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Montana wilderness guide Angie Powell wants nothing to do with ex-soldier Dare Callahan, especially as she blames him for her failing business. But she has to put her feelings to one side when they are suddenly thrust together to stop an animal with a thirst for blood--of a human variety.
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Allison Coil mystery volume 3
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"A chewed-up corpse high in the Flat Tops Wilderness Area leaves Colorado hunting guide Allison Coil mystified. Obvious signs suggest the dead man is the victim of a mountain lion attack, but Allison's instincts scream otherwise. Miles away and a few thousand feet lower in downtown Glenwood Springs, a controversial candidate for U.S. Senate is shot during a campaign stop as newspaper reporter Duncan Bloom watches, dodging the long-range gunfire. Trapline...
5) Assegai
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Courtney volume 13
Pub. Date
2009
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On the eve of the World War I, ex-soldier turned professional hunter Leon Courtney is recruited by his uncle Penrod Ballantyne, commander of the British forces in East Africa, to gather information on one of his clients, Count Otto von Meerbach, and soon finds himself left alone to frustrate von Meerbach's plan to wipe out the British forces in Africa.
6) War cry
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Courtney volume 15
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Leon Courtney attempts to navigate the murky political waters of 1920s Africa, while his daughter Saffron grows into a headstrong woman headed to Oxford University. In the pre-World War II decades, father and daughter must survive adventurers, spies and traitors.
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2021
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A lifetime of adventures from the Bighorn Mountains to the most remote place in the Lower 48, Hawks Rest, in the Teton Wilderness Area of Wyoming. Hunting camps, packing mules, and characters from all walks of life brought together in the mountains. Tales vest told round a crackling campfire. -back cover.
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Alex McKnight novel volume 5
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Reluctant investigator Alex McKnight finds himself drawn by friendship into a long drive north. The brother of his longtime Ojibwa friend Vinnie LeBlanc serves as a hunting guide and has vanished in northern Ontario. The two soon find themselves stranded in the Canadian wilderness without food or weapons, and with no way out. Furthermore, someone out there definitely does not want them to make it back alive.
10) The white hunter
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House of Winslow volume 22
Pub. Date
c1999
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A restless young man, John Winslow travels to Africa to work as a white hunter. Annie dreams of becoming a missionary, but winds up in icy waters aboard the Titanic.
12) White heat
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Edie Kiglatuk mystery volume 1
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Investigating the murder of an adventurist under her watch, half-Inuit Arctic guide Edie Kiglatuk teams up with police sergeant Derek Palliser when she realizes that the victim's tour group was searching for something specific.
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Long before the American Revolution, fur trappers were traveling thousands of miles into the remote wilderness in their quest for beaver pelts, the frontier's most valuable commodity. These hardened, unsettled men were at the forefront of the Western expansion, hunting amid the Central Rockies by the 1830s and occasionally wandering all the way to the shores of the Pacific. Their lives and accomplishments are vividly and authentically recaptured in...