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"He’s the most notorious cattle rustler in all of Texas. His name--Jebediah Cotton--strikes fear into the hearts of every rancher in the territory. So it’s more than a little strange that someone would shoot Cotton’s youngest son in the back. Whoever did it is either a coward, a fool, or a crazy man. Whoever did it must die. Even if he’s a U.S. deputy marshal named Will Tanner...So begins not one, but two of the deadliest manhunts in frontier...
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When Samuel Cross was growing up, he was rarely found without a book in his hands and that was the way his mother, a widow, wanted him raised. His uncle, Stephen Larkin, a frontiersman like Sam's father, wanted him to be strong and able to fend for himself, so he would take him into the mountains every summer to teach him how to fight and use a weapon. He proved to be as adept at these subjects as he had been at book learning, but when he was eighteen...
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In the 1950s, West Texas suffered the longest drought in the memory of most men then living. By that time, Charlie Flagg, the central character of this novel, was one of a dying breed of men who wrested their living from the harsh land of West Texas. The struggle made them fiercely independent, a trait personified in Charlie’s persistence throughout the seven dry years, his refusal to accept defeat, his opposition to federal aid programs and their...
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"The novel follows the Cecil family's arduous journey by riverboat and wagon from Boone's Lick, Missouri, to Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming. Fifteen-year-old Shay narrates, describing the journey that begins when his Ma, Mary Margaret, decides to hunt down her elusive husband, Dick, to tell him she's leaving him. Without knowing precisely where he is, they set out across the plains in search of him, encountering grizzly bears, stormy weather, and hostile...
5) Flint
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Rich beyond belief and despised by many, Flint comes home to die of cancer with no one at his side, until Nancy Kerrigan, a local rancher, needs his help in saving her ranch, and only Flint has the resources and skills to help her before his time runs out.
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Sam Houston is a living legend in 1861. The hero of the Battle of San Jacinto, he had defeated Santa Anna to win independence for Texas back in 1836. He had twice served as president of the Republic of Texas, helped Texas join the Union, and served as senator and governor of Texas. Before settling in Texas, he had been a hero of the Creek War and governor of Tennessee. He had been friends with Andrew Jackson and Davy Crockett, and had been adopted...
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Thorndike Press
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2000
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Born mary Katherine Horony in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, she had socialized with Europe's royalty. But inthe American West she was known by other names: Kate Fisher, Kate Elder, Mary may and perhaps the most famous of all, Big Nose Kate. Doc Holliday might have been the only man she truly loved, and Kate was the woman in Doc Holliday's life.
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Center Point Large Print
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"The railroad hires a land agent to sell its land to farmers and help them settle around Olanthe, Texas. But the townspeople know that it will mean an end to the profitable trail drives that give the town a boost each year. When the trail herds start to show up, the anticipated violence erupts."--
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"A Wells Fargo special agent and a bounty hunter cross paths as they both track the Sonora Kid after the theft of ninety thousand dollars from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The Kid plans to use the money to buy guns for Mexican revolutionaries"--