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Summary: It was no work for a woman. That's what they told Mary Breydon when she came to manage a rundown stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail. But Mary had no choice. Her fine Virginia home burned to ashes in the Civil War and her husband was brutally shot down on the way to Colorado. She needed to make a new beginning for herself and her young daughter on the raw frontier. Isolated in an untamed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1982
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Summary: Though primarily known as a novelist, L'Amour wrote hundreds of short stories. This volume collects 35 of his Western stories, the genre for which he has received the most notice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2007
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Summary: "The posse was aiming to string Matt Keelock up from the highest tree. But Keelock was a real he-coon. He should have been running scared, but he was playing Injun with them ... circling back and then coming up behind ... leaving crazy notes ... shooting up their canteens like they was clay pigeons. If they'd had any sense, they'd have turned back before they even started, 'cause when Keelock...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1986
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Summary: When an Indian brings news to Yance Sackett that his sister-in-law and a woman reputed to be a witch have been kidnapped by the bloodthirsty Pequot Indians, Yance and his brother Kin set out to find them. Searching the dangerous Warrior's Path, an old war trail that led from the vicinity of Chattanooga to Boston, they discover that ruthless white slavers, exploiting tensions between the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2011
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Summary: Presents a collection of tales of danger, hardship, and adventure in the Old West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005
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Summary: The story was that Eli Patterson had died in a gunfight, but Mike Shevlin knew it couldn’t be true: the man who’d been like a father to him had been a Quaker. But when Shevlin rides back to Rafter Crossing to uncover the truth, he finds that the quiet ranching community has become a booming mining town. Newfound wealth has not made Rafter a peaceful place, however, and the smell of fear and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1985
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Summary: Eight vintage stories of the Old West chronicle the adventures of Marshal Lou Morgan, Leo Carver, the Cactus Kid, and other tough heroes, accompanied by notes on western history and lore.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1990
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Summary: Lance Kilkenny has a debt to pay. Hes determined not to let the friend who saved his life go down in a range war. But when Kilkenny tries to stop the fighting, he finds there's more at stake than land and wire. Whoever is stirring up trouble has big ideas for the Live Oak country and has an army of hired guns to back them up. Nita Riordan, the beautiful and fiery owner of the Apple Canyon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1985
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Summary: "Ross Hardy had made his decision. He sat in the middle of all he owned, a splendid Appaloosa gelding, a fine California saddle, a .44 Winchester rifle, and two walnut-stocked Colt .44 pistols. These were his all. It was a life that had left him rich in experience but poor in good of the world. The experience was the hard-fisted experience of cold winters, dry ranges, and the dusty bitterness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1986
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Summary: They came west to stay, risking their blood to dig the gold, ride the range, conquer the greedy, and carve out a legacy of freedom. Men honed by desert fires and edged by combat with fist and gun. Women tested to the limit of endurance by an unrelenting land. Now, in a long-awaited collection of his stories, Louis L'Amour tells of the real heroes of the frontier, the survivors for whom hanging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1984
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Summary: Deep in Indian country, Major Mark Devereaux and his men find a grisly scene: a wagon train savagely attacked, with no survivors. One of the wagons originally with the group is missing; in it is a fortune in gold and Devereaux’s daughter, Mary. The slaughter, Devereaux learns, was not the work of Indians but of a murderous outlaw band. With the stakes rising in a deadly game, the only wild card...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1984
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Summary: Facts about the Sackett novels that includes real and fictional characters, geography, and historical eras.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1989
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1993
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Summary: Presents a collection of tales of danger, hardship, and adventure in the Old West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2006
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Summary: In Dutchman's Flat the bad rush in when the good leave, and men have to fight and shoot--not just over drunken squabbles and gambling debts, but for friendships, family love, and even honor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1987
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Summary: A novella and stories. In the novella, Rustler Roundup, the lone hero outwits a gang of cattle rustlers, Desperate Men is on a prison break during an earthquake, and in the title tale a cowboy finds women more of a challenge than a cattle drive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997
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Summary: THE TALL STRANGER: Wagon trains heading west were forced to defend themselves against Indians, cope with injuries and illness, and struggle to find food. The group of easterners Rock Bannon was scouting for faced another problem. They were being deceived. When he warned them to remain on the Humboldt Trail, Sharon Crockett and the others refused to listen. Mort Harper, a stranger riding a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avenel Books 1980
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Summary: Trouble was following Flagan Sackett with a vengeance. Captured and tortured by a band of Apaches, he had escaped into the rugged San Juan country, where he would try to stay alive until his brother Galloway could find him. But the brothers were about to find worse trouble ahead. Their plan to establish a ranch angered the Dunn clan, who had decided that the vast range would be theirs alone....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1970
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Summary: The story of a lonely, harsh man, yet beneath the harshness and the necessary violence, he was a kind and just man who had come to terms with the land in which he lived.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1981
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Summary: Joe Harbin and his men break out of prison and must trek across fifty miles of desert to retrieve the gold they stashed away, but success depends on surviving the desert heat, Yaqui Indians, and their own greed and suspicion
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1995
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Summary: Tap Duvarney lost his innocence in the War Between the States, and then put his skills to the test as a soldier in the frontier army. Now he has settled on the Texas coast, working a ranch as the partner of his old friend Tom Kittery - and finding himself in the middle of a feud between Kittery and the neighboring Munson family. Around Matagorda Island, most people are either backing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2002
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Summary: A former gunfighter becomes involved in a range war when a cattle baron decides to take over the land of small ranchers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1986
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1993
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Summary: Shell Tucker engaged the help of Con Judy when his father's horse, carrying $20,000 belonging to his family and that of the trusting people in his town, was run off by outlaws. He would go off on this journey as a boy, but he would come back a man -- or not at all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1984