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Fred Grove
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Young Daniel Wade worked hard to avoid the battling militias in Missouri in 1860. On the one side were those allied with the Southern cause, and on the other, those committed to preserving the Union. When war finally came, however, Daniel had to choose. His decision to join the Union militia estranged him from his father and the family of his sweetheart, Laurel. Now Daniel has returned home on furlough after being wounded, to find his fighting is...
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Five Star
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2006.
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English
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U.S. marshall and all-around tough-as-flint Walt Durand rides into Red Cloud after falling into an unexpected but unsuccessful ambush along the way. Once in town, he finds the hospitality of Cal Winston and, especially, his daughter Ellen to his liking but the problem of Matt Braden and his gang of horse thieves and murderers decidedly not to his liking. Ever the strong, silent, border-town, code-of-ethics type, Durand looks to avenge the death of...
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Five Star
Pub. Date
1999.
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English
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Jesse Alden Wilder was a captain in the Army of Tennessee. Wounded and forced to choose between a virtual death sentence in prison or helping the North, he chose life. Disgraced for having joined up with the Yankees, Wilder did what he could after the war - he became a mercenary soldier who gained a legendary reputation performing daring rescue missions for the U.S. army. Exhausted, Jesse is trying to live a peaceful life in Tucson, when a desperate...
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Five Star
Pub. Date
1998.
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English
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A Civil War veteran stirkes out for the West only to face the worst kind of horror: the killing of his wife and unborn child. Now he has a chance to get revenge on one of his wife's murderers, but the odds are piled high against him.
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Five Star
Pub. Date
2000.
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English
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Jockey agent Buck Clegg agrees to help Charlie Vann recover his finest horse from thieves, but the situation takes a few twists when Buck and Charlie nearly get killed trying to deliver the ransom, and Buck suspects his ex-wife's involvement.
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Five Star
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
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As novelist Elmer Kelton once observed, Fred Grove's Osage and Sioux heritage and his lifelong love of horses bring to his stories a unique point of view and rare authenticity. Certainly few writers can match him when it comes to Western excitement and sheer storytelling ability. Western Writers of America recognized this when they awarded Grove a total of five Spur Awards, two of which were for stories collected in this landmark volume. But "Comanche...
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Five Star
Pub. Date
c2002.
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English
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A Spur Award-winning AuthorIt was the Roaring Twenties, and they descended like a swarm of locusts on the oil-rich Osage Indians of Oklahoma: jackleg lawyers, thieves, "dope" doctors, prostitutes, bootleggers, oily merchants, and fortune hunters determined "to marry me a rich Osage" preying on naive Indian girls. Unsolved Indian homicides occurred at an alarming rate as witnesses vanished, fearing for their lives. Were all the killings unrelated,...
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Five Star
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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From one of the most celebrated names in Western fiction comes a collection of riveting stories, packed with action and authenticity. Fred Grove, winner of five Spur Awards, two Wrangler Awards and the Levi Strauss Golden Saddleman Award, brings to life the high tension and turmoil between settlers and Native Americans with an unforgettable host of characters. In the title novella, Laban Columbus Bushrod witnesses a raid by marauders determined to...
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Five Star
Pub. Date
2004.
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English
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"Jesse Alden Wilder chose to fight Indians on the plains as a "galvanized" Yankee rather than languish in a Union prison. Ostracized by his family and neighbors as a traitor to the South, he winds up in Tucson where he meets Mrs. Susan Andrews Lattimore who is looking for someone to rescue her young son from the Apaches. In the process of the rescue, Jesse and Susan fall in love. Returning to the East so that Susan could obtain a divorce, Jesse returns...
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Five Star
Pub. Date
2000.
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English
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Captain Evan H. Shelby was retired from a distinguished military career when he contracted tuberculosis. His condition was considered hopeless until he went west to occupy a humble cabin in the great Gila Wilderness of New Mexico Territory, and he has been without symptoms for six months. Shelby has come to love the Rosita farming and ranching community, where he has many friends. When a major Texas cow outfit opens a land office in Rosita, intending...