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466) A good day to kill
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"For Chet Byrnes, building a ranching empire means adding new land, hiring good men, finding water and trying new breeds of cattle. But outlaws and Tuscon's idle rich want to take it all away--and Arizona just may be too lawless to stop it. So while the Byrnes family expands its reach, Chet must do his job hunting down outlaws on either side of the border. Chet's cowboys prove to be tireless fighters, going up against former Mexican military men,...
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Return once more to the Barkley Ranch for the fourth and final season of the television Western favorite. Victoria Barkley and her close-knit family-sons Jarrod, Nick and Heath, and daughter Audra, are back for twenty-six episodes of high drama and thrilling adventure
469) The horse soldier
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Before he can retire to work his Montana ranch full-time, Tillman has one more important task to perform. A junior marshal who Tillman appointed in Laramie, Wyoming, a few years earlier has taken a wrong path and Tillman must remove him from office. Tillman leaves his two grown sons and his sister, Alice, on the ranch and sets out for Wyoming by railroad. Along the way, Tillman makes a few detours and stops to visit old friends and colleagues. As...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Jeff Ardell was a peaceful man and a friend of Big Ben Shortt. But when Shortt got land-greedy and brought in the merciless hired guns to murder the shirt-tail ranchers, Ardell strapped on his Colt .44 and led the homesteaders into war in Sandoval County.
471) Jury of six
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Jury of Six is a steadily moving western set against the backdrop of 1880 Nebraska. Families like the MacMahons were the backbone of the developing west. It was a time when the law was spread thin and honest men and women took care of difficulties in black and white. Good men were respected; bad men were dealt with by the law of rope and gun. For eight years the disappearance of Niobrara ranchers Owen and Aiden MacMahon remained a mystery. When an...
472) Haunted border
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In 1870, Jake Graves faced a choice: let Comanches carry off his sister, or shoot her. Unwilling to fire, he has been tortured for decades by the brutal end that he could have spared her. The incident bred in him a hatred for Indians that persists to this day in 1917 on an isolated ranch on the Texas-Mexico border. Now Jake learns that his daughter Dru wants to marry Apache foreman Nub DeJarnett. Even before Jake can process the news, Mexican bandits...
473) The range war of '82
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Wyoming is on the brink of statehood, and cattle baron Jefferson Parker is leading the charge. Along with the Cattleman's Association, Parker knows the quickest way to that goal is through the cattle business. Standing in the way is a group of farmers who threaten the open range and Parker's chances of becoming Wyoming's first governor. His offer to buy them all out is rebuked by a tightly knit band of determined farmers. Led by James Johansen,...
475) Gunhand from Texas
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Standing out in front of the Elkhorn National Bank, unshaven, his black hair beginning to curl at his neck, his clothing about as badly worn as that of any of the trail riders who'd come up with him from Texas, Emmett Kane definitely did not look like a man who had a bank draft for twelve thousand dollars in his shirt pocket. It was no surprise that Madge Wilson offered him a job as a ranch hand. What was a surprise was when a cowboy warned him not...
476) Six-gun crossroads
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The small town of Ballester owes its prosperity to the confluence of three big ranches -- Snowshoe, Mexican Hat, and Rainbow. It has a single lawman, Deputy Sheriff Percy Whittaker, known as Perc. Other than the occasional drunk on a Saturday night, there wasn't much law breaking. Then a drifter named Sam Logan rode into town, looking for work. Forrest Banning, a Snowshoe rider, provoked a gunfight with Sam Logan. Banning went for his gun first, but...
477) Rimfire bride
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Only the boldest of women would set off for the Dakota Territory without a man by her side. But schoolteacher Jana Hartmann is determined to build a new life for herself and her frail sister, Greta. True to her courageous spirit, Jana takes the only job she can find in the town of Bismarck--modeling dresses in a shop window--which has every man staring and every woman gossiping. Adding fuel to the fire, she's agreed to help raise money in the annual...
Author
Series
Trail drive volume 26
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Big Jake Motley had been running the Big M spread in Texas for over 30 years. In that time, he's driven thousands of head of cattle to market in Kansas. Now, while both the nineteenth century and the era of trail drive are coming to an end, Big Jake is determined to make one last drive to Kansas. The only thing is, he doesn't have the cowhands to move that much beef. He drafts his old friend, Chance McCandles, into service, and together, the two aging...
480) Danger valley
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It looked as if Greg Corwin's luck would never end . . . Just recently, fortune had rewarded him beyond his wildest dreams. Snowbound, with only a few dollars in his pockets and a rich Texas rancher as an opponent in a marathon game of poker, Greg won the stake of a lifetime. And when he took this purse and managed to buy a big spread in the rich Sioux Valley range at a bargain price, he seemed to be leading a charmed life, indeed. But suddenly,...
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