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1) Desert Gold
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"A border town like Casita is no place for a drifter - especially a rich man's son looking for adventure. From the moment Dick Gale steps into this stinking, sun-baked hellhole of gambling and corruption, revolution, and revenge, he gets more than a bargained for. His old friend Thorne is in love with a beautiful senorita who's been targeted by the Mexican rebel Rojas. A bold, sneering devil of a man, feared, envied, and idolized by his people, Rojas...
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Originally published in 1925, in THE DEER STALKER, Zane Grey readers will find all they have come to expect from their favorite Western author-swift action, magnificent descriptions of the desert and canyon country, plus the added valiant effort of a ranger's struggle to save the doomed herd of deer on the Buckskin range. Zane Grey makes the reader see this colorful Arizona country, makes him feel something of the awe that is the inevitable reaction...
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It tells the story of a cold hearted man named Jack Kells who falls in love with Miss Joan Randle, a girl his legion has taken captive near the Idaho border. The Border Legion was adapted to film, in 1918, 1924, 1930, and in 1940. The film The Last Round-Up (1934) starring Randolph Scott, was also based on the novel.
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Two brothers choose different paths in the Ohio wilderness in this epic, classic Western inspired by history and written by an American icon.
They Came From A Settled Land—To A Place Of Beauty, Blood And War...
Jim and Joe Downs came from Virginia—one led by the call of God, the other by a thirst for adventure. In the Ohio River Valley, the handsome young preacher and his rogue and charming brother entered a storm
7) Nevada
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Alone again! Just like his orphaned boyhood. Those are Nevada's thoughts as he turns from the only home and happiness he has ever known. But it had all been a lie, at least on his part. He had been hiding his true identity from his best friend, Ben, and the woman he loved, Hettie. They knew him as Nevada, a man they care for and respected, when in truth he was a wandering fugitive gunman, notorious from Nevada clear to Tombstone, Arizona. And now...
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Zane Grey first presented this brilliant story of the West in a much shorter form as a magazine serial in 1914. Readers were thrilled and greeted it as another masterpiece from one of the West's greatest storytellers. The manuscript would suffer at the hands of Grey's book publishers, however. They took the second half of the story, deleted characters, changed the hero's name, and pasted it with the first half of another Grey manuscript to produce...
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Robbers' Roost is the perfect hideout - a box canyon in no-man's land. But the Heeseman mob trails the Hays gang to The Roost and pins them under a murderous crossfire. Only one man and a kidnapped woman, the sister of a rich English rancher, survive, as well as a fortune of hard cash.
10) The dude ranger
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Upon the death of his uncle, tenderfoot Easterner Ernest Selby takes over his uncle's Arizona ranch and has to quickly learn how to be a rancher, a law-enforcer, and a cowboy.
12) The westerners
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Isis
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2015.
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Texas Ranger Vaughn Medill is tired of the ranger game, worn down by a life spent eternally on his guard, and grappling with his impossible love for the roguish coquette Roseta Uvalde. When she disappears one morning, it's Medill's task to track her down...Lightning, a rogue wild horse, is causing havoc for Utah ranchers: invading their grazing spots, he fights and kills their stallions, and leads off the other horses to freedom. With a price of five...