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Yuma, Arizona, in the early 1880s. When U.S. Marshal Dale Posey needs help bringing notorious outlaw Tom Spooner to justice, he turns to the one man he knows who can deliver: the former leader of Spooner's gang, a man now serving a lengthy sentence at Yuma Prison, Jack Posey, Dale's younger brother. Dale has a deal for Jack: a full pardon if Jack helps Dale capture Spooner and his gang. Jack doesn't exactly jump at the deal, but he does accept it,...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
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2017.
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"A veteran of the Civil War, Emmet Lang returned home to find his family murdered and the family farm destroyed. Wandering bitter and disillusioned, he struck upon an ideal way to make a living: stealing from criminals. An Indian Affairs agent is traveling by stagecoach to Denver carrying forty thousand dollars he embezzled from funds destined to help the native tribes. At a way station, Lang and his gang of three outlaws hold up the stagecoach and...
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"The Youngblood brothers, Jack and Emmet, are called back into service by Judge Isaac Parker in an all new historical western adventure. Sally Chisum, niece of the late John Chisum of New Mexico, sells one thousand head of cattle to the Indian reservation in Fort Smith. Nine drovers off the reservation agree to drive the herd from New Mexico to Arkansas. At the midpoint, just south of the Red River, the nine drovers are attacked and killed and the...
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Thorndike Press
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2015.
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"Soldier, sniper, Secret Service agent, regulator. Murphy answers only to the President. His latest assignment comes from President Garfield and is classified Top Secret. A serial killer is murdering railroad workers and settlers in the western states and territories. With nothing but his skill as a hunter and his knowledge of the budding science of forensics, Murphy begins a quest that takes him through a thousand miles of the west as he searches...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2018.
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"President Chester Arthur calls semi-retired Murphy back to duty when, with a meeting of world leaders in New York City approaching, prostitutes are being murdered and dismembered in the streets. Murphy is to take command of the investigation. Given the meeting's importance, Arthur also enlists the Pinkerton Detective Agency, saddling Murphy with diminutive Detective Melvin Knoop. From Scotland, he's rarely left the office but has a keen sense...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2019.
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English
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"1880's, runaway orphans, kidnapping, Medicine Bow, Wyoming"--
"Michael and Michele Dunn, twelve-year-old twins, are wealthy orphans living with their socialite businesswoman aunt, Angela Dunn, in Chicago. Angela is too committed to running the family business to raise the twins and she makes arrangements with the Illinois Detective Agency to send them to California to live with distant relatives. The detective agency is run by the son of its founder,...
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Regulator volume 3
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2017.
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Ranchers across the west are reporting large numbers of cattle stolen and refusing to drive their herds to market. If the cattle industry fails, the market will collapse. Their plea for help falls on the shoulders of William Burke, Special Assistant to the President, who calls Murphy, the Regulator, back into action to save the country from plummeting into a recession.
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