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81) Sharpshooter
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"In the brutal, unforgiving wastes of the Arizona desert, Chet Byrnes built a cattle ranching empire with his bare hands, steel will, and a fast draw. As the U.S. marshal, he risks his life to bring law to a lawless land. When a new railroad route is planned to pass through Navajo territory, Chet fights to get the Indians a contract to supply the locomotives with coal. But the corrupt politicians in Tucson and D.C. have other ideas. The coal contract...
82) Buffalo trail
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After barely escaping nemesis Killer Boots in the tiny Arizona Territory town of Glorious, Cash McLendon is in desperate need of a safe haven somewhere anywhere on the frontier. Fleeing to Dodge City, he falls in with an intrepid band of buffalo hunters determined to head south to forbidden Indian Territory in the Texas Panhandle. In the company of such colorful Western legends as Bat Masterson and Billy Dixon, Cash helps establish a hunting camp...
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From one of the most beloved Western authors comes an epic historical tale of adventure and romance in the great wilderness.
Against the epic backdrop of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad across plains and deserts and through the mountains to meet up with the Southern Pacific in Utah comes a sprawling, historical tale. Warren Neale is a brilliant civil engineer who is constantly confronted with construction problems. He is sided by Larry...
84) Savage Sunday
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"Scottish cattleman Duff MacCallister staked a claim for his life in America-and reserves a righteous anger for those who break the law in this smoking six-gun shootout from national bestselling authors William W. and J.A. Johnstone... Thanks to a new line, the railroad has come to Chugwater, Wyoming, bridging the gap between the small town and the larger city of Cheyenne. Now Duff MacCallister can transport his black angus cattle herd with ease by...
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Smoke Jensen is the most powerful man on the Sugarloaf frontier-and he's all that stands between a greedy group of Eastern slickers and their schemes for a criminal empire in the Rockies. When Smoke heads back to Boston with his wife, it gives his enemies the opening they'd been waiting for: to kill the mountain man and take over the West.
But even on the unfamiliar turf of back alleys and teeming docks, Smoke is more than most men can handle . ....
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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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"Three lawmen have tried to clean up Chico, New Mexico and not one made it out alive. A crooked sheriff has the terrified town under his boot heel, so the territorial governor sends John Henry Sixkiller undercover as a gunman for hire. Sixkiller has won every battle he's fought in the Southwest. But this one could affect the entire country: A group of merciless land pirates hiding behind Chico's brutal sheriff plan to take the territory hostage and...
88) Black noon
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When their wagon breaks down in the desert, Reverend Jon Keyes and his ailing wife Lorna find themselves at the mercy of blistering heat, punishing thirst, and circling buzzards. On the brink of death, they are rescued by Caleb Hobbs and his beguiling daughter Deliverance, who take them to their home in San Melas. Its a strange little town, built to resemble the New England village they left behind. Everyone in the community is convinced that Jon's...
89) Destiny, Texas
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Before the Civil War, Argyle Dollarhyde had everything a man could ever want: a beautiful wife, three strong sons, and a prosperous stake in the booming cotton industry. But now, Union troops have left the South in ruins -- and Dollarhyde's life is in shambles. Refusing to fall prey to carpetbaggers, Dollarhyde gathers up his family and sets out for the one place a man can still live free: Texas. Where the natives are as dangerous as the land itself....
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Red River Valley, 1869. Hordes of ex-Confederate soldiers have emerged from the piney hills and swamps of the Louisiana backcountry in a final, bloody show of defiance. Captain Douglas Owens of the 4th Cavalry is ordered to reclaim the God-forsaken land from its murderous outlaw gangs. With his options dwindling, Owens takes a squad of soldiers under his command in a last desperate bid for freedom and justice that would change the course of history....
91) Dead man's road
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In the high Rocky Mountains, Civil War veteran Marshall Brewster has a vision of wealth and fame. Under the tutelage of a hardened railroad tycoon, Brewster will build a railroad connecting Colorado's booming silver mines to a country starved for wealth-and maybe win himself the hand of a beautiful woman in the process. But as in war, Brewster's plan is soon shattered by the enemy: an angry, proud and desperate tribe of Cheyenne warriors, a competing...
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Nothing stirs up emotions in Texas like men stealing other men's horses. Texas Ranger Andy Pickard is assigned what seems to be a routine duty. West Texas horse trader Donley Bannister has killed a thug named Cletus Slocum who stole one of his horses. Ranger Pickard is to find and arrest Bannister, and bring him to trial. But the case turns out to be anything but routine. When Pickard finds him holed up with some cohorts, Bannister saves the Ranger's...
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Crooked Sheriff Harry Gauge rules the town of Trinidad, New Mexico, with an iron fist. His latest scheme is to force rancher George Cullen into selling his spread and to take Cullen's beautiful daughter Willa for his bride -- whether she's willing or not. The old man isn't about to go down without a fight. He sends out a telegram to hire the west's toughest gunslinger to kill the sheriff. But when a stranger rides into Trinidad, no one's sure who...
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On his first trip west, Zane Grey met Buffalo Jones, who had not only been witness to the great herds of buffalo that once roamed the Great Plains, but had participated in their destruction. In 1923, Grey decided to write the epic story of those thundering herds, the great hunt that decimated them, and the battle between the Plains Indians and the buffalo hunters. At last that magnificent, elegiac panorama is being published just as Grey wrote it....
95) The killing
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Duff MacCallister fled the Scottish Highlands for the Wyoming Territory. Betrothed to a good woman, he has the bad luck to be standing in the Chugwater Bank when a violent robbery explodes around him. The outlaws threaten the defenseless town with a bloodbath. Except no MacCallister has ever run from trouble.
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"Long ago, the legendary trapper known as Preacher took shelter with the Absaroka, and fell in love with a girl called Bird in the Tree. Twenty years later, he rescues a woman and her son from an ambush by the hated Blackfoot. The woman is Birdie, and the valiant young warrior is Hawk That Soars--Preacher's son. Now the greatest fighter on the frontier is about to go to war, to protect a family he never knew he had. Led by the vicious war chief Tall...
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Judge Roy Bean was the real-life Justice of the Peace and arbiter of frontier justice. Lillie Langtry was the "Jersey Lily" of the British stage, adored by English society. For more than twenty years, Bean wrote fan letters to the beautiful actress, and Lillie wrote back. They never met. Now award-winning author Loren Estleman brings to life their untold transatlantic love story.
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"Is Frayne an outlaw?" Holly Ripple asked. "Miss Holly, it takes bad men to cope with bad men on this frontier. If you could hire him, he'd be a whole outfit in himself. Course, a lady like you wouldn't have Frayne's sort around your ranch." ... "Wouldn't I?" When her father dies, sheltered young Holly Ripple gains possession of his vast cattle empire, plagued by rustlers and desperadoes. But she stands firm and soon has earned the reputation of a...
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Weather and creaking joints permitting, Jim Hawkins could be found every weekend sitting in the rocker outside the Manix store, whittling and spitting. Jim said hardly anything. Ever. That's how Henry Lancaster felt. Sure, he'd hear his grandfather talk to his grandmother fairly often - But Jim hardly said anything to anybody else. That all changed when he took Henry along on a scouting trip, and told his grandson how it was that winter of 1886 -...
100) Port hazard
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Page Murdock doesn't know why someone wants him dead, but he knows where the hired killers are coming from. Thus begins Murdoch's descent into a hell more decadent, corrupt, and dangerous than even he has ever seen-San Francisco's Barbary Coast. With an unwilling backup man, Murdock takes up temporary residence among the gamblers, dope addicts, prostitutes, and cutthroats of the continent's foulest district. No man here is trustworthy. But perhaps...
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