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"Ben Albright has successfully made five cattle drives from Texas to Kansas, but this spring will be his most difficult. With the death of Ewell Lansing, Northerners have taken over his trading post and ferry and refused provisions or passage to Texas cattle drives, but Albright will not turn back or change his traditional course"--
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"Panhandle Preston and his son Quent owned a cattle ranch in Wyoming. Since it was on the right of way of the proposed Union Pacific railway, it was a prized piece of property and coveted by many a man. The most cunning by far was Boone Delivan, a crooked speculator who was determined to get hold of the land no matter what it took. When Quent refused to sell, Boone shot the young vaquero's father, set the ranch on fire, and stampeded the cattle. Then...
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Jackson Miggs was a loner who wintered under the Ute Peak in his log cabin. He liked people well enough, but didn't care much for crowds. He even tolerated the cowmen like Hyatt Tolman who used the high meadows around Ute Peak to graze his herd--even when the animals cropped the forage too closely and drove the elk and deer into the higher mountains.Miggs once told his friend Frank McCoy that if he looked out a window and saw a building less than...
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A bushwhacking killer is on the loose and Sheriff Claude Rainey is in the thick of it in this tale of treachery and greed from Lauren Pain, the most prolific pen in the West. The trouble began for Sheriff Claude Rainey when the Hightower Ranch cowboys discovered a mummified man and his horse in a desert canyon near Springville, Arizona, both shot in the head. Ordinarily that should have been the end of it, since many a man riding the outlaw trail...
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Gunnison Butte: George Alden Morgan never knew his father and is abandoned at fourteen by his mother. George skips town after stealing a horse and meets up with Boone Helm, a survivor in the wilderness.
The Drifter: Jared Carson is a man on the move and finds a wrangling job on a small ranch. He gets along well with the ranch owner and when the owner dies from a gun shot, Jared is left his ranch and all the trouble that goes with it.
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The Dawn Rider was a wanted man in Kansas before he fled and changed his name to John Randolph. Those events are years behind him when he visits his old bunkhouse mate Frank Harding who owns the Rocking H Ranch. What he finds on his arrival is Beverly Harding Franks widow and his daughter. The ranch is so reduced that now there is only one hired man. While Randolph doesnt want to work for a woman he takes up the challenge of warding off enemies and...
10) Dead Man's Canon
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"The discovery of a man and his horse, both shot dead through the head, with $10,000 buried nearby in a desert canon near Springville, Arizona, lead Sheriff Claude Rainey to believe this is something bigger than a simple bushwhacking"--
12) The killer gun
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To give a man the upper hand in avenging a death, a gunsmith customizes a revolver to fire at half cock, saving the time it takes to pull back the hammer before firing. But the weapon is stolen and the novel traces the fortunes of its owners as the revolver passes from hand to hand. By the author of The White Bird.
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"Walt Hodge had delivered eighty horses to Whipple Barracks for the Army and he wasn't in a big hurry to get home. He traveled down the Saginaw Mountains and into the upland cow country of Sunflower, Arizona, seeking only a cold glass of beer, food, and a bed for himself, along with feed for his horse. He should have listened and turned around when he asked the hostler what was going on and was told: "Trouble, mister. Bad trouble." After Walt had...
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In "The killing at Pipestone," small rancher Jack Cole saves the life of a young woman who calls herself Julie Krohn. He takes her back to his ranch house to recover, and the very next day he's arrested in Pipestone--for the murder of Julie Krohn! Jess Howard is an experienced trail boss whose job is to take a herd of longhorns to Kansas in "Longhorn Trail." He's hired a veteran crew, as well as Wayne Levitt and Jeb Brown. Wayne Levitt is an odd man...