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In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive?...
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Will Tanner novels volume 2
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English
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"U.S. Deputy Marshal Will Tanner will risk everything to save his friend, U.S Deputy Marshal Ed Pine, and bring two desperados to justice"--
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The loner volume 14
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English
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"When The Loner is hired to go undercover as a train robber to discover what happened to Katherine Lupo's father--an outlaw who was murdered after being busted out of jail--he comes face to face with a cold-blooded master criminal who deserves to be put six feet under"--
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2014.
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English
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The genesis of the motion picture medium is vividly recreated in this unprecedented collection of the cinema's formative works. More than crucial historical artifacts, these films reveal the foundation from which the styles and stories of the contemporary cinema would later arise. An animated rendering of Eadweard Muybridge's primitive motion studies (1877-85) begins the program, immediately defining the compound appeal of cinema as both a scientific...
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Sheriff Aaron Mackey Westerns volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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A rash of deadly train robberies has the chief investor of Dover Station feeling itchier than a quick draw without a target. And he wants Sheriff Aaron Mackey to scratch that itch with every bullet his battered badge authorizes him to shoot. When Mackey and his backup gun down four kill-crazy bandits, they uncover a plot cooked up by respected citizens of Dover Station.
7) Outlaw train
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2010
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English
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Deputy Luke Cable's job has gotten a whole lot harder lately. He's been acting marshal since Marshal Ben Keely left on a trip east -- and disappeared. It's up to Luke to keep the peace, and that's hard to do since the arrival of the Outlaw Train, a traveling collection of curiosities, including the remains of notorious outlaws. But not all the outlaws in town are dead. Scar Nolan is very much alive. He came to town right after the train pulled in....
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Wolf Stockburn novels volume 1
Wolf Stockburn western volume 1
Wolf Stockburn railroad detective volume 1
Wolf Stockburn western volume 1
Wolf Stockburn railroad detective volume 1
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English
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"The newspapers call them the Devil's Horde. A well-oiled team of cutthroat bandits who terrorize the Northern Pacific Railway en route to the coast through Dakota Territory. They dynamite the tracks, blow open the express car door, murder the crewmen, rob the passengers, and empty the safe of gold and cash. If Wells Fargo & Company can't find a way to stop the Devil's Horde, there'll be hell to pay . . . Enter Wolf Stockburn. A tall rangy Scotsman...
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Old cowboys never die volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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When two cattlemen who are near retirement attempt to deliver their last two thousand cows in hopes of one final payday, they must stop their boss's lawyer who is plotting to steal the workers' cash.
Trail-hardened cattlemen and longtime buddies Casey Tubbs and Eli Doolin learn their bosses are getting out of the beef business. The two plan to deliver the last two thousand cows to Abilene, collect their pay, and retire. There's just one problem:...
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Wolf Stockburn novels volume 4
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"When train robbers hit the Boot Hill Express—so called because of all the people riding it who have ended up dead—with a head full of steam, Wolf Stockburn makes quick work of them. But the gun smoke has barely cleared when a second gang attacks, catching Stockburn by surprise. In a hail of hot lead he falls from the train and the thieves kill two guards and make off with the cattle the train was hauling. Now it’s a matter of honor and payback...
11) Rio Lobo
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c1970
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English
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A Union pay train is robbed by Confederate guerrillas. The train's colonel jails the enemy leaders, but the three men later become friends when the war ends. Together they seek the Union traitors responsible for a string of Confederate train robberies, a mission that culminates in a rousing shoot-em-up finale.
12) Winchester 1886
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Winchester volume Bk. 1
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English
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A boy in Texas waits for a Christmas present he chose from a Montgomery Ward catalog. The present, a brand new, lever action Winchester 1886 and a box of its big .50-caliber slugs, never makes it there. Instead, the rifle is caught up in a train robbery and starts a long and violent journey of its own -- from the hands of a notorious, kill-crazy outlaw to an Apache renegade to a hardscrabble rancher and beyond. But while the prized Winchester is wandering...
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[2005]
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English
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Three Civil War veterans team up with a train robber's widow to recover the loot from her husband's last job--a cool half-million in gold which is hidden somewhere south of the Mexican border. For backup they've got two nervous young gunslingers and a balky mule packing enough dynamite to blow up the Alamo.
19) The Newton boys
Pub. Date
2002
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English
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The Newton boys, a real-life clan of bank robbers active from 1919-1924, are both the most unsung and fiscally successful band of bank robbers in American history, capping their careers with an Illinois mail-train robbery whose estimated $3 million haul was the largest theft of its kind to date. This lovingly recreated period piece--part Western, part crime story, and part true family saga--is the story of how these down-home Texas farm boys set out...
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