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21) Mystery ranch
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Raisin Hell is a profitable crop! said the man with the shotgun, and Templar was beginning to believe him. The sheriff offered Templar $50 a week; the saloon owner offered him $75. Templar had gotten drunk, and laid out almost every able bodied man in tow. But there was one more offer to come. A very rich man would pay him $5000 for one month's service as a bodyguard. When Templar gasped at the price, the rich man looked at him earnestly and said,...
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John Scovil had brought his daughter out west to snap her out of her lethargy, but nothing he did could stir her interest in the wild surroundings. Deciding a staged kidnapping might awaken her spirit, he hires a handsome young rogue to abduct her to the mountains. But they both get more than they bargained for when his pretty daughter's spirit wakes up indeed -- with a thirst for action and adventure.
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The house on the hill in Merridan belonged to Captain Slocum. It was regarded as a house of mystery, and it was protected by dogs that ran the grounds at night and armed men who allowed no visitors, even when the captain was away from the house, which he often was. At just twelve years old, Don Grier braved the terrors of the captain's domain to steal a watermelon--a feat that made him a local hero. Don lives with mean-spirited Aunt Lizzie, who took...
25) The lost valley
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This colleciton features three of the greatest examples of Brand's artistry.
27) Blue kingdom
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Carrick Dunmore is capable, but lazy. He prefers to spend his time drinking, juggling knives, and generally having a good time. However, when his friends encourage him to ride a wild bronco in the local rodeo, he ends up with the horse, the prize money, and his life forever changed.
31) Marbleface
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When almost middle weight champ of the World of fighters is told to slow down by his doctor ; so he quits fist fighting to become a remarkably good gunfighter.
32) Bandit's honor
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When an act of self-defense landed him a twenty-five year jail sentence, Leon took his first opportunity for escape. Alone in the mountains and always on the alert, Lee had to live by his wits.
36) Rusty Sabin
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Rusty Sabin, born to white parents, was brought up by the Cheyenne Indians, who named the red-headed boy Red Hawk. But in his twenties, Red Hawk set out to take his place among white people. Rusty doesn't know much about the white man's ways, especially a white man like Bill Tenney, a thief and a fugitive. Tenney is only interested in one thing - Rusty's white stallion, considered sacred among the Cheyennes. Meanwhile, Major Marston is determined...
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In "Lazy Tom Hooks Up with Skinny", the short novel that opens this new trio, Skinny is a boy of perhaps thirteen who silently invades a camp of slumbering outlaws and routs all but Lazy Tom. The title story follows the path of ne'er-do-well Snoozer Mell, who comes home to care for his ailing father but is followed by his past.