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The flare-up between Zeb Walters of the Red Hammer ranch and Broken Arrow's top-hand, Jim Braddock, is brief and unexpected. It earns Zeb a lump on the head, a night in the cells and a five dollar fine. The cause is a mystery to everyone, including Jim Braddock, but over the following days, the event becomes a major talking point in Big Timber, giving rise to much gossip and speculation. It is several weeks, however, before Jim and Zeb meet again,...
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Tom Belman has been drifting west since the end of the civil war, lured by tales of wealth and verdant valleys in the territory beyond the far sierras. In the Texas panhandle, however, close to the Canadian River, his progress is interrupted when his horse is stolen. His pursuit of the young thief leads to an unfriendly reunion with a former soldier in Tom's unit, Lou Currier, who is now sheriff of a small town called Ortega Point. A subsequent lynching...
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It is almost two years since Custer's defeat at the Little Bighorn and apart from those few who have followed Sitting Bull into Canada, the Sioux have been chased out of the Black Hills and are now subjugated by life on a reservation. But rumours of unrest and a renewal of hostilities are causing concern among the people of the northern settlements. The arrival of a buckskin-clad stranger with eagle feathers affixed to his hat and the mane of his...
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Law is rare on the vast cattle ranges, and a man must fight if he means to hold on to what he owns. Arancher dispenses his own justice when he catches those who steal his livestock - but Titus Sawyer lost more than cattle when rustlers raided the Red Diamond. Men were killed too, slaughtered in a dreadful ambush. So when he summoned his nephew Frank to track down the killers, his desire was for something deeper than justice - revenge...
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Since the signing of the Laramie Treaty six years earlier, the tribes of the Plains have practised their nomadic lifestyle within the boundaries of the lands set aside for their use. The dwindling herds of buffalo and deer which provide the staple requirements of their existence are a growing source of discontent but while the Americans, the wasicun, stay out of the tribal lands the tenuous peace is maintained. One word, however, uttered at a riverside...
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Until the night of the fire, Stanton, Montana, was a peaceful town. It boasted a church, a school and a bank, and no longer attracted those hard-riding, hard-drinking characters who brought with them the kind of lawlessness and destruction that had been rife during its earlier frontier days. Its marshal, Silas Tasker, rejoiced in the knowledge that he had rid the town of the kind of rip-roaring reputation attributed to so many other cattle-towns across...
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Few white men know the land west of the Missouri like Weston Gray, renowned hunter, tracker and guide. The Arapaho and Lakota Sioux call him Medicine Feather. He has lived with them from time to time, acting as interpreter and spokesman for them with the military, and at treaty meetings with Washington delegates. Wes has numbered both army officers and tribal chieftains among his friends: people who listened to his advice in order to maintain peace....
11) Remarque's law
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Ben Joyner has no argument with the people who settled on the grassland near Pecos, but other cattlemen have long considered the range their own domain. Ben's boss Gus Remarque believes a dollar a day buys not only a man's labour, but his loyalty too. When that loyalty might involve killing or being killed, Ben wants to wash his hands of the dispute. So he quits the ranch and rides east. But then a strong-willed woman alters his plans...
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