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24) Too soon to die
Author
Series
Jensen brand (William Johnstone) volume 2
Language
English
Description
"There's nothing like a wedding to bring families together. And there's no place like the Sugarloaf Ranch to throw a foot-stomping hoedown--even if it turns into a gun-blazing showdown. Smoke and Sally Jensen are delighted that their son Louis is marrying the lovely widow he met during a perilous stagecoach journey through the Donner Pass. The whole family welcomes the bride and her young son with open arms. In fact, everyone is invited to the party--even...
Author
Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Cut off from the life of ranching he has come to love by his grandfather's death, John Grady Cole flees to Mexico, where he and his two companions embark on a rugged and cruelly idyllic adventure.
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English
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In the Texas Panhandle, the winters are long, the storms fierce—and the Yuletide nights are sizzling. New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas along with Linda Broday, Phyliss Miranda and DeWanna Pace, bring you one tempting holiday delight. . .
On the eve before Christmas a blizzard arrived, transforming a small Texas town into a night to remember. Four ladies desperately in need of saving, four hard-ridin' cowboys who aim to...
On the eve before Christmas a blizzard arrived, transforming a small Texas town into a night to remember. Four ladies desperately in need of saving, four hard-ridin' cowboys who aim to...
27) Forbidden
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann comes a thrilling tale of romance and suspense, filled with all the surprise, passion, and mystery of a new love.
When Kayla Grey travels from Boston to Montana, the last place she expects to end up is huddled beneath a blanket of dirt in the middle of a fierce snowstorm. And the last person she expects to rescue her is the very man she'd come to find. Cal Bartlett was a true-blue
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Series
Language
English
Description
Framed for murder, Dewey "Mac" McKenzie is running for his life. Though Mac's never even made a pot of coffee, he talks his way onto a cattle drive heading west--as a chuckwagon cook. Turns out he has a natural talent for turning salt pork and dried beans into culinary gold. He's as good with a pot and pan as he is with a gun--which comes in handy on a dangerous trail drive beset with rustlers, hostile Indians, ornery weather, and deadly stampedes....
29) Wyoming strong
Author
Series
Wyoming men volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When fate intervenes and brings them together on neighboring Wyoming ranches, archenemies Wolf Patterson and Sara Brandon cast their differences aside when they see each other in a whole new light as love takes root between them.
30) Always a cowboy
Author
Series
The Carsons of Mustang Creek volume 2
Language
English
Description
Drake Carson is the quintessential cowboy. In charge of the family ranch, he knows the realities of this life, its pleasures and heartbreaks. Lately, managing the wild stallions on his property is wearing him down. When an interfering so-called expert arrives and starts offering her opinion, Drake is wary, but he can't deny the longing-- and the challenge-- she stirs in him. Luce Hale is researching how wild horses interact with ranch animals-- and...
31) Cowboy
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Series
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs trace the history and lore of cowboys around the globe.
33) So tough to tame
Author
Series
Jackson Hole volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlie Allington is supposed to be on the fast track to the top--a small-town girl who was making it big in her career. Instead, she's reeling from a scandal that's pretty much burned all her bridges. Now, out of options, she needs a place to lick her wounds and figure out her future. True, working at a ski resort in rugged Jackson Hole, Wyoming, isn't her dream job. But if there's one perk to coming back, it's a certain sexy hometown boy who knows...
34) Blind tiger
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
1920. Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble...and lands in more than he bargained for. On the day he arrives in Foley, Texas, a local woman goes missing. Thatcher, the only stranger in town, is suspected of her abduction, and worse. Standing between him and exoneration are a corrupt mayor, a crooked sheriff, a notorious cathouse madam, a sly bootlegger, feuding moonshiners...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man, " Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the Keyhole." (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower...
37) Texas Ranger
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Center Point large print ed.
Physical Desc
239 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Captain Rickert was tough. Flatly, he told the new recruits in the Texas Rangers: "You will be paid forty dollars a month. You will provide your own clothes, guns, ammunition, horse, saddle, and you'll feed yourself." Right there, a sane man would figure he might as well quit now. Practically any job would be better than what the Rangers offered. Except that what they offered was not a job--it was a way of life. It really didn't matter how much money...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
326 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Lew Weldon has been a tumbleweed, rolling where the wind blew him, up to Canada and down to Mexico. Over time he has earned a reputation as a gambler and a gunfighter. Riding into San Trinidad, Weldon finds his reputation has preceded him when he receives two job offers. Roger Cunningham wants Lew to join his smuggling operation. Dr. Henry Watts wants to hire Lew to protect his patient dying of consumption, the beautiful Helen O'Mallock. Lew finds...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
254 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The black feather, sign of the King Buzzard's gang, waved over the corpses of punchers and dead mossyhorns alike on the grounds of the Cross Knife and through the Spanish Silks. When the King Buzzard left a black feather, it was a warning--flee or become the Buzzard's next victim as his gang rustled cattle, killed ranchers, and burned homesteads. Cal Banning, high-tailing it into the country with a description of himself on a sheriff's wanted notice...
40) Real cowboys
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Cowboys are strong and tough. Cowboys ride fast horses and travel far and wide. But as they move through canyons and across prairies, quietly doing their work, cowboys are many more things, too. And these are the things that make them real cowboys.
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