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It was a long journey that no one had tried before. Jeff Kennett and his drovers have brought a herd of 2,000 longhorns from Texas to California through a northern route that has taken them two years to complete. The Gold Rush is on and there is a tremendous demand for beef and no way to get it. Kennett believes he can make a fortune by transporting the cattle by riverboat from Lassen Meadows down the Sacramento River for sale in San Francisco. He...
24) A ranger's trail
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Texas trails a Morgan family volume 4
Pub. Date
c2012
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When Leta Denning's husband is murdered at the beginning of the Mason County War, she wants one thing: revenge. Buck Morgan, a Texas Ranger called in to investigate, has ties to a German family involved in Denning's death. Buck's ability to remain impartial and bring the murderer to justice has Leta anxious. As she struggles to keep her ranch afloat. Buck offers to help - all the while searching for the truth. A tentative trail emerges - one forged...
25) Courage stout
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"Neil MacGowan, owner of the K-B Ranch sees both good and bad on both sides of the struggle between the cattlemen and the others-- homesteaders and rustlers. When the struggle starts to escalate, it will be up to him to find a solution"--
26) A hill of beans
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Chuckwagon trail western volume 3
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"With two trail drives under his belt, Dewey "Mac" Mackenzie has proven to be more than a good chuckwagon cook. He's good at serving up justice, too--with a side of hot lead . . . Mac Mackenzie has enough problems on his plate. He's got bounty hunters on his tail, no one on his side, and no place to hide. Just when he thinks it can't get any worse, he hears the rumbling of a cattle stampede--heading straight for his camp. Mac's got two choices: Get...
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2023.
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The national bestselling novels of William W. and J.A. Johnstone bring the American West to crackling life. Now together in one volume for the first time, return to the epic sagas of the fearless and ever-growing Jensen clan - pioneers willing to fight for justice.
THOSE JENSEN BOYS Ace and Chance are as reckless and wild as the frontier itself. Their father is Luke Jensen, thought killed in the Civil War. Their uncle Smoke is one of the fiercest...
28) The Virginian
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830L
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His background is shadowy, his presence commanding. He brings law and order to a frontier town and wins the love of a pretty schoolteacher from the East. He is the Virginian -- the first fully realized cowboy hero in American literature, a near-mythic figure whose idealized image has profoundly influenced our national consciousness. This enduring work of fiction marks his first appearance in popular culture -- the birth of a legend that lives with...
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[2018]
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Calling the Brands tells the story of the "range detectives," "stock detectives," and "inspectors," who usually worked completely alone, courageously capturing or killing livestock rustlers in order to assure the survivability of the ranchers. The detectives and inspectors had to be proficient in "calling the brands," which meant being able to read a brand and identify its owner. While most western lawmen's titles and many of them are familiar, less...
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"Reece Canby, owner of the Diamond RC, spent years as a youngster on the nearby Mescalero Apache reservation. By treaty, Chief Antone's tribe has ownership of the Sentinel Basin. But Sax Starke and Chelso DeLacca of the Teepee spread want this graze. Their plan is to stir up trouble with the Mescaleros so that the government will intervene. Now two Mescaleros that Reece has known since childhood stand accused of rustling by two witnesses -- both employed...
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Gunsmith volume 378
Pub. Date
2013
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Gunsmith Clint Adams joins wounded Pinkerton men Charlie Siringo and Tom Horn on their quest for revenge against a murderous cattle rustler.
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Book of the Year Award, 2005, National Association of Outlaw and Lawmen History
In the early 1890s Wyoming's northern rangeland was torn by the Johnson County War, a violent western collision that pitted cattle barons and powerful politicians against homesteaders and rustlers. The range war, riddled with lynchings, ambushes, and an invasion by Texas hired gunmen, culminated in a valiant last stand and siege involving hundreds of
...36) Lone Star legacy
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"South Texas, 1854. Regis Royle is determined to turn eighteen-thousand acres of raw prairie into the greatest cattle ranch in the world. But he can't do it alone. The region is wilder than a herd of mustangs--and crawling with rustlers. Teaming up with the Cattlemen's Justice Consortium, Regis hopes to stop the rustling and start laying tracks for a new railway. Problem is, the cattlemen--including Jarvis "Bone" McGraw, Regis's own ranch manager--can't...
37) The angry land
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Smoke Jensen volume 6
Pub. Date
2024.
Summary
After a cattle train bound for Texas is ambushed by blood-thirsty rustlers, legendary mountain man Smoke Jensen, on a mission of vengeance, vows to bring swift--and deadly--justice to the men responsible.
