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1) Remembered
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Fountain Creek chronicles volume 3
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Veronique Girard sets off to Colorado Territory from France after the death of her mother. She is searching for her father, who set off to make his fortune in American as a fur trader twenty-five years ago. Unfamiliar with the language, customs, and the land, Veronique sets out on a dangerous journey to find a man she doesn't remember and answers to her questions. Jack Brennan has been working himself to death for the past fifteen years as a wagon...
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John Henry Cole novels volume 1
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John Henry Cole is a hardcase frontier detective with the Ike Kelly Agency whose conscience and firearms hamper his attempts to solve the murders of three young prostitutes in the employ of Ike Kelly's former sweetheart, now a high-class bordello owner, who wanted Ike for the job but got John Henry instead.
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Pub. Date
c2010
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"A spunky young seamstress weaves her own story in a world run by men. When news of a silver strike reaches her Virginia hometown, Abigail Watts packs up her needles and thread and follows her beloved father out West. But when she's suddenly left along in the rough mining town of Calico, California, Abigail finds herself pressed into a marriage of convenience with the local livery owner, Nathan Hawk. Determined to uncover the mystery surrounding her...
4) Mojave
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Pub. Date
2014.
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Stranded in the Mojave Desert, Micah Bishop is about to cash in his chips for good when he's rescued by an unlikely savior. Whip Watson is hand-delivering two dozen brides to the silver boom town of Calico, where miners are going loco for companionship. Better still, Watson asks Micah if he'd help escort the wagons --and far be it for Micah to pass up both cash and some very pretty faces. But Micah doesn't know that Whip Watson has some killer competition....
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Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Surviving in the uncivilized mining camps was a day-to-day struggle for most of the women living in those makeshift communities of the late 1890s and early 1900s. The stories included in Colorado Mountain Women convey many of their experiences. They battled extreme weather conditions, isolation that could drive a person mad, disease that often took their children from them, poverty and starvation, and primitive living conditions. All the stories are...
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Surviving in the uncivilized mining camps was a day-to-day struggle for most of the women living in those makeshift communities of the late 1890s and early 1900s. The stories included in Colorado Mountain Women convey many of their experiences. They battled extreme weather conditions, isolation that could drive a person mad, disease that often took their children from them, poverty and starvation, and primitive living conditions.
8) Silent Hawk
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Pub. Date
c2007
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The Templeton family comes west and settles in the rugged and dangerous mining camp at Alder Gulch in the Montana Territory in 1863. they find the ruthless camp is besieged by murderous road agents and lawmen that are led by the corrupt Sheriff Henry Plummer. Hezekiah Templeton, the teenage son, and his friend, Isaac, find the lawless camp filled with intrigue and adventure. They befriend an old Indian that is surrounded by mystical Indian Spirits,...
Author
Series
Fountain Creek chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
When Veronique Girard was five, her father left for America to amass a fortune and send for his family. After 25 long years, a deathbed promise carries Veronique from Paris to Willow Springs to find her long-lost father-said to be mining the near-by mountains. But when she asks local freighter Jack Brennan to take her on his treacherous mining camp deliveries, neither realizes how much such a simple request will forever alter their lives.