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1) Cutthroats
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"Not every Western hero wears a white hat or a tin star. Most of them are just fighting to survive. Some of them can be liars, cheaters, and thieves. And then there's a couple of old-time robbers named Slash and Pecos ... After a lifetime of robbing banks and holding up trains, Jimmy "Slash" Braddock and Melvin "Pecos Kid" Baker are ready to call it quits, settle down--though not completely by choice. The youngest members of their old gang, the Snake...
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The law nailed him with every murder in the Southwest! And every holdup, horse theft and any other unsolved crime in the territory. But Buck Duane was innocent. He was just too busy ducking to prove it. Then he met the Texas Ranger and found the chance to clear his name. He rode out alone to bring in the vicious Cheseldine Gang. Now he'd ride back for his pardon - or die!
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In the fall of 1873, a wagon train of immigrants sets off from Missouri for the Montana Territory. Leading them is wagon master Jamie Ian MacCallister, a giant of a man who swears he can get them there by Christmas -- come hell or high snow drifts. The journey is plagued by brutal storms and rugged terrain, outlaws and hostile Indians. Just when things look nearly hopeless, two unlikely saviors arrive: an old mountain man known as Preacher and legendary...
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"Once every year, Perley Gates and his brothers lead the Triple-G crew on its annual cattle drive. It's a treacherous journey along the Great Western Trail, with a herd of two-thousand cows on one side and many opportunities for trouble on the other. This year, trouble shows up in the form of a beautiful young woman, her little baby, and her bizarre traveling companion-a colorful old cuss who goes by the name of Possom Smith. They're heading to a...
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A western hero whose adventures embody the spirit of the American frontier, Smoke Jensen is bestselling author William W. Johnstone's most beloved creation. In his powerful new novel, Johnston chronicles Smoke's early years. Before he went off in search of his father, long before he become a legend, Kirby Jensen was a young man trying to make a living with the gifts God gave him--courage, cunning, and lightning with a gun.
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"Like most families, the Jensens gather together to celebrate the holidays. This year, since half the clan is scattered across the American West, they've decided to split the difference and meet up in Tucson. Matt and Luke will be there, for sure, and maybe Ace and Chance, too. That leaves Sally, Preacher, and Smoke Jensen, who've reserved three seats on a westbound stage to make sure they don't miss out on the festivities. What could possibly go...
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Smoke Jensen has come to Corpus Christi, Texas, to take delivery of five hundred horses he purchased from an old friend. That's when a Mexican revolutionary, Colonel Bustamante Keno, brazenly crashes the border, slaughters twenty-two innocent U.S. citizens in cold blood, and steals a thousand head of cattle -- along with two hundred of Smoke's horses. Going where the U.S. Army and the Texas Rangers cannot, Smoke crosses the border in hot pursuit of...
8) Panhandle
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The Texas Panhandle of the late 1880s is America's last great open range. Into that wild unknown country ride two young cowboys: Nate Reynolds, the scion of a well-to-do family, in search of adventure and gold; and Billy Champion, a ne'er-do-well with a stubborn streak and an eye for the ladies. Together they aim to rid this violent territory of rustlers, horse thieves, and the rest of the devils who slaughter innocents with no remorse. But when the...
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Cotton Pickens is feeling about as low as a man can get. Held up, robbed and fired from his job as sheriff, things get even worse when someone murders Cotton's horse Critter. And it's all happening just as a flashy, fleshy stage company comes to town. Some folks demand the show be shut down for immorality. Some folks -- Cotton included -- sure enjoy the proceedings. But when a man gets stabbed to death, a bank safe gets blown up, and another county's...
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Arizona Territory Ranger Sam Burrack knows all too well that criminals don't concern themselves with consequences. So it's no surprise to him when Big Silver's Sheriff Sheppard Stone makes an enemy of wealthy cattle rancher Edsel Centrila, whose son thinks he's above the law. After Stone refuses a large payoff to let Centrila's son out of jail, Centrila throws all of his money into buying up Big Silver, putting gunmen on every corner, aiming right...
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"John Tylor figures everything is finally coming his way. He's got what he wants: a free shot into the wilderness where no one will ever know his name or his shame. As he and Will Cunningham head west into the northern Plains, Tylor rescues a wounded hawk, which he had dreams foretelling the event. Tylor and Cunningham run smack into a party of Arapaho who are eager to relieve these solitary white guys of everything they've got, including the hawk....
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"An action-packed collection of stories of the old West, Law of the Land includes the never-before-published "Biscuits for a Bandit." Sixteen stories, where good meets bad, and everything in between, from the legendary author of the west, Elmer Kelton. The Law of the Land chronicles some of his most exciting and dangerous tales of the old west, collected together for the first time"--
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the High Sierras. But Smoke Jensen and his children, Louis and Denise, won't let a little snow stop them from heading to Reno for the holidays. There are two ways for them to get there: the long way, going around the Sierra Nevada Mountains, or the short way, going right through them. Smoke decides to take a gamble. They'll follow the trail that, decades earlier, brought the legendary Donner Party to...
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"Long ago, the legendary trapper known as Preacher took shelter with the Absaroka, and fell in love with a girl called Bird in the Tree. Twenty years later, he rescues a woman and her son from an ambush by the hated Blackfoot. The woman is Birdie, and the valiant young warrior is Hawk That Soars--Preacher's son. Now the greatest fighter on the frontier is about to go to war, to protect a family he never knew he had. Led by the vicious war chief Tall...
16) Shot to hell
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"They say that home is where the heart is. And no one knows that better than Perley Gates. After helping the lovely Miss Emma Slocum reunite with her sister's family in Bison Gap, Perley can't wait to rejoin his own kin at the Triple-G Ranch. No sooner does Perley settle in when he receives an alarming telegram from Bison Gap. Emma's brother-in-law has been murdered. Her sister wants justice. And Perley is their only hope to get it . . . Perley can't...
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"Is Frayne an outlaw?" Holly Ripple asked. "Miss Holly, it takes bad men to cope with bad men on this frontier. If you could hire him, he'd be a whole outfit in himself. Course, a lady like you wouldn't have Frayne's sort around your ranch." ... "Wouldn't I?" When her father dies, sheltered young Holly Ripple gains possession of his vast cattle empire, plagued by rustlers and desperadoes. But she stands firm and soon has earned the reputation of a...
18) The sky-liners
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When Flagon and Gallaway Sackett went to the town of Tazewell, Tennessee to pay a debt their father had incurred, they were not looking for trouble. Black Fetchen and his clan had other ideas, but they let the Sacketts get the drop on them. Humiliated, Fetchen swore to get even. He thought he saw a chance to do that when the two men agreed to escort sixteen year old Judith Costello, who had a crush on Fetchen, to her father's ranch in Colorado. With...
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"A saga of loyalty and survival in the vast, severe American West. Irish immigrant brothers Michael and Thomas O'Driscoll have returned from the brutal front lines of the Civil War. Unable to adapt to life as farm laborers, they reenlist in the army and are thrown into ferocious combat with Red Cloud's coalition of Indian tribes in the heart of Montana's Powder River Valley. Thomas finds love amidst the daily carnage--which leads to a moment of violence...
20) The grub rider
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"Mysterious forces drive Gabe Allen to leave home in search of the Keystone Ranch. Job by job, handout by handout, he finally makes it. But his next journey will be far more dangerous, more demanding. He is to see an arrogant lady safely home to her own ranch where her sister is being held hostage by an outlaw gang whose leader is almost certainly insane. Gabe's only weapons are his wit, ingenuity, and a .44 revolver; but what can one man and one...
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