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Jane Witherspoon has a vast inheritance left to her by her Mormon father. Knowing she is romantically involved with a Gentile, Elder Tull has published his claim to make her his wife and obtain her inheritance. Just as Elder Tull and a group of Mormons are about to whip the Gentile and banish him from Mormon Utah, the notorious gunman--and enemy of the Mormons--known as Lassiter rides in and intervenes. The Mormons initiate their punishment on Jane...
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Falsely accused of murdering Allen Neece‚ cowboy Brazos Keene had narrowly escaped a lynch mob. With his name at last cleared‚ Keene discovered that Neece's twin sisters had lost their ranch and were struggling unsuccessfully to run a restaurant. Brazos made a pledge to track down their brother's killers and get the ranch back. So he became target practice for a band of ruthless rustlers. But Brazos also found himself hopelessly in love...
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Dan Sheridan, Vietnam veteran and writer of Westerns and history, had come to Arizona to research the Toomey brothers, who had vanished there 90 years earlier with 4,000 head of cattle and 27 hands. He was about to give up and go home when someone was killed. Then someone tried to kill him, which, naturally, got his attention and riled his curiosity. Now he wouldn't go until he found the truth ...
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A PRIZED COLLECTION OF AMERICAN FICTION—FROM AMERICA’S FAVORITE STORYTELLER
This first-rate collection of short stories by the incomparable Louis L’Amour showcases the legendary writer at his very best: spinning a fascinating and wholly authentic set of unforgettable tales. In these extraordinary stories, we meet a man who is forced to defend himself by taking another’s life—and must pay for his...
This first-rate collection of short stories by the incomparable Louis L’Amour showcases the legendary writer at his very best: spinning a fascinating and wholly authentic set of unforgettable tales. In these extraordinary stories, we meet a man who is forced to defend himself by taking another’s life—and must pay for his...
5) Judgment day
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"The railhead has moved on, and in its wake civilization has finally come within spitting distance of Wind River. But not everybody is glad to see it coming. For saloon owner Hank Parker, it seems like civilization wants to run him out of business. For pretty widow Simone McKay, it means elections where she can consolidate her stranglehold on local power. Caught in the middle are Marshal Cole Tyler and his deputy Billy Casebolt, sworn to keep the...
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Things don't stay peaceful for long in Wind River as rival cattlemen face off against each other -- and the mysterious powers of Medicine Creek. Tensions are running high when Deputy Billy Casebolt is cured of a mysterious fever by the mystical stream. But when cattle start disappearing and bullets start flying, the shocking truth behind the rustlers and the legend of Medicine Creek surface at last.
7) Blood rock
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The historic beginnings of famed Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack, and the conclusion of a rip-roaring adventure that made him a man.
11) Shower of gold
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When Richard arrived in the border town of Casita, he didn't realize it was a tinderbox waiting to explode. There's a revolution in Mexico, American troops stationed on the border, with bandits and renegades in town. And things only get worse when he promises to help protect the daughter of a murdered Spanish aristocrat.
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Three related short novels tell the legend of Robert Fernald, raised by his uncle with endless tales about the great days of the Wild West and his escapades with Wild Bill. Having finished college, Robert is back in the West ready to pursue exploits like those he grew up hearing about.
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The story is told through the diary of Smith Munro, a young boy living and working with his father at a stagecoach station in New Mexico territory. Even in a place where there's nothing but "wind and dust," the Civil War has the power to shape lives and tear apart families.
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This was not the first time Gil Ross had been to Virginia City in Nevada Territory. In the spring of 1860 he had gone there as a reporter to write about the new silver strikes. Four years later, he's there as mining engineer to prepare an official report on the potential wealth of the region for the Lincoln Administration. Much had improved, but there were new problems. Stagecoaches were subject to frequent hold-ups by gangs - including the one in...
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First serialized in 1919, the novel takes place during WWI and tellls the story of Kurt Dorn, a wheat farmer in the state of Washington whose father is German and his mother American. Though he has a successful farm, there are groups that would like to prevent wheat from being harvested at all, including a group of Bolsheviks, the Industrial Workers of the World, which is led by a German spy financed not only by Germany but also secretly by a German...
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On November 7, 1908 in the town of San Vicente, Butch Cassidy was killed in a bloody shootout with the Bolivian army. Or was he? In a small Texas town in 1950, a Pinkerton detective interrupts and old- timer's daily game of dominos to learn the truth about Butch Cassidy-- who is alive and well and sitting right in front of him. So begins a novel about the West's most legendary outlaw, as told by America's master storytellers.
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"Locked in a deadly feud, cowboys Randy Locke and Frank Farmer have spent decades attempting to annihilate each other any time they are within shooting distance. So far, the men are even. One of Frank's bullets has given Randy a permanent limp. Vain Frank wears a prosthetic ear, his own lost to Randy's assault. If either of them remembers the original reason for the feud, it seems moot now. Their quest for revenge has led them on a merry chase through...
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"Arizona Territory Ranger Sam Burrack knows all too well that criminals don't concern themselves with consequences. So it's no surprise to him when Sheppard Stone, the sheriff of Big Silver, makes an enemy of wealth cattle rancher Edsel Centrila, whose son thinks he's above the law. After Stone refuses to help Centrila get his son out of jail, Centrila throws all of his money into buying up Big Silver and putting gunmen on every corner, some aiming...
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"On the eve of the Civil War, Kirby Jensen is the youngest of three children living on a hardscrabble ranch in Southwestern Missouri. But in 1861, shots were fired in Charleston harbor, and Kirby's father and brother went to war. Smoke Jensen The Beginning follows the Jensen clan during these volatile years, from Civil War battles to border state raids to the kind of frontier justice achieved only by bullets and blood. William W. Johnstone chronicles...