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Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Martha Pemberton was the beautiful, impetuous daughter of a San Francisco shipbuilding tycoon. She longed for excitement and adventure, all the things denied a "lady" in 1872. After a stormy affair with one seafaring man she married another, Captain Peter Dyke, who took her away to a South Seas honeymoon. Befriended by natives after her husband was killed by pirates, Martha eventually made her way back to California, with her lust for life undiminished....
11) Gold wagon
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When a shot reverberated across the canyon, Jim Steel hit the ground with his six-gun drawn; from the ridge Jim could see sharpshooting killers who were picking off one by one every man in a wagon escort.
19) Wade's war
Author
Series
Publisher
Linford
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
It's 1865 and the Civil War is ending. On their small Missouri farm outlaws murder Wade Tretter's parents. Fourteen-year-old Wade sells the few cattle remaining and heads west to find the killers. After killing two of them in an act of retribution, Wade finds the last two men posing as model citizens in a small Kansas town. How can he beat the odds and bring these powerful men to justice without hurting their new families?