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The revengers by Terrence McCauley

The revengers

Terrence McCauley

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"No sooner has Montana become a state than Zimmerman launches a diabolical campaign to turn a remote swath of land into an outlaw kingdom. Some of the richest mines in the West are in Zimmerman's sights, and he's rallied allies on both sides of the law to...

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Rainrock reckoning by Wayne D. Dundee

Rainrock reckoning

Wayne D. Dundee

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"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...

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Change of venue by James J. Griffin

Change of venue

James J. Griffin

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"Sixth generation Texas Ranger James C. Blawcyzk has ruffled the feathers of his superiors at Company F one time too many. He's offered a choice: Either transfer to Company E, and an isolated post in far west Texas, resign, or be terminated. Knowing he'd be a...

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Hell west of the Pecos by V. J. Rose

Hell west of the Pecos

V. J. Rose

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"After the Civil War, rancher and muleskinner Dudford Washburn returns to San Antonio to find that his wife has unexpectedly divorced him. Determined to make enough money to win her back, he comes up with a scheme to herd longhorns across the wilds of West...

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Settling his hash by William W. Johnstone

Settling his hash

William W. Johnstone

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"After traversing California from one end to the other, and finding nothing much to his liking, Mac Mackenzie is heeding his heart's call to return to Texas. Lucky for him, a group of cowboys heading for the Lone Star state need someone who knows their way...

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Texarkana by William W. Johnstone

Texarkana

William W. Johnstone

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"At first, the job sounds easy: lead a small herd of horses across the Arkansas-Texas border to the Double-D ranch near Texarkana. No problem--at least not for a man like Perley Gates. In fact, he's looking forward to the 150-mile journey with his old sidekick...

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Kee-To, Iron Hand by Art Isberg

Kee-To, Iron Hand

Art Isberg

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Kee-To Iron Hand is the one Sioux leader white soldiers have never been able to corner or capture. His daring raids and uncanny ability to avoid being behind bars have made him a priority for the cavalry officers to find and jail. But Kee-To has the blood of...

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Mission to Treaty Mesa by Abe Dancer

Mission to Treaty Mesa

Abe Dancer

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When Apache Mescaleros are forced from their homeland, Preston Kewle sees Treaty Mesa as a favourable base for his ever-expanding life of crime. So he sets up and operates out of there - but finds he is tied to the place by a commitment that is more burdensome...

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Bullet for a sheepman by Cole Shelton

Bullet for a sheepman

Cole Shelton

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Trouble was brewing in the town of Longhorn, Utah. A band of nesters had moved onto land the local cattlemen had always previously claimed as their own. And they also happened to be the one thing no cattleman could stand... sheepmen! Judd Gunther, the biggest...

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Beat the drum slowly by Sheldon B. author. Cole

Beat the drum slowly

Sheldon B. author. Cole

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Drifter Blake Durant was arrested and thrown into the Sunfish Creek jail in a case of mistaken identity. The town was expecting a visit from Tom Moran, who'd sworn to get revenge on its lawmen, and Deputy Billy Owen suspected that Durant was part of his gang,...

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The woman who killed Marvin Hammel by C. K. Crigger

The woman who killed Marvin Hammel

C. K. Crigger

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"Shay Billings and January Schutt have been married four months when he's summoned by the local bank president to a meeting. With the final payment due on his land, Shay rides to town for the meeting, then is murdered on the way home . . . The bank president...

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Dark is the night by William W. Johnstone

Dark is the night

William W. Johnstone

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"There are a million ways to die in the great state of Texas. And on the lawless streets of New Hope, the odds are even worse. Once the home of Comanche, the region has been up for grabs since the settlers drove off the natives. Now it's a magnet for settlers...

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When the sky rained dust by Patrick Dearen

When the sky rained dust

Patrick Dearen

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"Fourteen-year-old Josh and his friend Shan are facing hard times on their families' farms in Central Texas in 1934. It's the days of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, and rain is as scarce as money. With the long dry spell have come wild animals with...

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To the color by Ray Herbeck

To the color

Ray Herbeck

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"To the Color is the continuing true story of John Riley: young (28), cynical, charming, a professional Irish soldier who deserts the U.S. army to fight for Mexico at first for money, then for something loftier in the Mexican War of 1846-48. With gritty...

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Bozeman paymaster by Robert Lee Murphy

Bozeman paymaster

Robert Lee Murphy

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"Fighting to defend their favorite buffalo hunting grounds following the Civil War, Lakota Chief Red Cloud's coalition of Sioux, Northern Cheyennes, and Arapahos drove the military forces out of the Powder River country of modern-day Wyoming. On a...

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The penitent gun by Rod Timanus

The penitent gun

Rod Timanus

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"Zeke Smith is a drifter, a former bounty hunter, army scout, and lawman trying to escape from, and make up for, his violent and passionate past. Along his journey of self-imposed penance and exile, he aids others in difficulty wherever he stops and stays....

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The case of Duffy's revenge by Ethan J. Wolfe

The case of Duffy's revenge

Ethan J. Wolfe

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"Book three picks up where book two leaves off, with the murder of James Duffy's future wife in the town of Miles City, Montana. The Agency is naturally outraged and Agency Director Charles Porter sends James Duffy, Jack Cavill, and Joseph Goodluck to Miles...

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Riding the nightmare by William W. Johnstone

Riding the nightmare

William W. Johnstone

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"Duff MacCallister left Scotland to forge a new life in America, raising cattle on the western plains of the growing nation. But keeping his dream alive means facing off against the country's most violent, bloodthirsty men. The Spencer family is part of a...

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The westering trail travesties by Mark Warren

The westering trail travesties

Mark Warren

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"These five stories range from the surreal to the tear-jerker, as the Old West is held upside down by its boots and shaken until all common sense falls out into the crucible of parody. In Rumors from the Edge of the World, Kid Concho and his Arizona outlaw...

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Forever sheriff by Edward Massey

Forever sheriff

Edward Massey

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"From the moment the wounded boy in the wagon interrupts his swearing-in, Deputy Mark Simms, in line to be the third Sheriff Simms of Summit County, devotes his life to pursuing cattle rustlers turned butchers who become murderous meatpackers in the early...

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Snake oil justice by Jackson Lowry

Snake oil justice

Jackson Lowry

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"A medicine man turns vigilante when he sets out to take revenge against the gang who took everything from him, in this pulse-pounding new Western in Ralph Compton's bestselling Sundown Riders series. Jerome Frederick Kincannon is a medicine man--an apothecary...

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Outlaw by Philip McCormac

Outlaw

Philip McCormac

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Blain Larkin and his brother Moylan run afoul of Verne Lecroy, son of a powerful banker. When Lecroy kills Moylan in a gunfight, Blain tries to avenge his brother's death, but only manages to wound. The youngster is sentenced to hang for attempted murder....

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Halliday by Adam Brady

Halliday

Adam Brady

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Judge Cowper of Shimmer Creek hires Buck Halliday to take care of a problem. Jason Henley has taken over the town lock, stock and barrel, and now expects every other businessman to pay him protection money. Halliday might have dealt out death before, but he...

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Rod Wilson's challenge by Terry Murphy

Rod Wilson's challenge

Terry Murphy

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The arrival of Rod Wilson in the New Mexico town of Cabbana, a place of lawlessness, is welcomed by most but greeted with hostility by a few. Along with two fellow lawmen from his past, Wilson sets about bringing order to the place. With the added complication...

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The Valerons by Terrell L. author. Bowers

The Valerons

Terrell L. author. Bowers

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Some things grab a man's attention... like being shot at! Jared Valeron learns that an unknown gunman has tarnished the family reputation by killing a man while impersonating his cousin Wyatt. In trying to track down the culprit, Jared is drawn into an odd...

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Westbound by Matthew P. Mayo

Westbound

Matthew P. Mayo

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"Mackworth "Mack" Harrigan's family legacy burned to the ground in the spring of 1849. The Ohio mill that brought them prosperity was now cinder and ash, and his ruthless father perished in the flames along with their fortune. If the Harrigans have a future,...

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Shiloh by Paul (Western fiction writer) author. Bedford

Shiloh

Paul (Western fiction writer) author....

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As Martha Pootes watched the three Union soldiers approach her parents' farm in Kentucky, she had no inkling of the stark horror they would bring. Raped and left for dead, the young woman managed to impart a sketchy description of her attackers before...

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Aces wild by E. Jefferson Clay

Aces wild

E. Jefferson Clay

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Captain Duke Benedict and Sergeant Hank Brazos were on opposite sides during the Battle of Pea Ridge... but ended up fighting shoulder to shoulder when a common enemy showed his face. Bo Rangle, leader of the guerrilla force known as Rangle's Raiders, took...

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Enemies of medicine feather by Will DuRey

Enemies of medicine feather

Will DuRey

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Few white men know the land west of the Missouri like Weston Gray, renowned hunter, tracker and guide. The Arapaho and Lakota Sioux call him Medicine Feather. He has lived with them from time to time, acting as interpreter and spokesman for them with the...

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Escape from the Casa Grande by P.J. author. Gallagher

Escape from the Casa Grande

P.J. author. Gallagher

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Josh Martin has headed west seeking adventure. He finds it - along with a life-and-death situation: becoming marooned in a lonely, desolate valley, with no hope of remaining alive unless he can employ the few skills that he possesses. To add to his problems,...

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Danger valley by Lee E. Wells

Danger valley

Lee E. Wells

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"It looked as if Greg Corwin's luck would never end . . . Just recently, fortune had rewarded him beyond his wildest dreams. Snowbound, with only a few dollars in his pockets and a rich Texas rancher as an opponent in a marathon game of poker, Greg won the...

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Dismal River by Wayne D. Dundee

Dismal River

Wayne D. Dundee

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"Lone McGantry is a former Indian scout for the Army, now in his late thirties, a drifting horse wrangler, cowboy and guide. He's not fully ready to settle down but leaning gradually toward that lifestyle if he could find the right conditions. The Nebraska...

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Rio Hondo by Preston Lewis

Rio Hondo

Preston Lewis

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"In the aftermath of the 'Big Killing', which culminated in the Lincoln County War, rancher Wes Bracken must rebuild life for himself and his family amid the lingering animosities from the deadly feud. The conflagration has destroyed his livelihood, strained...

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The fires of Blackstone by William W. Johnstone

The fires of Blackstone

William W. Johnstone

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"The fourth action-packed historical western from national bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone featuring Buck Trammel, former Pinkerton-turned Wyoming Territory lawman! Keeper of the peace, enforcer of the law, Buck Trammel has faced...

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The fleecing of Fort Griffin by Preston Lewis

The fleecing of Fort Griffin

Preston Lewis

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"When the young Englishman Baron Jerome Manchester Paget arrives in 1878 Fort Griffin with a satchel full of money to start a buffalo ranch and find a bride, a horde of colorful swindlers from throughout Texas arrive to help him. With a passel of oddball...

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Winter seeks out the lonely by Larry D. Sweazy

Winter seeks out the lonely

Larry D. Sweazy

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"The law and circumstances never leave Sonny Burton alone for long. As the Great Depression lingers, a circus camps outside of Wellington, bringing with it suspicion and rumors of stolen cattle to feed the animals. The local Texas Ranger office is set to...

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Rawhide Jake by J. D. (Jeff D.) Arnold

Rawhide Jake

J. D. (Jeff D.) Arnold

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"Rawhide Jake: Learning the Ropes, is the first book in a trilogy on the Life and Times of Detective Jonas V. Brighton. Based on a true-life character, it rolls through the adventure of his time in the penitentiary, his first years as understudy to a young and...

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Avenging angel by Derek Catron

Avenging angel

Derek Catron

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"He survived the war; winning the peace could prove even more dangerous for Union sharpshooter Josey Angel. Following two years of bloody fighting, the army is ready to abandon the Bozeman Trail in the summer of 1868. But a rash of disturbing new raids-their...

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The guns of wrath by Tony (Novelist) Healey

The guns of wrath

Tony (Novelist) Healey

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"A woman seeks revenge for her father’s murder in this tense installment of bestselling author Ralph Compton’s Gunfighter series. Eight years ago, vicious bandits killed Marshall Tobias Cassidy and left his daughter for dead. They thought they got away clean....

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Guadalupe Canyon by Paul Cox

Guadalupe Canyon

Paul Cox

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"Monte Segundo and Rosa Bustamonte depart from the Rancho de la Osa ranch in Sasabe, Arizona, and head east to the ranch of John Slaughter where they intend to take possession of much-needed breeding stock. Unknown to them, due to the prevailing tensions with...

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Kilraine! by Jack Crow

Kilraine!

Jack Crow

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Jared Kilraine was a gunfighter tired of his violent past, and doing his best to escape it. He met and married Grace Jefferson - but when trouble followed him, he rode out of town to protect his family, leaving his wife and unborn child behind... Years later,...

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Payback canyon by Rob Hill

Payback canyon

Rob Hill

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Due to a combination of laziness and bad judgement, sheep farmer Wiley Hansen is broke. He tells his daughter Grace that he has arranged paid work for her on a neighbouring farm. She willingly agrees in order to help the family finances... in reality, he...

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A badge for Brazos by E. Jefferson Clay

A badge for Brazos

E. Jefferson Clay

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Trouble was brewing in the town of Harmony, between the gun-toughs who manned the Two-Bar ranch, the hardcases who hung around the Rawhide Saloon, and the beleaguered miners out at Whipple Creek. Into this explosive situation rode Hank Brazos and Duke...

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Trail to nowhere by Sheldon B. author. Cole

Trail to nowhere

Sheldon B. author. Cole

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Blake Durant was on his way to Crimson Falls when he stopped by Jessica Gray's ranch for water. Before he could move on again, the young widow's son came galloping into the yard, bruised and bloodied. Three men had stolen their two calves, and beaten young...

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The gallows at Gila Bend by Paxton Johns

The gallows at Gila Bend

Paxton Johns

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A vacancy has appeared in the riverside settlement of Gila Bend, Arizona. When the incumbent marshal Bill Owen is killed by a drunk, the English aristocrat Born Gallant steps in to fill the void. Little does he know that his spell as this town's badge-bearer...

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Drifter's revenge by Steve Hayes

Drifter's revenge

Steve Hayes

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They called him Drifter, because that was what he'd done most of his life. But no matter where he went, he always came back to Santa Rosa, New Mexico - the nearest thing he had to a home. Still, there was trouble brewing outside town, and though Drifter wanted...

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Kinsman of the gun by Walton Young

Kinsman of the gun

Walton Young

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Cheyenne, 1888. Ezra McPherson is a gunfighter who cannot escape the past, and Luke Tisdale a young doctor whose brother has been murdered. Marcus Stokesbury and Eloise Endicott are journalists who are intrigued by the mystery surrounding Ezra. Then there's...

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North of the line by Paul (Western fiction writer) author. Bedford

North of the line

Paul (Western fiction writer) author....

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Deputy United States Marshal Jesse Bronson is sent north of the line into Canada, to assist with the capture of two highly dangerous American outlaws. Brin Carson and Vern Hatcher have joined up with a gang of ruthless Metis led by Gabriel Dumont. Their joint...

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The broken bow by Larry D. Sweazy

The broken bow

Larry D. Sweazy

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"Theodore Marberry is a grieving father. He groomed his daughter Jessica to take her rightful place among the wealthy families of St. Louis high society. Instead she married a common lawman whose tin star and sixgun made him worthy of her affection. She lost...

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To the gates of hell by David Nix

To the gates of hell

David Nix

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"Jake Paynter escaped the noose, but the price of salvation is pain. Since reluctantly accepting the marshal's job at South Pass City, Jake's life has become an unending run of solving other people's problems. When outlaw boss Dutch van Zandt and his ruthless...

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Elmer Kelton's The unlikely lawman by Steve Kelton

Elmer Kelton's The unlikely lawman

Steve Kelton

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"Elmer Kelton's Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his middling years, as he looks for work--but not too much work--in 1904 West Texas. Hewey Calloway is heading north to Colorado, on a horse drive...

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The too-late trail by Matthew P. Mayo

The too-late trail

Matthew P. Mayo

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"After struggling for years to work a raw-patch ranch in the arid flatlands of Texas, young Mitchell Newland learns that his herd of scrubby range cattle will fetch ten times their local price if they're driven to Montana. He strikes a one-sided deal with the...

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Change of fortune by K. S. Jones

Change of fortune

K. S. Jones

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"The 1849 Gold Rush is no place for a refined young woman on her own, but Quinn MacCann plans to become a businesswoman, independent and capable of earning her own way. To escape her wealthy but abusive father with her inherited dowry intact, Quinn marries a...

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All my sins remembered by Rod Miller

All my sins remembered

Rod Miller

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"On a lonely road in a remote desert stands a roadhouse. Formerly a home station on a now abandoned stagecoach route, it is the only source of water and supplies for miles. Accommodations are crude and coarse, the hospitality rough and raw, the proprietor...

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Silver Trail Christmas by Nik James

Silver Trail Christmas

Nik James

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"For years, Caleb Marlowe has been following a hard trail. But fate finally seems to be smiling on him. The ranch he and his partner have been building is ready for a herd of longhorns, and a ghost from his troubled past is about to dance at the end of...

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Last chance saloon by Cole Shelton

Last chance saloon

Cole Shelton

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Former gunfighter Brett Cassidy now leads a peaceful life as a trapper. Then he receives a letter from Lonesome Valley, begging him to consider coming out of retirement to help the homesteaders there in their fight against a greedy rancher. Though Cassidy has...

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The other Madden by Brent Towns

The other Madden

Brent Towns

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In a Colorado valley, four ranches share one spring, deeming the surrounding land as open range. When Bren Deavers of the Broken D fences it off to claim it for himself alone, Joe Madden of the Crooked M objects - and ends up brutally murdered. With the...

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Trail of lead by Mike Deane

Trail of lead

Mike Deane

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After the Baxter Springs bank is robbed, a bloody shootout between the thieves and the town's lawmen leaves only one bandit alive - Charlie Weston, who has escaped with the haul. Marshal Pete Baker and Deputy Joe Flaherty, already under threat of losing their...

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Hellraiser! by Sam Clancy

Hellraiser!

Sam Clancy

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United States Deputy Marshal Josh Ford has been banished to Texas - a state he hates, overrun as it is with outlaws and desperados. Marshal Walton Grimes dispatches him to arrest Hiram Dent, wanted for shooting a sheriff. It'll be a rough job. The Dent family...

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Red diamond rustlers by Will DuRey

Red diamond rustlers

Will DuRey

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Law is rare on the vast cattle ranges, and a man must fight if he means to hold on to what he owns. A rancher dispenses his own justice when he catches those who steal his livestock - but Titus Sawyer lost more than cattle when rustlers raided the Red Diamond....

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Wanted dead or alive by Ralph Hayes

Wanted dead or alive

Ralph Hayes

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A year after being saved from a kidnapping, Dulcie Provost is waiting for the return of her rescuer, bounty hunter Certainty Sumner. But first Sumner has to carry out one more mission - tracking down sadistic outlaw the Lakota Kid. Unbeknownst to Sumner, he...

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Bad blood at Harlow's Bend by Scott Connor

Bad blood at Harlow's Bend

Scott Connor

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When Lorimer Hall returns to the town of Clear Creek, everything has changed. His father and his friend Budd Ewing are both dead, and nobody wants to know him. Lorimer decides to move on, but with it looking as if Glenn Harlow, Budd's killer, might get...

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Money train by Michael Stewart

Money train

Michael Stewart

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Danny Spence plans to stay only one night in Gila Creek. But he's mistaken for a snake named Zeke Tolan, and from then on it's just one damn thing after another. He falls foul of the evil Ma Cole, then gets on the wrong side of Hernando Ortiz and his sadistic...

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Hard road to vengeance by William W. Johnstone

Hard road to vengeance

William W. Johnstone

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"The Pinkertons believe Rollie 'Stoneface' Finnegan was the best agent to ever wear the badge. So does dewy-eyed Pinkerton hopeful and sleuth-in-training Tish Gray, who's just arrived in Boar Gulch. As co-owner of Boar Gulch's Last Drop Saloon, Stoneface is...

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The case of the stalking moon by Ethan J. Wolfe

The case of the stalking moon

Ethan J. Wolfe

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"On the night of the full moon in Wyoming Territory, somebody dies a horrible and ghastly death by being scalped. For months, the territory is held by the grip of fear and Governor Hale turns to Charles Porter, founder of the Illinois Detective Agency, for...

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Six bits a day by Elmer Kelton

Six bits a day

Elmer Kelton

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"Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country. The brothers are polar...

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Coward of Sand Creek by John Legg

Coward of Sand Creek

John Legg

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"Branded a coward and Indian lover for trying to stop some of the slaughter of peaceful Cheyennes and Arapahos at Sand Creek, Chase Tanner must live with his "shame." But he refuses to run, though several members of the Colorado militia keep dogging him with...

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Forever Texas by William W. Johnstone

Forever Texas

William W. Johnstone

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"It's 1852. The wounds of the Mexican War are healing. Regis Royle, co-owner of a steamship fleet, has made it out alive, relatively unscarred and with enough profit and foolhardy ambition to envision a new life in south Texas. With the help of his crack-shot...

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Changing flags by Ray Herbeck

Changing flags

Ray Herbeck

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"Changing Flags" is the true story of John Riley, a cocky Irish professional soldier who deserts the U.S. Army to fight for Mexico at first for money, then for something loftier in the Mexican War of 1846-48. With gritty action, romance, and humor, it brings...

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Kid Cheyenne by Ty (Novelist) author. Walker

Kid Cheyenne

Ty (Novelist) author. Walker

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A mysterious hired gunfighter, known only as Kid Cheyenne, has just received a telegraph wire from a remote settlement called Bloodstone. The sender, a man named Ben Black, wants to hire his dubious talents to kill someone. The Kid rides to Bloodstone - but...

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Valerons - beyond the law! by Terrell L. author. Bowers

Valerons - beyond the law!

Terrell L. author. Bowers

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Wyatt Valeron is hired to escort a man from Paradise to Denver, Colorado. However, upon arrival at the secluded mining town, he learns that a sinister tyrant named Gaskell controls everyone and everything. His hired enforcers maintain a form of law that...

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Easy money by Derek Rutherford

Easy money

Derek Rutherford

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John Cavendish is down on his luck. Released by the Pinkerton Detective Agency after suffering a terrible injury, his rent going up and his money going down, Cavendish has to take desperate measures to survive. He heads to the snowbound plains of north...

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El Dorado sojourn by Paxton Johns

El Dorado sojourn

Paxton Johns

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Born Gallant returns to Salvation Creek on a whim, but this leads to a bloody saga he could never have foreseen. Word from the elderly Frank Lake leads Gallant on a quest to rescue a young lawyer, who has been kidnapped to prevent her from blocking a corrupt...

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Ghost towns

Ghost towns

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"The sound of a crowded saloon ... The cry of a train coming through the night ... The pounding of horses ridden by friends or foe ... From the searing sun to snow-steeped winters, towns called Sentinel, Iron Mountain and St. Elmo stood strong and fierce -...

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Kill Red by Max O'Hara

Kill Red

Max O'Hara

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"Riding the rails across America's uncivilized and unpredictable western frontier requires true grit. For Wolf Stockburn, Railroad Detective, it takes a keen eye, quick draw, and dead aim to protect passengers from the most dangerous outlaws in the west - or...

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Black horse mountain by Kinley E. Roby

Black horse mountain

Kinley E. Roby

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"After the Civil War, Colonel Jonathan Wainwright is unable to adjust to his old life in Boston as a doctor, so he joins a wagon train bound for Santa Fe. The train is attacked by Indians and renegades, and his experience in the Union cavalry soon has him...

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The good old boys by Elmer Kelton

The good old boys

Elmer Kelton

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"Hewey Calloway has a problem. In his west Texas home of 1906, the land and way of life he loves are changing too quickly. As Hewey struggles against the relentless stream of progress, he comes to realize that the simple life of his childhood is vanishing -...

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Law of the land by Elmer Kelton

Law of the land

Elmer Kelton

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"Sixteen stories, where good meets bad, and everything inbetween, from the legendary author of the west, Elmer Kelton. Law of the Land chronicles some of his most exciting and dangerous tales of the old west, collected together for the first time--including...

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Northward to home by Reg Quist

Northward to home

Reg Quist

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"John Ware, a well-known, highly loved, and acclaimed black cowboy, arrived in Alberta at the beginning of the extraordinary ranching story on the grasslands. He faced and conquered snowstorms, vast distances, rough horses, not to mention a few rough men. As...

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Alice's trading post by Kerry Dean Feldman

Alice's trading post

Kerry Dean Feldman

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"Alice's Trading Post is the story of an untamable, unforgettable woman with a wry wit who lives 103 adventurous years. She survives all the west could throw at a woman, fights to be herself, live free, and find love. Treat her with respect, you walk away...

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Devil's ride west by David Nix

Devil's ride west

David Nix

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"Jake Paynter is in deep trouble. With a 1000 dollar bounty on his head, every law man, bounty hunter, and desperado west of the Mississippi is gunning for him. Jake's plan to lay low with the Shoshone quickly falls apart, but before he can leave for far...

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Disturbing the peace by Terrence McCauley

Disturbing the peace

Terrence McCauley

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"Deputy U.S. Marshal Jeremiah Halstead keeps the peace in the mining town of Silver Cloud, Montana. But an old enemy has declared war against him. Ruthless and clever, Ed Zimmerman would have become the leader of one of the west's deadliest and hell-bent...

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Lost trails

Lost trails

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"They are the stuff of legend, thundering out of the harsh landscapes and stunning vistas of the American West, vividly lodged in our collective imaginations. From Buffalo Bill to Billy the Kid, from Cochise to Jesse James, these names and so many others...

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Death in Deming by Alex (Novelist) author. Frew

Death in Deming

Alex (Novelist) author. Frew

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Dan Tucker is sent to Deming by US Marshal Harvey Whitehill, to clean out a few bad men who have taken over the town for their own ends. Motivated not by idealism but by money, a reluctant Tucker is resigned to doing this one last job before retiring from his...

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Death trail by D. D. Lang

Death trail

D. D. Lang

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Ardal Maloney, his wife Kate, and their two children have left Ireland to seek out a new life in the West. Leaving behind them starvation, poverty, and death, they came to the New World to start afresh. But travelling in a wagon train is a risky business. When...

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Return to Crows Creek by John E. author. Vale

Return to Crows Creek

John E. author. Vale

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Englishman Marshal Daniel Wheetman has been given over to President Hayes by Queen Victoria in an attempt to bring justice to the lawless west. However, Daniel's methods of policing are in complete contrast to those employed by US lawmen. Not only is he unable...

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Bighorn gold by Art Isberg

Bighorn gold

Art Isberg

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Jesper Tubbs has spent his life wandering the western mountains, searching for the elusive glint of gold. But Fate plays its fickle hand late in his life when, at the point of starvation, he literally stumbles upon a fabulous strike. However, Tubbs finds far...

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Imperfect promise by Susanna Lane

Imperfect promise

Susanna Lane

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"Cortland Enders is about to go to prison when the woman he works for invents a scheme to save him. Cort will serve his three-year sentence running the ranch, bound to it as her new husband. The marriage is in name only, enabling Sienna to leave the ranch to...

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The smiling country by Elmer Kelton

The smiling country

Elmer Kelton

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"Elmer Kelton introduced Texas cowboy Hewey Calloway, one of the most beloved characters in Western fiction, almost thirty years ago in The Good Old Boys. The novel was transformed into a memorable 1995 TV film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Sissy Spacek. Hewey...

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Pike's vengeance by John Legg

Pike's vengeance

John Legg

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"Bounty hunter Brodie Pike cannot see all the good he has done, only the infrequent mistakes. So he decides to get away from people. Little does he know when he finds a beautiful valley in Colorado Territory's San Juan Mountains - where he plans to make his...

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Just John by Reg Quist

Just John

Reg Quist

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"In return for his freedom, a slave is tasked with the job of delivering a valuable stallion to a horse farm in Tennessee. The Civil War is dying down and the roads are dangerous but with some help the horse is delivered and the slave sees freedom. Wishing to...

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Gunman's pass by Ralph W. Cotton

Gunman's pass

Ralph W. Cotton

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"Two deputies fresh from a hard-won gunfight with the gang of notorious outlaw Dolan Coyle stroll into a saloon in the dusty little town of Eagles, inquiring after one Will Summers. The men are looking to swap out their exhausted horses, and they could use...

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Brannigan's land by William W. Johnstone

Brannigan's land

William W. Johnstone

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"No one knows their way around a faro table, bank vault, or six shooter more than Smilin' Doc Ford. When he's not gambling or thieving, he's throwing lead--or, if he's feeling especially vicious, slitting throats with his Arkansas toothpick. Roaming the west...

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Texas renegade by Walker A. Tompkins

Texas renegade

Walker A. Tompkins

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"Bitterness and hate that is Confederate Texas in 1868 engulf Jack Zane as he seeks to return to the prairies of his native land. Reaction against him is strong because in choosing between the Lone Star State and his country's welfare, he had enlisted on the...

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Hogan's bluff by Harriet Cade

Hogan's bluff

Harriet Cade

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When his father is killed and his sister kidnapped following a confrontation with a powerful rancher, it falls to fourteen-year-old Zachariah Hogan to set matters straight. That this would entail his riding with a band of Sioux warriors was something that the...

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Bleak winds of destiny by Dale Graham

Bleak winds of destiny

Dale Graham

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The Rebel Raiders are heading for New Mexico territory to rob the bank in Tucumcari. Major Deke Hogan, a Civil War guerrilla fighter, heads the contingent. The proceeds of the attack are intended to support the Confederacy in a last-ditch effort to regain the...

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The battle for the Bar-Q by Will Black

The battle for the Bar-Q

Will Black

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After receiving a telegram warning him of trouble brewing, Mitch Evans rides as fast as he can to his brother's small ranch. But Cal Morgan, a ranch hand, has been forced by his ruthless foreman Latham Parry to ambush Mitch before he can get to the Bar-Q. Both...

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Ambush at skyline ranch by Thomas McNulty

Ambush at skyline ranch

Thomas McNulty

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Pinkerton Agent Cameron Scott arrives at the crossroads town of Willow Branch Creek, seeking answers to a series of train robberies. He gets more than he bargained for when he befriends the lovely Becky Drake while defending her son from one of rancher Jim...

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Boyd rode alone by Matt (Western fiction writer) author. Cole

Boyd rode alone

Matt (Western fiction writer) author....

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Alvin Boyd was a killer - not a bad man - and when he tried to escape his past, he found he stood alone. After Alvin's death, looking to avenge him, his brother Asa rides into town - and straight into a white-hot range war. Quickly finding a job as the town's...

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Massacre at Maple Bluff by Brent Larssen

Massacre at Maple Bluff

Brent Larssen

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When Cade Kellerman and his gang bungled their robbery of a train and killed more than twenty passengers, they could not have known that the husband of one victim was himself a former bandit, who would stick at nothing to revenge himself on those he blamed for...

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