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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.
2) 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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House of Winslow volume 17
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His Was a Blinding Ambition for Riches, and He Was Serena's Only Hope of Escape.Late in 1896, Cassidy Winslow leaves his family's ranch in Wyoming to pursue his own fortunes but is hardly prepared for life in New York. He hates his job and tires of city life, but falls in love with a rich young woman who treats him like an interesting toy. She finally breaks his heart, and Cass heads for the West Coast with the determination that he'll do anything...
4) Lando
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"For six long years Orlando Sackett survived the horrors of a brutal Mexican prison. He survived by using his skills as a boxer and by making three vows. The first was to exact revenge on the hired killers who framed him. The second was to return to his father. And the third was to find Gin Locklear. But the world has changed a lot since Lando left it. His father is missing. The woman he loves is married. And the killers want him dead. Hardened physically...
5) Patience
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Patience Smith only intends to wear Lenore's wedding dress for a few minutes, but when a kidnapper snatches Patience away in a case of mistaken identity, she finds herself lost in the mountains of Colorado. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she escapes her kidnapper and stumbles onto an abandoned mining dugout and a lonely orphan. Patience has found herself a gold mine! Now if she can just get Denver City sheriff Jay Longer to help, she can mine...
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"Her heart seeks safety. But will trouble find her even here? After her sister's marriage, Michelle Stiles is left hiding at Two Harts Ranch with the handsome but stubborn Zane Hart. She's managed to stay one step ahead of her stepfather and his devious plans, but if he finds her, she will no longer be safe.Zane has problems of his own. Having discovered a gold mine on his property, he must figure out how to harvest it without kicking off a gold rush....
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Sundown Riders volume 6
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Arlo Wells and Dallas Holt are two ex-cowpunchers who've hit a patch of bad luck - until a dying friend tells them of a lost gold mine. They jump at the chance to get the fortune. But Arlo and Dallas aren't the only ones who know about the mine - and their streak of bad luck is about to turn into a fight for survival ...
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"For thousands of years the lonely canyon knew only wind and rain, wild animals, and an occasional native hunter. Then a trapper found a chunk of gold, and everything changed overnight. In six days a town called Confusion appeared . . . and on the seventh it could disappear, consumed by the flames of lawlessness and violence. On one side are those who understand only brute force. On the other are men who want law and order but are ready to use a noose...
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Rafter Crossing's cattlemen swore they would close the mines that were poisoning the range, and the miners were stealing the high-grade ore that rightfully belonged to Laine Tennison. Laine hired Mike Shevlin to get her ore back, but Shevlin had an old debt he wanted to pay in lead--not gold.
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A fall wiped away his memory and all he knew for certain was that someone wanted him dead, and that he had better learn why. But everywhere he turned there seemed to be more questions or people too willing to hide the truth. He had only the name he had been told was his own, his mysterious skill with a gun, and a link to a half million dollars' worth of buried gold as evidence of his past life. If he didn't unlock the secret of his past, he wasn't...
11) Taggart
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Adam Stark had found gold. In the confusion of the mesas and canyons near Rockinstraw Mountain, Stark, his wife, Consuelo, and his sister, Miriam, were quietly working a rich vein while keeping their presence a secret from raiding Apaches. Worried that his wife might leave him, Stark wanted to make enough money to take her to San Francisco, where she could enjoy the style of life she craved. When Taggart, a stranger on the run from a vicious bounty...
12) California!
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Wagons West. Main series volume 6
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During the 1848 Gold Rush, a former Texas Ranger, an Eastern attorney, and a crippled war veteran and his wife are among the pioneers whose values and courage are tested in the quest for gold and the struggle to create a new life.
14) Blackwater Creek
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Kingfisher
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2005
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Erika and her family moved from Hungary to California in search of gold, but in 1849, when they have trouble paying their rent, Erica goes to work tending horses for their landlord and forms a bond with one of her charges.
15) White Fang
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Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
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c2006
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When a teenage boy is torn from his friends and city surroundings by his family's move to the country, he's convinced his life is at an end. In fact, it is a new beginning. For there he is befriended by a wild but magnificent dog, a wolf-husky mix named White Fang. As the boy helps the dog regain his trust in man, the dog rewards him with uncompromising loyalty, devotion and bravery. Soon inseparable, the two share exciting adventures as the boy adapts...