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One stormy night in Devil's Drum country, Texas, a freight train is halted by a landslide. Two teamsters with fake orders from one of the railroad's top officials ride up, requesting twenty cases of preserves from the startled crew - but are waylaid and murdered on their way into town. So begins one of the most mystifying jobs that detective Gregory Quist has ever taken on; and murder is committed again before he learns what was in the cans innocently...
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If the county seat were to move to Mapleton, it would not only mean a loss to the storekeepers and ranchers of Peaceful Springs - it would mean that a different lawman would be running things, and it might mean that certain undesirables would no longer be prosecuted. So, among certain citizens, there was a concerted effort to affect the issue, using not bullets but the ballot box.
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Sam Blair was a peaceful man who took his Hippocratic Oath seriously. The people of Fitch's Landing in the Nebraska Territory knew this and struggled to repay him as best they could for keeping them in good health. But it just wasn't enough, especially when Clara Freeman, Sam's intended, decided to marry and move east with a cavalry officer. Heading back East himself, Sam was intercepted on the trail by a patrol of Oglala Sioux and taken prisoner....
9) Devil's due
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Federal Deputy Sullivan Hart thinks he has broken the back of the outlaw organization Los Pistoleros after he arrests its leader, J.T. Priest. But just before his trial, Priest escapes from jail and begins to rebuild his criminal empire.
10) Blood money
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"Ever since Federal Deputy Sullivan Hart lost his father to ruthless J. T. Priest, he's hoped to find the outlaw leader and bring him down. Then hanging judge Isaac Parker sends Hart and his partner, Twojack Roth, to break up Priest's infamous gang, With the price on Priest's head rising, gunmen come from East and West alike, rifles in hand and dollar signs in their eyes. But Hart and Roth need all the help they can get to catch Priest and his crew."--Provided...
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Gun Fog: A penniless young cowboy named Jerry Knight, after losing in a big-money poker game, must work off his debt at the Circle F ranch where he is framed for murder.
Red raider: Old Dad Flint sets out to avenge his son's murder, but the confrontation takes place in the desert where the murderer is accompanied by a band of renegade Apaches.
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When Randolph Jefferson "Soapy" Smith is driven out of Denver, it's only a temporary setback. As good fortune has it, the mining town of Creede has even more to offer. Creede's vice and con games were dominated by the infamous Bob Ford, who made his name by shooting Jesse James in the back. Ford has a hammerlock on Creede, relieving miners of their gold in ways the town can do nothing to stop. Nothing, that is, until Smith offers an alternative, along...
16) Cruel rider
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When mountain man Jordan Gray is hired to guide beautiful Polly Pike to the Black Hills, Gray discovers that she is on the run from her husband--a savage killer who is not about to let her go without a fight.
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William Colt MacDonald has published nearly seventy Western novels to date, and over sixty motion pictures have been based on his Western fiction or the characters he created. Ten of these films starred or featured John Wayne. Both of the short novels included here were adapted for the screen. The Son of the Wolf was filmed as Wyoming Whirlwind, and Powder Smoke came to the screen as Man of Action.
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Considered the quickest gun alive, Fast Larry Shaw works as a hired killer until his wife is slain. Although he longs to be reunited with her, he won't lie down for anyone. Then he slays one of the Katlin Gang, becoming a marked man. He plans to leave Willow Creek after helping Rita Vargas identify the man who fathered her unborn child. One candidate is the infamous William Bonney -- or Billy the Kid -- who now wants Shaw back in the saddle fighting...
