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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
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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Perley Gates westerns volume 5
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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"They rode into town like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Four armed outlaws bringing their own brand of hell to Paris, Texas. First they rob the First National Bank. Then they take a woman hostage as insurance. When Perley Gates learns that local waitress Becky Morris is in the hands of these tough customers, he rides alone to get her back. Problem is, the outlaws are heading toward the Red River--straight into Indian Territory. That's where...
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Brannigan's land volume 2
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English
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"As a man who traded his tin star for a cattle ranch and a family, Ty Brannigan loves his wife and children. And may Lord have mercy on those who would harm them -- because Ty Brannigan will show none. No one knows their way around a faro table, bank vault, or six shooter more than Smilin' Doc Ford. When he's not gambling or thieving, he's throwing lead -- or, if he's feeling especially vicious, slitting throats with his Arkansas toothpick. Roaming...
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Slash and Pecos volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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His wicked ways mostly behind him, reformed bank robber Jimmy "Slash" Braddock is getting hitched to his sweetheart. But before the honeymoon, Chief U.S. Marshal Luther T. "Bleed-'Em-So" Bledsoe needs Slash and his former partner-in-crime, Melvin "Pecos Kid" Baker, to don a couple of deputy marshal badges and saddle up for a trip to Nebraska. Seems the town of Harveyville has fallen prey to a trio of murderous badmen blasting away up and down Main...
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Texan "Wild Bill" Longley has gunned down a dozen of his town's men in cold blood, ready to take over the job of sheriff. With his heart set on a beautiful young woman, he takes the whole town hostage until she agrees to marry him. That's when a cold-eyed stranger comes to town.
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Perley Gates westerns volume 2
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English
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When his dying grandfather gives him clues to a buried fortune in gold, Perley Gates goes up against ruthless lowlifes, kill-crazy prairie rats, gunfighters, outlaws, and Indians in order to claim the treasure.
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Smoke Jensen novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Building a branch takes heart and grit, and Smoke and Sally Jensen are capable of meeting the challenges of the land. When Smoke learns his old friend Preacher has been ambushed by outlaws, he saddles up and hits the vengeance trail with fellow mountain men Audie and Nighthawk. The town of Desolation Creek in Montana Territory has been taken over by Vernon "Venom" McFadden and his men, harassing terrified homesteaders and townfolk to get his hands...
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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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English
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"Johnstone County. Wilder than ever. Welcome to the Lost Coyote Saloon. Saddle up to the bar and order a whiskey. Play a few hands of poker. But don't make any trouble. The new owner is savage. Ben Savage. Once a Texas Ranger, he's always cocked and ready for some fool to come looking for payback . . . Eat, drink, and be wary. When Ben Savage receives a telegram informing him that an old friend died--and left him his saloon--he's not sure what to...
10) Cutthroats
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Series
Slash and Pecos volume 1
Language
English
Description
Lifetime outlaws Jimmy "Slash" Braddock and Melvin "Pecos Kid" Baker are ready to call it quits. When the younger members of their gang sell them out to the law, Slash and Pecos decide to pull one last job to finance a retirement far away from the long arm of the law; the target is a rancher's payroll train. When things go wrong, their old enemy, wheelchair bound Marshal Bledsoe will spare their lives -- for a price: that they hunt down and kill the...
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Pub. Date
2014
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English
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The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century
William Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone are the acclaimed masters of the American frontier and national bestsellers. Now, they take on the deadliest and most feared outlaw to ever walk the Old West—John Wesley Hardin.
First he became a killer.
Then he became a legend.
He was 15 when he killed his first man. Before his murderous ways ended, Hardin killed 42 men in cold blood—one,...
William Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone are the acclaimed masters of the American frontier and national bestsellers. Now, they take on the deadliest and most feared outlaw to ever walk the Old West—John Wesley Hardin.
First he became a killer.
Then he became a legend.
He was 15 when he killed his first man. Before his murderous ways ended, Hardin killed 42 men in cold blood—one,...
12) Sons of thunder
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Series
Slash and Pecos volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Hired to track down Miss Fannie Diamond, the lady friend of a notorious outlaw, Slash and Pecos have their work cut out for them. At the Rocky Mountain mining town where the glamorous showgirl is performing, she has hired thugs to protect her, men who have no trouble beating Slash and Pecos senseless. When the pair snatch Miss Diamond off the stage in the middle of a performance, they are pursued by her bevy of admirers-- including a pair of federal...
13) Kingdom come
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Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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When a vicious band of cutthroats and criminals, led by prison escapees from New Mexico, take over the town of Boracho, Duff MacCallister, who lost one of his family members to these killers, rides to Texas with a group of men who have agreed to join him on his mission of vengeance.
14) Texarkana
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Series
Perley Gates westerns volume 6
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English
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At first, the job sounds easy: lead a small herd of horses across the Arkansas-Texas border to the Double-D ranch near Texarkana. No problem--at least not for a man like Perley Gates. In fact, he's looking forward to the 150-mile journey with his old sidekick Possum Smith and young Sonny Rice, and doesn't expect any trouble along the way. Unfortunately, trouble has a way of finding Perley Gates. This time, it's a trigger-happy trio of horse thieves...
15) The killing
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Pinnacle Books
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English
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When he witnesses a violent robbery, Duff MacCallister, along with a banker and a beautiful barmaid, is hidden in the town's hotel as the outlaws threaten the defenseless town with a bloody war if their fellow bandit is not freed.
16) Shot to hell
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Series
Perley Gates westerns volume 4
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"They say that home is where the heart is. And no one knows that better than Perley Gates. After helping the lovely Miss Emma Slocum reunite with her sister's family in Bison Gap, Perley can't wait to rejoin his own kin at the Triple-G Ranch. No sooner does Perley settle in when he receives an alarming telegram from Bison Gap. Emma's brother-in-law has been murdered. Her sister wants justice. And Perley is their only hope to get it . . . Perley can't...
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Death and Texas volume 2
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English
Description
"There are a million ways to die in the great state of Texas. And on the lawless streets of New Hope, the odds are even worse. Once the home of Comanche, the region has been up for grabs since the settlers drove off the natives. Now it's a magnet for settlers looking for cheap land, merchants looking to exploit its resources--and outlaws looking for a place to hide in between robbing and killing. With shootouts and showdowns being a nightly occurrence,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
For Smoke and Sally Jensen, the Sugarloaf Ranch near the Colorado-Kansas border is the perfect place to stake their claim, raise some cattle, and start a new family. When a man claiming to be an army colonel arrives in Big Rock with a well-armed militia, the dream becomes a living nightmare. Colonel Lamar Talbot claims there's a war looming with the Cheyenne Indians. And only he can save them from a bloody massacre-- by launching a bloody counterattack....
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Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 CDs (10 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Broken Bridle, Wyoming, Jeremiah Purdy, the town's tinhorn sheriff is a college kid who wants to become governor some day. But outlaw Burt Becker couldn't care less about anyone else's ambitions. With Becker holding Broken Bridle in a bloody grip of terror, Purdy sends a desperate cry for help--to Shawn O'Brien, town tamer.
20) Kill crazy
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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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After outlaw Johnny Taylor and his gang rob a bank, Duff MacCallister manages to take Johnny's brother into custody, a situation that causes Johnny to seek revenge by randomly killing innocent townsfolk and kidnapping a woman.
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