Brett Cogburn
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"With a bag full of gold dust, Newt "Widowmaker" Jones is set for life. Then he makes his first mistake, trusting a cheerful stranger. By dawn the stranger--Javier Cortina, the son of the famous Texas border bandit, Juan "Red" Cortina--is gone. So is the gold. So are Newt's horse and even his fearsome Colt .44. It's enough to make a man want vengeance. And vengeance will be Newt's. Newt chases Cortina into Mexico, where the man is legendary for the...
2) Panhandle
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
Description
The Texas Panhandle of the late 1880s is America's last great open range. Into that wild unknown country ride two young cowboys: Nate Reynolds, the scion of a well-to-do family in search of adventure and gold; and Billy Champion, a ne'er-do-well with a stubborn streak and an eye for the ladies. Together they aim to rid this violent territory of rustlers, horse thieves, and the rest of the devils who slaughter innocents with no remorse. But when the...
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English
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""The Arkansas Traveler, a hired assassin is obsessed with killing Morgan. He's waiting for him on the Arkansas River. The Pinkerton Detective Agency have put their best man hunters on his trail. Morgan has one thing going for him. His enemies have made him very mad, and surviving is the only way he can kill them all"--Provided by publisher"--
4) Smoke wagon
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English
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It s 1872 and the Katy Railroad is hell-bent on laying the first set of tracks through Indian Territory, but things have stalled out at a little place called Ironhead Station. It's a man-a-day, end-of-the-tracks boom camp, meant to live loud and die young. The railroad has hired a new chief of police, a man named Morgan Clyde, but the gambling crowd is giving three-to-one that he'll be dead by the end of the week. He will have to out-think the smart...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Before the Civil War, Argyle Dollarhyde had everything a man could ever want: a beautiful wife, three strong sons, and a prosperous stake in the booming cotton industry. But now, Union troops have left the South in ruins -- and Dollarhyde's life is in shambles. Refusing to fall prey to carpetbaggers, Dollarhyde gathers up his family and sets out for the one place a man can still live free: Texas. Where the natives are as dangerous as the land itself....
6) Red ruckus
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Morgan Clyde, legendary town tamer and shootist, is the kind of man who will look down the barrel of your loaded gun and keep on coming, and the kind of man there's no stopping short of putting him in a grave when he thinks he's in the right. He's just the kind of man that a certain little town in the lawless Indian Territory needs, the town once known as Ironhead Station and the town that has already almost killed him more than once. Only this time,...
Author
Series
Widowmaker Jones volume 4
Language
English
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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...
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Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Vulture City is home to a prosperous gold mine and every bad man in the Arizona Territory knows it. Nearly every stagecoach attempting to deliver the gold to the railroad at Maricopa has been ambushed on the trail-a trail known as the Gunpowder Express for the bullet-riddled bodies along the way. With gold piling up and a lack of volunteers to transport it, the mine owner hires Newt "Widowmaker" Jones to ride shotgun on the next stage. Foolhardy...
9) Forty loads
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English
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When the beautiful McGaffney twins hire Faro Wells to escort them to New Mexico to claim their inheritance, Faro thinks his luck has finally turned. But a world of trouble stands between him and the supposed fortune: a raging war, hostile Indians, and every raider on the wild frontier. Not to mention the South's most famous villain, the Black Knight, is hard on Faro's trail. And the twins may be the worst trouble of all.
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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"Franklin "Rooster" Cogburn was born in 1866 in Fancy Hill, Arkansas, the descendant of pioneers and moonshiners. Six foot three, dark eyed, and a dead shot with a rifle, he was as hard as the rocky mountain ground his family settled. Though he never packed a badge, Rooster meted out his own brand of justice, taking on a posse of U.S. deputy marshals in a blazing showdown of gunfire and blood. A wanted man with a $500 reward on his head, Rooster would...
11) Buzzard bait
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Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Newt Jones is none too proud of his deadly nickname. But when you tangle with the likes of Judge Roy Bean and the notorious Mexican outlaw Juan Cortina, a man's bound to earn a reputation. Or get stuck with a moniker like 'Widowmaker.' Even so, Newt is ready to put his gunslinging days behind him, hang up his Winchester, and take it easy. There's just one problem: Ain't nothing easy about living in Apache country... When Newt gets word that a renegade...
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English
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The Great Depression brought hard times. Two young lovers' Claude and Myra' set out to get rich quick. Being good comes easy to some' but the trick to being bad is living to spend the loot. Along the back roads and byways of America' this star-crossed pair will become as famous as Bonnie and Clyde--if lawmen in three states and a Dallas road gang don't get them first. The rain stopped and the stock market crashed' but dreams can still come true ....
13) The Texans
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Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Language
English
Description
At seventeen, Odell Spurling is taller than most men and all too ready to be treated like one. Then a Comanche raid leaves him without home or family. The girl he loves, Red Wing Wilson, was a Comanche stolen as a child and raised by Texans. Promising to return to her, Odell sets off for revenge. But when the President of Texas arranges to return Red Wing to the Comanche in a gesture of goodwill, Odell finds himself on a mission greater than mere...
14) Too proud to run
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"U.S. Deputy Marshal Morgan Clyde has worn a tin star long enough to leave a .45-caliber mark on the Indian Territory, but the years and miles are wearing on him. For every enemy hes laid low, hes made more in the process, which isnt a good thing with the territory running wilder than ever and the Hanging Judge in Fort Smith determined to bring it to heel. And it just got worse when a rich mans family is kidnapped by as bloody a gang of outlaws as...
Author
Series
Widowmaker Jones volume 2
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Newt Jones is none too proud of his deadly nickname. But when you tangle with the likes of Judge Roy Bean and the notorious Mexican outlaw Juan Cortina, a mans bound to earn a reputation. Or get stuck with a moniker like "Widowmaker." Even so, Newt is ready to put his gunslinging days behind him, hang up his Winchester, and take it easy. Theres just one problem: Ain't nothing easy about living in Apache country. When Newt gets word that a renegade...