Stan Lynde
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Series
Merlin Fanshaw western mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Sheepman Abel McKenzie and cattleman Zack Rainford were best friends growing up, but now, in 1887 Montana Territory, they've become mortal enemies battling over the same grazing land. When one of McKenzie's sheep herders is killed and the investigation into the homicide receives only cursory review, their feud threatens to throw the people of Meriwether County into a bloody range war. Deputy U.S. Marshal Merlin Fanshaw is sent to stop the range war...
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Merlin Fanshaw western mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Butte City, Montana Territory, 1888The chance discovery of a virtual mountain of copper brings incredible wealth and power to two men: Irish immigrant and miner, Marcus Daly, and merchant, banker, and investor, William Andrews Clark. The two men become bitter rivals, employing armies of workers from every corner of the world as they battle head-to-head for control of ""The Richest Hill on Earth.And then, in the spring of that year, the stakes increase...
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Pub. Date
2007.
Description
When cattle Barron Thane McAllister's daughter Julie disappears from her home and a ransom note signed by the notorious Coldwater brothers arrives at the ranch, the cattleman calls on his longtime friend U.S. Marshall Chance Ridgeway to deal with the situation. Marshall Ridgeway deputizes cowboy Merlin Fanshaw (The Bodacious Kid) and sends him and legendary tracker Hoodoo Hawks to deliver the ransom and rescue Julie. The job is supposed to be a simple...
5) Summer snow
Author
Series
Merlin Fanshaw western mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2008
Description
U.S. Deputy Marshal Merlin Fanshaw is out of town on the day George Starkweather and his outlaw band hold up the Cattleman's Bank of Dry Creek. Upon his return, Fanshaw's boss, U.S. Marshal Chance Ridgeway, suggests the deputy volunteer to infiltrate the
Author
Series
Merlin Fanshaw western mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Merlin Fanshaw arrives at the Crow Indian Reservation with orders to restore law and order. But a powerful rancher and his son block the deputy's efforts in order to retain their rigid control over the nearby settlement of Medicine Lodge.
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Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
When U.S. deputy marshal Merlin Fanshaw mistakenly kills an innocent boy during a bank robbery, he abandons his career and rides off into a vast and mostly empty region of Montana Territory known as The Big Open. Hired as a cowhand by ranch woman Billie Hart, Merlin is drawn into a deepening conflict between Billie and a ruthless cattleman who will stop at nothing to possess her ranch.