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2) Desert gold
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He was a solitary prospector in the vast Sonoran Desert, but on a shelf of rock he left a little tin for his daughter . . . Richard Gale's idle sojourn in the West came to a screeching halt when he arrived in an Arizona border town and plunged into the life of a border ranger. Yet when he met Nell Burton, he realized for the first time why the West had beckoned him. But Nell's background wasn't very impressive - she had no family, no dowry. Then one...
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Buck Duane is a famous gunfighter and outlaw, who's recruited by the Texas Rangers to help clean up a border town plagued by crime. It's a rare opportunity to do good in the eyes of the law and its people. The son of an outlaw, Buck Duane, unexpectedly follows in his father's footsteps when he kills a man in self-defense. Despite the context, he chooses to run from the authorities and goes into hiding. He encounters many dark and violent characters,...
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From the bestselling author of Riders of the Purple Sage, comes another classic Western tale.
The sun set across the purple sky over the Don Carlos Rancho while the warm Santa Fe breeze rustled through the grazing fields just off the trail. The Colonel sat on his porch, staring over the whole scene, pondering the seemingly-doomed future of his prized cattle ranch. "Another spell with my heart like this last one will kill me," he said nervously to...
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Traveling with a new name and a new face, Wade Holden, the triggerman responsible for the fall of the notorious Simm Bell gang, rides far and wide carving out the life of a feared and respected gunman. Tired of shooting, riding, and fighting, all he wants now is to settle down on the ranch for a nice, peaceful life. But the Texas Rangers are on his tail in a ride for vengeance, daring Wade to one last fight for his dream - and his life
6) Black mesa
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Two young men come to the forbidding desert at the foot of Black Mesa. Paul Manning, a would-be writer from Kansas City, is running from memories that haunt him. Wess Kintell, a tall, gray-eyed Texan, is hiding from his shady past. Together, they decide to start a cattle ranch at Black Mesa, but a ruthless trader and some wild women enter their lives and threaten their plans. Before it's over, everyone will learn a hard lesson about living, loving,
...7) Galloway
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Flagon and Galloway Sackett were just looking for a place to start ranching. They found a big, wide, lonely country and, at first, plenty of room. Then Bull Dunn and his two sons decided they wanted it all. When the battle for possession of the land began, Flagon was already in bad shape. He had been taken by Apache Indians, and by the time he escaped, just surviving left him in no condition for any kind of trouble. Bull Dunn's son, Curly, was...
11) Hell Creek cabin
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Riding through the Wyoming Territory, Daniel Veach was surprised to find a small cabin tucked away in a gorge and even more surprised when lovely Anne Waring asked him in for tea. She and her husband, John, who seemed a bit out of place in the wilderness, invited Veach to stay the night. He happily accepted in the face of a gathering storm. Then two strangers arrived, and suddenly, it became clear that they had no intention of leaving empty-handed....
12) The raptors
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Astride his gelding, Deputy Ben Houston made a solitary silhouette riding the stark plains of Kansas. Ahead of him in the vast country rode a gang of murderous outlaws who had slashed their savage way from Montana to Wyoming to Colorado, and now they were shooting up Kansas. Where would the killers strike next? Soon they would have to make a slip-up, and Ben had to be there, anticipating their every move, in order to stop them .
14) Llano River
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When former cattle man Dundee wanders into the town of Titusville, he's broke, tired and itching for a fight. Instead, he gets a job offer...from none other than the top man in town, John Titus.
Titus recruits Dundee to find out who's rustling his extensive herd of cattle. But for Titus, it isn't enough that Dundee find the missing cattle. He wants to place the blame on a specific person...Blue Roan Hardesty, a one-time friend turned sworn enemy...
16) Buffalo wagons
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For Gage Jameson, the summer of 1873 has been a poor hunt. A year ago, he felled sixty-two buffalo in one stand, but now the great Arkansas River herd is gone, like the Republican herd before it. In Dodge City, old hide hunters speak is awe of a last great heard to the south-but no hunter who values his scalp dares ride south of the Cimarron and into Comanche territory. None but Gage Jameson...
17) Eyes of the hawk
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A six-time winner of the Western Writers of America's Spur Award, Elmer Kelton is the premier Western storyteller of his time. Eyes of the Hawk, winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Novel, is an outstanding tale of Texas-filled with authentic characters and history, and telling the story of the outstanding courage and determination of the men and women who challenged an unyielding wilderness to build a frontier legend.
Thomas Canfield descends...
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To a man like Cole Dagget, eight hundred dollars meant a lot of hard hours in the saddle - and just enough to return to Texas, settle down and get married. So when the money was stolen from him in a small-town holdup, there was no way he was going to let the robbers just ride off with it. And he wasn't about to wait for the people of Solitude to form a posse. Riding out alone, Cole couldn't guess that when the posse caught up they would mistake him...
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