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Buck Duane is a famous gunfighter and outlaw, who's recruited by the Texas Rangers to help clean up a border town plagued by crime. It's a rare opportunity to do good in the eyes of the law and its people. The son of an outlaw, Buck Duane, unexpectedly follows in his father's footsteps when he kills a man in self-defense. Despite the context, he chooses to run from the authorities and goes into hiding. He encounters many dark and violent characters,...
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From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The son of a German Farmer in Washington state during WWI, decides to join the Army to fight the Germans and "kill" the German part of his heritage. Along the way, he falls in love with the daughter of a rich farmer, and then has to protect her and himself from a worldwide labor organisation that is wreaking havoc all over the country to cause problems with the war effort....
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A book is occasionally misunderstood or misappraised as something it never had any intention of being. This one is not intended to be a statistical immigration treatise, and still less a controversial polemic. Nor has it any pre tension towards being a technical work on sociology, politics, or economics. It pretends to show in common, closeup, personal, human terms what kind of people Americans of foreign-language origin are today, what they contribute...
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Originally published in the 1920s, this little book is a 'teach yourself' guide to rope spinning and rope tricks. Complete with photographs and illustrative diagrams which should ensure that anyone who attempts this sport should have hours of fun. It is also great exercise. There are some words of advice from well known rope spinners of the time, and a warning from Fred Stone - 'Now listen, audience, if you ever start roping and learn the first trick...
5) Wildfire
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In a land of red cliffs and towering stone monuments, with the brooding Colorado River running through it, the unmatched Zane Gray sets his classic novel about a rancher, a blood feud, and a horse named. . .
Wildfire.
Bostic, a powerful rancher with a strong-willed 18-year-old daughter, has lost track of Lucy's wanderings. Caught up in a feud with two families, running his empire with an iron fist, Bostic does not know that Lucy has met a man who...
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The Call of the Canyon' is a novel by Zane Grey. It is the story of Glenn Kilbourne, a US Army veteran, who returns from the battlefields of World War I "shell-shocked and gassed", and otherwise incapacitated". It is set in the American West of the Roaring Twenties. Meanwhile his fiancée, Carley Bruch, lives with her family in New York. She receives communication through letters from Gleen but little by little these letters become more and more strange....
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Documented during the American Civil War, A Confederate Girl's Diary provides a thorough account of civilian life in Louisiana during and after the war through the diary entries of Sarah Morgan Dawson, who used her diary to record her thoughts and experiences from 1862 to 1865. Unwittingly, Dawson's revelations about the Confederacy and her role as a refugee woman in a Union-occupied Louisiana have become imperative in our understanding wartime conditions...
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A classic historical western of the eighteenth-century American frontier by the celebrated author of Riders of the Purple Sage.
First published in 1906, The Spirit of the Border is a vivid and brutal tale based on true events as chronicled in the journals of Zane Grey's ancestor Col. Ebenezer Zane. It tells the story of Moravian Church missionaries and their efforts to bring peace to the Ohio Valley-efforts that met a tragic end in the destruction...
9) Betty Zane
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Zane Grey's debut novel, which he self-published in 1905, "Betty Zane" is the first book in Grey's "Frontier Trilogy" and tells the true biographical story of Elizabeth "Betty" Zane, a hero of the American Revolutionary War and direct ancestor of the author. While under siege at Fort Henry by American Indian allies of the British Army and faced with dwindling supplies, the lovely and sixteen-year-old Betty bravely volunteers to venture out of the...
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When Jack Kells kidnaps the beautiful Joan Randle, he takes her to an isolated canyon where his legion are plotting to acquire a gold fortune. The woman becomes an unexpected accomplice to an intricate robbery. Jack Kells is the cold-hearted leader of a group of mountain bandits. Despite his rough exterior, he develops a soft spot for their latest victim-Miss Joan Randle. She was captured by the men and taken to their hideout where she encounters...
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Zane Grey, who is best known for his novel "Riders of the Purple Sage," helped to define the popular image of the Old West through his popular adventure novels. First published in 1910, "The Heritage of the Desert" is set in the American southwest where John Hare is found dying in the desert and consequently nursed back to health by the rancher August Naab. John soon finds himself caught between his indebtedness to the generous rancher, whose daughter...
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"The Boy Ranchers" is a Western novel by author Willard F. Baker. This is the first book in Baker's "The Boy Ranchers" series, which centers around the exploits of a young boy with a proclivity for detective work in the American Old West. A charming tale of mystery and adventure, "The Boy Ranchers" is ideal bedtime reading and would make for a fantastic addition to any family collection.
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This is Willard F. Baker's 1923 Western novel for children, "The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek". Part of "The Boy Ranchers" series, it centers around the exciting adventures of a young rancher-cum-detective in the American Old West. This novel is sure to inspire the minds of young readers today as it did when first published, and it is not to be missed by fans and collectors of classic Western literature.
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"The Boy Ranchers in Camp" is a Western novel for children written by Willard F. Baker, first published in 1921. This novel is part of "The Boy Ranchers", a series based around the exploits and adventures of a young would-be detective in the American Old West. A thrilling tale of mystery and daring-do, "The Boy Ranchers in Camp" is sure to inspire young minds now just as it did when first published.
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"The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River" is a Western novel for children by author Willard F. Baker. Part of "The Boy Ranchers" series, it centers around the endeavors of a young cowboy-cum-detective in the American Old West. A thrilling tale of intrigue and adventure, "The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River" would make for perfect bedtime reading and is highly recommended for lovers of classic Western fiction.
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"The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley" is a children's Western novel by author Willard F. Baker. Part of "The Boy Ranchers" series, it follows the exploits of young cowboy-cum-detective in the American Old West. An exciting story of mystery and daring-do, "The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley" would make for perfect bedtime reading and is not to be missed by collectors of classic Western fiction.
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"The Boy Ranchers on the Trail; Or, The Diamond X After Cattle Rustlers" is a Western novel for children written by Willard F. Baker. Part of "The Boy Ranchers" series, it is set on a cattle ranch in the Old American West and follows the exploits of a young boy with a penchant for detective work. A fantastic example of classic Western fiction, "The Boy Ranchers on the Trail" is highly recommended for all lovers of the genre.
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First published in 1922, "The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians" is a children's Western novel written by Willard F. Baker. Part of "The Boy Ranchers" series, it follows the further exploits of a young would-be detective in the American Old West. A thrilling page-turner full of daring-do and exciting mystery, "The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians" is highly recommended for children with an interest in the American West. Contents include: "A Mysterious...
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"The Rustlers of Pecos County" is another fantastic example of Western fiction by the master of the genre, American Author Zane Grey. This book is highly recommended for all lovers of Western fiction and constitutes a must-read for fans of Grey's seminal work. Contents include: "Vaughn Steele And Russ Sittell", "A Kiss And An Arrest", "Sounding The Timber", "Steele Breaks Up The Part", "Cleaning Out Linrock", "Enter Jack Blome", "Diane And Vaughn",...
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The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's notoriety lies primarily in his Sherlock Holmes stories, which remain the quintessential crime and detective novels of the twentieth century. However, before his days of penning detective fiction for zealous audiences, Doyle found inspiration for his novel "The White Company" in an 1889 lecture on medieval times. He had read over a hundred volumes on the period of Edward III and the Hundred...
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