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Smoke Jensen was once the fastest draw in the West. He was also tired of taking on every tinhorn upstart out to make a reputation. So Jensen hung up his .45s for good--or so he thought. Called to Texas, Jensen must help rancher Richard King face an insane former Union captain who intends to burn the King ranch to the ground.
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Sheriff Cray Dawson's quick-draw reputation keeps most criminals away from his Texas town of Somos Santos. But it doesn't keep the motley Walker Gang away for long. Although they temporarily divert their bankrobbing plans to a neighboring town, they soon stumble on a way to weaken him. But will a strategic kidnapping and an unexpected ally undermine Dawson's resolve to do what he must?
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The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century
Frontier Justice Runs in the Family
Falcon MacCallister couldn't duck his father's legacy as a shootist in the Wild West--and he's never tried to. A man who lives between two worlds, Falcon has a reputation of his own--and it's about to plunge him into a different kind of war.
On a stagecoach in southern Arizona, Falcon is ambushed. But the only people who die are the shotgun guard and a beautiful...
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The lone survivor of a deadly fever, Shannon is taken in by Kiowa Chief Seccoro as a child. But when the warrior chief is killed, Shannon knows he cannot return to the jealous tribe. He is soon adopted by a rich rancher--into another world where he doesn't fit. But Shannon has not forgotten Seccoro's promise that the land of Ghost Canyon would one day be his. And nothing will stand in this rogue warrior's way.
49) Six bits a day
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Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country.
The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits-75 cents-a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching...
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The undertaker's wife waits; she weaves; she builds.
The undertaker practices his art, the Dismal Trade, with consummate skill. He has raised it to an art through the high craft of the Connable Method. Through it, he has managed to transform the ugliness of death into a thing of dignity and beauty. Victims brutalized by war, street fights, tavern brawls, ambushes, fires, and every hazard in a raw West, these, in his hands, become presentable. Everywhere...
52) The wrangler
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Scarred, out-of-work Confederate veteran John Candler suddenly finds himself willing to fight and die for a financially-strapped widow.
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Johnny Vermillion's theater troupe brings masterpieces to the Wild West. The four actors are versatile enough to wear many costumes and play many roles. A few props, a little makeup, a costume and-voilà-applause on the rugged frontier.
Johnny also arranges a special attraction for each town. While his actors bustle in and out of costumes, on and off the stage in many roles, one plays the villain in the bank. Then the actors take their curtain...
55) Blood lands
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As Julie Wilder races to greet her father, she sees his ashen face and fixed stare too late to escape the hooded nightriders who suddenly surround her. When bounty hunter Baines Meredith discovers her the next day--battered, bleeding, and barely alive--he covers her nakedness and gently cares for her. But can Baines help Julie develop the strength, courage, and skill she needs to administer her own brand of frontier justice?
56) Blood Valley
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Lawmen don't last long in the town of Doubtful, Wyoming Territory. The last one quit, another ended up in a noose, and one more was backshot by hired guns. But Doubtful has never seen the likes of the man known only as Cotton, who aims to take the badge for $125 a month, save himself a nice chunk of money over the next year, and be on his way. At least, that's his plan. Problem is, Cotton has just stuck his nose in the biggest hornet's nest in the...
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Johnstone. Where It's Never Quiet on the Western Front.
Young Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves became blood brothers on the day the rancher's son saved the halfbreed's life, forging a bond no one could ever break. Beneath the Montana big sky, Matt learned the ways of the Cheyenne from his friend. And as years passed, a legend grew of the breed and the white man who rode together-and who could jerk killing iron with the best of them…
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A greenhorn--an Englishman, no less--arrives in Whiskey Flats to purchase one of the Bar 40's best longhorns. Owen, the ranch foreman, must escort the tenderfoot on the drive from Texas to Wyoming. But Luke Deal and his gang of ruthless cowboys have been hankerin' to get even with Owen, and this seems like the perfect time to settle an old score.
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This wonderful, dramatic story was written in 1915, but for almost one hundred years it has only existed in a profoundly censored version, "The Border Legion." Joan Randle, in a spirit of anger, sends Jim Cleve out into the lawless country of the mining frontier in Idaho Territory to test his mettle as a man. Then, regretting their quarrel, she goes in pursuit of him, in hope of turning him back, only to be taken captive by the notorious mining camp...