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1462) Ambush range
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Say you're me -- Jim Bannister. You scrape a cattle herd together and move it onto free grass. But the land-hungry Crescent spread tells you to get out. You tell them you're staying, come hell or high water. Then they gun-whip you, rustle your cows and frame you for a drygulch killing you never committed. I don't know about you -- but me, I'm going after Crescent with guns smoking. Ambush Range tells the violent-paced story of Jim Bannister, who...
1463) Lazy H feud
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
The Arizona Territory was rough country in the 1870s and cowhands on the Lazy H were expected to do more than just ride for the brand. Apaches were constantly trying to raid the horse herd but the biggest threat was the neighbouring rancher, who waited for a chance to take over the graze and the cattle. So men were hired for their gun skill and if they were good enough at this, they had time to learn the cattle trade. Such a man, and maybe a little...
1464) Rainrock reckoning
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Series
Lone McGantry western volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Former Indian scout Lone McGantry is hired by Harriet Munro, a fiery woman lawyer seeking to make a name for herself on the western Nebraska frontier. Munro has taken the case of beautiful young Roxanne Bigbee -- a desperate fugitive fleeing a trumped-up murder conviction and a hangman's noose. But before she can appear for the re-trial that Harriet has arranged, Roxanne must be rescued from the current threatening situation her flight has placed...
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Here are 12 episodes from the greatest Western shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio! You'll hear William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon in Gunsmoke; John Dehner as the man called Paladin in Have Gun - Will Travel; Alan Ladd in a Western tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.
1466) Seven for vengeance
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"When the express office in Gunlock, Texas, is robbed and the agent killed, a posse is organized to capture the young man whose gun was found at the scene of the crime in this western novel of murder and a manhunt, with their effects upon both the hunters and the hunted"--
1467) The sister's search
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"A young woman searches for her missing brother and finds much more awaits her--if she can escape war-torn Texas. Molly Weaver and her widowed mother embark on an arduous journey at the end of the Civil War. They hope to join Molly's brother Andrew on his ranch in Texas. When they arrive, Andrew is missing and squatters threaten the ranch. Can they trust Joe, the stranger who claims to be Andrew's friend? Joe's offer to help may be a godsend--or a...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Description
In August 1863, during Kit Carson's roundup of the Navajo, Santa Fe's Provost Marshal, Major Joseph Cummings, is found dead in an arroyo near what is now the Hubbell Trading Post in Ganado, Arizona. The murder, as well as the roughly million of today's dollars in cash and belongings in his saddlebags, is historically factual. Carson's explanation that he was shot by a lone Indian, which, even today, can be found in the U.S. Army Archives, is implausible....
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Treat her with respect, you walk away safe. If not, there will be consequences. Alice never met her young Army of the West officer father stationed in Oregon Territory, 1860s. She's raised like a boy by her Canadian trapper stepfather and lovely, feisty, Indian mother alongside the Columbia River. She can shoot a beaver's eye at a hundred paces, doesn't know how to cook or sew, can fight blade up with knives, hunt bear on her own, and never wears...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Set among the splendor of the Rocky Mountains in 1880, The Grant Conspiracy takes you to a Colorado mining town being torn apart by an evil law firm out for revenge for Black Friday. Frost and Hancock are ex-Confederates who, with the help of their henchmen, are plotting the assassination of former president Ulysses S. Grant. But they're not angry over the war; rather, their hatred comes from pure greed. They lost their fortunes when Grant dumped...
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 44
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
1472) Pony boys
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"In 1879, the notorious horse thief Doc Middleton rules the Niobrara rough country west of Holt County, Nebraska, with a loose affiliation of young outlaws, dubbed the Pony Boys. Albert "Kid" Wade, August John, Windy Barnes, Boots Harper, and a dozen other amoral roughnecks spent their days stealing horses, raising hell, and generally having the time of their lives. But nothing lasts forever, and the unorganized territories west are succumbing to...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"When Judge Parker of Fort Smith, Arkansas, sends two US marshals on a routine prisoner pickup and they never make it to their destination, he sends Marshals Emmet and Jack Youngblood to find them. Emmet and Jack, considered two of the best marshals in the West, come upon the dead bodies of the missing marshals, but their prisoner wagon is not to be found. They follow the tracks left behind by the heavy wagon to Springfield, Missouri. In Springfield,...
1474) Fugitive sheriff
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
July 24, 1883. Deputy John Willford Simms wrests the bloodied star from his murdered father's chest and pins it on, "My father's star makes me sheriff." The mayor protests, "You'll be a fugitive sheriff." They both know John Willford has a bounty on his head because he took a second wife at the Mormon bishop's bidding fourteen years before. It matters little. Across the high mountains of Summit County, Utah Territory, Sheriff Simms hunts his father's...
1475) Yester's ride
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Ketta Noonan, her mother's child by rape, has been kidnapped by the twelve-year-old's father. Big Joe Noonan, her mother's husband, is glad she's gone. He's always detested the child as evidence of her mother's violation, and kept her hidden away. But Yester Noonan, four years older than Ketta, is fond of his half-sister, even if she is part Chinese, and when his mother begs him to rescue her, he rides out on this quest. Accompanied by his Metis friend,...
1476) Cantrell: a Western duo
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"'In Strangers Talk or Die', Jeff Parker takes on the syndicate that killed his father and brother when he was a boy. In 'Cantrell', Tom Cantrell attempts to stop the Indian raids on Texas ranches and protect his ranch in New Mexico by going after the men who trade with the Indians for the stolen cattle"--
1478) Higher ground
Author
Series
Superstition gun trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
A riveting depiction of what it must have been like to be fighting the Battle of the Big Horn, also known as Custer's Last Stand.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
In the lawless territories of the Old West, Eldon Quint and his young son must journey to Missouri to bury his recently deceased child, while being pursued by his criminal brother. Meanwhile, in the newly emancipated south, an ambitious black housemaid, Minn Barker, makes a daring escape from her lecherous overlord--and father to her unborn child--to pursue her dream of attending one of the first black colleges in America. A chance run-in brings Eldon...
1480) This thy brother
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"The new life they find in New Mexico is not what the Pate and Lewis families hoped for. Driven by disagreements with their father, eldest sons Richard and Melvin abandon the Pate family to join eastbound freighters on the Santa Fe Trail, an antidote that provides no relief. Younger brother Abel works with his father to build a ranching empire atop the Pajarito Plateau, while the Lewis family establishes a thriving mercantile network in Santa Fe and...
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