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The last gunfighter series volume 14
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The Greatest Western Writers Of The 21st Century.
National bestselling author William W. Johnstone is the premier chronicler of the glory days of the brutal American West-and Frank Morgan, the Last Gunfighter, is one of his greatest sharpshooting legends . . .
Every Body Deserves A Bullet.
In the Mongollon Rim country of Arizona, Frank Morgan walked into a blood feud between two powerful cattle barons. When the shooting stopped and the smoke...
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Lonesome Dove saga volume 1
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Chronicles a cattle drive in the nineteenth century from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive, Gus's woman, Lorena, and Blue Duck, a sinister Indian renegade.
The drive is a risk, sure, but it's a part of the American Dream, a chance to carve a new life out of the last remaining wilderness.
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First mountain man series volume 12
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Preacher is hired to lead a Mexican brother and sister across the deadly Sangre de Cristo mountains to reclaim their family fortune of gold and silver, a job that plunges him into a web of betrayal, greed, and mystery where treasure hunters dodge his every move.
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Paint family novels volume 1
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Follows the fortunes of Ebenezer Paint and his descendants -- rough and tough individuals who are caught up in Civil War river battles, epic cattle drives through drought and blizzards, the horrors of Wounded Knee, the desperation of the dust bowl, and the prosperity of the roaring 1920s.
8) Bowie's mine
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Buckalew family volume 3
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Daniel Provost is the son of a farmer. Living up to his father's high standards for the farm is very hard work, but his life is basically comfortable and a loving woman is waiting to become his wife. But when a well-traveled stranger, bearing a story of Jim Bowie's legendary silver mine, appears at the farm, Daniel might just throw away everything for the chance at adventure he thought had passed him by.
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Shawn O'Brien series volume 3
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Shawn O'Brien looks for a missing boy in the Abaddon Cannon Foundry who employs men as slaves.
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Last Mountain Man series volume 17
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In the wake of an uprising in Muddy Gap, Wyoming, by the marauding Grubbs gang, Smoke Jensen visits the town and then flees for his life, with the Grubbs in hot pursuit, unwittingly leading them straight into Cheyenne territory.
11) The lawless
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The Kerrigans volume 2
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Kate Kerrigan has seen the blood-soaked face of war. But nothing has prepared her for the assault on her land that begins with an eviction order hammered onto the door of her family's cabin. Beautiful, cold-blooded Savannah Saint James has her sights set on the Kerrigan property--and twelve of the deadliest hired guns in Texas are ready to back her play. Kate has her sons by her side, a ragtag group of ranchers who don't like outsiders messing with...
12) Hell's half acre
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Jess Casey inherits the sheriff badge of the deadliest area of Fort Worth, "Hell's Half Acre." He must combat Kurt Koenig and his gang, who thinks the only good lawman is a dead one.
13) My Ántonia
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A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with a pioneer Bohemian girl. A novel set in Nebraska about pioneering Bohemian farmers & of the courageous heroine, Antonia. First published in 1918. In Willa Cather's own estimation, My Antonia, first published in 1918, was "the best thing I've ever done." An enduring paperback bestseller on Houghton Mifflin's literary list, this hauntingly eloquent classic now boasts a new...
14) Never never
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Detective Harriet Blue volume 1
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Detective Harriet Blue of the Sydney Police Department prides herself on an uncanny ability to catch the most deviant of criminals. So when her brother is charged with a brutal string of murders, it rocks her world. Shocked, in denial, and facing uncomfortable questions about how much she knew, Harry is transferred to avoid the media circus. Investigating the disappearance of a worker in an isolated mine deep inside the desolate Australian outback...
15) Pride of eagles
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Proud Enough to die The MacCallister clan has traveled far and wide, but one has traveled harder than Falcon MacCallister. Hired by a wealthy cattle baron, Falcon sets out from San Francisco for the town of Laramie with a magnificent Arabian horse in tow and rides into a storm of treachery and murder. But revenge is even sweeter Already stalked by a vengeance crazed Yuma prison escapee, Falcon is distracted by two beautiful women a seductress with...
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On November 7, 1908 in the town of San Vicente, Butch Cassidy was killed in a bloody shootout with the Bolivian army. Or was he? In a small Texas town in 1950, a Pinkerton detective interrupts and old- timer's daily game of dominos to learn the truth about Butch Cassidy-- who is alive and well and sitting right in front of him. So begins a novel about the West's most legendary outlaw, as told by America's master storytellers.
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Only his thirst for blood equals his lust for wealth and power. In his vicious seizure of the coveted land around Taos, high among the Rocky Mountains in the New Mexico Territory, plenty of innocent blood will be spilled. Robber Baron Clifton Satterlee's plan is twofold and simple: to wrest the timber-thick hills from the Tua Pueblo and then populate the town with his own labor force.
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The Ryder volume 1
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Joshua Ryder is an orphaned young man raised by an old ex-cowboy. After his guardian's death, Josh is hired to help drive a herd of longhorns from Texas to the cattle markets in Kansas. Along the way he falls in love with a ranchers daughter, but feels he must leave to bring his mother's murderer to justice. Who would lay bets on an eighteen-year-old going up against a seasoned, ruthless killer?
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The Ryder volume 2
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Joshua Ryder, an orphaned young man, has decided to head further west from Montana in the spring to settle near the Pacific Ocean and live in solitude with just his books and his horses for company. But a Nez Perce woman and her baby, an old washerwoman, a little girl of Chinese and white blood, and a young woman with red curls all begin to complicate his life. If he runs far enough and fast enough he can probably shake the law. If he stays and tries...
20) 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.