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41) Bandido!
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Ulverscroft, Linford Western
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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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Ulverscroft, Linford Western
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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...
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Ulverscroft, Linford Western
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Trouble was brewing in the town of Longhorn, Utah. A band of nesters had moved onto land the local cattlemen had always previously claimed as their own. And they also happened to be the one thing no cattleman could stand... sheepmen! Judd Gunther, the biggest rancher in those parts, immediately declared war on the newcomers. Against so many hired guns, there wasn't much they could do to defend themselves - until Shane Preston and Jonah Jones happened...
44) Coyote terror
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Ulverscroft, Linford Western
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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...
45) Cry riot!
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Ulverscroft, Linford Western
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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...
46) Divine wind
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Ulverscroft, Linford Western
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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...
47) Fools' frontier
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Ulverscroft, Linford Western
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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,...
48) Fool's gold
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Ulverscroft, Linford Western
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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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Ulverscroft, Linford Western
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A vacancy has appeared in the riverside settlement of Gila Bend, Arizona. When the incumbent marshal Bill Owen is killed by a drunk, the English aristocrat Born Gallant steps in to fill the void. Little does he know that his spell as this town's badge-bearer will be far more eventful than he predicted. He won't have to handle the danger alone, though. With the help of some old companions, he must bring peace to a town under the shadow of murder, a...
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Ulverscroft, Linford Western
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While Sheriff Flint is out of town, bandits strike Greenville Bank. Only they have come at the wrong time and do not get the haul they expected, instead leaving behind a trail of destruction. On Flint's return, he is faced with a deadly situation. When a beautiful woman and her elderly father get involved, Flint thinks at first that they are a liability, especially when he discovers that he has to lead a posse into the dangerous borderlands between...
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Ulverscroft, Linford Western
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A quiet life is the only thing Dane Cleadon wants, but it seems he can't escape his past reputation as a gunfighter and town-tamer. When he is called out by young Tim Ryland, he does his best to avoid trouble, but to no avail. After Ryland dies accidentally by his own gun, his father, local rancher Cass Ryland, wants revenge. Hoping to avert further bloodshed, Cleadon leaves town, accompanied by his friend Cayuse. They are pursued by Ryland and his...
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Ulverscroft, Linford Western
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Kee-To Iron Hand is the one Sioux leader white soldiers have never been able to corner or capture. His daring raids and uncanny ability to avoid being behind bars have made him a priority for the cavalry officers to find and jail. But Kee-To has the blood of his fighting ancestors, and their mystical whispers to him, to keep him free. He would rather die than let the horse soldiers pen up his people behind fences under guard. A battle is looming as...
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Ulverscroft, Linford Western
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In the wilds of Arizona, a man wakes up with a nasty head wound and amnesia. Unaware of who or where he is, all he has to go on is the name inscribed in a bible, found in the saddlebags of a lame horse grazing nearby: Zachariah Thompson. Believing this to be him, Zach carries on his way, eventually collapsing and being found unconscious by Jeff Fawcett and his daughter Emily, who nurse him back to health. When their ranch is attacked by Apaches, Jeff...
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Ulverscroft, Linford Western
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When Apache Mescaleros are forced from their homeland, Preston Kewle sees Treaty Mesa as a favourable base for his ever-expanding life of crime. So he sets up and operates out of there - but finds he is tied to the place by a commitment that is more burdensome than he ever expected. General William Newton gets word of Kewle's activities. He summons Jack Games, and issues him with an ultimatum - ride out to Treaty Mesa on a mission, or spend the rest...
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