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Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
When a freighter shot and killed Jorge Espanol and later wounded his brother Hernando, George Washington Mars, a gunsmith, decided to customize a Colt revolver that would give an edge to a man with a slower, draw. Now Hernando and George have created a subterfuge to draw their freighter back into a confrontation. The new gun soon earned its name as sudden death became the constant companion of the "killer gun."
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
The story that opens this Western trio, "Above the Law," is the first that Max Brand ever wrote, marking the beginning of a long and distinguished career. In it, an actress finds herself in the West and taken prisoner by Black Jim, a notorious bandit. "One Man Posse" is about a man nicknamed Sleeper. Thought to be lazy and shiftless, Sleeper is anything but-and he surprises everyone with his cleverness and endurance when he goes up against Charlie...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
No one knew -- or wrote about -- the West like Max Brand, as shown brilliantly in the three classic short novels collected in this volume. Each novel has been carefully restored to Brand's original version, and each is a jewel of Western fiction. In the title novel Reata, one of Brand's most popular heroes, is enlisted to retrieve a hidden treasure in gold -- little knowing that it's stolen goods. In "Sheriff Larrabee's Prisoner" a lawman must lead...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Mark Lane and Reg Bachelor are partners, working as ranch hands in Wyoming for the warm part of the year, then heading south before winter sets in. In the fall of 1935 they set out as usual, riding into northern Arizona until they encounter a Mormon enclave, where the ranchers hire them to capture the wild mustangs who compete with their cattle for graze and water.Mustanging, however, is not easy work: it requires patience, cunning and grit. Heading...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomson/Gale
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
On September 7, 1876, the James-Younger gang attempted to rob the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota, with disastrous consequences. In a unique, compelling approach, author Johnny D. Boggs shifts perspectives from one first-person account to another to describe the bloody robbery, as well as the events leading to it and its aftermath.
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Even a legend has to start somewhere -- and this is the story of the first adventure of James Geraldi, legendary outlaw of the old, wild, West. Never known to prey upon the unwitting and defenseless, Geraldi stole only from other thieves. As a matter of fact, he was running away from one whose pocket he had picked when he first encountered Louise Asprey. Given refuge in the Asprey house, Geraldi is begged by Louise for help in finding her father,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
These two Western novels exhibit Ray Hogan's signature style, combining depth of character with intensely involving narrative. In Fire River, Joel Kane is returning to the Circle K Ranch in New Mexico, the home he left at fifteen, to answer a plea for help from his father.
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
For the first time in book form are some of Cliff Farrell's Western stories - a celebration of the American past and the stuff that legends are made of. From "River Ambush" where a young man begins his journey aboard a flat boat on the Ohio River, to "Picture Bride" where a woman from the East suddenly finds herself in the lonely isolation of the Texas frontier, these stories capture the bold dreams and harsh realities of the pioneers who sought their...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
The wealthiest landowner in the province of Spanish-controlled Alta California has sent away to Spain for a suitable bridegroom for his beautiful daughter, Ortiza Tarabal. Francisco Valdez arrives with his slave, an Englishman known as El Rojo, a courageous man who has made some enemies among the ruling class, but has the devotion of the Indians. El Rojo also has the very dangerous love of Ortiza Tarabal, despite her betrothal to Francisco Valdez...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Former Confederate officer Bill Warren, better known as the Pecos Kid, has been one of Western fiction's most beloved characters since Dan Cushman created him in 1950. Collected in this volume are two of his ... adventures. In 'Riders of the Gunsmoke Rim,' the Kid and his two saddle partners head into Yellowstone country with a Wyoming stocker herd of four hundred head of cattle--only to find themselves in the middle of a land war. 'The Deadwood Drive'...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
An anthology of westerns, written in the first half of the century. In The Roaring Hour, a marshall faces a crooked sheriff, The Hour of Fury is on a gold-mining camp, and in The Kid from River Red a young man holds up a stagecoach to prove his manhood. By the author of the story, Stage to Lordsburg, which was made into the film, "Stagecoach."
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories on frontier life in the Pacific Northwest. The stories treat of hardships faced by ranchers, of settlers in wagon trains on the Oregon Trail fighting off Indians, and of steamboat builders and river pilots.
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