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101) Seeking justice
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The Bucket of Blood saloon is robbed, the owner murdered, and one of his upstairs-girls abducted. Tucker Ashley talked himself into tracking for the posse--only because the kidnapped girl is his best friend's fiancée.̌ Tucker leads the pathetic posse--made up of cattle rustlers, a gambler, and a fat blacksmith--in pursuit of a gang so brutal that even the Army turned the other way rather than confront Justice Cauther's gang. Between the outlaws,...
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[2021]
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A fascinating examination of how restricting speech has continuously shaped our culture, and and how - regardless of political leanings - every individual can act as both the suppressors and the suppressed. Through compelling narrative, historian Eric Berkowitz uses stories of the past to reveal the dangers of erasing history and how censorship has shaped our modern society. More than just a history of censorship, Dangerous Ideas illuminates the power...
103) Heller with a gun
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Tom Healy was in trouble. His theatrical troupe needed to get to Alder Gulch, Montana, and the weather was turning. Andy Barker promised Tom he could get them there safely, but Tom was reluctant to trust him: he had the lives of three actresses to consider, and his personal feelings for Janice further heightened his concern. Then King Mabry showed up. Although Tom didn't like the way he looked at Janice, he could see that Mabry made Barker uneasy....
104) The shepherd's hut
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2018.
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"A new novel about a man trying to survive in the wilderness"--
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Byrnes family ranch westerns volume 2
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With blood and tears, Chet Byrnes built a life in Texas, only to have it shattered by an ill-fated cattle drive and two deadly family feuds. Spurned by the woman he loves, Chet sets off for new territory. The journey won't come cheap. Chet leads the Byrnes family across New Mexico into a harsh, haunting land. His long lost brother Cagle, after 15 years living among the Comanche, reappears. So does the family's blackest black sheep. Then, amidst old...
106) Dilly
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"DILLY is the coming-of-age story of an abused orphan boy, Orville Dillard Jr., aka Dilly, who travels west from Ohio to Wyoming and ends up at the Hatterson Cattle Ranch. He also finds himself smack in the middle of the infamous and all-too-real Sheep Wars, in which dozens of sheepherders are murdered and few of the attacking cattlemen are ever held accountable"--
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Last Mountain Man series volume 44
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[2016]
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After a man guns down a greedy, overbearing rancher in self-defense, Smoke Jensen and his posse come to his defense when the rancher's goons aim to string him up.
108) Where the trust lies
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Return to the Canadian West volume 2
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2015.
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109) McKettrick's choice
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When news came that there was trouble back in Texas....Holt McKettrick left a mail-order bride and his family on the spot! Lorelei just wants to stake her claim on her own little piece of Texas and with Holt McKettrick as a neighbor, things were beginning to look up.
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"The Civil War is over. The future of the American West is up for grabs. Any man crazy enough to lead a herd of Texas longhorns to the north stands to make a fortune--and make history. That man would be Nelson Story. A bold entrepreneur and miner, he knows a golden opportunity when he sees one. But it won't be easy. Cowboys and bandits got guns, farmers got sick livestock, and the Army's got their own reasons to stop the drive. Even worse, Story's...
111) Massacre mountain
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Cotton Pickens is a lawman who's lost his badge, but when he discovers a plot to take over his town of Doubtful Wyoming, he takes the law into his own hands.
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[2021]
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"A panoramic history of the savage combat on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 that came to define modern warfare. The Western Front evokes images of hardship and sacrifice, of young, mud-spattered men in water-logged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts by a few feet of dirt. Long considered the most futile arena of the First World War, the Western Front has persisted in our collective memory as a tragic waste of life. In this epic narrative...
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The Kerrigans volume 2
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Kate Kerrigan has seen the blood-soaked face of war. But nothing has prepared her for the assault on her land thart begins because beautiful, cold-blooded Savannah Saint James has her sights set on the Kerrigan property -- and twelve of the deadliest hired guns in Texas are ready to back her play. Kate has her sons by her side, a ragtag group of ranchers who don't like outsiders messing with their cattle, and a fighting spirit passed down from her...
114) Duel at low hawk
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"Boot Stoner spent twelve years of his life behind bars for stealing horses and rustling cattle. Upon release, he added murder and kidnapping to his criminal skills--slaughtering his own parents and abducting his "sister," a young Creek girl that his folks had adopted--before exacting revenge against the man responsible for his incarceration. U.S. Deputy Marshal John Ward is one of the West's best manhunters. He's the only one who stands a chance...
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An American Western Classic! Texas. They took the most contrary bunch of frontiersmen, ranchers, farmers, cowpokes, shiftless no-accounts, shootist rascals, and politicians, jumbled them together, and somehow formed a state. They called it Texas, but for defenseless women and children, it was hell. What could save them? Texas Rangers. Although they were outnumbered a thousand to one, the Texas Rangers fought a holding action against the complete breakdown...
116) Arizona territory
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2015
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Chet Byrnes built a ranching empire from the ground up, and defended it with his sweat, blood and a ragtag band of ranch-hands. Now a beautiful young Spanish widow comes into Chet's life just as he starts off in search of a lost cattle drive. Heading into the eye of a sprawling, violent storm, they end up on a wild ride through Nebraska, Colorado and Kansas. Facing Indians, outlaws and authorities who want to confiscate the beeves for trespassing,...
117) Deadly is the night
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Building a ranching empire is one thing. Keeping it out of the hands of every no good opportunist crawling through the Arizona desert is a daily grind. Chet Byrnes is just as likely to rescue a stolen daughter as rustled cattle on any given day. But with a family to keep safe and enough real target practice to keep his aim deadly, nothing's going to stop Chet from bringing his ranch into a bold new era. And if that means going to war to run a...
119) Spirit of steamboat
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"Sheriff Walt Longmire is reading A Christmas Carol in his office on December 24th when he's interrupted by the ghost of Christmas past: a young woman with a hairline scar across her forehead and more than a few questions about Walt's predecessor, Lucian Connally. Walt doesn't recognize the mystery woman, but she seems to know him and claims to have something she must return to Connally. With his daughter, Cady, and his undersheriff Vic Moretti in...
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2019
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A trio of Western stories by Louis L'Amour
In "Black Rock," Jim Gatlin, a Texas trail driver, arrives in the town of Tucker where he finds himself quickly drawn into the middle of an all-out battle for the XY Ranch when, due to a case of mistaken identity, he kills the segundo of Wing Cary's Flying C Ranch. Gatlin is a dead-ringer for Jim Walker, who, like Cary, wants control of the XY. Gatlin is thrown into a situation in which all he can
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