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1) 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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One year after the end of the Civil War, three southerners are heading northwest on the Bozeman Trail to the gold mining camp at Virginia City. When they find the army has closed the trail because the Sioux are on the warpath, the three friends accept work at Fort Phil Kearny. After an Indian ambush, the men flee the fort, together with a man called Slade. But there is more to Slade than meets the eye, and when he is revealed as a hired gun and murderer...
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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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His name was Billy Swift and he wore a brace of .45s, grips inlaid with silver lightning bolts. They said he was dead, but now he's back? For five years it was thought that the gunfighter known as 'Lightning Swift' was dead. He'd just crawled off into the desert to die after being wounded in a gun battle with Harley Mossop and his gang. How wrong everyone was. Someone shot the man who saved his life, so the Lightning Colts have been strapped back...
6) Long rider
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Wes Stretton has ridden a long way to gain vengeance on Yoakum, who he holds responsible for killing his friend. The trail takes him to the town of Buckstrap where he meets the enigmatic Lana Flushing and walks straight into a range war between rival ranches: the Bar Seven and the Sawtooth. But someone knows of his arrival and is out to bushwhack him. Then the foreman of the Sawtooth is shot. But was Stretton the intended target? And was Yoakum responsible?...
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John Smiley is a travelling entertainer. As he and his son and daughter are approaching the small township of Silver Spur in Kansas, they encounter Black Bart, a notorious gunman, who demands money and carbine whips Smiley's son. Smiley, however, is a skilled boxer and humiliates the outlaw, leaving Black Bart hell-bent on revenge, leading to a series of dark and bloody events when the family reach their destination.
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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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Former Texas Ranger Link Carter rides into Singletree, and straight into trouble. Deputy Burton pulls a gun on him, prompting Link to fire in self-defense, and he's thrown into a cell. Turns out it's a case of mistaken identity - Nick, his twin, is wanted for bank robbery. However, Link knows his brother, and can't believe he would ever do such a thing. It has to be a set-up - but how can he prove it?
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Mitch Evans is riding to his brother's small ranch after receiving a telegram saying there was trouble brewing. But Cal Morgan, a ranch hand for the Bar-Q, has been forced by his ruthless foreman, Latham Parry, to ambush Mitch before he can get to his brother's ranch, the Bar-B. Both men shoot each other - Mitch in the shoulder and Cal in the leg. So begins an unlikely friendship that will endure pain and hardship as well as love. All in the name...
11) Bodie
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Lawyer Josh Thorn believes in law and justice. Even so, when he agrees to defend prostitute Rosa May Whitefield, he knows he jeopardizes his standing in the community. The California mining town of Bodie averages a killing a day, but Rosa May's crime broke all the rules when she shot one man dead and wounded two others because they had beaten and raped her. Powerful forces line up against lawyer and client, and Rosa May's fate appears sealed - can...
12) Brody's Pledge
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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...
13) Chace Hexx
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At the age of twenty-eight, Chace Hexx is in danger of letting life pass him by. Drifting from ranch to ranch, he hones his skills with guns, horses and cattle - but to what purpose? Then, out of the blue, a proposition is made...Gunplay, tragedy, murder, and disaster - not to mention falling for a pretty yound widow - now give Chace a new purpose in life. But while vengeance is sweet, his most dangerous task still lied ahead...
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How far along the trail of violence and killing can a good man walk before he becomes as bad as those that he is hunting?A terrible fear paralyses the town of Leyton, Texas. On the morning that Sheriff Jack Anderson is to hang a sixteen-year-old boy for a horse theft the boy never committed, Jim Jackson arrives in Leyton searching for the man that betrayed him and sent him to hell for ten years. Is Jack Anderson that man? And how can Jim Jackson exact...
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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...
16) 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...
18) Gold rush
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Union Army deserter Cody Black thinks Gold Hill is a safe place to hide out the war and make his fortune. But Cody finds prospecting to be a tough business, and soon finds himself in debt to the local gold baron. Desperate for work, he is forced to become a deputy sheriff, facing the very violence he fled the army to avoid. Meanwhile, a nefarious plot is afoot to tip the balance of the war in favor of the Confederates...
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Link Bonner never wanted to gain a reputation as a fast hand with a six-gun and the will to use it. But sometimes circumstances drive the lives of men even beyond their own desires. Bonner was such a man, always in the middle of trouble he was not looking for. It took a woman to change Bonner and losing her made life and death of little consequence to him. But the man he was also changed the West for the better. Without his kind, many more innocent...
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Josiah Wakefield and his friend Dan Sturgis are buffalo hunters on the Northern Plains of Nebraska, shortly after the Civil War. Their job is to provide meat for the labourers pushing the Union Pacific Railroad relentlessly westward. Tiring of the bloody slaughter, they find work as trouble-shooters for the same railroad, as Sioux warriors are attacking the supply trains and tracklayers. However, the pair quickly discover that someone is supplying...
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