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Guns of Samuel Pritchard volume 4
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"1875. The escalating rivalry between the two major railroad companies takes a dangerous--and deadly--turn when a train is deliberately derailed. Many are killed. More are injured. And Marshal Samuel Pritchard's longtime friend is crippled for life. The mastermind behind the train wreck claims to be the infamous Civil War criminal Jem Rupe, aka "The Trainwrecker of Platte Bridge." There's just one problem: Rupe has been dead for ten years ... With...
42) Quicksand
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Champions (Janet Dailey) volume 3
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"Tess Champion knows better than to trust Brock Tolman, but with the Alamo Canyon Ranch in foreclosure, Tess is forced to accept Brock's offer of a partnership. In exchange, he offers Tess one of his own young bulls. Soon enough, Quicksand is the rising star of the rodeo circuit, which proves Tess is better at picking bulls than she is men. It's not until the tycoon's private plane crashes in the wilderness, stranding him with Tess, that the truth...
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Gray "Quick Shot" Woodson is the fastest gun west of the Mississippi. Unfortunately, he's ready to hang up his hat. Sure, being notorious has its perks. But the nomadic lifestyle--and people always tryin' to kill you--gets old real fast. Now he just wants to find a place to retire. When his stubborn horse drags him into a hole-in-the-wall town called Desolation, something about the place calls to Gray, and he figures he might actually have a shot...
44) Vulture wings
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Infamous low-lives, the Strong brothers will do anything for a quick buck - but this is going to be no ordinary kidnap. They are paid to abduct two young men, and don't ask too many questions when their paymaster gives them some unusual instructions. Then, as the boys' father races to rescue his sons, he realises that their snatching is linked to dark secrets from his old life as a bounty hunter.
45) Sons of thunder
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Slash and Pecos volume 5
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It sounds like an easy job: track down the lady friend of notorious outlaw Duke Winter and bring her in for questioning. There's just one problem: Slash and Pecos have never met a woman like Miss Fannie Diamond, a glamorous showgirl who's prettier than a French poodle, slicker than a Dodge City gambler, and more slippery than a Mojave rattlesnake. She knows that Slash and Pecos are coming for her and has no intention of being caught--not without one...
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O'Malleys of Texas volume 4
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When a shadowy gang of conspirators bent on assassinating Mexico's legendary resistance leader bring the war to his family's stage coach station, lifelong patriot Joe O'Malley shows them another deadly force of resistance.
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"The second in the action-packed new series from Ralph Compton writer, John Shirley, takes traditional Westerns on a wild ride with the epic adventures of master gunfighter, horseman, and Civil War veteran Cleveland Trewe as he and his strong partner, Bernice fight for survival in 1880s Nevada . . . Civil War veteran Cleveland Trewe stumbles onto a bizarre cult in the Sierra Nevada mountains-where the faithful are healed and fates are sealed . . ....
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"Annie Oakley's Wild West Americana and time travel come together in this genre-defying novel that explores trauma and the cost of female revenge. Ruth McClintock is obsessed with the past. For nearly a decade, she has been studying Annie Oakley, convinced that the legendary sharpshooter experienced a scarring event in adolescence that led her to fight for the right of every American woman to own and operate a gun. This fruitless search has cost Ruth...
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"When the war ended, Dr. Samuel Kniqht went home to Texas, but the life he expected was in ruins, his wife married to a carpetbagger. Trying to defend what's left of his previous existence, the good doctor is branded an outlaw and driven from Texas. Now he's laying low in New Mexico, with his image of a doctor on wanted posters everywhere. But when the town explodes in violence, Knight will risk his neck to save innocent lives. After a cave-in injures...
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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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Widowmaker Jones volume 4
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"Card player extraordinaire Poker Alice knows when hold 'em, when to fold 'em, and when to team up with master gunman Newt "Widowmaker" Jones. She's betting on Jones to protect her--and her money--on a treasure hunt in the California desert. Legend has it that a shipwreck is buried in the Salton sands. Some say it's a Spanish galleon that got stuck when the sea ran dry. Other says it's a Chinese junk full of pearls or a Viking ship filled with Aztec...
52) Dead river
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"On the wild western frontier, the three men known as the Jackals stand between the law and the lawless-delivering their own brand of justice with a fast draw, dead aim, and enough bullets to populate Boot Hill. Johnstone Territory. Where Death Rides Hard. Apache renegade Bloody Hand plays a role in each of the Jackals' lives. To bounty hunter Jed Breen, he is man with a price on his head. To retired cavalry segeant Sean Keegan, he is a cellmate after...
53) Buzzard's Bluff
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"When Ben Savage receives a telegram informing him that an old friend died-and left him his saloon-he's not sure what to think. Western saloons are as wild as it gets, full of rowdy ranchers and cocky cowboys, high-stakes gamblers and low-life drifters, hard liquor and easy women. Then there's the occasional outlaw gang. But when Savage travels to Buzzard's Bluff, Texas, to check out his inheritance, he meets the saloon's lovely manager, Rachel Baskin,...
54) The big ranchero
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Benedict and Brazos volume 3
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Ulverscroft, Linford Western
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After witnessing the cold-blooded killing of a man named Boyd Larsen, Duke Benedict and Hank Brazos find themselves up to their gunbelts in mystery, murder and mayhem. Larsen was an insurance man investigating a claim of rustled stock on Rancho Antigua, and his notes include a familiar name - Bo Rangle, the cut-throat outlaw the pair have been tracking ever since he robbed them of a fortune during the Civil War. Benedict and Brazos set out to run...
55) Axle Bust Creek
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Gold fever. Blood Fever. From the battlefield of Shiloh to the prisoner camp at Slocum, former Union soldier Cleveland Trewe has seen more than enough carnage for one lifetime. Now that the war is over he's found work as a peacekeeper and prospector--the perfect set of survival skills for a town like Axle Bust, Nevada, a place seething with danger. Cleve's uncle staked a claim in Axle Bust only to lose it to a murderous con-man partnered with Duncan...
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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...
57) Choctaw trail
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Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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"Killing time in his garden outside Fort Smith, Arkansas retired US Marshal Doyle Hardy has softened up some. The brutal double murder in Shacktown shapes him up fast. Suddenly, redeputized, he follows a trail that snakes from owl hoot whorehouses to moonshine shacks, dogged by vicious outlaws with old scores to settle. Riding the treacherous Choctaw Trail he is sworn to ferret out the heartless killer, the hell-reaiser who will force him to face...
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"Missouri, 1860. Rumors of war between the North and South are spreading across the land. In rural Green County, many of the farmers are already choosing sides. But not John Zachary. His loyalties lie with his family first--and his heart is telling him to go west. Hoping to build a new life in the fertile valleys of Oregon, he convinces his best friend, Emmitt Braxton, to pack up their families and join him on a wagon train across the Oregon Trail....
59) Prairie fire
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"A legend among bounty hunters, Luke Jensen is called to track down a deranged Yankee-turned-outlaw with a burning passion to torch the prairies, torment the townsfolks, and turn all he sees into a smoldering cinder... Johnstone Country. Ready, Aim, Kill. CAUTION- CONTENTS MAY BE FLAMMABLE In the darkest days of the Civil War, Neville Goldsmith set the world on fire. As Captain for the Union Army, he marched with General Sherman through Georgia, setting...
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Linford
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Lonesome Lang and Tarnation Tucker watch a runaway buckboard hit a hairpin turn and vanish... Dave Worth is transported back to Lode City to be charged with murder - and finds a lynch mob waiting at the station... George Brandon and Rosie O'Grady find themselves in the middle of a criminal drama... Steve Cochrane seeks his friend Smoky Davis - but the law is searching for him too... Dike Kennedy's and Carole Lamar's courtship comes up against a murderous...
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