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2) The gunsmith
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Pub. Date
2010.
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160 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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Dave Petrie, with the best of intentions, rode out to avenge the raid on his town of Spartanville -- but what he succeeded in doing was to enrage a ruthless band of raiders. In retaliation, the raiders kidnapped four women from Spartanville. Now everyone is shaking the finger of blame on Dave Petrie himself. There is only one way that Dave will ever be able to hold his head high in the town of Spartanville again. He will have to find those renegades...
4) Gundown
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Pub. Date
2009.
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159 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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Edson Black was taken away in the Yuma prison wagon seven years ago. When he returned he was a shell of a man whose every outward appearance seemed to have aged at least thirty years. In the place of his thrusting long stride, was a dogged shuffle. Edson Black had shot a man - and no one believed him when he swore he had done so in self-defense. Someone had doctored the evidence to make Edson look guilty - plain and simple. Edson's sons were now grown...
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2010, 1984.
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159 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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Charley and Hank were sent to the south desert of Arizona to find and arrest an old outlaw named Peter Harkness. It was rumored he lived in Parral, a town that had a terrific water source, a boon in the desert. They found Pete, and when people heard who they were looking for, they found plenty of trouble, too.
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In Lost Valley, Douglas Hyland, the third-generation owner of a family ranching empire, is faced with the possible destruction of the empire by settlers who arrive on the land, claiming they have legal titles to it. Iron Marshall tells the story of Jim Collins, a marshal who should, according to some, move on and let someone else take over. But when a stranger comes to town, Collins enemies look to him to take action.
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Gunnison Butte: George Alden Morgan never knew his father and is abandoned at fourteen by his mother who runs off leaving him eleven silver dollors. George skips town after stealing a horse etc. and meets up with Boone Helm, a survivor in the wilderness. The Drifter: Jared Carson is a man on the move and finds a wrangling job on a small ranch. He gets along well with the ranch owner, and when the owner dies from a gun shot, Jared is left his ranch...
11) Lockwood
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After working a number of years in Montana as a rangeman, Cuff Lockwood wants to move on to a warmer climate and sets his direction toward New Mexico where he encounters Shelly Harrison, a woman he finds hard to forget.
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"Boothill's Ferryman" begins with a minor irritation. Link Tolliver, the new owner of Cobb's Ferry, has tripled the rates for the ferry and his speech and behavior, fueled by heavy drinking, offend the men and their families who must use the ferry. Sheriff Jack Masters gives Tolliver a warning, which he ignores. The situation escalates when Tolliver shoots a rancher and the sheriff is forced to take action. In "The Vermillion Kid," the Kid thought...
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Prairie Guns: Homesteaders have taken up land on the plains of Colorado that were formerly free range. Cattle baron Colton Miller and his hired gun riders hate the homesteaders, especially Buff Brady and Luther Hart, two former cowboys who hope to eventually throw their quarter-sections together to form a cattle ranch, but are viewed as traitors by the cattlemen. When the two are framed for rustling, they're arrested and jailed and their buildings...
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Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
207 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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The massacre at Fort Mims is what spurred young Davy Crockett to leave his family and become a volunteer scout in the military campaign between American militias and the Creek Indians. It was while serving in this capacity that Crockett earned his reputation as a first-rate scout, which added to his already established reputation as a crack shot. Like many volunteers serving in militias, Crockett also had to concern himself with protecting his wife,...
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"In "Renegade Rifles," the hostile Apaches have attacked a wagon convoy at night, a time when traditionally the Apaches do not fight. In "Trouble Weather," the herd being driven from Montana to make up the beef ration for the local reservation has been unaccountably delayed, causing a possible uprising. Cattle thieves in the Old West were never easy to apprehend, but when, as in "Rain Valley," they are protected by a mountainous terrain, a lawman...
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2012.
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198 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Jackson Miggs was a loner who wintered under the Ute Peak in his log cabin. He liked people well enough, but didn't care much for crowds. He even tolerated the cowmen like Hyatt Tolman who used the high meadows around Ute Peak to graze his herd -- even when the animals cropped the forage too closely and drove the elk and deer into the higher mountains. Miggs once told Frank McCoy that if he looked out a window and saw a building less than two hundred...
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