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342) Cast a wide loop
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"By the autumn of 1883, the wild country west of Holt County was getting organized. Brown County was carved out of Holt and Long Pine precinct early in the year, and the railroad reached Stuart and Bassett and rolled on to Valentine. Telegraph lines ran between the cities, and newspapers-Lord, the newspapers!-were everywhere with their blaring headlines. Progress, every place you looked. But when Augustus "Gus" John is caught between the vigilantes...
343) Pony boys
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"In 1879, the notorious horse thief Doc Middleton rules the Niobrara rough country west of Holt County, Nebraska, with a loose affiliation of young outlaws, dubbed the Pony Boys. Albert "Kid" Wade, August John, Windy Barnes, Boots Harper, and a dozen other amoral roughnecks spent their days stealing horses, raising hell, and generally having the time of their lives. But nothing lasts forever, and the unorganized territories west are succumbing to...
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2022.
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"In this compelling new installment of bestselling author Ralph Compton's Sundown Riders series, a man seeks revenge for the death of his wife and sons while caring for his traumatized daughter. Carl Novak returned to the Texas hill country after fighting in the Civil War, but unlike most of his neighbors, Carl didn't fight for the Confederacy. He was a Union soldier. Carl tries to resume his life as a farmer with his wife and three children. One...
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Crooked sheriff Harry Gauge rules Trinidad, New Mexico, with an iron fist. His latest scheme is to force George Cullen to sell his ranch and take Cullen's beautiful daughter for his bride--willing or not. But the old man isn't going down without a fight. He sends a telegram to the West's toughest hired gun. And when a stranger rides into town, no one knows who he is, where he came from, or where he's going. But it's deadly clear that he's a man who...
346) Shadow of a dead man
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"The top dogs of bestselling western action thrillers hit the bullseye with Shotgun Johnny, a disgraced lawman whose quest for vengeance becomes a legendary fight for justice. Shotgun Johnny Greenway thought he'd hit rock bottom when he lost his wife and son, hung up his badge, and hit the bottle. But a pretty young woman gave him a second chance. Offered him a job riding shotgun for the Reverend's Temptation Gold Mine. Gave him a reason to live....
347) Flintlock: gut-shot
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Flintlock (William W. Johnstone) volume 1
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$10,000. That's bounty on the head of the most hated man in Texas--the man that Flintlock has been hired to guard. The crime was the brutal murder of a young schoolteacher. The verdict was not guilty for lack of evidence. And the suspected killer's first guard was murdered by a shotgun blast. What makes Flintlock believe in this man's innocence? Call it a gut instinct. Or maybe just a hankering for a fight. Because Flintlock knows that some very powerful...
348) Walker's wedding
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Western sky volume no. 3
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Abandoned by his fiancée hours before their wedding, Walker McKay is determined to never let a woman near his heart again, but he needs an heir to inherit his ranch after he is gone. Courting someone new is out of the question, so he'll have to find a wife another way. Wealthy heiress Sara Livingston wants to be married, but her suitors are deemed unsuitable by her unreasonable father. When the opportunity to fill the bill for a mail-order bride...
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Tinhorn western volume 1
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"Flint Moran was fourteen years old when the Civil War ended. He was fifteen when his family bought a plot of land near Tinhorn, Texas. He was barely nineteen when he caught a pair of rustlers stealing cattle - and singlehandedly brought them to justice. How did a teenaged boy track down and capture two hardcase thieves without any help? That's what Tinhorn sheriff Buck Jackson wants to know. He can't help but be impressed by Flint's sharp eye and...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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Frontier life is hard enough without having kids to worry about-especially for a widower like Paul Meakes. Still, hes resolved to stay in the small Colorado town his son and daughter call home. So when his daughter is hit by a seemingly poisoned arrow during an Indian raid, Paul is determined to track them down and bring them to justice. But when the trail leads from a close call with Indian warriors to a deadly intrigue, Paul discovers that the dangers...
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The Indians around Fort Laramie, Wyoming are peaceful. Or so it has seemed - until killers ambush a detail of U.S. soldiers and an officer's wife. One man, an ambitious cavalry officer, flees the carnage and lives to tell the story - his own story, an outright lie. When Duff MacCallister and a few brave men go after the attackers, they discover the officer's wife is very much alive and at the cold merciless hands of the sadistic warrior Yellow Hawk....
352) The Horse soldier
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Pub. Date
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...
353) Devil's gulch
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2023.
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"John Holt is a traveling gunslinger. He's been liberating dirty towns west of the Mississippi of murdering outlaw trash ever since the Civil War ended. No questions asked. Payment on demand. The only way out of this town is in a pinewood box. Holt's latest job is in Devil's Gulch in Colorado Territory. But wiping out bands of bank robbers is just the beginning. More disorder is brewing, and the skittish mayor has handpicked Holt as the new sheriff....
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Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger novels volume 5
Josiah Wolfe Texas Ranger novels volume 5
Joshiah Wolfe Texas Ranger volume 5
Josiah Wolfe Texas Ranger novels volume 5
Joshiah Wolfe Texas Ranger volume 5
Pub. Date
2012
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After a prostitute is murdered at the local Saloon, Ranger Josiah Wolfe finds his friend, Scrap Elliot, wrongly accused. A familiar horse and a mysterious code are the only clues Josiah has to prove his friend's innocence. With a new railroad line blazing into town, everyone is determined to clean up Austin. Faced with the ticking clock, Wolfe must find out who it was that went one step too far.
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Ezekiel Flagg volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Zeke Smith is a drifter, a former bounty hunter, army scout, and lawman trying to escape from, and make up for, his violent and passionate past. Along his journey of self-imposed penance and exile, he aids others in difficulty wherever he stops and stays. Arriving in the quiet Arizona town of Pleasant Grove, he discovers that the town does not live up to its name. A corrupt marshal and his criminal deputies run roughshod and unchecked over the citizens...
356) The Marauders
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Texas volume Book 3
Pub. Date
2023.
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"With the battle for Texas independence fought and won, and the Union being torn apart by civil war, a new threat has arisen on the border between Mexico and the Republic of Texas. John Henry McAllen hoped his fighting days were over. But when the corrupt sheriff of Brownsville is gunned down by a Mexican ex-soldier, Sam Houston - now the Texas governor - declares martial law. Yet another war is about to erupt, and McAllen's son Gideon is taken captive....
357) Downriver south
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Ridge Parkman volume 5
Pub. Date
2023.
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"The bloody Civil War has ended at last, and Marshal Ridge Parkman is looking forward to visiting his family at last in exhausted, war-torn western Missouri. But no sooner has he settled in to relax and catch up on things, then whimsical fate drops a mission in front of him that he can hardly ignore. The next thing he knows, he's on a steamboat heading down the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. His assignment is to track a father-son team who are fleeing...