Frank Bonham
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A double dose of Western action from one of the genre's acknowledged masters
The first story, "The Rodeo Killer," is a smoldering tale of the violent intersecting conflict between New Mexico cattle ranchers, cattle buyers, and men breeding horses for the rodeo circuit. Greed, deceit, trickery, and murder mix with romance and gripping examples of human and animal courage in this thrilling and dramatic tale.
The title story, "Mission Creek," references...
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"In 'Sergeant Forson's Dirty-Shirt Army' a seasoned sergeant tries to turn undisciplined recruits into true soldiers despite his commanding officer's indifference, but things change when Major King learns his daughter's stagecoach will likely be attacked by Indians. 'Furnace Flat' tells of Grady Ryan's attempt to get rich mining borax in Death Valley"--
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A pair of action-packed tall tales from Western master Frank Bonham.
The first story, Trouble in Temescal, is set in Los Angeles in the days following the Mexican-American War, and tells the tale of two entrepreneurial mustangers, Hank Ashwood and Red Wolfe, who have driven a herd of horses from New Mexico to California for resale. But their efforts to sell the animals to one of the Mexican hacendados, Dona Julia de la Torre, owner of Rancho Temescal,...
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Henry Logan rides with a mission when he arrives in the border town of Nogales, Arizona Territory: Skiptracing the location of wealthy rancher Richard I. Parrish. Trust checks in his name have been faithfully cashed each month, but Richard has stopped responding to letters from his attorney. Henry is sent to find Parrish-dead or alive. A straightforward task, that is until Henry is mistaken for a famous gunslinger and falls under the feverish influence...
5) Furnace Flat
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Something tan and cylindrical struck the roof and rolled off. The men inside didn't wait for the dynamite to blow; they lurched into the sunlight, firing as they ran. A brutal war began when two bold men left Kane's mine to work their own strike. This was the final battle.
13) Rawhide guns
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"Jim Harlan had to rawhide a railroad across some of the wildest country of New Mexico, but the cattlemen of the Magdalena Basin had an even tougher job. They had to try to stop him! What Harlan knew about railroading was slung from his belt, but it was more than enough. Jim was sure this railroad project would be easier than ones he had worked on in Mexico, where his partner had ended up in front of a firing squad for choosing the wrong side to build...