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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Ridge Parkman was in Dewitt's Strike to do a job: get the little mining town's gold to the railhead at Adobe City. With almost as many robbers as rocks along the trail to Adobe, he knew the job was going to be tough. But then marauders made the mistake of killing his friends and stealing his horse, and it wasn't a job anymore. Ridge was riding for revenge.
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Cole Tyler rode with Jeb Stuart leading wagon trains across the West. Now he's wearing a star in Wind River, Wyoming Territory, where trouble is brewing. The Irish and Chinese are up in arms, and the friendly Shoshone stand accused of stealing cattle. Marshal Cole Tyler and his deputy, Billy Casebolt, must track down the rustlers before they set off a bloody massacre.
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The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Trapping beaver, they contend daily with the threat of Indian tribes turned warlike over the white men's encroachment on their land, and other prairie foes -- like the unforgiving landscape and its creatures. Hugh Glass is among the Company's finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Retired gunslinger Tom Navarro is more than happy working at the Bar-V Ranch while planning to move up north, open his own ranch, and create a new life with the woman he loves. Paul Vannorsdell, owner and operator of the Bar-V, also has big dreams: he wants to buy the Rancho de Cava from his old friend, Don Francisco. Everything seems to be going according to plan until Don Francisco is found murdered near Bullet Creek. His sons suspect Vannorsdell,...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Hardened ex-gunslinger Taos Tommy Navarro turned away Karla Vannorsdell, a rancher's granddaughter, when she needed him most. Now, angry and full of guilt, Navarro must track down Karla in the desert before the Apaches catch her. And all that's certain is that things are going to get very rough -- and very bloody. Nothing will make Karla return to her arrogant, meddling grandfather now that he's run off the vaquero she was going to marry. But to bring...
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The undertaker's wife waits; she weaves; she builds. The undertaker practices the Dismal Trade with consummate skill. He transforms the ugliness of death into a thing of dignity and beauty. Victims of every hazard in a raw West, in his hands, become presentable. Now the undertaker is called to disguise the suicide of a famous financier. Only his art can save America's financial markets. His wife's task on this day is secret, an act of understanding...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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As he transports six cold-blooded convicts across hard country, Deputy Marshal Logan Kane has to be prepared for anything. Evan with the hard cases caged in his prison wagon, Kane needs to watch his back and keep his Colt close at hand. There are rustlers, lynch mobs, and three brothers from a New Orleans gang to contend with, not to mention the convicts' cronies who are looking to bust them loose. Kane is on the lookout for danger every waking moment,...
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In 1874 Utah territory, young teamster Buck McCready becomes wagon boss for the Kavanaugh freight outfit after his mentor, old Mason Campbell, is murdered. With the Kavanaugh outfit engaged in a wagon train race that will decide whether Kavanaugh or a competitor lands a lucrative freight-hauling contract, Buck vows to find Campbell's killer. But first he must win the race, a difficult task considering there's a saboteur among his crew and a hired...
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Fired from his job as sheriff, Cotton Pickens, after a flashy, fleshy stage company comes to town, a man gets stabbed to death and a bank gets robbed, discovers that someone is trying to take over Doubtful and, badge or no badge, takes a stand against a killer and some self-righteous fatheads.
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Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Sure, it would've been easy killing Two Diamond Joe with a second shot. But Jeston Nash only wants his prize horse back from the man, and a fast trail out of the New Mexico badlands. Together again with Quiet Jack, Nash is on a hunt that will take him through unforgiving terrain, a tangle of firebrand beauties, and even into a lawman's trust -- before squaring off with the most ruthless pack of gunmen ever to rule the desert frontier.
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Traveling with a new name and a new face, Wade Holden, the triggerman responsible for the fall of the notorious Simm Bell gang, rides far and wide carving out the life of a feared and respected gunman. Tired of shooting, riding, and fighting, all he wants now is to settle down on the ranch for a nice, peaceful life. But the Texas Rangers are on his tail in a ride for vengeance, daring Wade to one last fight for his dream - and his life.
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"THREE MEN DEAD. AND SIXKILLER MIGHT BE NEXT. The territorial governor has sent three lawmen to clean up the mess that is Chico, New Mexico and not one of those lawmen has made it out alive. A crooked sheriff has the terrified denizens of Chico under his boot heel, so the governor turns to John Henry Sixkiller, sending him undercover as a gunman for hire. So far, Sixkiller has bloodied his opponents in every battle he s fought in the Southwest. But...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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In "Ben Sutton's Law," a territorial marshal is summoned to Mexican Springs to intervene in the violence that has broken out between the cattle ranchers and the nesters. But Sutton's mission is to be kept secret, even from the local sheriff. "Land of Strangers" finds Frank Brokaw hopeful, as he rides into the Scattered Hills, that he is nearing the end of his search for Matt Slade and the proceeds from a bank robbery.
19) Outlaw pass
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Adam Blaine was always content to stay on his family's cattle ranch on the Yellowstone. Unlike his brother, Jake, who could never resist the open road - or the prospect of gold. When Jake doesn't return, Adam sets off to look for him, never expecting to find hell waiting. Because where there's gold, there are thieves. And these thieves don't think twice about putting a bullet in a man. Then a case of mistaken identity turns Adam into a "vigilante"...
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Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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When young Richard Gale arrives in the Arizona border town of Casita, he finds himself surrounded by Mexican and American troops, bandits and renegades--and makes an enemy of Rojas, a vicious Mexican bandit leader.
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