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Mormon elders in the town of Cottonwoods pressure the widow Jane Withersteen to remarry so that her lands and herds will remain in their control. Gradually they frighten away most of her cowboys, and rustlers steal away her cattle, but the gunfighter Lassiter stands by her as the inevitable confrontation draws near.
2) Desert gold
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"A border town like Casita is no place for a drifter - especially a rich man's son looking for adventure. From the moment Dick Gale steps into this stinking, sun-baked hellhole of gambling and corruption, revolution, and revenge, he gets more than a bargained for. His old friend Thorne is in love with a beautiful senorita who's been targeted by the Mexican rebel Rojas. A bold, sneering devil of a man, feared, envied, and idolized by his people, Rojas...
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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.
4) Black mesa
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When Paul Manning set out in search of adventure, he didn't realize what was in store. He'd never been in a blistering hellhole like Bitter Seeps or met a man as crooked as Belmont. And he'd never laid eyes on a woman as good as Belmont's wife, Louise. Manning had an awful lot of growing up to do if he wanted to stay alive.
5) Barbed wire
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Irishman Doug Monahan runs a fencing crew outside the south Texas town of Twin Wells, digging post-holes and stringing red painted barbed wire for ranchers as protection against wandering stock, rustlers, and land hungry thugs.
Monahan's fencing operation is opposed by Captain Andrew Rinehart, a former Confederate officer and an old-school open range baron of the huge R Cross spread.
With his brutal foreman, Archer Spann, assigned to the violent...
6) Wolf lawman
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Seven deadly men ride into the quiet town of Genesis, a peaceful place that is growing and prospering. John Fontana is a strong and capable marshal and he's had no trouble preventing lawlessness until this strange group appears. The deadly seven kill, rape, and plunder before riding out of town. The savagery of their violence quickly becomes legendary. There is only one way to stop them-someone has to track them down and slaughter them one by...
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2009
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Aaron Mills had loved Sadie Anne for as long as he could remember. But fate always kept them apart, and even Sadie Anne herself said they must part forever. the night she ran away, the murders began. Aaron knows he's the only one who can clear her name. But that won't be easy in a seething frontier town full of barely tamed men. It's a place people go when they don't want to be found, a place where the law has no hold...a place where Aaron might just...
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Ignacio Ortiz, a Mexican orphan and a runaway searching for his past, lives through eras of intense change, including revolutionary upheavals, two world wars, and the beginning of the modern west during New Mexico's last territorial days. As these turbulent events serve as a backdrop to his life, Ignacio's own loyalties will be tested by the passions of his tempestuous employers, the MacAndrews clan.
9) The raptors
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Astride his gelding, Deputy Ben Houston made a solitary silhouette riding the stark plains of Kansas. Ahead of him in the vast country rode a gang of murderous outlaws who had slashed their savage way from Montana to Wyoming to Colorado, and now they were shooting up Kansas. Where would the killers strike next? Soon they would have to make a slip-up, and Ben had to be there, anticipating their every move, in order to stop them...
10) The broken gun
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Dan Sheridan, Vietnam veteran and writer of Westerns and history, had come to Arizona to research the Toomey brothers, who had vanished there 90 years earlier with 4,000 head of cattle and 27 hands. He was about to give up and go home when someone was killed. Then someone tried to kill him, which, naturally, got his attention and riled his curiosity. Now he wouldn't go until he found the truth...
Ninety years ago the Toomey brothers, along with...
12) Big horn legacy
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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.
13) Long ride home
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"Theo Belk is rootless, ruthless, and deadly ― the quintessential gunfighter with the requisite traits needed to survive on the vast, lawless Western frontier. Haunted and driven by the ghosts of the men he's been forced to kill, Belk embarks on a mission to end the life of Louis Gasceaux, the one man who deserves it most - the man who murdered his parents as he was helpless to intervene.
Gasceaux manages to stay one step ahead...
14) Bandera pass
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"On Hank Littleton's first assignment as a Texas Ranger, he shows how his crack-shot aim can stop the careful escape plan of a group of prisoners being escorted to Austin. Then his captain again pairs him with war veteran Joe Casebolt on a do-or-die assignment: catch the notorious band of robbers led by former lawman Isom Whitaker that is working the stages and rails near San Antonio. The two Rangers soon conclude that this wouldn't be such a tough...
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"In 1825, Richard Hamilton, a Harvard philosophy student, arrives in St. Louis on business. After being robbed and beaten, he joins the crew of the Maria, a fur trader's keelboat heading to the Upper Yellowstone River. On his journey, Richard begins the adventure of a lifetime. Meanwhile, Packrat, a Pawnee warrior, captures Heals Like a Willow, a young Shoshone medicine woman. However, slaves with spiritual connections can-and do-fight back. As the...
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It didn't matter that the warrant was years old, or that Smoke Jensen had been cleared of all charges. A Texas bounty hunter named Bill Pike believed he could still collect a $10,000 reward for killing Jensen-and he intended to do just that. But when Pike and his men came calling, Jensen was nowhere to be found. So they took the next best thing-Smoke's woman-left behind a ransom note, and headed up into the Rocky Mountains. Now, Smoke is going after...
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Sixteen-year-old orphan Tyrell Breen leaves South Carolina and heads west, hoping to make it to his uncle's ranch near San Antonio, Texas. It's 1874, and Ty means to become a cowboy -- although his idea of what that entails comes from half-dime novels. On the way, Ty is robbed of his money and his horse by a gambler named Rip Ford, and arrives at his uncle's ranch a sorry sight ... but not as sorry as his uncle, who has been neglecting everything...