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Determined to help her father realize his dream of building a transcontinental railroad, Sunny Landers accompanies Bo Landers on a wagon train west and meets Colt Travis, a half-Cherokee raised by whites. Colt is a drifter, a wilderness scout with no land and no prospects hired by the Landers family to guide their wagon train. He knows Sunny is out of his league and her father will never approve, but beneath the endless starlit sky, anything seems...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Bo Creel and Scratch Morton aren't the settling down types. They're lifelong drifters who keep one eye on the horizon, one finger on the trigger, and one foot out the door. Roaming the West is what keeps them young, or so Scratch tells Bo. But when they save the life of Cyrus Keegan -- the owner of a matrimonial agency -- they receive an unexpected proposal that's hard to resist. Keegan needs to deliver five mail-order brides to a mining town in...
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The Sacketts volume 15
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English
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In Mustang Man, Louis L’Amour takes Nolan Sackett on a dangerous journey into family betrayal, greed, and murder.
When Nolan Sackett met Penelope Hume in a cantina at Borregos Plaza, the girl immediately captured his attention. That she was heir to a lost cache of gold didn’t make her any less desirable. But Penelope isn’t the only one after her grandfather’s treasure; Sylvie, Ralph, and Andrew Karnes, distant...
When Nolan Sackett met Penelope Hume in a cantina at Borregos Plaza, the girl immediately captured his attention. That she was heir to a lost cache of gold didn’t make her any less desirable. But Penelope isn’t the only one after her grandfather’s treasure; Sylvie, Ralph, and Andrew Karnes, distant...
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2022.
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English
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"At twenty-nine, Alison Marshall is ready to find a place to call home. When she reaches beautiful Palmetto Island, she thinks she may have found it. On a hunch, she contacts the island's only realtor, and learns that an old beach house is on the market. At first, her new home is everything she hoped it would be. But as days turn into weeks, she uncovers a dark side to this supposedly peaceful haven. The locals have a secret, and once Alison discovers...
5) Ridgerunner
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2020.
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English
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November 1917. William Moreland, the notorious thief known as the Ridgerunner, is in mid-flight. Moving through the Rocky Mountains, the solitary drifter is also a widower and a father. And he is determined to steal enough money to secure his son?s future. Twelve-year-old Jack Boulton has been left in the care of Sister Beatrice, a formidable nun. Though he knows his father is coming for him, the boy longs to return to his family?s cabin, deep in...
6) Blackwood
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2020.
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English
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Rural Mississippi townsfolk shoulder the pain of generations as something dangerous lurks in the enigmatic kudzu of the woods.
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Five Star
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
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254 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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Gunnison Butte: George Alden Morgan never knew his father and is abandoned at fourteen by his mother who runs off leaving him eleven silver dollors. George skips town after stealing a horse etc. 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...
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Sidewinders volume 5
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Pinnacle Books
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English
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When they take a job guarding gold shipments from the mining camps--shipments that keep getting hijacked by a gang called the Devils of Deadwood--Scratch Morton and Bo Creel have to go after missing gold and the Devils.
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They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes--they just like to stay on the move. And now somebody is killing them. Lucas Davenport's adopted daughter, Letty, is home from college when she gets a phone call from a woman Traveler she'd befriended in San Francisco. The woman thinks somebody's killing her friends, she's afraid she knows who it is, and now her male companion has gone missing. She's hiding out...
11) Sutter's Cross
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English
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When an injured stranger arrives in a small town, life get thrown into chaos, teaching lessons in both humility and kindness.
12) Light in August
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English
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A novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, featuring some of Faulkner's most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate horesemen; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancentry.
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Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In this bold thriller peppered with dark humor and interlocking mystery, an eccentric mountain man is on the run from the authorities, surviving the winter by breaking into empty vacation homes in a remote community. Regularly calling into radio talk shows; where he has acquired the nickname "Buster" to rant about the impending Inversion at the turn of the millennium, he is haunted by visions of being lost at sea, and memories of his former life as...
14) The frontier
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Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A female drifter discovers a violent gang of thieves at a desert motel run by a mysterious woman and hatches a plan to escape with their stolen cash.
15) Deadman canyon
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
197 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
16) Never say never
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English
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Kai Miller floats through life like driftwood tossed by waves. She's never put down roots in any one place--and she doesn't plan to. But when a chaotic hurricane evacuation lands her in Daily, Texas, she begins to think twice about her wayfaring existence. And when she meets hometown-boy Kemp Eldridge, she can almost picture settling down in Daily--until she discovers he may be promised to someone else.
17) Astray
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English
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A collection of short stories featuring a cross-section of society including runaways, drifters, gold miners, counterfeiters, attorneys, and slaves from Puritan Massachusetts and revolutionary New Jersey to antebellum Louisiana.
18) Private property
Publisher
Cinelicious Pics
Pub. Date
2016, 1960.
Edition
DVD and Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 DVD and 1 Blu-ray (79 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out.
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English
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"Two homicidal drifters [Duke and Boots] ... wander off the beach and into the seemingly-perfect Los Angeles home of unhappy housewife [Ann]"--Container.
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"The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver, he finds work on a farm and meets Joanne McDuffy, an articulate and fierce college student and gifted painter. Their soul connection is immediate, but...
20) The gun trail
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2015.
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English
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"Quinton, a drifter, stands by as a greedy rancher wreaks havoc throughout the region. No one is safe--not even cattle-- as his gang rides through the hills with a murderous intent. However, when they point their guns at Quinton, he fights back and the range explodes into a bloody gun battle"--
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