Zane Grey
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Told by a master storyteller who, according to critic Russell Nye, "combined adventure, action, violence, crisis, conflict, sentimentalism, and sex in an extremely shrewd mixture," Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic of the Western genre. It is the story of Lassiter, a gunslinging avenger in black, who shows up in a remote Utah town just in time to save the young and beautiful rancher Jane Withersteen from having to marry a Mormon elder against...
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1924. From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The story begins: What subtle strange message had come to her out of the West? Carley Burch laid the letter in her lap and gazed dreamily through the window. It was a day typical of early April in New York, rather cold and gray, with steely sunlight. Spring breathed in the air, but the women passing along Fifty-seventh Street wore furs and wraps. She heard the distant...
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Greed and gold unleash a storm of robbery, vengeance, and murder. On the word of a dying Indian, the three Emerson brothers come to Thunder Mountain in the Sawtooth Range and discover more gold than they ever dreamed possible. But instead of finding peace and prosperity, Jake, Kalispel, and Sam Emerson find more treachery than any normal men could hope to survive.
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John Hare lies dying in the desert until he is discovered and saved by the kind and generous rancher, August Naab. As Hare is nursed back to health on Naabs ranch, he finds himself irresistibly attracted to Naabs adopted daughter, Mescal. But Mescal is being relentlessly pursued by Holderness, a man who is not to be trusted. Hare is soon drawn into a web of adventure and intrigue over land, water, and the heart of a beautiful woman,...
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When Madeline Hammond stepped from the train at El Cajon, New Mexico, it was nearly midnight, and her first impression was of a huge dark space of cool, windy emptiness, strange and silent, stretching away under great blinking white stars. Miss, there's no one to meet you, said the conductor, rather anxiously. I wired my brother, she replied. "The train being so late - perhaps he grew tired of waiting. He will be here presently. But, if he should...
6) Black mesa
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When Paul Manning set out in search of adventure, he didn't realise what was in store. He'd never been in a blistering hell-hole like Bitter Seeps - or met a man as crooked as Belmont. Or seen a woman as good as Belmont's wife, Louise.
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University of Nebraska Press
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1995
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"Yes. He wanted to stay, and I had work there that'll keep him awhile. Shefford, we got news of Shadd--bad news. The half-breed's cutting up rough. His gang shot up some Piutes over here across the line. Then he got run out of Durango a few weeks ago for murder. A posse of cowboys trailed him. But he slipped them. He's a fox. You know he was trailing us here. He left the trail, Nas Ta Bega said. I learned at Stonebridge that Shadd is well disposed...
10) "Nevada"
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Black
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c1928
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English
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Jim Lacy, also known as "Nevada" and "Texas Jack, " is a misunderstood gunfighter who fights outlaws, and who has had to leave the woman he loves behind because of what he does.
11) Western Union
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HarperCollins
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c1939
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Wayne Cameron, a young Harvard man, travels west and falls in with a group of brave people seeking to stretch a single strand of iron wire over a thousand miles of treacherous land--for a company called Western Union. Zane Grey is the greatest chronicler of the American West.
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Curley
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[1978]
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English
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Lost on the scorching Sonora Desert, young Kent Wingfield makes an oath to a dying, old, gold prospector that plunges him into a perilous adventure. At a remote box canyon in Utah, Kent must fulfill his vow and save a young woman by defeating a man called Bonesteel--the new leader of the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang.
13) Arizona Ames
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Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 10
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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 Ameś and for years after that fateful day his name struck fear into...
14) The trail driver
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Beeler
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c1964
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English
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After his first successful venture of moving 2,500 cattle along the infamous Chisholm Trail, Adam Brite couldnt resist the allure of a second drive. To prepare for his greatest and most dangerous prospect yet, Brite begins purchasing cattle at every possible opportunity he gets and searching for an able crew to aid him in the arduous journey from San Antonio to Dodge City. He recruits a diverse cast of characters all left penniless after the...
15) Wild Horse Mesa
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Black
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c1956
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English
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Two daring brothers search for the wild stallion, Panguitch, atop the high plateau where the animal leads his herd.
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Five Star
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1997
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Zane Grey first presented this brilliant novel of the West in a much shorter form as a magazine serial in 1914. Readers were thrilled and greeted it as another masterpiece from one of the West's greatest storytellers. The manuscript would suffer at the hands of Grey's book publishers, however. They took the second half of the novel, deleted characters, changed the hero's name, and pasted it with the first half of another Grey manuscript to produce...
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Five Star Western
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c1996
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English
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The son of a gunfighter is warned by his family not to follow in his father's footsteps, but fate deems otherwise, although it does give him a chance to redeem himself. Written in 1913, the story was rejected by publishers of the day as too violent.
18) Majesty's rancho
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Amereon
Pub. Date
c1938
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English
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After Lance Sidway comes to beautiful Madge Stewart's defense and ends up on the wrong side of the law, he escapes to Arizona and finds work on her father's ranch. Madge is kidnapped by a gang of cattle rustlers, and Sidway must intervene once again to save her life--even at the cost of his own.
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Five Star
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c1999
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Sterl Hazelton is no stranger to trouble. But the shooting that made him an outlaw was one he didn't do. Though it was his cousin who pulled the trigger, Sterl took the blame, and now he has to leave the country if he wants to stay healthy. Sterl and his loyal friend, Red Krehl, set out for the greatest adventure of their lives, signing on for a cattle drive across the vast northern desert of Australia to the gold fields of the Kimberley Mountains....
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Tor
Pub. Date
1996
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"I stopped in my tracks. The mountain lion, appearing huge now, took slow catlike steps toward me. His wonderful eyes, clear blue fire circled by yellow flame, fascinated me. Hugging the wall with my body I brought the revolver up, short armed, and with clinched teeth, and nerve strained to the breaking point, I aimed between the eyes and pulled the trigger. "This passage from Zane Grey's story about Roping Lions in the Grand Canyon is one of many...