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Author
Pub. Date
2006
Summary
From an award-winning storyteller of the Old West: A successful prospector returns to his family's ranch and walks into the middle of a bloody cattle war.
When he learns of his parents' death in a train crash, Sam Dana makes his way home to the Bar D ranch-not to claim it, but to settle the estate and move on. He has no need for the hard life of a cattleman after finally striking it big as a prospector.
But what Sam finds is far from the home he...
Author
Pub. Date
[1987], c1968
Summary
From a master storyteller of the Old West: A ferocious tale of murder, loyalty, and revenge set in a rough-and-tumble frontier town.
Tony Braden's first sin was being an Englishman in the American West. His second was being rich enough to try and make a go of ranching.
Those two faults were enough to whet the appetites of the fine citizens of Indian Bend, who proceeded to hornswoggle, ridicule, and outright rob the uncomprehending Brit for an outrageous...
3) Raw land
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Summary
A hard-riding adventurer returns home to settle down-and stirs up a heap of trouble-in this action-packed western from a master of the genre.
After ten years of hard fighting and harder living, Will Danning is coming home to Yellow Jacket. His arrival is anything but celebrated, however-the last time he cast a shadow here, he wasn't exactly walking the straight and narrow.
Danning has returned to buy the Pitchfork Ranch, where he used to work cattle...
4) Bounty guns
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1988], c1939
Summary
Hired to find a killer, a drifter rides into a deadly family feud, in this action-packed novel from an award-winning storyteller of the West. For $10,000, Tip Woodring must ride into a frontier town full of murderers and find one particular killer. The deal-offered by Rig Holman, a saloon owner who liked the way Woodring knocked out a nasty drunk in front of his bar-could make him a fortune . . . or cost him his life. Last spring, a prospector...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Summary
Two cattle punchers share a dream of making it big-until one of them is murdered-in this suspenseful western from an award-winning author.
Frank Christian and Morg Wheelon were going to build something great. After the two veteran cattle punchers saved up enough to start their own outfit, Frank was to ride down to Texas and buy whatever herd he could, then bring them up the Chisholm Trail through Indian country to the rich grasslands of the Cheyenne...
6) Fiddlefoot
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Summary
A hard-charging tale of oppression and revenge by an award-winning author who helped define the western genre.
Frank Chess didn't care for much in this world. Especially himself. So taking a job for local big shot Rhino Hulst was an easy choice. Each day drifted into the next: running Rhino's crooked errands, blowing his meager pay in the nearest poker game, drinking it down in the closest saloon, and handing it over to the next soiled dove. All...
16) Boot Hill
Pub. Date
c2002
Summary
In Boot Hill a wealthy town boss causes trouble and two brothers have no choice but to meet the challenge with guns blazing. In Vengeance valley hardworking Owen is framed by his jealous brother for a crime he didn't commit.
Pub. Date
c2004
Summary
Vengeance Valley: a ranch foreman (Lancaster) is continually battling his wayward brother in this melodramatic story on the western range. The Sundowners: Robert Preston and Robert Sterling star in the story of two brothers pitted against one another while on opposite sides of the law.
