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"When young Bendigo Shafter and a ragtag bunch of travelers settle in the rugged Wyoming mountains, they quickly come to depend on a toughness and wisdom many of them never knew they possessed. Led by the beautiful and resourceful widow Ruth Macken, the settlers battle harsh winters, renegade opportunists, and the destructive lure of gold. Through these brutally demanding experiences, young Bendigo is forged into a man. But when he travels to New...
2) Callaghen
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As part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials!
Callaghen’s business is soldiering. For twenty years he’d fought all over the world, from China to the deserts of California; now he’s a private in the U.S. Cavalry, poorly paid, his enlistment about to run out. He’s ready to move on . . . until he comes across a startling discovery: a treasure map belonging...
Callaghen’s business is soldiering. For twenty years he’d fought all over the world, from China to the deserts of California; now he’s a private in the U.S. Cavalry, poorly paid, his enlistment about to run out. He’s ready to move on . . . until he comes across a startling discovery: a treasure map belonging...
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"Borden Chantry never wanted to be a marshal; he'd planned on wearing the badge just until he could raise enough money to buy cattle. But he was good at his job: riding herd on horse thieves, drifters, and drunken cowpokes. Now a well-dressed stranger lay dead in the street, apparently the victim of a cold-blooded murder. With few clues to go on, Chantry knows only one thing: the killer lives in his town."--P. [4] of cover.
4) Hondo
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As part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials!
He was etched by the desert’s howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and the ways of staying alive. She was a woman alone raising a young son on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were preparing to rise against the white...
He was etched by the desert’s howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and the ways of staying alive. She was a woman alone raising a young son on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were preparing to rise against the white...
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A hanging party rules the badlands and a lone rider races for his life. Falsely accused of back-shooting a man as he stood sipping whiskey in a saloon, Matt Keelock takes on a posse of angry men with no more backup than his smoking Colt and a sure-footed horse. It's one against many--but there's a hundred twists to every trail as the posse suddenly finds the hunters have turned into the hunted.
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The classic Western, now newly repackaged as part of Bantam's Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures program—with never-before-seen material from Louis and his son, Beau L'Amour.
It began with gold that had once belonged to Montezuma. Stolen and cached in a church in Mexico, it was recovered by two army officers who fled north for the French settlements. Along the way one stabbed the other to death. The remaining officer was eventually killed...
It began with gold that had once belonged to Montezuma. Stolen and cached in a church in Mexico, it was recovered by two army officers who fled north for the French settlements. Along the way one stabbed the other to death. The remaining officer was eventually killed...
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"Considine and Pete Runyon had once been friends, back in the days when both were cowhands. But when Runyon married the woman Considine loved, the two parted ways. Runyon settled down and became a sheriff. Considine took up robbing banks. Now Considine is planning a raid on the bank at Obaro, a plan that will pit him against Runyon . . . and lead to riches or suicide. The one thing he never counted on was meeting a strong, beautiful woman and her...
9) Sackett
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The Sacketts volume 9
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Hard circumstances had made William Tell Sackett a drifter, but now he hungered for a place he couldn't name yet knew he had to find. South of the Tetons he came upon a ghost of a trail that led him through a keyhole pass into a lonely, alien, yet beautiful valley--that held a fortune in gold. Then he found an even greater treasure: beautiful Ange Kerry, a courageous and resourceful woman. But the harsh ways it takes to preserve his claim and his...
10) Flint
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Dying of cancer, ruthless financier James T. Kettleman decides to leave the East and returns to old familiar hideouts in New Mexico. When a range war erupts, he finds himself helping a local rancher named Nancy Kerrigan against the land speculator setting up the swindle of a lifetime and his hired assassin, Blackdun. Kettleman--now called Flint--has resources that Nancy needs to survive the clash. The question is whether he will live long enough.
11) Chancy
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Chancy started out with nothing until fate dealt him four of a kind--all bullets. The young drifter plays his hand for keeps--taking on crooked sheriffs, deadly gunmen, and renegade Indians. When the smoke clears away, he stands alone--boss of his own cattle outfit. But the game isn't over yet.
12) Crossfire trail
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Rafe Caradec promises a dying man that he will save the Long Valley ranch in Wyoming for the man's wife and daughter. But the daughter does not trust him and plays into the greedy hands of enemy ranchers.
13) Utah Blaine
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Colonel Utah Blaine, held captive by the Army of the Revolution, broke out of jail and headed north from Mexico with nothing but the clothes on his back. Then he found new trouble struggling at the end of a noose–and stepped in just in time to save the life of a Texas rancher. The would-be executioners were the rancher’s own men, looking to steal his land.
Now Utah has a unique proposition: Have the wealthy Texan play dead, introduce...
Now Utah has a unique proposition: Have the wealthy Texan play dead, introduce...
14) The Californios
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An old Indian is willing to lead the Mulkerin family to gold treasure, which they need to pay the debt on their Malibu ranch, but a murderous band of greedy men are on their trail.
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The Sacketts volume 17
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In Treasure Mountain, Louis L’Amour delivers a robust story of two brothers searching to learn the fate of their missing father—and finding themselves in a struggle just to stay alive.
Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking for answers to their father’s disappearance twenty years before. To uncover the truth, the brothers enlisted the aid of a trailwise Gypsy and a mysterious voodoo priest...
Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking for answers to their father’s disappearance twenty years before. To uncover the truth, the brothers enlisted the aid of a trailwise Gypsy and a mysterious voodoo priest...
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After being shipwrecked off the coast of North Carolina, Tatton Chantry is alone. He takes up his sword and, aided by a beautiful Peruvian woman, explores the wilderness of America, matching wits and brawn against pirates, Spanish fortune seekers, and savage Indians.
17) The sky-liners
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The Sacketts volume 13
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In The Sky-Liners, Louis L'Amour introduces Flagan and Galloway Sackett, heading west from Tennessee to seek their fortunes. That's when they came across an old Irish trader who offered them two fine horses if they would agree to escort his granddaughter, Judith, to her father in Colorado. Flagan saw nothing but trouble in the fiery young woman, but they needed the horses. Unfortunately, Flagan was right, for Judith had fallen for James Black Fetchen,...
18) Catlow
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As part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials!
Ben Cowan and Bijah Catlow had been friends since they were boys. By the time they grew to manhood, Catlow had become an outlaw and Cowan a U.S. marshal. So when his old friend rode to Mexico to pull the biggest robbery of his career, it became Ben Cowan’s job to hunt him down.
While trailing Catlow south...
Ben Cowan and Bijah Catlow had been friends since they were boys. By the time they grew to manhood, Catlow had become an outlaw and Cowan a U.S. marshal. So when his old friend rode to Mexico to pull the biggest robbery of his career, it became Ben Cowan’s job to hunt him down.
While trailing Catlow south...
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Owen Chantry arrives at his brother Clive's ranch to find him murdered and two squatters occupying his cabin. The unlikely trio--and a beautiful stranger--soon find themselves in a deadly feud with Clive's killers, the Mowatt gang, who return in search of Clive's rumored buried treasure.
20) Ride the river
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The Sacketts volume 5
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Young Echo Sackett, who is a sure hand with a horse, a dead shot with a rifle, and fast with her wits, travels to the mountains of Tennessee, where she encounters ruthless killers who will stop at nothing to cheat her of her inheritance.
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