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22) Apache ransom
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
263 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The son of the Texas governor has been kidnapped by a band of Apaches who want to ransom him for guns. Knowing there is little chance for an exchange, Ben Allison heads to Mexico to steal the boy back from his captors"--
23) Apache blood
Author
Series
Wilderness volume 12
Publisher
Books in Motion
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
5 CDs (approximately 5.55 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bandits and wild beasts threaten the stability of his wild west settlement, Nathaniel King is forced to lead his family's exodus through the even more dangerous Rocky Mountains.
24) Three dog tales
Publisher
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three novels explore the relationship between boys and their dogs.
25) Chiricahua
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The only individual standing between the white settlers and fierce Chiricahua Apache warriors led by Geronimo and Chatto is Pa-nayo-tishn (The Coyote Saw Him), a man of peace who forever alters the fate of the Apache"--
Author
Series
Apache wars novel volume 1
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
469 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Chiricahua Apaches attack a stagecoach bound for Fort Hell, Yakima Henry and fellow scout Seth Barksdale rush to defend it--only to discover that one of the fallen Apache is a blond-haired, blue-eyed white boy. This is shocking news to the fort's commanding officer, Colonel Ephraim Alexander. Years ago, his family was kidnapped during an Apache attack, and his desperate search was cut short by orders to evacuate. If this white Apache warrior...
27) High lonesome
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Red Ryan volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Riding shotgun, Red Ryan leads a doomed stagecoach of the damned on the longest, deadliest journey of his life ... 5 passengers. 400 miles. 1,000 ways to die. According to local legend, the stagecoach known as the Gray Ghost is either haunted, cursed, or just plain unlucky. Each of its last three drivers and three more riding shotgun came to a violent, bloody end. And now it's Red Ryan's turn to guard five foolhardy passengers on the stage's next-and...
29) Dead river
Author
Series
Jackals volume 4
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the wild western frontier, the three men known as the Jackals stand between the law and the lawless-delivering their own brand of justice with a fast draw, dead aim, and enough bullets to populate Boot Hill. Johnstone Territory. Where Death Rides Hard. Apache renegade Bloody Hand plays a role in each of the Jackals' lives. To bounty hunter Jed Breen, he is man with a price on his head. To retired cavalry segeant Sean Keegan, he is a cellmate after...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Wounded, dehydrated, and escaping a violent feud with the men of Bob Sutton's ranch, Trace Jordan is near collapse when he descends from the heat of the desert into a cool, secluded canyon. He wakes to find a beautiful woman gently caring for his injuries. Maria Cristina and her family have also suffered at the hands of Sutton and his men. The experience has left her hostile and defiant. But Jordan sees another side of Maria, and the more time they...
Author
Series
Killstraight stories volume 5
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"After visiting his late mother's people on the Mescalero reservation, Comanche tribal policeman Daniel Killstraight waits to catch a train home when local cowboys bring disturbing news: an Apache has brutally murdered a teenage girl in the railroad town of Deming and locals want to lynch him. Killstraight has no jurisdiction in this territory and he doesn't care much for Apaches. He knows nothing about Deming, the murdered girl, or the accused killer,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 342 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Willow, a studio cellist in Los Angeles, returns to rural New Mexico to clear up her mother's estate after a freak accident. Before she leaves the city, she breaks up with her disinterested musician boyfriend; when she arrives in the country, she discovers she's pregnant. Her mother's debts seem insurmountable--who would want to buy a crumbling, off-the-grid failed vineyard and goat ranch, and how can Willow even think of bringing a baby into her...
33) The Apache Kid
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
251 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
He was a dark-faced San Carlos youth. His father called him Red Wolf, and his few friends called him Niño. His many enemies called him a mad dog and a murderer. He had been the finest trailer in the enlisted Apache Scouts, and now he was the most feared and hunted fugitive in the Arizona Territory. He was the last warrior, and his lonely and savage duel with the United States Cavalry created a legend as bold as that of Cochise and Geronimo. In both...
34) Apache lament
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
405 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Eight months have passed since Sam DeJarnett lost his wife and unborn child to Mescalero Apaches, and now he is one of ten Texas Rangers pursuing those very hostiles in 1881. He lives only for vengeance, and the fresh Mescalero trail in the snow is leading straight into the bitterly cold Sierra Diablo of Texas. In the Mescalero band is Nejeunee, a twenty-year-old woman with a baby. She has lost her husband to the Indaa, or white men, and she lives...
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