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"It is 1865. Jesse Wilder has survived the horrors of Shiloh, the hell of a Yankee prison camp, and the shame of volunteering for the Union army of the West - the only way to escape certain death in the camp. Now the war is over and he has come home to Tennessee. But the word of his "treachery" has preceded him and Jesse finds himself shunned by his neighbors, and worse, disinherited by his late father. Like so many disillusioned survivors of the...
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"Dude McQuinn is at it one more time. He's got himself one hell of a horse. A real flyer named Judge Blair. Better than that, he's got the smoothest snake-oil salesman in the country, Billy Lockhart, as his trainer; and he's got his old Comanche pal, Coyote Walking, as his jockey. Best of all, he's got a sucker. A feller willing to lay two to one that Judge Blair will finish second in a two-horse race. Race day comes, Judge Blair wins by daylight,...
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While trying to find new challengers for the horse he had won in a poker game, Dude McQueen and his sidekicks--Coyote Walking, the Eastern-educated Comanche jockey, and Uncle Billy, the talented horse doctor and trainer--come across dangerous information about their horse's bloodlines.
7) Warrior road
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Boon Terrell asked too many questions about the death of his friend Acey Standing Elk and soon he, too, was a target in a sinister conspiracy to cheat the Osage Indians out of their share of the royalties from the oil found on their reservation.
9) War journey
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Center Point Large Print
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2016.
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"A young artist travels West to paint the Indians in their primitive state, but gets a lot closer than he intended when he is captured and held as a slave"--
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Center Point Large Print
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2019.
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"There were few horse breeders in the West to equal Lee Banner: the man was a born horseman who took any job he could find to keep his small Oklahoma spread going and to help him fulfill his lifelong dream of seeing one of his two-year-olds in the All-American Winners Circle. A few years back Banner was certain he had a winner in Land Rush; then in mid-season the black stallion went down in a three-horse tangle on a muddy track. It had been a costly,...
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Jesse Wilder was a man who had seen more than his share of violence. A former captain in the Army of Tennessee, he was inducted into the Union army as a "galvanized Yankee" after the battle of Shiloh. After the war he headed to Mexico to fight with the Juaristas against Emperor Maximilian. That cost him the life of his wife and his unborn child. All he wanted then was peace. But instead he was offered a position as a scout on a highly secret mission...
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Center Point Pub
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c2004
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Jesse Alden Wilder is a "galvanized" Yankee: a Confederate prisoner who accepted an offer to fight Indians rather than remain in prison. After the war, he has adventures rescuing Apache captives in Arizona and fighting night riders in Tennessee.
17) Phantom warrior
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Center Point Large Print
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2020.
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"After Victorio's death, the Southwest had simmered down. Without their chief, the Warm Springs Apaches abandoned the murderous campaign against the blancos and the Mexicans who had invaded their tribal lands, and serenity had returned to the arid territory. But bitter memories lingered. Lieutenant Ewing Mackay was glad of the respite. During his seven-year tour of duty in Arizona Territory he had come to love the desert's austere beauty, the stark...