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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Clint Cooper, the easy-going foreman of the Double-V-Bar Ranch, expects little in return for his labor other than the satisfaction of a hard day's work. So when Sioux raiders descend on Yellowstone Valley, threatening not only the livestock, but also the locals, it's no surprise when Clint goes above and beyond to protect his folk and his livelihood - joining with soldiers from neighboring Fort Keogh to hunt the Sioux down. But while most people are...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
While searching for Luis and Teto Torres, the notorious leaders of the ruthless Gun Killers Gang, Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack finds himself at the tender mercy of Erin Donovan, who has a secret that could get them both killed.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When young Richard Gale arrives in the Arizona border town of Casita, he finds himself surrounded by Mexican and American troops, bandits and renegades--and makes an enemy of Rojas, a vicious Mexican bandit leader.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Russell Archer dreams of having his own land. After a season of work on Lidge Mercer's Wyoming ranch, he's offered a junior partnership. But with Lidge's past, is it partner or bodyguard? Meanwhile, Archer helps a young woman named Kate find her father, Jack Doolin, in another town. Back at the ranch Archer finds Lidge Mercer dead, and Doolin gives him possible leads. Now Doolin is dead, and the killers are coming for Archer.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Wealthy archaeologist Lawrence Haslett has located an important site for artifacts of an ancient tribe of Indians in the Lost River Valley. Haslett hires talented photographer Sidra Givens to accompany and record the expedition. But what Sidra encounters as they enter Lost River Valley is a climate of ceaseless and unrelenting violence, terror, and greed which makes her very survival an incredible challenge.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"John Meadows has been forced off his Eastern Wyoming ranch, shot and left for dead by gunman working for Harold Winston, whose plans call for owning half the territory. Jake Summers of the Box T discovers Meadows just barely alive, and sets in motion an undercover plan to win back the Meadows Ranch. Things become complicated by the sudden return of Sarah Meadows, the old man's daughter, who has her own plans for discovering the truth and securing...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Since losing his wife and daughter, Samuel Tucker has wandered, drunk and bereft of a reason to go on. Now in Oregon's Rogue River region, he sees two men gun down a third. After they leave, he takes the dead man's pistol and goes to the next town, where he learns that Payton Farraday, a well-liked local rancher has been murdered -- and becomes a suspect in the shooting. But Emma Farraday, the victim's niece, believes in Samuel's innocence -- and...
70) Wind river
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Buffalo hunter Cole Tyler rode with Jeb Stuart leading wagon trains across the West. Now he's riding the very first train into Wind River, its cars packed with saloonkeepers and swampers eager to make a killing. Within minutes, a prominent citizen lies dead. Within hours, Tyler is buffaloed into wearing the marshal's star. And within days, he's facing down thundering stampedes and a ruthless killer, as Wind River becomes a town with its own brand...
71) Preacher's rage
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"For the greatest trapper in the country, there's no place like the Rocky Mountains. Preacher and his son Hawk are riding the High Lonesome when the clear mountain air is split by a girl's savage screams. A gang of ruthless trappers has kidnapped a Crow woman, but before they escape with her, Preacher and Hawk burst out of the tree line, guns spitting fire. They drive the trappers off, only to find that she's not Crow, but white. Caroline has been...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Nathaniel Hapgood headed West in 1873 to stake a homestead claim in the Arizona Territory, he wagered it would take backbreaking labor to carve out a living -- nothing his Yankee know-how couldn't handle. But nothing in his New England upbringing prepared Nathaniel for Don Ignacio Olivera, who flew the Mexican flag over his hacienda and had his own private army to protect the vast lands his family had held for over one hundred years.
73) Once a ranger
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ex-Ranger Phil Guthrey swore he'd never stop roaming the West, bringing justice to the lawless. But after cleaning up Crook County, Arizona, he finds himself not only elected county sheriff but settling down with a pretty, young wife. Except keeping the peace in Crook County is less relaxing than Guthrie would have imagined. Border bandits accustomed to raiding the territory at will are not too keen on giving up the practice. Between his new wife...
75) Jury of six
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a time when the law was spread thin and honest men and women took care of difficulties by the law of rope and gun, families like the MacMahons were the backbone of the developing west. For eight years, the disappearance of Niobrara ranchers Owen and Aiden MacMahon remained a mystery. When an outlaw gang leaves another MacMahon for dead, the MacMahons hunt them down, only to find an old enemy -- and the answer to the eight-year-old mystery.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Rising out of the Oklahoma dustbowl, Charles Arthur Floyd became the most wanted man in America. While Bonnie and Clyde were robbing and shooting their way across the Southwest, Charley was robbing banks from Kansas City to Ohio. The news was full of stories about Dillinger and Capone, but no one had what "Pretty Boy" Floyd had: a taste for fancy clothes, fancy cars, and beautiful dames -- and uncommon good luck.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The legend of Robert Fernald is narrated here in three related short novels. Fernald had been raised from childhood by his uncle with endless tales about the great days of the Wild West and the escapades of his father and Wild Bill - with a certain vagueness about which side of the law Fernald's father was on. Now Robert is back in the West with no ambition but to pursue exploits like those he grew up hearing about.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After the Civil War, increasing numbers of white settlers struggled with the Indians for land on the plains - a situation tailor-made for Major Samuel Burkhalter's dreams of personal glory. But Lt. Martin Keefe saw the Major's ambition ruin his father's career, and now it is threatening his own. And Joe Moya's wife and children were killed in a massacre by the Major's troop. Hungry for revenge, Moya arranges an ambush at Rialto Creek.
79) The wild gun
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When ranchers have a problem, they send for Cordwainer Wild. Cord always tries to apprehend his charges peaceably, but often he's forced to bring them in boots first. And when he kills a pair of horse thieves in self-defense, Cord finds himself facing down a powerful enemy from his past. The two thieves worked for Horace Weatherall, an outlaw closely tied to the murder of Cord's father. And Horace is determined to see Cord go the same way.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Hard times set two young lovers, Claude and Myra, on the road to get rich quick. But the trick to being bad is living to spend the loot. On the back roads and byways of America, they'll 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 . . . If you hold your gun steady and don't flinch when you look the Devil...
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