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When Charlie Pike's old commanding officer calls him to action, he cannot refuse. General Dryden was a blustery, demanding leader, and he saved Pike's life in the war. Now a judge in the wilds of New Mexico Territory, Dryden is dying--and he wants Pike to escort him back to his native Texas. But a powerful gang leader wants vengeance on Dryden, and Pike is about to find out that paying some debts can cost a man everything.
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"When the Apache surrounded the settlement of Alma, New Mexico, the 'respectable' townsfolk began hanging those who weren't. Town drunk Eddie Oates was lucky to be banished from the town, left for the Apaches to kill. Oates never thought he was a survivor. But now, he's discovered a reason to go on--and he's about to unleash a raging fury upon those who would prey on the helpless, the hopeless, and those who others think aren't worth fighting for"--Publisher's...
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Lester T. Booker, a newspaper reporter, travels to Santa Fe to interview Ransom March, but upon meeting the legendary gunfighter and dime novel hero, Booker is less than impressed, until the Gravedigger, one of the criminals that escaped March's grasp years before, resurfaces and compels March to abandon his retirement and take up the hunt once more.
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Includes excerpt from: The ghost of Apache Creek (p. [289]-296). Rancher Cage Clayton has been hired to track down a man who years ago left a destructive path in his wake. Though he doesn't know what Lissome Terry looks like, Clayton knows his target is in Bighorn Point, so finding him shouldn't be too hard. But when the town Marshall only gives Clayton a week to find his man, catching him will be anything but easy.
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"Signet historical novel"--Spine. The only folk left behind in Apache Creek are ghosts, including Marshall Sam Pace. Three years of solitude have turned Sam into a phantom, but when a woman on the run stumbles into town, the former lawman must protect her and make use of gunslinger skills long out of practice.
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At head of title: Ralph Compton. At fifty, cattle driver Sam Sawyer thinks he can finally dust off and retire, maybe open an eating house. But after a pack of Apache ambushes him and leaves him to die in Gila River country, he barely makes it to a remote ranch. The owner, Hanna Stewart, has worked the desert spread with her young daughter ever since her husband went for a ride and never returned. For years, she's been victimized by the corrupt sheriff...
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"Drill or be drilled. The streets of Green Meadow, Oklahoma, are flowing red with blood. At the scene of every grisly murder is a threatening message: Get out! A mysterious villian known as the Fat Man wants the black gold hidden beneath the town, and he's willing to wipe out every man, woman, and child to get it..."--P. [4] of cover.
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2012
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"A Signet Book." Includes an excerpt from Dead man's ranch (p. [285]-298). Forced by President Chester A. Arthur to infiltrate Hatfield J. Warful's gang by posing as an outlaw on the run, Deputy U.S. Marshal Matt Battles finds himself being targeted by both lawmen and outlaws as he tries to complete his mission and avert a second Civil War.
20) Rawhide Flat
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Rawhide Flat is bursting at the seams with hard men and their hard-earned cash from working the nearby Comstock Lode. So when the bank is robbed and two civilians cut down, a posse delivers its own justice, leaving only Judah Walsh alive. Walsh offers to tell where the gang hid the money in return for a horse, a hundred bucks, and a free ride out of the state. But the people of Rawhide Flat would rather torture the information out of him. Lucky for...
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