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1) Buzzard bait
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Widowmaker Jones volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Newt Jones is none too proud of his deadly nickname. But when you tangle with the likes of Judge Roy Bean and the notorious Mexican outlaw Juan Cortina, a man's bound to earn a reputation. Or get stuck with a moniker like 'Widowmaker.' Even so, Newt is ready to put his gunslinging days behind him, hang up his Winchester, and take it easy. There's just one problem: Ain't nothing easy about living in Apache country ... When Newt gets word that a renegade...
2) Red ruckus
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English
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"Morgan Clyde, legendary town tamer and shootist, is the kind of man who will look down the barrel of your loaded gun and keep on coming, and the kind of man there's no stopping short of putting him in a grave when he thinks he's in the right. He's just the kind of man that a certain little town in the lawless Indian Territory needs, the town once known as Ironhead Station and the town that has already almost killed him more than once. Only this time,...
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
563 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's 1872 and the Katy Railroad is hell-bent on laying the first set of tracks through Indian Territory, but things have stalled out at Ironhead Station. It's a man-a-day, end-of-the-tracks boom camp, meant to live loud and die young. The railroad has hired a new chief of police, a man named Morgan Clyde, but the gambling crowd is giving three-to-one that he'll be dead by the end of the week. If Clyde can't out-think the smart ones, out-lie the sneaky...
4) Panhandle
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English
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The Texas Frontier comes to life in this Spur Award–winning Western by the acclaimed author and great-grandson of True Grit legend Rooster Cogburn.
Texas, 1880s. Into the wild unknown country of the Texas Panhandle ride two young cowboys. Nate Reynolds is the scion of a well-to-do family who lit out in search of adventure—and gold. Billy Champion is a devil-may-care ne'er-do-well with a stubborn streak...
Texas, 1880s. Into the wild unknown country of the Texas Panhandle ride two young cowboys. Nate Reynolds is the scion of a well-to-do family who lit out in search of adventure—and gold. Billy Champion is a devil-may-care ne'er-do-well with a stubborn streak...
5) The Texans
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English
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"At seventeen years old, Odell Spurling is taller than most men and all to ready to be treated like one. But nothing could prepare him for the Comanche raid that leaves him without a home or family. The girl he loves, Red Wing Wilson, was once a Comanche herself-- stolen as a child and raised among Texans. With a promise to return to her, he sets off for revenge. To get her back, he'll have to contend with an unforgiving land, a sword-brandishing...
Author
Series
Widowmaker Jones volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
With a bag full of gold dust, Newt "Widowmaker" Jones is set for life. Then he makes his first mistake, trusting a cheerful stranger. By dawn the stranger -- Javier Cortina, the son of the famous Texas border bandit, Juan "Red" Cortina -- is gone. So is the gold. So are Newt's horse and even his fearsome Colt .44. It's enough to make a man want vengeance. And vengeance will be Newt's. Newt chases Cortina into Mexico, where the man is legendary for...
Author
Series
Widowmaker Jones volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"Vulture City is home to a prosperous gold mine and every bad man in the Arizona Territory knows it. Nearly every stagecoach attempting to deliver the gold to the railroad at Maricopa has been ambushed on the trail - a trail known as the Gunpowder Express for the bullet-riddled bodies along the way. With gold piling up and a lack of volunteers to transport it, the mine owner hires Newt 'Widowmaker' Jones to ride shotgun on the next stage. Foolhardy...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
615 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
U.S. Deputy Marshal Morgan Clyde has worn a tin star long enough to leave a .45-caliber mark on the Indian Territory, but the years and miles are wearing on him. And it just got worse when a rich man's family is kidnapped by as bloody a gang of outlaws as anyone has ever seen. Morgan's going to need all the allies he can get, but who'll ride with him?
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 CDs (10 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Before the Civil War, Argyle Dollarhyde had everything a man could ever want: a beautiful wife, three strong sons, and a prosperous stake in the booming cotton industry. But now, Union troops have left the South in ruins--and Dollarhyde's life is in shambles. Refusing to fall prey to carpetbaggers, Dollarhyde gathers up his family and sets out for the one place a man can still live free: Texas. Where the natives are as dangerous as the land itself....
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