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Careful What You Bet
In Salt Springs, on the Fourth of July, a young man took a bet--and ended up broken, battered and fighting for his life. . .But Billy Piper didn't die. He just came back to haunt Salt Springs--with all the book learning he did during his convalescence, with all the love he had for a whore, with all the friendship he shared with an old cowboy who couldn't help see the difference between right and wrong. . .
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2) Hot metal
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After spending an unknown number of days caged, chained, and tortured by men wearing hoods in the darkness of a root cellar who insist he robbed a bank and killed several women, twenty-five-year-old Ben Hawthorne is rescued by four men who take him to Arch Locklin's ranch to claim the forty thousand dollar reward for finding his son Seth who has been missing for five years. Everyone recognizes Ben as Seth, but his scrambled memories say he's Ben...
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For a young man of seventeen, Wilkie John Liquorish has lived one sorry life. From his ill-fated stint in the U.S. Army to a back-breaking job as a gravedigger, Wilkie just can’t seem to catch a break. His latest gig—working a cattle drive from Mobeetie, Texas, to Fort Worth—is no exception. The food-poisoning death of a chuckwagon cook has everyone spooked, and the fear spreads like a disease. Wilkie barely makes it out alive. But when he shows...
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When Buck Nation rides into Gunsight, he little knows what trouble awaits him. He has inherited the dilapidated Forty-Five ranch - but did its former owners really die in an accident? Questions mount, and Buck is bushwhacked. Is Selby Rackham, former cowhand at the Forty-Five and now the owner of the biggest spread around, somehow involved? With a woman, an old-timer and a scruffy dog as his allies, Buck is determined to smoke out the truth, whatever...
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"After finding himself inside a coffin on the way to Boot Hill, Clay Tulane wants answers. Whilst local townsfolk Miss Winona and the boy Pocket help him piece together the story of how he got there, Tulane finds himself drawn into a violent struggle against local landowner Marsden Rockwell and his Bar Nothing outfit, who want to take over the neighbouring Bar L. As tension mounts, the search for the truth throws up many more questions ..."--Publisher's...
7) Doc: a novel
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Born to the life of a Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday arrives on the Texas frontier hoping that the dry air and sunshine of the West will restore him to health. Soon, with few job prospects, Doc Holliday is gambling professionally with his partner, Maria Katarina Harony, a high-strung, classically educated Hungarian whore. In search of high-stakes poker, the couple hits the saloons of Dodge City. And that is where the unlikely friendship...
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Berrybender narratives volume 3
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Raising her young son, Monty, Tasmin Berrybender hopes to turn him into an English gentleman despite his life on the trail toward Santa Fe, an endeavor that is compromised by painful occurrences in the lives of Tasmin's husband and father.
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Sent by his father to live with family in the West, Alfred Larribee is lazy and shiftless, spending most of his time in town drinking, gambling and cheating at cards. But that all changes with the appearance of Sky Blue, a magnificent stallion that has never been ridden. His owner hopes to find a cowboy who can ride Sky Blue, but the first one to try is seriously injured. After that, no one is willing to volunteer again ... except Larribee.
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1914: The sudden death of the town marshal leaves Blue River, Texas, without a lawman, and Dara Rose Nolan without a husband or income, until Clay McKettrick comes to town. While they say "I do" to a marriage of convenience, the temporary lawman's Christmas wish is to make Dara Rose his permanent wife.
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"Seventeen-year-old Silver King dreams of becoming a working cowboy. His mother, however, has pushed him to be a baseball player--and King certainly has the arm to be a star pitcher. When the National League forms a team in Kansas City in 1886, both mother and son get their wishes"--
14) The Steel Angel
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In Texas at the close of the Civil War wagon boss Adam Rait inherits a wagon train of rifles and ammunition when the owner is murdered. He must protect the cargo from several parties who would just as soon take it by force as pay for it while dealing with Angela de Acera (the Steel Angel).
16) Texas rifles
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Six-time winner of the Golden Spur Award, Elmer Kelton crafts stories that carry listeners into some of the most vivid years of the American West. Texas Rifles is an action-filled tale of courage in the face of divided loyalties. In 1861, men are enlisting in the Texas Mounted Rifles to keep the land free from Indian raids. There are larger conflicts, however. Texas has seceded from the union while war brews between the North and the South. Sam Houston...
17) O pioneers!
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Cather presents the story of the Nebraska prairie. Alexandra Bergson, daughter of Swedish immigrant farmers, is devoted to the land and suffers the hardships of prairie life.
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 11
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Ariana loves her life-her parents, her little town, her job as the town's schoolteacher, her students. But one evening after classes are done and she prepares to hurry home before a blizzard hits, her whole life changes in an instant.
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"One hundred years ago, American patriots picked up rifles and fought against British tyranny. That was Boston. There the enemy was King George III and his British troops. Now, In Last Chance, Texas, in the Big Bend River country, it's Abraham Hacker, a ruthless cattle baron who will slaughter anyone who tries to lay claim to the fertile land and everything on it. For Last Chance, freedom is under siege one violent act at a time. Until wounded Texas...
20) Stop
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While there were some initial suspicions about Sam Stop's background, people came to respect and then trust the reclusive founder of Pony, Montana's local bank.