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The undertaker practices the Dismal Trade with consummate skill. He has raised it to an art through the high craft of the Connable Method. He has transformed the ugliness of death into a thing of dignity and beauty. Victims brutalized by war, street fights, fires - every hazard in a raw West - in his hands, become presentable. Everywhere on the frontier he offers his skill: to the rich of San Francisco, to Kansas cowboys, outlaws, soldiers, and sheriffs....
49) Blood valley
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Lawmen don't last long in the town of Doubtful, Wyoming Territory. The last one quit, another ended up in a noose, and one more was backshot by hired guns. But Doubtful has never seen the likes of the man known only as Cotton, who aims to take the badge for $125 a month, save himself a nice chunk of money over the next year, and be on his way. At least, that's his plan. Problem is, Cotton has just stuck his nose in the biggest hornet's nest in the...
54) Big Ike
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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Always running against the odds, Big Ike finds himself leading a wagon train through hostile Apache territory to establish a freight line in Arizona. With a gentle nun on one side and a reformed prostitute on the other, Big Ike faces the greatest odds of his life with a notorious gunman on his trail.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007
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Cray Dawson is en route to Black's Cut in Montana to stake his claim when he learns his old friend Fast Larry Shaw faked his death to escape his notoriety as a gunfighter. But Dawson discovers that his own prowess with firearms haunts him too.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007
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When Jake Harper is strung up for rustling, his sons figure his death to be a frameup; armed with a hatful of hunches, young Pat Harper dangles his neck in front of the town of Adobe Wells, the entire Circle B ranch, and the whole Bradley cow country empire.
58) The lawman
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2007
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After Jack Slade's twin brother is murdered by a ruthless cattle baron, he becomes a U.S. Marshall in order to bring the killer to justice. But Jack's thirst for revenge may take precedence over the law.
59) Pecos crossing
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Johnny Fristo and Speck Quitman, young, hard-working cowboys from Fort Concho, Texas, have worked six months--at $20 a month--on the Devil's River. Their boss, a hawk-faced cow trader named Larramore, reneges on the money he owes the boys and sneaks out of the cow camp and heads for San Angelo.
Fristo is tall and thin, his mind a hundred miles away; Quitman is short, bandy-legged, and "bedazzled by the flash of cards and the slosh of whiskey." The...
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Thorndike Press
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2007
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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...