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(0)Will Henry
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Ned Huddleston was a Confederate Army slave: poor, hungry, but with a burning desire to be free. When the war ended, he inally got the precious freedom he craved. But when Ned stood up to a gang of small-town thugs, he traded that freedom for the harsh life of an outlaw. Now a wanted man, Ned Huddleston fled west where he discovered the song of the six-gun and the shadow of the noose.
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Thorndike Press
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2012.
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English
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In Bandits of Tehuantltux, Porfirio Gomez runs an isolated cantina with only two customers, Pato and Perro, and neither has any money. It is Pato's idea that they should become outlaws. In the title story, half-breed Sioux Murrah Starr holds a rich Alaskan gold claim that should set him up for life. Trouble is, that may not be very long: the head of the local miner's association is dead set on taking Starr's claim, for himself.
4) I, Tom Horn
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English
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A fictionalized first-person narrative of the life and times of the famed and notorious nineteenth-century cavalry scout, interpreter, Indian fighter, rodeo star, detective, and feared manhunter,who met his end in a controversial travesty of a murder trial.
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Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Medicine Road is a story from the time of the mountain men. As a boy, Jesse Callahan was raised by the Minniconjou Sioux. He now transports guns and powder for Jim Bridger, who has a string of trading posts in southern Wyoming Territory. Brigham Young, leader of the Mormons, has sworn to wipe out Bridger's operation and has encouraged other tribes to attack the shipments. Now Callahan & Company come face to face with a war band led by Watonga, a ruthless...
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Far from altering or omitting facts, The Gates of the Mountains raises them ro their highest imaginative power, The racing tale first spellbinds then kidnaps the reader, carrying his spirits away on the rush of real history. It is only when the great journey is done, the far shores of its dangerous voyage reached at last, that the reader understands the full gifts of the master storyteller at work with myth and history-- Book Jacket
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"The Legend of Little Dried River" is the story of Preacher Nehemiah Bleek, a giant bear of a man who is the founder of the Horse Creek Mission School to shelter Indian children orphaned by the Indian Wars raging in Colorado Territory. In 1864 the great Cheyenne warrior Roman Nose brings his nephew, Red Dust, to Preacher Bleek for safe-keeping. "Frontier Fury" is set in the Pacific Northwest in 1858. Kamiak, a murderous Palouse chieftain, is vying...
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It took a tall horse to carry him, they said. He was a giant of a man, six-and-a-half-feet tall and 275 pounds. He could bend a horseshoe with his bare hands and lift a fully-loaded wagon on his back. But Sergeant Honud Schlonager was getting old and tired and ready to quit. Still, he had his orders. He had to find the widow woman and her three kids squatting on Indian land and bring them back to the fort. The sergeant knew that only trouble...
9) The crossing
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English
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When Jud Reeves joins a deadly campaign to secure the Southwest for the Confederacy, he confronts murderous visionary Elkanah Cavanaugh, wild woman Star Cavanaugh, and settler-hating Apache Sobre.
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"The Fourth Horseman" is the story of Frank Rachel, who ventures down the Mogollon Rim into Peaceful Basin. A fugitive from range wars, Frank wants a place where he can start a ranch and live without guns. But Libby Fewkes and Garth Graden change all that. "Santa Fé Passage" tells of Kirby Randolph, a mountain man who comes to St. Louis in search of a wife. Kirby decides to hire on as a scout for the wagon train heading to Santa Fé in hopes of getting...
11) The Apache kid
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Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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He was a dark-faced San Carlos youth. His father called him Red Wolf, and his few friends called him Nino. His many enemies called him a mad dog and a murderer. He had been the finest trailer in the enlisted Apache Scouts, and now he was the most feared and hunted fugitive in the Arizona Territory. He was the last warrior, and his lonely and savage duel with the United States Cavalry created a legend as bold as that of Cochise and Geronimo. In both...
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Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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"Red Blizzard" is set in the Dakota Territory during the conflict between Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and the U.S. Army. Pawnee Perez is an army scout, distrusted by some of the officers and hated by the Sioux. He's also the only man who can make his way through the hostile Sioux surrounding the fort and ride for military reinforcements. "Tales of the Texas Rangers" is an account of the Forty Year War, which the oldest law enforcement agency on the North...
17) To follow a flag
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Center Point
Pub. Date
c2003
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English
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The story of the bitter war in the Northwest territory and the Nez Perce chief, Timothy, who tested his faith against the burning Indian fury.
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