kelton story, Biscuits for Bandit"--
51) The key-lock man
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"He had led the posse for miles through the desert, but now Matt Keelock was growing desperate. He was worried about Kristina. His trip to the town of Freedom for supplies had ended in a shootout. If caught he would hang. Even though Kris could handle a horse and rifle as well as most men, the possibility of Oskar Neerland's finding her made Matt's blood run cold. He knew the violent and obsessive Neerland, publicly embarrassed when Matt had stepped...
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Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
It's the spring of 1864, and times are hard in Washington County, Arkansas, especially for thirteen-year-old Travis Ford. He hasn't heard from his father, a sergeant in the 2nd Arkansas Cavalry, in months. His mother is struggling to make ends meet on the family farm near Poison Spring. All Travis really wants to do is to follow his passion--to make up adventure stories in the style of Alexandre Dumas. But the Civil War keeps getting in his way. When...
Author
Series
Byrnes family ranch westerns volume 4
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Arizona Is Hard Country... Chet Byrnes is building a new life in Arizona Territory as he expands his cattle ranching operation - but trouble just keeps coming. A brutal Apache attack on his cattle drive. A friend's young daughter is abducted, and the search leads Chet and his men to the wild town of Tombstone and ultimately south of the border, where everything comes with a price... and life is cheap. And Chet Brynes Is A Hard Man... As much as Chet...
Author
Series
Hopalong Cassidy novels volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
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Page Murdock novels volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Stamping ground: "Deputy U.S. Marshal Page Murdock isn't happy when Judge Blackthorne decides to send him on an assignment to northern Dakota, a land of sudden blizzards and spring floods. And to make matters worse he has been handed the nearly impossible job of apprehending the renegade Cheyenne leader Ghost Shirt, who is responsible for several massacres in the area" --
The high rocks: "U.S. Deputy Page Murdock rides into the Bitterroot Mountains...
Author
Series
Trailsman volume 383
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"When small band of settlers seems to vanish into thin air from their camp in the Black Hills, the army asks Skye Fargo to find out what happened. Unfortunately, he's also saddled with a young greenhorn officer with too much starch and not enough experience. But the tenderfoot is about to learn from the best-- while the Trailsman is about to go up against something much worse".
Author
Series
Trailsman volume 359
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"When a frontier Army fort is ordered to pull up stakes and move, Fargo's scouting skills may not be enough to protect the massive military maneuver. Even though there are wanton women, blind-drunk buffalo hunters, and highfalutin officers on the march, the real danger is the pack of perilous predators waiting for the Trailsman to let down his guard."--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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It was no crime for a young cowboy to want to talk to a pretty girl, but that was what got Tom Lundy killed. The hard men of the Tumbling B, who had survived stampede and Kiowa lance to drive their herd up from Big Bend country, wanted to burn the town down. But Kate Lundy, the Tumbling B's owner, had a better plan. Calling on dozens of seasoned fighters, Kate aimed to strangle the town that lived off cowboy money but had no use for the Texans themselves....
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