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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
2016.
Language
English
Description
When a stranger named Dunbar comes to Cantera, he shows interest in local history, especially Frenchman's Quarry and the death of the owner's son twenty years earlier. He asks about the town marshal and about Dolores Carreau, the Frenchman's widow. Then the murders begin.
5) Castle Butte
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In 1890s Wyoming, seventeen-year-old Alden Clare assumes the responsibility of earning enough money to buy back his family's foreclosed land, taking care of his older brother's family, and helping the attractive daughter of a homesteader who is being harrassed by ruffians.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Dunbar, working on a ranch in the Niobrara country in Wyoming, connects the death of a hardscrabble homesteader with the death of an old horse trader some fifteen years earlier. As Dunbar goes to work on a corral project in town and then on fall roundup, more murders take place--a wandering drunk who has picked up gossip in an alehouse, and then the proprietor of the alehouse. People who know too much are being silenced. An old woman named Verona...
7) Silver grass
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Wilsey Grant is on his own when he meets a traveler on foot. The two arrive in the town of Silver Grass, where the other man finds work washing dishes. Wilsey goes out to look for work and meets an indentured servant girl, an orphan like himself. Before long, the fellow traveler turns up dead. Wilsey goes to work at the nearby Emerald Peaks Ranch, where he hears of ranch hands terrorizing the settlers, and he witnesses the shooting...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An aspiring Ohio transplant's dream of owning his own spread in turn-of-the-century Wyoming is put on hold due to a series of inconvenient murders. Earl Miner, who owns the Pick, makes no bones about insisting that every man who works for him file a claim to 160 acres under the Homestead Act and then sell it to him so he won't be troubled by competing ranchers in the Decker Basin. As soon as cowpuncher Reese Hartley bridles at that arrangement, foreman...
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