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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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Brazos Keene is a cowboy with an honorable streak. When he stumbles into an unjust situation he just can't walk away. A man has been killed and the dead man's twin sisters are being forced off their ranch. Brazos decides to help them find the killers and get their ranch back.
4) War cry
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Will Cason's life once lacked purpose, but now that he is Fort Dodge's best scout, no one is complaining. Will's troubles begin when he saves a lovely widow named Sarah, who was helpless under Cheyenne Indian fire. His rescue has made him a mortal enemy of the Cheyenne and his life has taken a deadly new direction. Bloody Hand and his band of warriors are determined to avenge the deaths of their own by taking down this "white devil." But Will has...
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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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When a rivalry between a white rancher and a Mexican cattle baron escalates to deadly levels, young Texas Ranger Andy Pickard teams up with former Confederate soldier Farley Brackett to prevent a violent showdown.
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"Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country. The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits--75 cents--a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching...
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"Former Texas Ranger Andy Pickard ("Badger Boy" as he was known as a youth living among Comanches), leaves his fiancées farm in north central Texas. He begins to track the man, Luther Cordell, who he believes killed his friend, Sheriff Tom Blessing. Pickard is mistaken. But although Cordell did not kill Blessing, the robber-ringleader must be brought to Ranger justice and the rest sorted out later."--Publisher website: http://us.macmillan.com/hardtrailtofollow...
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In Texas Standoff, Ranger Andy Pickard and his partner, Logan Daggett, are sent to central Texas to investigate a series of killings and cattle thefts. The two biggest cattlemen in the area blame each other for the violence, but it seems to Andy that neither man may be guilty. The case is complicated by the rise of a gang of "regulators"-masked vigilantes-and the arrival of a notorious hired gunman whose employer is unknown. The murder of a captured...
10) The broken gun
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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...
11) Black mesa
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When Paul Manning set out in search of adventure, he didn't realize what was in store. He'd never been in a blistering hellhole like Bitter Seeps or met a man as crooked as Belmont. And he'd never laid eyes on a woman as good as Belmont's wife, Louise. Manning had an awful lot of growing up to do if he wanted to stay alive.
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"Jason Storm has had a career any lawman would be proud of, but now he's ready to take off the badge and begin a peaceful life as a modest cattle rancher. With the help of a generous benefactor, Storm is able to make a fresh start in Paradise Valley. But trouble comes in the form of six outlaws who raid Storm's benefactor, killing him and ambushing his men. After the massacre, the outlaws decide to take over the town. When the sheriff resigns rather...
13) Preacher's peace
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A young adventurer, seeking his fortune, becomes known as Preacher when he uses a preacher's skills and a mountain man's cunning to give his enemies hell.
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A Bullet for Buffalo Bill. No one knows better than the great showman William Cody what a burden fame can be, especially when he has to move quickly to narrowly dodge an assassin's bullet. Organizing a hunting party for himself and some would-be investors, Buffalo Bill knows he needs some professional protection, and the name Teddy Blue comes immediately to mind. The young Pinkerton agent with razor-edge instincts and dead-on aim once got Cody's pal...
15) Preacher's fire
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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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"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...
17) Wolf lawman
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Seven deadly men ride into the quiet town of Genesis, a peaceful place that is growing and prospering. John Fontana is a strong and capable marshal and he's had no trouble preventing lawlessness until this strange group appears. The deadly seven kill, rape, and plunder before riding out of town. The savagery of their violence quickly becomes legendary. There is only one way to stop them-someone has to track them down and slaughter them one by...
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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...
20) Big horn legacy
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It is 1850 in St. Louis, and Abriel Catton receives the last will of his father, Web Catton, an enigmatic mountain man. Among the papers are instructions that Ab must reassemble his family--brothers and sisters he can barely remember, that separated after the death of his mother. The race is on to locate Web Catton's legacy--and alude those in pursuit of the fortune.