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A New York Times Notable Book. Hang on to your ten gallon hats--Clyde Edgerton has taken his eye for detail, his ear for humor, and his nose for the odor of religious hypocrisy to the Wild West. In REDEYE, he leads us back to turn-of-the-century Colorado, where a motley crew of innocents and scoundrels, visionaries and vultures, tells us How the West Was Made Safe for Free Enterprise. "A Hollywood pitchman might call REDEYE Eudora Welty meets Mark...
2) Remembered
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Fountain Creek chronicles volume 3
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The threat of war--and a final request--send Véronique Girard from France to a distant and uninviting country. In the Colorado Territory, she searches for the man who has held her heart since childhood--her father. Pierre Girard left Paris for the Americas to seek his fortune in fur trading, vowing to send for his wife and daughter. But twenty-five years have passed and his vow remains unfulfilled. Sifting through shards of broken promises, Véronique...
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Rocky Mountain legacy volume 4
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English
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Book 4 of the Rocky Mountain Legacy series.
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A woman's life on the Colorado frontier, told by Mattie McCauley, a homestead bride. She describes the hardships--weather, childbirth, Indians--how she saved Luke, her husband with some fast shooting and how she was betrayed by him when Luke's old flame, Persia came to town. Yet she remains by his side for the sake of the family and the children. By the author of The Persian Pickle Club.
5) Boulder Dam
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Gangsters threaten to blow up the dam, and Lynn Weston must stop them.
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Determined to find his nineteen-year-old uncle and best friend, Jesse, who left for Colorado to find enough gold to pay the mortgage and save the family's Iowa farm, twelve-year-old Early Whittcomb joins up with a barber, his wife, and his daughter on a wagon train heading for the gold fields near Pike's Peak in 1858.
9) Colorado!
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Wagons West. Main series volume 7
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English
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Denver! Braving the Rockies and the untamed wilderness, they came to the wild frontier town and watched it explode into a city of fabulous instant wealth. Some were desperate men and women fleeing the mounting turbulence in the East, others were adventurers forsaking the played-out dreams of the California gold fields. They were lured by the most powerful promise of all--bonanza!
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2008
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In the Colorado Territory in 1875, orphan Margret and her older sister Libby are staying with the kind-hearted Mrs. Fredrickson when Margret finds an injured horse which she nurses back to health and wants to keep, while Libby is too mistrustful of people to think that they might possibly have found a home.
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Pocket Books
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1997,c1995
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English
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When they are left with relatives while their father goes prospecting for gold in the Colorado mountains, ten-year-old Hattie and her older brother depend on their friendship with a recluse who lives nearby to make their lives bearable.
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Code of the west (Stephen Bly) volume 2
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Crossway Books
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English
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Tap Andrews is fed up with his past. And he's sick and tired of having to fight off every gun-toting bounty hunter who wants to make some quick cash by dragging him back to Arizona. He's innocent. He knows it. Pepper believes it. All he has to do is prove it. But Pepper Paige isn't about to sit around doing nothing and let her husband-to-be go off to set things right without her. She's determined to follow him anywhere - until she hears where he's...
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Smoke Jensen novel of the west volume 3
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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"Set in the early days of the Jensen family saga, this gunblazing adventure follows Smoke and Sally from their first year of marriage to the founding of the legendary Sugarloaf Ranch."--