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In a desolate mountain shack, three ranchers find a hidden treasure On a freezing mountainside, three out-of-work cowboys are near death when one of them spies a long-abandoned trapper's shack. It is little more than a pile of old logs, but it has a hearth and a chimney where they can build the fire that will save their lives. Before he lights the wood, Cody Hawk checks the chimney to make sure it's clear. Inside he finds a pair of saddlebags, filled...
2) Blood Money
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What made saloonkeeper Wilbur Enright so eager to get his hands on the keys to the bank's safe, after the disappearance of the sheriff, Clint West? With Luther Parry, the assistant bank manager, and his wife, Luicy, also missing, and three dangerous-looking strangers new in town, serious trouble threatens. But one of the strangers, Dale Smith, is on the trail of the missing three, and the good people of Springfield are in for a long and tough ride...
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Latham Parry is hell-bent on revenge: to ruin the man he holds repsonsible for his brother's death. Mitch Evans rides into town in search of his own brother, only to discover that he has been burned to death, and that his young wife and child have died trapped in the root cellar of their home. Two men, both thinking they have right on thie rdies, but only one will survive as death comes easy in the West.
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Who really was involved in the brutal massacre of a small village at the start of the American Civil War and what became of them? In this bitter tale, the truth doesn't finally emerge until 1887 when good men turned bad fight ruthlessly to ensure that their town is elected as the Holmbury County Seat.
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Sharper Wade rides into Virginia City more by chance than intent. He's hear about the Cornstock Lode and the vast wealth in gold and silver that was being mined there, but Sharoer's needs are limited to having enough money to eat, feed his horse and buy ammunition. He is in town no more than an hour when he witnesses a brutal attack on a defenceless girl and her grandfather by three cowboys and steps in to help, landing hinmself in jail accused of...
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Brody comes to Brentwood Falls in Arizona Territory to keep a pledge made at his mother's deathbed, to avenge the wrong done to her years earlier. Befriending town sheriff Will Tasker, and catching the eye of beautiful singer Louise Delaware, Brody is a man of wealth, yet prefers a life of manual labour, and accepts employment shoeing horses in the town smithy. Before long, Brody has made enemies of his mother's nemesis, rancher Dan Slaydon, and his...
7) Fire Wolf
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The deadly hired killer Fire Wolf is heading to a remote settlement in answer to a telegraph message. On the way there he tangles with three wanted outlaws in the ghost town known as Gold Strike. When the remaining two outlaws show up they vow vengeance and trail the emotionless Fire Wolf. Upon arriving in Jamesburg to find the man he thinks has hired his lethal services, it seems that no one is expecting him. No one apart from the actual man who...
8) Silverbird
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Samantha Gibbons was a tomboy, born and raised in Boston, from a wealthy family who tried in vain to turn her into a 'lady'. Samantha, or Sam as she preferred, was eager to explore and lead a life of adventure, rather the tea and cake circle she was being forced into. Then she read about the Wright Brothers, Wilbur and Orville, and her life would change for ever. Buying her own aeroplane, she headed out into what was still termed as the 'Wild West'....
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Sin was a profitable commodity in a mining town like Motherlode. Lust made money for the madam, wrath and avarice created targets for the manhunter, and the newspaperman was greedy for stories. 'He had no right to take you against your will.' When a prostitute is raped during the robbery of the Motherlode stage, Jonah Durrell seems to be the only man who cares. The handsome manhunter can never resist a damsel in distress. He is determined to get...
10) Dark Horse
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Nettie Youcheck must fight for what is rightfully hers, the large and profitable Double U cattle ranch. If she fails, her future will be a life of servitude under the control of a vicious and vindictive father. By her side are just two allies - Hollis, the old, black house servant, and Rita, who runs the town brothel and knows Nettie's past. If justice prevails then all will go well for Nettie, but since when was life like a fairy tale? Certainly...
11) Gunman's pledge
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Infamous gunslinger Wes Longbaugh is heading for his next job in Utah when he comes across a traveller cast adrift. Never one to turn the other cheek when help is needed, Wes intercepts the staggering loner. It turns out that Mace Farlow is the sole outlaw to survive a stagecoach robbery that had gone badly awry. All the other robbers were gunned down due to the treachery of a turncoat. Mace tags along with his saviour - but is determined to track...
12) Silent Witness
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When Range Detective Rance Dehner stops to make camp he hears a strange sound coming from the surrounding brush. A young girl of about five is hiding there, unable to speak and her eyes reflecting terror. Within minutes, someone tries to ambush both Dehner and the child. Bullets continue to fly as Dehner discovers that the child has witnessed her parents' murder and that the horrifying experience has traumatized her into silence. The detective's investigation...
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Tracking down a wanted outlaw, Iron Eyes finds himself embroiled in the Indian wars. Badly wounded, he rides into Fort Liberty. Commanding office Colonel Brice Jay assumes that the bounty hunter is near death and takes a shine to the magnificent palomino stallion. When Iron Eyes recovers he finds that Jay has decided to take the stallion no matter what.Deviously, Colonel Jay decides to send out a small party of troopers into the Indian-filled forest...
14) Bandido!
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One hundred factory-new repeating rifles had gone missing - and if they fell into the wrong hands, the west would run red with blood. The job of finding them and returning them to the army fell to Shane Preston and Jonah Jones. Along the way, they collected a rag-tag bunch of helpers, from a Mormon missionary to a disgraced sheriff. And even when they located the rifles, getting them back to Fort Dumas wasn't going to be easy. The Mexican outlaw Pedro...
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An army patrol led by Lieutenant Shadrak Pickett is making its way through the Pioneer Mountains in south-west Montana. Its purpose is to deliver the monthly payroll to Fort Wisdom. Then Jake Rankin, an old colleague of Pickett's, asks for a ride to the next trading post, claiming his horse has died from snakebite. But Rankin's plan is to steal the payroll in such a way that Pickett takes the blame. A cunning deception by the brigand ruins Pickett's...
16) Coyote terror
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Range detective Rance Dehner arrives in Conrad, Texas for a few days of fishing, and finds himself in the midst of trouble. Akando, who heads a band of Indian renegades, has demanded that the town bans Indian children from attending its school. He threatens that if his orders are defied, Conrad will be attacked by Coyote, a mythical creature of Indian lore. Schoolmarm Angie Knowland is determined to keep the school open to all children, and is supported...
17) Cry riot!
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Spargo was a mining town... but there hadn't been any mining there for a while. The mines were in a dangerous condition, and their owner Foley Kingston refused to make improvements. So the miners - those who'd survived the numerous cave-ins and accidents - went on strike, and Kingston called on his old friend Duke Benedict to help him break it. Benedict's partner, big Hank Brazos, immediately sided with the miners. But even though Benedict knew Kingston...
18) Divine wind
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Robert Brodie was a practical man. It helped him survive as a Texan Confederate, as a miner in Death Valley, and now as a muleskinner hauling borax across one of the most inhospitable places on the earth's surface. So when an old Indian bestowed the Divine Wind upon him from Tanka the Great Spirit, it was accepted with both bewilderment and scepticism. Especially as Brodie was trapped under a four-ton borax wagon at the time, and expecting to die...
19) Fools' frontier
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Crossing the Red Man River when it was in full flood wasn't the wisest thing gambler Duke Benedict and his cowboy sidekick Hank Brazos had ever done. And when the ferry they were riding tore free of its ropes, they found themselves driven downstream until their wild journey ended on the banks of Peaceful Valley. Here, a religious order had built itself a town... but the Devil had settled in these parts too. For one of the townsfolk had just been murdered,...
20) Fool's gold
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Trouble struck with the powerful boom of a rifle, the sound quickly evaporating like a rare morning mist in the hot desert air. The stagecoach Whip felt the passing of the heavy slug as it blasted a hole in his hat, then tore off some wood molding on the back of the coach before kicking up dust in the road. Whoever was shooting had just barely missed him, and the Whip knew he was in serious trouble. He leaned forward, yelling and snapping the reins...
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