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"Elwood Lawrence--top hand at the Crown Butte ranch--tries to find out where the cattle are disappearing to. It looks like an inside job. His work becomes complicated when he develops an interest in a woman who comes to visit the ranch and behind it all is the disappearance of a flashy stranger who is said to be a bank robber"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
361 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An aspiring Ohio transplant's dream of owning his own spread in turn-of-the-century Wyoming is put on hold due to a series of inconvenient murders. Earl Miner, who owns the Pick, makes no bones about insisting that every man who works for him file a claim to 160 acres under the Homestead Act and then sell it to him so he won't be troubled by competing ranchers in the Decker Basin. As soon as cowpuncher Reese Hartley bridles at that arrangement, foreman...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Russell Archer has come to Wyoming to fulfill his dream of having his own land. After one season of work on Lidge Mercer's ranch, he receives an offer to become a junior partner. Before long, however, Archer learns that Lidge was caught up in an old crime and fears for his life. Meanwhile, Archer meets a young woman named Kate, who would like to find her father. Archer and Kate go in search of him, and they find him in another town. Back at the
...5) Twin Rivers
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Publisher
Walker and Co
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
188 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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English
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Will Dryden picked the wrong time to ride onto the Redstone Ranch. He was looking for a job . . . and a missing man. But one of the Redstone's hands was just found killed, so tensions are riding high and not everyone's eager to welcome a stranger. The more questions Dryden asks, the more twisted everything seems, and the more certain he is that someone's got something to hide. Something worth killing for.
9) Dark prairie
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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In the 1890s, a stranger named Dunbar rides into the town of Winsome, Wyoming. He goes to work at the Little Six ranch and begins to look into the affairs of Tut Whipple, a water project developer who built a dam near the town. The investigation starts with missing cattle, but extends to the disappearance of a young girl. Whipple's men come after him, first with fists and then with guns -- leading to a showdown on the dark prairie.
11) Death in Cantera
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Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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When a stranger named Dunbar comes to Cantera, he shows interest in local history, especially Frenchman's Quarry and the death of the owner's son twenty years earlier. He asks about the town marshal and about Dolores Carreau, the Frenchman's widow. Then the murders begin.
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
345 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Shortly after Dunbar goes to work at the Hook ranch, a ranch hand who aspires to marry the cook's niece is found dead. The niece, Vivian, works at the mercantile, and her boss seems to be fond of her. Another cowhand on the ranch also fancies her, but he, too, ends up dead. Dunbar and Edwin "Rye" Ryerson, the cook who tells the story, go to a local brother to learn more. Back in town, Dunbar and Rye learn that Madeline, a street girl, has been killed....
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Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Dunbar, working on a ranch in the Niobrara country in Wyoming, connects the death of a hardscrabble homesteader with the death of an old horse trader some fifteen years earlier. As Dunbar goes to work on a corral project in town and then on fall roundup, more murders take place--a wandering drunk who has picked up gossip in an alehouse, and then the proprietor of the alehouse. People who know too much are being silenced. An old woman named Verona...
14) Castle Butte
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Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1890s Wyoming, seventeen-year-old Alden Clare assumes the responsibility of earning enough money to buy back his family's foreclosed land, taking care of his older brother's family, and helping the attractive daughter of a homesteader who is being harassed by ruffians.
15) Silver grass
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Wilsey Grant goes to work at the Emerald Peaks Ranch, where he hears of ranch hands terrorizing the settlers, and he witnesses the shooting of a homesteader boy. When the deputy sheriff arrests a ranch hand, the owner of the ranch leads his gunmen into town. They kidnap a girl and offer to trade her for the prisoner, then shoot the deputy and spring the prisoner. Wilsey meets with the sister of the kidnapped girl and offers her...
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English
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A stranger named Dunbar comes to the town of Dry Camp and goes to work at Rich Stanton's ranch. Shortly after Dunbar's arrival, he helps find the body of an old man named Ross Guilford. The foreman, Paul Kelso, picks a fight with a ranch hand named Willard Brumley. Dunbar intervenes, and Kelso fires him. As Dunbar asks around, he learns from Jack Brumley, Willard's father, that Guilford knew something about Brumley's wife, Louise, a beautiful woman...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Jim Fontaine wants to get a new start in life by settling on his own piece of land near the town of Redwillow. He isn't there very long, though, when a saloon girl named Emma turns up dead and a friend of his, Charley Drake, gets thrown in jail for the murder. Nora Winterborne, who is new in town, confides to Fontaine that she is interested in the case because Emma was her sister, but she has to keep quiet. Fontaine also learns of the disappearance...
19) Coldwater range
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Del Rowland, working for Bill Overlin at the Spoke ranch, begins to doubt the boss's integrity when Overlin and others bully a homesteader named Holt Warren and goad him into a fatal gunfight. Dels curiosity increases as he gets to know Overlins stepdaughter, Lawna, and hears stories from saloon patrons. One of them is shot in the street at night. Meanwhile, the cattlemen step up their aggression by burning Holt Warrens buildings and running their...
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