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In this collection of five short novels, each story follows a succinct pulp formula: accurate historical detail, concise and clever plots, subtle suspense, strong male and female characters, powerful macho conflict, chaste romance, and plenty of graphic, bloody gunplay and knife fights. In “Murder Stalks the Fur Trails,” a cheating Wyoming fur trader tries to stop a party of free trappers from going independent, with a double-cross, ambush, and...
5) Rails west
Author
Publisher
Sagebrush Large Print Westerns
Pub. Date
[1999], �1994
Language
English
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Two western stories: 'Silver Shells for General Kearney' takes place early in the Mexican War when a hunter bringing his furs to Santa Fe is mistaken for a courier transporting silver. Building a bridge over 'Satan's Keyhole' is Glenn Anders' opportunity to restore his reputation during the California Gold Rush, but the project seems doomed to fail"--
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Language
English
Description
Gunstorm Ghost: A gunslinger fights to be able to hang up his guns for good.
Outlaws of the Brasada: conditions are so harsh in Texas after the Civil War and with Reconstructionists imposing even harsher restrictions, Emery Bandine is desperate to protect his motherless children and gather a stake to get them out of poverty no matter what he has to do.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Two western stories. 'The No-Gun Marshal' in which the marshal must face a gunman, but the marshal's hand is injured and cannot hold a gun. In 'Wind River' Frank Ives has been running from Jack Border for a year and is finally forced to confront him"--
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Three short stories in which a US Marshall pursues a murder suspect near the Mexican border, an American agent tries to diffuse a conflict over the US/Canadian border, and a Scotsman tries to escape a curse as a trapper in the land of the Dakotas"--
16) The last ride
Author
Publisher
Thorpe, Sagebrush
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Pothook Marrs, day cook at the Cowman's Rest, has been hiding out from the law for years. Then one of his old pursuers turns up in town...
20) West of Laramie
Author
Publisher
Leisure Books
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Language
English
Description
Scott Walker returned home to Missouri from his stay in a Confederate hospital only to find his home burned by Quantrill's raiders, and the family relocated to Wyoming. But his long trek to be reunited with his kin was only the beginning of his troubles. When he reached Laramie he found his sweetheart married to his older brother, and his father embroiled in a bloody battle with a deputy surveyor for the railroad. Has Scott survived the war only to...