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1) Blood money
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Seth Klugg, manager of the Springfield Cattlemen's Bank, is out of town, seeing the proposed new railroad as an opportunity for drumming up business. Meanwhile, the three strangers who ride into Springfield see in his absence an opportunity of their own. Kidnapping the assistant bank manager and his wife, they proceed to hold them hostage, awaiting the return of Klugg - the only man who knows the combination for the bank's safe. But Klugg has made...
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When Ollie Harker's wagon fails to arrive at Logjam Creek, his employer, JD Cookson, hires Tom Parry and Durango Finch to find it. It appears that Harker has been killed by hostile Indians, but when a murder in the town is linked to him, Harker's mission is revealed to be something more than a routine freighting operation. The trail leads Parry and Finch to an illegal whiskey-running operation in which Monson, Logjam Creek's saloon owner, is implicated....
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Will Keen is a western man living his life in two different worlds - one white, one Piaute Indian. He dresses in white man's clothes and adopts many of his habits and mannerisms. Only high cheekbones and dark eyes that miss nothing give a hint of the Indian blood coursing through his veins. Will knows the western wilderness like no other because he was raised in it, and guides wagon trains westwards into Oregon Territory, braving savage lands and...
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Pinkerton Agent Cameron Scott arrives at the crossroads town of Willow Branch Creek seeking answers to a series of train robberies. He gets more than he bargained for when he befriends the lovely Becky Drake when defending her son from one of rancher Jim Gilson's cowpunchers. To complicate matters, an old enemy has come to town, Larry Strickland, who did prison time thanks to Cam, and now wants revenge. Things go from bad to worse and culminate in...
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Robert Hale, an imprint of Crowood Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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"Jeremiah Hackett is a young man searching for a future. On his quest, he teams up with huckster George Finimin, a tonic salesman. When Finimin is murdered, Jeremiah dedicates himself to finding the killer. But things do not prove straightforward for Jeremiah, and he needs to mature and learn some harsh lessons before he can finally achieve his aim."--Publisher description.
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Robet Hale, an imprint of The Crowood Press
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2018.
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Alvin Boyd was a killer, not a bad man, but when he tried to escape his past, he found he stood alone. After Alvin's death, his brother, Asa, rode into town looking to avenge him. What he found was a white-hot range war. Quickly finding job as the town's deputy, Asa found it to be a tough job in this hard-fighting trail town and Asa found new enemies that included a murderous land baron and a deadly gunfighter. Caught in the dangerous crossfire between...
7) Crows Creek
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The nephew of President Hayes has been murdered in Crows Creek, so he orders the governor to hire a marshal - someone with a proven track record for solving crimes. Unfortunately, what he gets is Daniel Wheetman, an Englishman with no experience of the West: he cannot ride or shoot, and his abrupt manner and lack of social skills would only mean a quick and violent death. So Murphy, a tough cowboy, is hired in turn to keep the marshal alive...
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Englishman Marshal Daniel Wheetman has been given over to President Hayes by Queen Victoria in an attempt to bring justice to the lawless west. However, Daniel's methods of policing are in complete contrast to those employed by US lawmen. Not only is he unable to ride a horse, he also does not believe in the use of firearms. Additionally, he has a personality that makes the vast majority of cowboys want to blow his head off...
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The Crowood Press
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2019.
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He pays his debts with hot lead! This is the story of a kid who turns killer, a boy who grows to manhood long before his time. Seeing no justice in the land, he takes the law into his own lightning swift hands.The legend that grows around Billy Bascom is born the day they planted the cross that read: 'Here lie Ben Ober and Jim Boone; hanged for cattle rustling May 14, 1880.'There should have been a third name on that board: that of Billy Bascom. But...
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When Lorimer Hall returns to the town of Clear Creek, everything has changed. His father and his friend Budd Ewing are both dead, and nobody wants to know him. Lorimer decides to move on, but with it looking as if Glenn Harlow, Budd's killer, might get lynched, he is persuaded to accept the task of escorting him to jail. Glenn claims he's an innocent man. But Lorimer makes a mistake that leads to his prisoner being taken to his death...
11) Bighorn gold
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Jesper Tubbs has spent his life wandering the western mountains searching for the elusive glint of gold. But Fate plays its fickle hand late in his life when, at the point of starvation, he literally stumbles upon a fabulous strike. But Tubbs finds far more than just gold. His chance discovery is to turn sane men into wanton killers who will stop at nothing to find his secret location deep in the Tobacco Root Mountains, and claim it as their own.
12) Death in deming
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Dan Tucker is sent to Deming by US Marshal Harvey Whitehill, to clean out a few bad men who have taken over the town for their own ends. Motivated not by idealism but by money, a reluctant Tucker is resigned to doing this one last job before retiring from his dangerous life. And then the murders begin. Forced into a corner, threatened at every turn by forces he doesn't understand, Tucker will do what he does best - come out fighting...
13) Death trail
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Ardal Maloney, his wife Kate, and their two children have left Ireland to seek out a new life in the West. Leaving behind them starvation, poverty, and death, they came to the New World to start afresh. But travelling in a wagon train is a risky business. When sickness strikes and wagons must be segregated, the danger is increased - and Clem Watkins and his gang are ready to take ruthless advantage...
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Matt Brogan, wrongly imprisoned for the murder of his wife and son, escapes to go in search of the real killers whose evidence brought about his conviction. In the remote town of Alvorado, a hideaway for outlaws on the run and the power base of the McLagan family, Brogan links up with lawman Jed Harding and the pair set out to rid the territory of the rule of fear. When hot-headed Roy McLagan sets out to burn the farmers from their homes, Brogan and...
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The Crowood Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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It has become known as the Stone Creek Valley war, and for a time the land ran red with the blood of innocents and killers alike. In the middle of it all stands a young man, Chad Hunter, against the murderous bunch called the Committee, trying to halt their takeover of his once peaceful home. The Committee are the four biggest ranchers in the area, and to help them achieve what they want, they hire Slade Johnson and his cohorts to deal with those...
16) Gunn's avengers
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Searching for his estranged sister who is homesteading in Dakota, Scottish clergyman Guthrie Gunn is bushwhacked, and subsequently discovers that the same outlaws had previously killed all but one of his living relatives. Rescued by the Lakota, he finds his nephew living among them. Finding new faith after undergoing a Vision Quest, which shows him that his destiny is to seek out the villain, he embarks on a search for the wrongdoers, preaching his...
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The Crowood Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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While passing through Cherrywood Crossing, US Marshal Maxfield Knight is confronted by a gang of hired guns who tell him to ride the other way, or be shot down. With no choice but to ride into the high country, Knight soon learns he is being hunted by a man named Silas Manchester, but why, he has no idea. Determined to survive this dangerous game that he's been forced to play, Knight is destined to become the hunter rather than the hunted. Aided by...
18) Healer man
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The Crowood Press
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2019.
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"Don Manor is injured and grieving when he meets Callum McGeachin, the small Scotsman with an impish grin and a warm heart. Callum helps him to recover, and Don grows close to his new friend, even though there is something uncanny about him. Callum has a gift for healing, and a power that others can sense. The two drift a while through Colorado, until they meet a widow with a sick child, a run-down ranch, and neighbors who want her land. They decide...
19) Hellraiser!
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United States Deputy Marshal Josh Ford has been banished to Texas - a state he hates, overrun as it is with outlaws and desperados. Marshal Walton Grimes dispatches him to arrest Hiram Dent, wanted for shooting a sheriff. It'll be a rough job. The Dent family controls the town, and two marshals have already died attempting to bring Hiram to justice. The body of the last one was sent back wrapped in barbed wire and tied to a horse...
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The Crowood Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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"Brockie Jack and Big Len Quinn rob a stage coach and make off with a heap of gold only to have it stolen from them hours later. Jack scorches a trail across Montana trying to recover his lost gold. Town Marshal Matt Buck goes toe to toe with him. In this story of greed and treachery, Buck's world is turned upside down when Brockie snatches his son. Buck must find the gold and return it to Jack in exchange for his son's life"--Publisher.