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Jane Witherspoon has a vast inheritance left to her by her Mormon father. Knowing she is romantically involved with a Gentile, Elder Tull has published his claim to make her his wife and obtain her inheritance. Just as Elder Tull and a group of Mormons are about to whip the Gentile and banish him from Mormon Utah, the notorious gunman--and enemy of the Mormons--known as Lassiter rides in and intervenes. The Mormons initiate their punishment on Jane...
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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"In the law of the gun, a man must shoot his way to innocence. At least that's how Captain McKelly of the Texas Rangers puts it to Buck Duane. On the run for killing a man to save his own skin, Duane must now infiltrate the deadly Chelsedine gang. These ruthless rustlers are running amok in Texas and it's going to take a matchless gunfighter to stop their rampage. With the legendary Rangers providing firepower, Duane has more than a fighting chance....
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Dan Sheridan, Vietnam veteran and writer of Westerns and history, had come to Arizona to research the Toomey brothers, who had vanished there 90 years earlier with 4,000 head of cattle and 27 hands. He was about to give up and go home when someone was killed. Then someone tried to kill him, which, naturally, got his attention and riled his curiosity. Now he wouldn't go until he found the truth ...
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"Is Frayne an outlaw?" Holly Ripple asked. "Miss Holly, it takes bad men to cope with bad men on this frontier. If you could hire him, he'd be a whole outfit in himself. Course, a lady like you wouldn't have Frayne's sort around your ranch." ... "Wouldn't I?" When her father dies, sheltered young Holly Ripple gains possession of his vast cattle empire, plagued by rustlers and desperadoes. But she stands firm and soon has earned the reputation of a...
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Aaron Mills had loved Sadie Anne for as long he could remember. But fate always kept them apart, and even Sadie Anne herself said they must part forever. The night she ran away, the murders began. Aaron knows he's the only one who can clear her name. But that won't be easy in a seething frontier town full of barely tamed men. It's a place people go when they don't want to be found, a place where the law has no hold...
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A PRIZED COLLECTION OF AMERICAN FICTION—FROM AMERICA’S FAVORITE STORYTELLER
This first-rate collection of short stories by the incomparable Louis L’Amour showcases the legendary writer at his very best: spinning a fascinating and wholly authentic set of unforgettable tales. In these extraordinary stories, we meet a man who is forced to defend himself by taking another’s life—and must pay for his...
This first-rate collection of short stories by the incomparable Louis L’Amour showcases the legendary writer at his very best: spinning a fascinating and wholly authentic set of unforgettable tales. In these extraordinary stories, we meet a man who is forced to defend himself by taking another’s life—and must pay for his...
9) Epitaph
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"Two men dressed as Confederate agents enlist Texas sheriff Thomas Littleton in their plan to pull off a secret arms deal, but the sheriff winds up dead and his grandson, Hank, heads south of the border in search of vengeance." --
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Jeston Nash bears a striking resemblance to his cousin, Jesse James of Missouri. After killing a Yankee soldier in self-defense, Jeston joins cousins Jesse and Frank to fight in Quantrill's guerilla forces. Later, he rides with the gang as they invent their special brand of bank and train robbery. All the while, Jeston seeks vengeance against Daniel Zanone of the Free Kansas Militia -- the man responsible for the death of his child. Ralph Cotton gives...
11) Judgment day
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"The railhead has moved on, and in its wake civilization has finally come within spitting distance of Wind River. But not everybody is glad to see it coming. For saloon owner Hank Parker, it seems like civilization wants to run him out of business. For pretty widow Simone McKay, it means elections where she can consolidate her stranglehold on local power. Caught in the middle are Marshal Cole Tyler and his deputy Billy Casebolt, sworn to keep the...
12) Medicine Creek
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Things don't stay peaceful for long in Wind River as rival cattlemen face off against each other -- and the mysterious powers of Medicine Creek. Tensions are running high when Deputy Billy Casebolt is cured of a mysterious fever by the mystical stream. But when cattle start disappearing and bullets start flying, the shocking truth behind the rustlers and the legend of Medicine Creek surface at last.
13) Big Horn legacy
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It is 1850 in St. Louis, and Abriel Catton receives the last will and testament of his father, Web catton, an enigmatic mountain man. Among the papers are instructions the Ab must reassemble his family: brother and sisters he can barely remember, that separated after the death of his mother. Together they will search for Will Catton's legacy, all the while pursued by Braxton Bragg and his desire for revenge and gold. Also in pursuit of the Cattons...
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Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves weren't lookin' for trouble when they rode into the little slap-up gold mining town of Jordanville high in the Colorado Rockies. All they wanted was some hot vittles and somethin' cold to wash 'em down. Buat when they saw an unarmed man getting' beat with a bullwhip, their sense of honor and fair play wouldn't let them pass thorugh without lendin' a hand. Years before when they were boys, Matt and Sam were bonded by...
16) Shower of gold
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When Richard arrived in the border town of Casita, he didn't realize it was a tinderbox waiting to explode. There's a revolution in Mexico, American troops stationed on the border, with bandits and renegades in town. And things only get worse when he promises to help protect the daughter of a murdered Spanish aristocrat.
17) Wolf lawman
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Genesis was a peaceful place that was prospering. John Fontana, a capable marshal, had no trouble preventing lawlessness until a strange, unkempt group of men rode into town - and one of them was in fact Fontana's own brother. After the killing, raping, and plundering, Genesis was peaceful no more. The men rode out of town, but there was no doubt that revenge had to be taken for all the men who had died and all the women who had suffered.
18) Long ride home
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Theo Belk is the quintessential gunfighter: rootless, ruthless, and deadly. In the fierce and lawless Western frontier of 1874 these traits were what was needed to stay alive. Haunted by the ghosts of the men he's killed, there is one man he has set out to destroy... Louis Gasceaux, the man who murdered his parents while a younger Theo watched. But the trail Theo's following is long and bloody... and Louis always seems to stay a few steps ahead. This...
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Three related short novels tell the legend of Robert Fernald, raised by his uncle with endless tales about the great days of the Wild West and his escapades with Wild Bill. Having finished college, Robert is back in the West ready to pursue exploits like those he grew up hearing about.
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The story is told through the diary of Smith Munro, a young boy living and working with his father at a stagecoach station in New Mexico territory. Even in a place where there's nothing but "wind and dust," the Civil War has the power to shape lives and tear apart families.