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1) Cutthroats
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Slash and Pecos volume 1
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English
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"Not every Western hero wears a white hat or a tin star. Most of them are just fighting to survive. Some of them can be liars, cheaters, and thieves. And then there's a couple of old-time robbers named Slash and Pecos . . . After a lifetime of robbing banks and holding up trains, Jimmy "Slash" Braddock and Melvin "Pecos Kid" Baker are ready to call it quits, settle down ,"though not completely by choice. The youngest members of their old gang, the...
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"Bo Creel and Scratch Morton have a lot of experience with the law: they've been breaking it most of their lives. But now the drifters are down to their last dime, and they accept the best job they can get in a boomtown called Mankiller. Their boss is a drunken sheriff named Biscuits O'Brien. Their tin stars are mighty pretty. And they start to take their new job seriously, until they're standing between a cunning clan of killers and the town's cowering...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Eight months have passed since Sam DeJarnett lost his wife and unborn child to Mescalero Apaches, and now he is one of ten Texas Rangers pursuing those very hostiles in 1881. He lives only for vengeance, and the fresh Mescalero trail in the snow is leading straight into the bitterly cold Sierra Diablo of Texas. In the Mescalero band is Nejeunee, a twenty-year-old woman with a baby. She has lost her husband to the Indaa, or white men, and she lives...
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Smoke Jensen novels volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Kirby, later Smoke, Jensen has just earned his first paying job as a deputy U.S. marshal for the Colorado Territory and is sent to the lawless town of Hermitage. There, he finds a sheriff too cowardly to face the six-gun of outlaw leader Clell Dawson. Young Smoke feels no such fear, and takes Dawson down fast. Then the real fight begins. Braving bullets, blood, and treachery to face down the most dangerous outlaw in Colorado Territory, Smoke will...
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c2012
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English
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Horse trader Will Summers wasn't looking to be anybody's hero, let alone stop a bank robbery led by the son of Gunn Point's most powerful man. But when the sheriff is gravely injured and his deputy sorely outmatched, Will knows that things are only going to get worse.
6) Easy money
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English
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Bert follows his buddy and fellow cowhand Chic across the west in the search for easy money but they soon find themselves on the wrong side of the law, putting their friendship to the test.
8) Destiny
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"The son of a shipping magnate, William Cabott Weston III is determined to make his fortune in the news industry. He finds a job with the Chicago Tribune and is assigned to cover the recent attack on Columbus, New Mexico, by Pancho Villa. In Columbus, Weston meets Idaho lumberjack, Monte Segundo. Unknown to Weston, Segundo is haunted by a recurring nightmare and has developed an inexplicable desire to volunteer for the Punitive Expedition and join...
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It is 1850 in St. Louis, and Abriel Catton receives the last will of his father, Web Catton, an enigmatic mountain man. Among the papers are instructions that Ab must reassemble his family--brothers and sisters he can barely remember, that separated after the death of his mother. The race is on to locate Web Catton's legacy--and alude those in pursuit of the fortune.
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Nineteen-year-old Gage Pardell didn't intend to kill Henry Kalb when he rode into Shelburn, Texas, to confront the son of the county's richest man. He just wanted justice for what Kalb had done to his sister. But now Henry is dead, and Gage is on the run from a gang of vicious bounty hunters hired by Henry's father. With nowhere else to go, Gage heads west toward the far-flung buffalo ranges of West Texas. There, he learns what it means to stand...
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Loner volume 14
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"When The Loner is hired to go undercover as a train robber to discover what happened to Katherine Lupo's father--an outlaw who was murdered after being busted out of jail--he comes face to face with a cold-blooded master criminal who deserves to be put six feet under"--
13) Thunder wagon
Author
Series
Wind River volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Buffalo hunter Cole Tyler rode with Jeb Stuart leading wagon trains across the West. Now he's wearing a star in Wind River, Wyoming Territory, where trouble is brewing. The Irish and Chinese are up in arms, and the friendly Shoshone stand accused of stealing cattle. Marshal Cole Tyler and his deputy, Billy Casebolt, must track down some cattle rustlers to keep the peace in Wind River - before the culprits can light the fuse that will set off a bloody...
14) Panhandle
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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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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Wind River volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Winter howled across Wyoming Territory the day Yancy Rowlett announced he'd struck it rich, mining in Montana. Then Henry Turner, the big man in the bearskin coat, showed up in Wind River, accusing Yancy of murder. As the wolves circled, all-out war blazed in the small town ripe for trouble and frontier justice.
17) Sawbones
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On the blood-stained battlefields of a divided nation, Dr. Samuel Knight used his surgical skills to treat wounded Confederate soldiers. In the brutal prison camps of the Union Army, he offered his healing services to fellow captives who'd given up Hope. But now, with the war over and the South in ruins, the good doctor faces his hardest challenge yet: to save himself. Penniless and hungry, Knight has to beg, borrow and steal to survive in a post-war...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"In Gun Trouble at Diamondback, Bear is given the nasty assignment of going after the man or men who killed his old friend, Lou Cameron. Cameron was the town marshal of Diamondback, a small, dusty settlement in the wilds of Wyoming Territory--until someone backshot him when he was leaving the outhouse behind his office. When Bear rides into Diamondback, he finds himself not only chin-deep in the mystery of who killed his old friend but eyebrow deep...
20) Twin Sombreros
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English
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Brazos Keene is a cowboy with an honorable streak. When he stumbles into an unjust situation he just can't walk away. A man has been killed and the dead man's twin sisters are being forced off their ranch. Brazos decides to help them find the killers and get their ranch back.