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"Jamie MacCallister remembers the Alamo--especially one brave frontiersman who died fighting there. Now the fallen veteran's granddaughter needs Jamie's help. She's found a letter written by her grandfather with a map to the spot where Alamo legend Jim Bowie supposedly hid a fortune in silver and gold. Jamie never believed the story. Countless treasure hunters had scoured the area and come up empty-handed. But his friend's granddaughter is convinced...
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University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"This is a tale about water, money, politics, and corruption in Nevada, in both the clamor of Las Vegas and the still of the desert. It's also about the struggle of men and women to find in this inhospitable world, and in one another, the means to make a life"--
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Bloody Joe Mannion volume 6
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English
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"Joe Mannion and his close friend, Wells Fargo detective Flint Henry, are on the trail of some of the most vicious killers Mannion has ever faced. Flint is killed so it's up to Bloody Joe to single-handedly retrieve the loot the gang stole from a train. He manages to take down the gang and secure the loot only to find himself facing yet another band of vicious killers who want to lay their own grubby hands on the cash. Bloody Joe, however, has other...
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Bloody Joe Mannion volume 8
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English
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As Marshal "Bloody" Joe Mannion takes the notorious prisoner Buzzard Lee to Battle Mountain through the rugged mountains of the New Mexico Territory, a chance encounter with a young woman shrouded in mystery thrusts Joe into a whirlwind of danger and intrigue. The girl has no recollection of her past, only vague memories of a harrowing escape through wind and rain. With Battle Mountain as the closest refuge, Mannion guides her to safety, yet the town's...
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Bloody Joe Mannion volume 4
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English
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Del Norte Town Marshal "Bloody" Joe Mannion and his junior deputy, Henry "Stringbean" McCallister, run down an especially violent as well as beguiling outlaw in the pretty form of Mathilda Calderon. The senorita is just one pretty girl, but she fights like a leg-trapped puma, leaving Mannion with an arm full of buckshot and Stringbean hurting where a man just shouldn't be attacked, gallblastit! Senorita Calderon is wanted not only for aiding and abetting...
7) Bear Gulch
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McCain chronicles volume 3
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Wolfpack Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023].
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English
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"Wherever he looked, he saw everything through the lens of his commitment, the Covenant he made with his wife to find her twin boys, deserters from the Union Army during a time of war. But in the wild of the frontier, in a time of discovery, conflict, and more, fate continually dealt him a difficult hand. Wherever he went, conflict put him in the middle of strife, hardship, and battle. First, against the rampaging Sioux under Red Cloud, the chief...
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Snake and the Dog-Man volume 1
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Wolfpack Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"It's the early 1870s, from the Rocky Mountains to northern Mexico a couple of drifters manage to discover their true purpose in life in this hard-hitting western adventure! A pair of nomadic cowboys are 'asked' to leave Deadwood and travel south to what they think would be gold country. Along the way, the two vagabonds manage to get in trouble, help others, cause trouble, and find the gold they set out for. Their adventures are rollicking fun some...
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Carson Stone western volume 2
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English
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Judged guilty by association when the marshal of El Paso, Texas, is gunned down by his former boss, reformed thief Carson Stone, to clear his name, teams up with bounty hunter Colby Tate to track down this ruthless outlaw and bring him to justice.
10) Shane
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University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"In this true Western classic Jack Schaefer tells the story of a mysterious stranger who finds himself in the Wyoming Territory joining local homesteaders in their fight to keep their land and avoid the intimidating tactics of cattle driver Luke Fletcher. While trying to leave his gunslinging days behind him, the mysterious stranger, Shane, is tested by Fletcher and his men. In Shane, Schaefer executes a perfect Western narrative while exploring the...
11) Jane Fury
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Cutting Edge Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"The Comanche Kid rides again in James Robert Daniels' sprawling, ambitious sequel to his wildly acclaimed and beloved debut, a Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist for Best Western Novel. It's been years since the brutal ordeal that earned teenage Jane Fury the nickname The Comanche Kid. Her violent, tragic past is a secret now, one she's tried to forget herself. But then a simple, chance encounter in a small Texas town brings it all back...
12) The aspen grove
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Jane A. Fulkerson
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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The Aspen Grove is a story about a third generation Irish immigrant family living in Colorado in 1883. Daniel O'Neal, his wife Johanna, their daughter Sarah and their hired hands live a frugal but rewarding life raising cattle. A catastrophic event changes all of their lives forever and their friends and neighbors must come to their aid. Sheriff Nathan Westphal and his Deputy Wilf Bennington, two men who served on opposite sides of the Mason-Dixon...
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Axel, Ella and her parents boarded their Denver-bound train. And as it was the first time that they'd experienced the incredible speed of riding the rails, his fiancée and his future in-laws were anxiously waiting for the engineer to open the locomotive's throttle. As Axel watched Ella stare through the window in anticipation of seeing the outside world whiz by, he believed all of the danger and uncertainty were over. After Mortimer Peel’s trial,...
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The Sacketts volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle of the Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one of our greatest storytellers. In The Warrior's Path, Louis L'Amour tells the story of Yance and Kin Sackett, two brothers who are the last hope of a young woman who faces a fate worse than death. When Yance Sackett's sister-in-law is kidnapped, he and Kin race north from Carolina to find her. They arrive at a superstitious town...
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Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Early one morning in the remote hill country of Texas, a panther savagely attacks a family of homesteaders, mauling a young girl named Samantha and killing her mother, whose final act is to save her daughter's life. Samantha and her half brother, Benjamin, survive, but she is left traumatized, her face horribly scarred. Narrated in Benjamin's beguilingly plainspoken voice, The Which Way Tree is the story of Samantha's unshakeable resolve to stalk...
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Five Star, A part of Gale, a Cenage Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Award-winning novelist Larry D. Sweazy's first published short story collection features eleven western stories, including a new short story, "A Cow Hunter's Lament." Three of the stories, "Rattlesnakes and Skunks," "Lost Mountain Pass," and "Shadow of the Crow," are origin stories for Sweazy's series characters Josiah Wolfe, Trusty Dawson, and Sonny Burton. The stories are traditional westerns with a few that have underlying mysteries, as well as...
17) The outlaw queen
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Brandiron volume Book 6
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Hat Creek, an imprint of Roan & Weatherford
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Mary Ann Cates owns a successful farm with her husband. While not wealthy by any means, life has been good, even with Charlie away most of the time buying and selling cattle. That all changes, though, when he ends up dead in a shootout with the law. Everything he'd ever told her has been a lie. "Cattle buyer" really meant "bank robber" and member of the notorious James Gang. Shattered and alone, the lovely widow is shunned by the citizens of her...
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Gunsmith volume 482
Publisher
Speaking Volumes, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Clarice DuPont is a famous songstress from the east whose manager convinces her it's time to go west. She does have second thoughts, however, which prompts him to find an escort/bodyguard for her. He decides to ask Clint Adams who finds the request different enough to consider. He comes to New York to meet the manager and Clarice and so begins an interesting trek east, beginning in Kansas City, Chicago, St. Louis, and across the Mississippi. Clint's...
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Eleven-year-old Axel Nielsen and his ten-year-old girlfriend Elsa Johannsen were happily chatting as they walked away from Winfield, Kansas' one-room school. But their cheery conversation quickly ended when they saw Elsa's father striding towards them with a somber look on his face. Axel thought Mister Johannsen was going to scold Elsa. But when he noticed a large cloud of black smoke rising into the air above his family’s farm, he realized her...
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Bloody Joe Mannion volume 5
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English
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When the big, savage bounty hunter, Ulysses Xavier Lodge comes to town wanting to spark one of Jane Ford's pretty doxies at the San Juan Saloon & Hotel, Jane and two bouncers give the bear-like giant the bum's rush. Incensed, Lodge returns to the parlor house and shoots Jane three times in the chest. Jane and Bloody Joe had been on the outs, their marriage dissolved, but now with Jane's life teetering on the edge, Joe realizes how much he really loves...
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