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Lonesome Dove saga volume 1
Language
English
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Former Texas Rangers leave their unsuccessful cattle business when they hear of good opportunities in newly opened territory.
2) Killoe
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English
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Driving a herd of longhorns from Texas to New Mexico provides Dan Killoe the opportunity to prove himself to his father, and to learn more about Tap Henry, the dashing gunman that Dan thought he knew like a brother.
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Perley Gates westerns volume 3
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English
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"Once every year, Perley Gates and his brothers lead the Triple-G crew on its annual cattle drive. It's a treacherous journey along the Great Western Trail, with a herd of two-thousand cows on one side and many opportunities for trouble on the other. This year, trouble shows up in the form of a beautiful young woman, her little baby, and her bizarre traveling companion-a colorful old cuss who goes by the name of Possom Smith. They're heading to a...
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English
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"After traversing California from one end to the other, and finding nothing much to his liking, Mac Mackenzie is heeding his heart's call to return to Texas. Lucky for him, a group of cowboys heading for the Lone Star state need someone who knows their way around a chuckwagon. Their previous cook's temper boiled over during a saloon brawl and ended up in jail. With no love for the cook-or his food-the cowboys just want to head home peaceably, share...
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The Sacketts volume 19
Language
English
Description
To help a cousin in need, the Sackett brothers drive 1,100 head of cattle across the wide Dakota plains toward Canada, weathering adversity along the way.
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Series
Amish of Apple Grove volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Language
English
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Kansas, 1881. On a trip to visit relatives, Emma's Amish family is robbed of all their possessions, leaving them destitute and stranded on the prairie. Walking into the nearest trading settlement, they pray to the Lord for someone to help. When a man lands in the dust at her feet, Emma looks down at him and thinks, The Lord might have cleaned him up first. Luke Carson, heading up his first cattle drive, is not planning on being the answer to anyone's...
13) A hill of beans
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Series
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"With two trail drives under his belt, Dewey "Mac" Mackenzie has proven to be more than a good chuckwagon cook. He's good at serving up justice, too--with a side of hot lead . . . Mac Mackenzie has enough problems on his plate. He's got bounty hunters on his tail, no one on his side, and no place to hide. Just when he thinks it can't get any worse, he hears the rumbling of a cattle stampede--heading straight for his camp. Mac's got two choices: Get...
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English
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Doc Blaine has signed a big contract with a cattle buyer up in Kansas. After a couple more good springs, Doc might be able to retire, but for now he'll have to contend with a band of marauding brothers out for vengeance against the Blaines. Another set of brothers--Doc's sons--might be the bigger liability. Miles and Jared have feuded for years over the same woman--even after Miles married her, and Jared vowed to kill him. But Doc believes he can...
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 11
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
viii, 278 pages : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
16) Finding promise
Author
Series
The McBride brothers volume 2
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"She may be an heiress, but Parker Promise Sinclair cares more about living an adventurous life than snaring a suitable husband. So it's no surprise when she joins a Wyoming wagon train--only to survive a massacre that leaves her with no memory, a target on her back--and her abiding faith tested by the only man who can possibly protect her. His gunfighting skills and trail savvy have saved U.S. Marshal Jake McBride more times than he can count. And...
17) Texas rules
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
247 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
18) The range wolf
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Series
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English
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Christopher Guthrie was bred by money, educated by Harvard, saved from the Civil War by an oak desk in Washington D.C. Towering, fierce Wolf Riker was honed by a kind of suffering Guthrie could never imagine. Fate throws these two men together when a stagecoach from Baton Rouge is set upon by killers. The price for Guthrie's survival is joining Riker's trail drive to Kansas, a mad, brawling charge of longhorns and backstabbers. Guthrie is soon bound...
19) Six bits a day
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English
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"Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country. The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits--75 cents--a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching...
20) The husband tree
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Series
Montana marriages trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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"Standing over her third no-account husband's grave, Belle Tanner makes a vow--no more men. Now all she needs to do is get her cattle to market before winter sets in. But there's no one around except the drifter Silas Harden, and Belle is such a poor judge of men that she can't decide if he is worth hiring on. Silas just escaped a shotgun wedding--only to lose his money, his ranch, and his pride. Although he's determined never to get tangled up with...
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