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"Not many men get a second chance at life. But thanks to a chief U.S. marshal who needs their help, the bank-robbing duo of Jimmy "Slash" Braddock and Melvin "Pecos Kid" Baker are on the right side of the law. As unofficial marshals, they've agreed to pick up three prisoners from a Milestown jail and escort them to Denver. Sounds easy enough--until they learn the prisoners are an unholy trio of sadistic cutthroat killers known as Talon, "Hellraisin'"...
2) Bad hombres
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"He blew into town like a tornado--a mysterious stranger with money to burn and a sadistic streak as wide as the Rio Grande. He says his name is Benson and he's come to invest in the town's future. First, he showers the banks and local businesses with cash. Then, he hires a pair of drunks to fight and get arrested so he can check out the local lawmen. After that, he warms up to a lady of the evening--with deadly results. That's just the beginning....
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In the fall of 1873, a wagon train of immigrants sets off from Missouri for the Montana Territory. Leading them is wagon master Jamie Ian MacCallister, a giant of a man who swears he can get them there by Christmas. The journey is plagued by brutal storms and rugged terrain, outlaws and hostile Indians. Just when things look nearly hopeless, two unlikely saviors arrive: an old mountain man known as Preacher and legendary frontiersman Smoke Jensen....
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Dan Sheridan, Vietnam veteran and writer of Westerns and history, had come to Arizona to research the Toomey brothers, who had vanished there 90 years earlier with 4,000 head of cattle and 27 hands. He was about to give up and go home when someone was killed. Then someone tried to kill him, which, naturally, got his attention and riled his curiosity. Now he wouldn't go until he found the truth...
Ninety years ago the Toomey brothers, along with...
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A big city like St. Louis is the last place a mountain man like Preacher would pick a fight. But how else will he get at the ruthless power broker who is using fear and bloodshed to take over the western fur trade? Shaving his beard, posing as a greedy hayseed from Ohio, Preacher comes face-to-face with Shad Beaumont--who is leaving St. Louis with an army of hired gunmen...with Preacher on his tail. The odds couldn't be better, for the wild frontier...
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"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...
8) Panhandle
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The Texas Panhandle of the late 1880s is America's last great open range. Into that wild unknown country ride two young cowboys: Nate Reynolds, the scion of a well-to-do family in search of adventure and gold; and Billy Champion, a ne'er-do-well with a stubborn streak and an eye for the ladies. Together they aim to rid this violent territory of rustlers, horse thieves, and the rest of the devils who slaughter innocents with no remorse. But when the...
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The Jensen and MacCallister families are of two of the most legendary clans in frontier fiction. Now, the "USA Today"-bestselling authors of "A Lone Star Christmas" bring them together in a gripping tale of tragedy, survival, love, betrayal, and maybe even a miracle. Original.
10) The jackals
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With Apaches on the prod, ex-cavalry sergeant Sean Keegan, bounty hunter Jed Breen, and ex-Texas Ranger Matt McCulloch take shelter in a West Texas way station-along with a hot-as-a-pistol female bound for the gallows, a spiteful newspaper editor, and a coward with $50,000 who promises them five grand if they'll deliver his blood-soaked stash to his wife.
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Three weeks before Christmas, the little town of Chug Water in Wyoming Territory is stunned by a brutal crime. The mayor's family has been slaughtered in cold blood on their ranch outside of Raw Hide Butte. As the townsfolk gather to pay their last respects, Duff MacCallister saddles up to go after the killers. He returns with two outlaws - a cold-blooded, nasty pair of snakes, Jesse and T. Bob Cave. But the day before they're sentenced to hang, the...
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They met on the battlefields of Vicksburg: Ulysses S. Grant, George Armstrong Custer, and Johnny Yuma. United by fate in a nation divided by war, they were destined for greatness. Of the three, Johnny Yuma was the most elusive. A Confederate soldier during the war, he was about to play a key role in Grant's victory, Lee's surrender, and Custer's deadly campaigns. His life is the stuff of legend. But the truth has never been told--until now.
13) The bank robber
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When his own land is stolen out from under him and the law will do nothing about it, Wilson Young straps on his gun and sets out to take the law into his own hands.
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Mormon elders in the town of Cottonwoods pressure the widow Jane Withersteen to remarry so that her lands and herds will remain in their control. Gradually they frighten away most of her cowboys, and rustlers steal away her cattle, but the gunfighter Lassiter stands by her as the inevitable confrontation draws near.
15) Desert gold
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"A border town like Casita is no place for a drifter - especially a rich man's son looking for adventure. From the moment Dick Gale steps into this stinking, sun-baked hellhole of gambling and corruption, revolution, and revenge, he gets more than a bargained for. His old friend Thorne is in love with a beautiful senorita who's been targeted by the Mexican rebel Rojas. A bold, sneering devil of a man, feared, envied, and idolized by his people, Rojas...
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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...
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Chet Byrnes has his hands full taking care of his family and running his ranch in Arizona Territory. But he takes his responsibilities as a deputy U.S. marshal seriously. Bandits have been crossing the border, cutting a bloody swath of mayhem and high-tailing it back to safety in Mexico. The chief U.S. marshal asks Chet to lead a secret task force to round them up dead or alive. But the bandits fight back -- putting a five-hundred-dollar bounty on...
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Smoke Jensen is in Corpus Christi, Texas, to take delivery of five hundred horses he purchased from an old friend. That's when Mexican revolutionary Colonel Bustamante Keno brazenly crashes the border, slaughters twenty-two innocent U.S. citizens, and steals a thousand head of cattle--along with two hundred of Smoke's horses. Going where the U.S. Army and the Texas Rangers cannot, Smoke crosses the border in hot pursuit. The Federales capture and...
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"Someone is terrorizing the Arizona border. Burning down ranches. Butchering travellers. Blazing a trail of bloodthirsty raids and robbing the railroads blind. His name is Melichus. A ruthless half-breed outlaw with a mile-long record of cruelties and crimes, he's the most wanted man in the territory. And the massive price on his head has attracted the attention of every trigger-happy, would-be bounty hunter this side of the Rio Grande. But Luke Jensen...