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When Henry Ireland dies unexpectedly from what appears to be a riding accident in August 1863, the failed landowner leaves behind little save his high-strung young widow, Isabel-who somehow ends up in the home of Ireland's friend James Dixey. A celebrated naturalist, Dixey collects strange trophies in his secluded, decaying manse and has questionable associations with rather unsavory characters-including a pair of thuggish poachers named Dewar and...
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Sheriff Aaron Mackey Westerns volume 2
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A rash of deadly train robberies has the chief investor of Dover Station feeling itchier than a quick draw without a target. And he wants Sheriff Aaron Mackey to scratch that itch with every bullet his battered badge authorizes him to shoot. When Mackey and his backup gun down four kill-crazy bandits, they uncover a plot cooked up by respected citizens of Dover Station—someone who can pull enough strings to replace Mackey with a disgraced marshal...
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The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century
From America's most popular, bestselling Western writer, each novel in this brilliant new series follows the trail of a different gun--each gun with its own fiery story to tell.
On the American frontier, every gun tells a story.
A boy in Texas waits for a Christmas present he chose from a Montgomery Ward catalog. The present, a brand new, lever action Winchester 1886 and a box of its big.50-caliber...
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2013
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Outlaw Wes Cavanaugh knows that crime doesn't always pay, at least not much. That's why he and his partner, Mose, are willing to pay Jimmy Stock for information on a job that is guaranteed to pay off big. Jimmy has made a career of selling tips to bandits, but the job he sells Wes,a payroll train about to leave Omaha, requires more than information. It requires a straight shooter who can hit targets from a long distance away and in the outlaw business,...
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In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive?...
6) Wide loop
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Center Point Large Print
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2018.
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"Not far from Tombstone, Arizona, Burt Alvord agrees to help Bella Norton save her ranch, but can't pass up the opportunity to organize a train robbery"--
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Center Point Large Print
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2017.
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"Texas, 1874. Texas Ranger Jim Blawcyzk is riding the El Paso Limited en route to a routine assignment ... until the train is wrecked and robbed. What at first appears to be an isolated train robbery leads him to a much larger plot to destroy the Texas and Pacific Railroad and puts a target on his back."--
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Old cowboys never die volume 1
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When two cattlemen who are near retirement attempt to deliver their last two thousand cows in hopes of one final payday, they must stop their boss's lawyer who is plotting to steal the workers' cash.
Trail-hardened cattlemen and longtime buddies Casey Tubbs and Eli Doolin learn their bosses are getting out of the beef business. The two plan to deliver the last two thousand cows to Abilene, collect their pay, and retire. There's just one problem:...
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Slocum volume 430
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Jove Books
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2014.
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"Down on his luck in San Francisco, John Slocum takes a contract with the Central California Railroad. He's given the difficult task of locating a stolen shipment of silver worth over one hundred thousand dollars, but he catches a break when he discovers that the company's attractive secretary, Tamara, was an accomplice in the robbery. Too bad his employer would rather believe in the thief's feminine wiles than in Slocum's cold hard facts. Fuming...
10) Radiant apples
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Subterranean Press
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2021.
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"Nat Love has had enough adventures for ten men. From son of a former slave, to buffalo soldier, to gun hand, to Marshal for Hanging Judge Parker. Now, entering old age, he's a train porter. A job he's happy to have, but not exactly the cream of his life. And then an unlikely train robbery and a moment of bravery gives him an opportunity to relive his past and perhaps redeem his wayward son. He's still got the skills, but he's also older and stiffer,...
11) Wyoming manhunt
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Center Point Large Print
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2021.
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"As vigilantes tightened the rope around George Parrott's neck, they gave him one last chance to identify his confederates in the holdup of the U.P. pay train that had taken place two years earlier. "Jack Campbell," he gasped. "Jack Campbell and Homer Hatch!" Jack Campbell lay dead by the gun in nearby Montana. But Homer Hatch, under another name, had been living among them for the past year or more. Of the several hundred inhabitants of Rawlins,...
12) Killing blood
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
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2017.
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"What sort of men rob a train, collect the loot and then start shooting everyone on board? Billy Young doesn't know the answer to that question. But one of the passengers was his brother, and he intends to do whatever it takes to find out. And once he does, he'll exact his vengeance with pleasure. And he'll exact it in blood. Wyoming is now a state, but not much has changed on the range. The big outfits still make the rules, and that is a lesson they...
13) Forbidden valley
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Cneter Point Large Print
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2019, c1955
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English
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"Harry Riley and his pal, Dough McLaren, are the type of cowboy that the Old West has always been proud of. Allan Vaughan Elston spins a fine tale of their fighting efforts for the cause of law and order. There's plenty of action as Riley and McLaren start off to capture a gang of train robbers. They fail to recover the stolen loot, but chance to run across an important clue to the mystery of who is blackmailing Jim Hutton. One of Sheridan, Wyoming's...
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Wolf Stockburn novels volume 4
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"Stretching across the wild western frontier, the railroad needs guardians like Wells Fargo detective Wolf Stockburn. Known as the Wolf of the Rails, the steely Scotsman is as cold and hard as the tracks he rides -- and those too foolish to fear him will soon lie dead at his feet . . . When train robbers hit the Boot Hill Express -- so called because of all the people riding it who have ended up dead -- with a full head of steam, Wolf Stockburn makes...
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Wolf Stockburn novels volume 1
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"The newspapers call them the Devil's Horde. A well-oiled team of cutthroat bandits who terrorize the Northern Pacific Railway on route to the coast through Dakota Territory. They dynamite the tracks, blow open the express car door, murder the crewmen, rob the passengers, and empty the safe of gold and cash. If Wells Fargo & Company can't find a way to stop the Devil's Horde, there'll be hell to pay . . .Enter Wolf Stockburn. A tall rangy Scotsman...
16) 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 downf,,"f,,ef,,"though not completely by choice. The youngest members of their old...
17) Kill me tomorrow
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Old cowboys never die volume 3
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Texas good old boys Doolin and Tubbs take on a pair of copy-cat outlaws--and prove they're not getting older, they're getting deadlier--in their latest, greatest adventure form the bestselling Johnstones... Some say the Wild West is no country for old men. But apparently no one told Eli Doolin and Casey Tubbs. This rowdy pair of cowboys may be a bit long in the tooth but--thanks to the success of their new business venture, the D&T Cattle Company--they're...
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