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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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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2021.
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"Before he can retire to work his Montana ranch full-time, he has one more important task to perform. A junior marshal who Tillman appointed in Laramie, Wyoming, a few years earlier has taken a wrong path and Tillman must remove him from office. Tillman leaves his two grown sons and his sister, Alice, on the ranch and sets out for Wyoming by railroad. Along the way, Tillman makes a few detours and stops to visit old friends and colleagues. As he travels...
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Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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[2019]
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"Synopsis:Living in semiretirement with Kai, his soon to be wife, Murphy is called back to action by his former boss, ex-President Grant. Writing his memoirs, Grant is about to embark on a cross-country speaking tour and wants Murphy to act as his private bodyguard. Murphy agrees and the tour starts without a hitch until they reach Washington DC. At a prominent university in the Washington area, a man suddenly stands in the middle of Grant's lecture,...
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Youngblood brothers volume 1
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Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
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[2018]
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English
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Two Hawks, a once proud Comanche warrior defeated in battle is now living a quiet life of desperation on the reservation at Fort Smith, Arkansas. When word of Two Hawkss activity reaches Federal Judge Isaac Parker in Fort Smith, whose jurisdiction includes the reservation, he sends for the reservation Chief of Police Emmet Youngblood.
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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, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2019.
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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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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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Regulator volume 3
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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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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Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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[2021]
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"Living a quiet life of semiretirement with Kai, his new wife, Murphy is called back into action by President Arthur to assist the New York City police with a serial killer on the loose in the city streets. What baffles the police most is that the killer is using a .36 caliber cap-and-ball revolver to kill his victims with, a weapon that has been obsolete since the end of the Civil War. In New York, Murphy is reunited with his old friend Melvin Knoop,...
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