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Logan Cates knew the many ways the Arizona desert could kill a man. He had ridden the sunblasted dunes, tracked the Apache over barren lava beds, sheltered in the dry washes of this forbidding land. Above all, he knew a man needed water to survive. Cates rode to Papago Wells a few miles ahead of an Apache war party led by the vicious Churupati. There he met a dozen desert wanderers whom chance had led to the only water between Yuma and hell. There...
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Publisher's description: With the end of the Civil War, the nation recommenced its expansion onto traditional Indian tribal lands, setting off a wide-ranging conflict that would last more than three decades. In an exploration of the wars and negotiations that destroyed tribal ways of life even as they made possible the emergence of the modern United States, Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail. He illuminates...
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The town of Rafter Crossing had been simmering for some time when Mike Shevlin rode in. The quiet ranching community has turned into a booming mining town, and the newfound wealth has made Rafter Crossing anything but peaceful. The cattlemen are bound and determined to close down the mines because they're poisoning the range water. And the miners are stealing the high-grade ore that rightfully belongs to Laine Tennison. Mike Shevlin's mission is to...
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Buck's epic account of traveling the length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way--in a covered wagon with a team of mules, an audacious journey that hasn't been attempted in a century--tells the rich history of the trail, the people who made the migration, and its significance to the country.
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"In the shadow of the Prophecy Mountains, the ramshackle boomtown of Rattlesnake Wells draws schemers, predators, and desperate pilgrims. As for the law, that's the town marshal, a former Texas outlaw trying to make a new life for himself. But Sundown Bob Hatfield knows a man who's slick on the draw can't escape trouble for long. In Rattlesnake Wells, you fight fire with fire - and a new one has just exploded. An enterprising saloon owner stages a...
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Hank the Cowdog volume 73
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Happy the Lab is back on the ranch, and it looks like he's up to his usual good-natured, bumbling ways! And, it just so happens that he has wandered onto Hank's ranch on a particularly exciting day: rain has finally come to their drought-stricken land, and--what's even more exciting--radio reports claim that there's a mountain lion on the prowl in their area! As the day unfolds, it appears that the mountain lion report was bogus, which is a good thing,...
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[2019].
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"The colt was a gruella, a mouse-colored dun. He had a black stripe down his back, like most buckskins. He had white socks on each leg and the socks on his hind feet went almost up to his flanks. The socks on his front feet went to his knees. He had a wide blaze on the front of his face that went from between his ears down to his nose. His mane and tail were black. He also had some black stripes around his front legs above the socks. He made an impressive...
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2023.
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"The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists...
12) The wagon
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[2018].
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Cowboys out on a 'wagon' herding cattle and working through branding season in the backcountry of the West.
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2018-2024.
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2017
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With Rough Patches II, the follow-up to her acclaimed story collection Rough Patches, author Deanna Dickinson McCall has assembled another powerful collection centered on female protagonists in the ranch country of the contemporary American West. Shaped by challenging circumstances as well as the equally demanding landscapes they inhabit, her characters exhibit a brand of strength instantly recognizable to readers fortunate enough to know true “women...
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Jeston Nash) volume 4
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Jeston Nash fled a New Orleans billiards hall with a land deed in one hand, a blazing pistol in the other. Sheriff Pat Garret's promise still rang in Nash's ears: they would meet again. With the wild outlaw Billy the Kid, they ride for New Mexico, where for Nash the enchanted land holds the chance to exchange his hard-won land deed for the beautiful Contessa Cortez. But their dreams turn to dust when Sheriff Pat Garret shows up to take Nash down with...