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Pub. Date
1983, c1953
Language
English
Description
Alton Burwick was itching to make a big land grab at Yellow Butte. But first, he had to drive the tough band of squatters from the range. So he rounded up a bunch of killers for the job, and hired Tom Kendrick to ramrod the crew, never mentioning that they would be fighting innocent men and women. Suddenly Kedrick realized he would have to do something fast--before Burwick's mob turned Yellow Butte into a wasteland.
2) Flint
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Pub. Date
[1960]
Language
English
Description
After his wife tries to kill him, Jim Kettleman heads back West to die alone at an old friend's hide-out.
3) Sackett
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English
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A long-time drifter, William Tell Sackett hungers for a place to settle down and build a life. His search takes him to a ghost trail that leads to a secluded and very beautiful valley holding a fortune in gold. Meeting Angie Kerry, a woman as courageous and resourceful as she is beautiful, Tell begins to dream of a home in the untamed valley. But, knowing that dangerous men would follow him there looking for gold, Tell is forced to preserve his claim...
4) Hondo
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English
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The year is 1874, and the whites have broken their treaty with the Apache Nation. Hondo, a U.S. Cavalry dispatch rider, encounters a woman and her son living alone in Apache territory, and leads them to safety, falling in love along the way.
8) Matagorda
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English
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Tap Duvarney lost his innocence in the War Between the States and then put his skills to the test as a soldier in the frontier army. Now he has settled on the Texas coast, working a ranch as the partner of his old friend Tom Kittery, and finding himself in the middle of a feud between Kittery and the neighboring Munson family. But the danger from outside Kittery's camp is nothing compared to the threat within, as Duvarney begins to suspect that Kittery's...
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"In one swift moment, a fall wiped away his memory. All he knew for certain was that someone wanted him dead-- and that he had better learn why. But everywhere he turned there seemed to be more questions-- or people too willing to hide the truth behind a smoke screen of lies. He had only the name he had been told was his own, his mysterious skill with a gun, and a link to a half million dollars' worth of buried gold as evidence of his past life. Was...
11) Crossfire trail
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Language
English
Description
Rafe Caradec--gambler, wanderer, soldier of fortune--was as hard a man as the battlefields and waterfronts of Latin America could fashion, but his word was good. As Charles Rodney lay dying in a dank ship's fo'c'sle, Rafe swore to make sure that Rodney's ranch went to his daughter, Ann. In Painted Rock, Wyoming, Caradec found land for a man to love, miles of rolling grasslands and towering mountains. He also found that one of the most ruthless men...
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English
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Holed up in a cabin in the Idaho hills, the mysterious man who called himself Trent wasn't looking for trouble. It came looking for him. A trigger-happy kid named Cub Hale emptied his gun into an unarmed man. Then he came swaggering after Trent. The girl who ran the gambling hall tried to get him to hightail it. But Trent wasn't buying. Even in that forsaken back country, he knew when a man had to speak with his shooting iron.
15) To tame a land
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English
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Rye Tyler was 12 when he saw his father cut down in an Indian raid. Taken in by a mysterious stranger with a taste for Shakespeare and an instinct for survival, Rye is schooled in the lessons of a hard country.
16) Conagher
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English
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In this classic L'Amour adventure, a dark-eyed drifter wages a war against a murderous band of rustlers. As far as the eye could see was a vast, lonely horizon. And Evie Teale and her two children were all alone here now, alone in an untamed country where the elements, the Indians, and the thieves made it far easier to die than to live. But soon a man named Conagher would drift into her life -- and together they would have the courage to make a stand....
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English
Description
Milo Talon signs on as a hand at the Stirrup-Iron ranch and soon finds himself involved in trying to get to the bottom of a mysterious smuggling operation which has been going on for a number of years and which has set rancher against rancher, threatening an all-out range war.
20) Ride the river
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Series
The Sacketts volume 5
Language
English
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Description
No matter that Echo Sackett was young, and a woman, and had never been far from the valley, she was still a Sackett. She was sharp and smart and a better hunter than most of the men she knew. Like her bold ancestors, Echo couldn't ignore a challenge. A sure hand with a horse, a dead shot with a rifle, and fast with her wits, Echo traveled to the mountains of Tennessee, coming up against ruthless killers who would stop at nothing to cheat her out of...
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