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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) Mule man
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They called Brice Corrigan "Mule Man" because of the animal he rode, but they might as well have called him that because of his disposition, for he was surely as stubborn as his beast. Hell, half of why he signed on to this godforsaken crew was because the lady who hired him suggested that he didn't have the guts to do the job. And an odd job it was. A crew of ten, led by an anthropologist, was going into Arizona's Chaco Canyon to dig for relics of...
10) Eyes of eagles
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Strong, brave and wise beyond his years, Jamie MacAllister either impresses or angers all he meets. Kidnapped at age seven by Ohio Shawnees, Jamie's will and strength soon gain him both the favour of Chief Tall Bull, who adopts him, and the enmity of Tall Bull's other son, Little Wolf, the first of many who wish to bring Jamie down a notch. Escaping to a nearby Kentucky settlement, he makes still more enemies. After Jamie kills John Jackson's son...
11) Montana Red
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"The Ranger Lives for the Hunt. The Outlaw Lives for the Killing. Now They Are About to Come Face to Face at Last. Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack is a man of courage with a lightning-quick draw. His goal is swift justice, and his aim is as sure as death. With a .58 caliber rifle behind his saddle and a list of outlaws next to his heart, he tracks his prey relentlessly, alone, and to the bitter end. No one under the badlands sun would put the Ranger?s...
12) 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.
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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...
18) 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.