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The loner volume 15
Pub. Date
2012
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Journey To A Killing Ground
Conrad Browning, a.k.a. The Loner, knows what it's like to a have a family and a home. And he knows what it's like to lose it all. Now, he has a met man living on the edge of sanity: a good man, a flawed man, a solitary man who might just cost The Loner his life...
The Past Won't Let Him Go. The Future Is Even Deadlier.
Jared Tate is an aging U.S. marshal who has saved lives, made enemies, and planted a lot of bad men...
3) Buckhorn
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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"Crater City, New Mexico, is a bustling mining town brimming with the stench of men hungry to get rich the old fashioned way -- killing the competition. Dennis Conroy is the owner of the biggest saloon in town, and he needs a few good sharpshooters to help protect surveyors laying out a route for a spur rail line before his rival Hugh Thornton beats him to it. Joe Buckhorn's handy with a gun so he takes the job. Against his best advice, he'll also...
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Luke Jensen volume 6
Pub. Date
[2018]
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When Luke Jensen traps fugitive Ben Craddock in Arapaho Springs, he's ready to collect on his bounty. But the job's not done--not by a long shot. A raid by a savage gang known as the Legion of Fire has left the peaceful settlement looted, burned to the ground, and the ashes scoured for female hostages--including the marshal's daughter. For Luke this is more than a hunt. It's now a rescue. And with Craddock busted out of jail and thrown in with the...
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Smoke Jensen's brother Luke, having been shot while trying to smuggle gold out of Richmond during the Civil War and nursed back to health by the daughter of a farmer, plans to stay on the farm with the woman with whom he has fallen in love, but, after the arrival of ruthless carpetbaggers, he must take it upon himself to hunt them down and bring the outlaws to justice.
7) Arizona Ames
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"Not all outlaws are bad mend. Rich Ames didn't set out to be a gunslinger-it was forced on him. When two men roughed up his sweet sister, Rich reached for his trusty Colt and let loose on them. When the smoke cleared, Rich was the only one standing, now a fugitive of the law and forced to abandon his quaint home and family in Tonto Basin. Rich soon acquired the name "Arizona Ames" and for years after that fateful day his name struck fear into the...
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Captain Jed Foster is more than a thief. He's a traitor. With a handful of murderous rogues, he's run off with four wagons containing new Springfield 1880 rifles, bayonets, and ammunition meant to resupply the troops at Fort Bowie in Arizona Territory. Foster plans to sell the weapons to the highest bidder whetherer it's Apaches, Mexican revolutionaries, or Confederate veterans who still dream of destroying the Union. But that's the least of Foster's...
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Pub. Date
2011
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The Santa Fe Trail stretches from the Mississippi River to New Mexico Territory through the West's most savage lands. That's why a wealthy trader hires the mountain man called Preacher to keep his goods safe--and hopefully deliver a flock of pilgrims to a Promised Land. A young prostitute and the spoiled son of the wagon train owner are among the souls Preacher must protect. But then a rifle goes off at the wrong moment. A towering grizzly bear attacks....
10) Canyon Diablo
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Pub. Date
2010
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To say that Jacob Gamble and his crazy brother Ishmael don't get along would be a huge understatement. But when they finally meet up at an old mission church in the desert to settle their feud, they find a score of massacred bodies and one mortally wounded survivor who promises them riches beyond their wildest dreams if they'll return his prized possession to Canyon Diablo. The brothers desperately want to cash in, but there's just one problem: Canyon...
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"Told in the voice of Nellie Courtright, a spunky, courageous, attractive young woman whose story this is in part, Telegraph Days is the big novel of the Western gunfighters that people have been hoping for years Larry McMurtry would write." "When Nellie and her brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned by their father's suicide on his new and unprosperous ranch, they make their way to the nearby town of Rita Blanca, where Jackson manages to secure...
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Alex Longmire earned his reputation for being fast with a gun at a very early age. Though he never hired out his talent for pay, his reputation served to isolate him from everyone. Most knew not to cross Alex, but Rod Zellman ignored the warnings. When an attack by Rod Zellman against Alex Longmire predictably ends with Zellman's death, Alex and his friend Bud Purvis are pursued by Zellman's father and his hired guns for over 700 miles. And when the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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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...
14) West Texas kill
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Between the Pecos River and Rio Grande a vast, harsh land was ruled by Texas Rangers Captain Hector Savage. Savage's motive wasn't duty, it was money; he's turned this desolate place into a bloodied, terrorized kingdom. Now, a protege of Savage, Sergeant Dave Chance, has come with a prisoner--a big-talking murderer in his own right--shackled at his side. A decent, honest Ranger, Chance cannot stand idly by while Savage runs roughshod over the territory....
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Pub. Date
2013
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Wil Chama was interviewed in 1938 as a contributor to the American Legends Collection, a part of the Federal Writers' Project. Speaking into an Edison Dictaphone he narrated the events of his life. His personal narrative included his involvement as a strike breaker in what became known as the Gunnison Affair.
It was as a result of this shameful episode that he gained his reputation as a gunman and sought to bury himself as a driver of a salt wagon...
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"Two decades after the Civil War, Josephine Marcus, the teenage daughter of Jewish immigrants, is lured to Tombstone, Arizona, with the promise of marriage to Johnny Behan, one of Arizona's famous lawmen. When the silver-tongued Behan proves unreliable, Wyatt Earp who emerges as Josephine's match and ignites a rivalry destined for the history books"--
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Savage Texas volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
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"In Hangtree, Texas, any other day could be your last. For, on the heels of the Civil War, Hangtree is drawing gamblers, fast women and faster gunmen. Amidst the brawls and shooting, the land-grabbing and card-sharking, two men barely hold the boomtown together: Yankee Sam Heller and Texan Johnny Cross. Heller and Cross can't stand the sight of each other. And Hangtree needs them more than ever. Now, a Comanche named Red Hand leads a horde of warriors...
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Border empire volume 1
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Taking up the custom-made Colts of his late father, who was murdered in the streets of El Paso by Mexico's notorious Sandlin gang, Wes Stone trades his aspirations of becoming a lawman for his thirst for vengeance.
19) Dark Horses
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2014.
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Trouble follows horse trader Will Summers as soon as he sets foot in Dark Horses, Mexico. A party of men is intent on hanging Summers, believing him to be a horse thief, but not before they take him to their boss--Ansil Swann, the very man Summers is delivering four horses to. Will is saved from the hangman's noose when the men are waylaid by Ansil's beautiful wife, Bailey. Only Bailey has an agenda of her own, one that lands Will right in the middle...
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The loner volume 5
Pub. Date
2010
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They came from the sea, a former ship captain named Owen Bird who inherited a Texas ranch from his brother. A former pirate named "Black Terrance" Malone, who has arrrived in the once peaceful Rattlesnake Valley with a crew of sea dogs to do his dirty work. And dirty work it will be, as Black Terrance begins a campaign of thieving and threatening, even targeting Bird's beautiful young niece. Into this storm rides the Loner, Conrad Morgan, son of the...