Dane Coolidge
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English
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Riding on the trail into Maverick Basin, Hall McIvor is waylaid at gunpoint by the Scarboroughs. Convinced that he is a gunfighter riding to join their enemies, the Bassetts, they take him to an abandoned cliff-dwelling to question him, threatening to hang him. Telling them his name is Hall, he admits that he is searching for someone, but will not tell them the person's name. The Scarboroughs leave him tied to a post, but soon return with another...
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Pub. Date
2009.
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255 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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Horse-Ketchum was Johnny Lightfoot's nickname, a fighting name given to him by his Indian companion, Captain Jack. His adventures and triumphs in cowtown "civilization" make stirring reading -- and his love story is one of the strangest romances of those bold frontier days. Horse-Ketchum of Death Valley is the perfect tale for those who like a rattling good yarn of the Old West when bullets flew freely, and cowboys and settlers both were hard-riding,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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317 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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"The town of Hackamore, Arizona, needed someone who could stop the G Bar outfit from terrorizing the town. After much debate, they settled on Lum Martin, express messenger, border deputy, and gunfighter. He agreed to take the job if they would let him hire Syc Brown as his deputy. The wires summoned Sycamore Brown from his peaceful PapaguerÃa home and he came to be the outfightingest fool in Arizona. Lum and Syc, along with another deputy, Jack Haines,...
12) The desert trail
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Pub. Date
2023.
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309 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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"When Bud Hooker offered to buy a sandwich for a shabby little man whom he assumed was the town bum, he had no idea the man was Henry Kruger, who had just sold a mine for fifty thousand dollars cash and had more besides. Thinking he may have offended the wealthy man, Hooker decided to find Kruger and apologize. Amazingly, Kruger was not offended, but impressed. The country was full of greedy men, but few generous men. Kruger invited Bud to join him...
17) Wunpost
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Pub. Date
2012.
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303 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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Wun post was the nickname bestowed on John C. Calhoun, who, though he came from a good old southern family and had the profile of a bronzed Greek god, was so illiterate that, when he found a goldmine and wanted to call it "One Post," he spelled it wrong, and it became forever "Wunpost." Though Calhoun actually discovered three mines, he was cheated out of two of them by old Judson Eells, his lawyer-friend Lapham who knew how to draw up a contract...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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278 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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"In the early 1880s, the Texas Rangers were beginning to bring law and order to that wild country. When a particularly pesky gang of bad Indians had to be cleaned up, Jess Roundtree was the man who undertook the job. He set out to get them and a clever stratagem soon had their leader, Mysterious Dave, in jail. That, however, was only the beginning of his troubles. It soon became apparent that he was not after a band of Indians, but a group of whites...