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Border trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. It is 1952 and John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands in New Mexico, not far from the proving grounds of Alamogordo and the cities of El Paso and Juarez. Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions and...
2) Lonigan
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Language
English
Description
In his newest collection of frontier short fiction, L'Amour celebrates the tough breed of men who work the cattle drives. Men like Danny Lonigan, whose quick draw and hard fists were as respected as his reputation for doing right by the people who did right by him. Hard-riding adventure from America's favorite storyteller.
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Pub. Date
2016
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...
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English
Description
Tap Duvarney lost his innocence in the War Between the States and then put his skills to the test as a soldier in the frontier army. Now he has settled on the Texas coast, working a ranch as the partner of his old friend Tom Kitteryand finding himself in the middle of a feud between Kittery and the neighboring Munson family. Around Matagorda Island, most people are either backing the Munsons or remaining silent. But the danger from outside...
Author
Series
Border trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers, sets off with two companions across the border of Mexico.
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Time warp trio volume 3
Language
English
Description
The Time Warp Trio find themselves in the Wild West of yesteryear, rubbing elbows with cowboys and indians.
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Series
Carsons of Mustang Creek volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Slater Carson might be a filmmaker by trade, but he's still a cowboy at heart--and he knows the value of a hard day's work under the hot Wyoming sun. So when he sees troubled teen Ryder heading down a dangerous path, he offers the boy a job on the ranch he shares with his two younger brothers. And since Ryder's guardian is the gorgeous new Mustang Creek resort manager, Grace Emery, Slater figures it can't hurt to keep a closer eye on her, as well...
9) Texas true
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Series
Tylers of Texas volume 1
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English
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The cowboy who claimed her heart before taking off on a tour of duty planned never to return. But Beau Tyler is back, and Natalie Haskell feels defenseless against the powerful pull of the brawny soldier. Especially when she finds herself suddenly widowed and needing the shelter of his strong arms.
10) Taggart
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English
Description
Adam Stark had found gold. In the confusion of the mesas and canyons near Rockinstraw Mountain, Stark, his wife, Consuelo, and his sister, Miriam, were quietly working a rich vein while keeping their presence a secret from raiding Apaches. Worried that his wife might leave him, Stark wanted to make enough money to take her to San Francisco, where she could enjoy the style of life she craved. But when Taggart, a stranger on the run from a vicious bounty...
12) Shalako
Author
Publisher
Kwajalein Publishing
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The old cowboys were natural storytellers and told stories about the cattle, the horses, the people and the land. They were simple stories good for a tellin' or two. But they soon learned that if they put those stories to rhyme and rhythm, the other cowboys would listen to those same stories over and over again. Cowboy poetry was born...a common man's poetry. Sometimes it was humorous, sometimes it was serious or sentimental. But it was and still...
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In the untamed West, pioneers came to test their fortunes -- and their wills. The Wyoming territory was a harsh, unforgiving land, with its own unwritten code of honor by which men lived and died. Into this rough landscape rides the Virginian, a solitary man whose unbending will is his only guide through life. The Virginian's unwavering beliefs in right and wrong are soon tested as he tries to prove his love for a woman who cannot accept his sense...
15) A love like ours
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English
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"Scarred from his military days and PTSD, Thoroughbred trainer and cowboy Jake Porter has given up on love until his childhood friend Lyndie returns to their Texas hometown and starts tearing down the walls he's built"--
16) Slim's good-bye
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Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 34
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English
Description
When the ranch falls on hard times, Slim the cowboy decides to hit the road in search of a new job and inadvertently takes Hank and Drover with him.
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English
Description
"Single father Henry "Hank" Watson is a fresh transplant from Alaska to Painted Barrel, Wyoming. He doesn't want anything more from life than to put in a good day's work, then go home to his daughter, Libby. But when Libby needs some emergency work done on her curls thanks to a gum incident, Hank's out of his depth. He takes his daughter into town where he meets Becca, the local salon owner."--from publisher's website.
18) Shane
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Language
English
Description
A stranger rode out of the heart of the great glowing West, into the small Wyoming valley in the summer of 1889. It was Shane, who appeared on the horizon and became a friend and guardian to the Starrett family at a time when homesteaders and cattle rangers battled for territory and survival. Jack Schaefers classic novel illuminates the spirit of the West through the eyes of a young boy and a hero who changes the lives of everyone around him....
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the sleepy town of Heber, a strange 911 call is made to report an unthinkable crime: someone has murdered a woman ... and her body has been found in Rhett Ketchum's barn. Rhett, a well-known rodeo cowboy, is placed firmly at the top of the suspect list--the only problem is, he's innocent. As officers search tirelessly for the evidence needed to lock him up, Rhett takes matters into his own hands. Max and Patches Fisher are the father-daughter...
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[Lonesome Dove series] volume 2
Language
English
Description
The final book of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove tetralogy is an exhilarating tale of legend and heroism. Captain Woodrow Call, Augustus McCrae's old partner, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal young Mexican bandit. Riding with Call are an Eastern city slicker, a witless deputy, and one of the last members of the Hat Creek outfit, Pea Eye Parker, now married to Lorena--once Gus McCrae's sweetheart. Their long chase leads them across...
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