Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton)
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 1
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In this rousing tale of the Texas Rangers, a ranger sets out to avenge the murder of his adoptive father and, in the process, meets up with the Comanche warrior whose band killed his family in a raid when he was a child.
2) Badger boy
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Returning to his Texas farm after the Civil War, Rusty discovers that home is not what it used to be. Then real trouble starts when Rusty finds Badger Boy, a white child raised by Comanche and agrees to return him to his Indian family.
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 3
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The Civil War has ended, and Union soldiers and federal officials have taken control of Texas as Rusty Shannon rides to his home on the Colorado River. As a child, he was a captive of the Comanche, as a young man a proud member of a ranging company protecting settlers from Indian raids. Shannon's fate is intertwined with the young man accompanying him: Andy Pickard, himself but recently rescued from Comanche captivity and known by his captors as Badger...
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 4
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In the spring of 1874 the Ranger companies that protect settlers against Indian raids and outlaw bands are being reorganized and David "Rusty" Shannon is the most sought-after veteran for reenlistment.
But Shannon has new goals for his life: He is in love with Josie Monahan, daughter of the family that adopted him, and he intends to marry Josie and take her to his farm on the Colorado River. Rusty also feels affection and responsibility for Andy...
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 5
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In post-Civil War Texas, Andy Pickard, once known to his Comanche "family" as Badger Boy, is now in his mid-twenties and riding with the Texas Rangers. While delivering a prisoner for trial, he becomes entangled in a feud between the Landon and Hopper families. Andy works to help Jayce Landon, while at the same time keeping the boy Scooter Tennyson from being pulled into a life of crime. Lives are at stake, loyalties tested, and the worst aspects...
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 7
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Former Texas Ranger Andy Pickard, struggling to adjust to life as a farmer after becoming engaged to Bethel Brackett, takes a "time out" to visit his friend Sheriff Tom Blessing and is drawn back into the Rangers when a trio of bank robbers escapes from the county jail and Blessing is killed in the ensuing chaos.
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Nothing stirs up emotions in Texas like men stealing other men's horses. Texas Ranger Andy Pickard is assigned what seems to be a routine duty. West Texas horse trader Donley Bannister has killed a thug named Cletus Slocum who stole one of his horses. Ranger Pickard is to find and arrest Bannister, and bring him to trial. But the case turns out to be anything but routine. When Pickard finds him holed up with some cohorts, Bannister saves the Ranger's...
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 9
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Newly married Texas Ranger Andy Pickard and his new partner, Logan Daggett, investigate a series of murders and cattle thefts in central Texas, a task complicated by a gang of masked vigilantes and the appearance of a notorious gunman.