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Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A native of Texas, Eugene Cunningham lived and breathed its colorful history. He had friends who were Texas Rangers during some of the momentous events of the late 19th century. Like many of his stories, the nine tales collected here are based on those experiences.
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Here are two of the finest short novels of one of Western fictions classic writers. The title story finds the Deerfoot Stage Line harassed by a gang of outlaws trying to loot local miners gold dust. Facing ruin, the lines owner has no choice but to hire a driver whos been ostracized by every other line in the area. In "Barbed Wire," Jim Lance tries to occupy a homestead he won in a poker game. But Ed Nugent, a big ranger...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Through the years, James Geraldi has proven to be one of Max Brand's most exciting and enduring characters, and this volume contains three of his greatest exploits. Geraldi has been dubbed the "Frigate Bird" because of his habit of stealing from thieves, and Edgar Asprey knows just how apt the name is. Geraldi once prevented Asprey from swindling his family out of a fortune, and managed to get rich doing it. That's exactly why Asprey now wants to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Like many a veteran from the civil War, Capp McKenna went West to build a new life. Thanks to a fortuitous meeting with J. Stuart Reynolds, owner of the Reynolds Overland Transportation Company, McKenna's homestead in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains was selected as a change station for the horse teams on the run between Denver and Cheyenne.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomson/Gale
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
"The Texan Buys a Gun-Bride," set in the Republic of Texas in 1841, features a fiddle-playing, bullwhip-wielding hero caught up in land squabbles and land fraud among ranchers, cavalrymen, and a group of feisty Scottish emigrants. In "Whiskey Creek Stampeders," Glenn Carnagey returns to Oregon's rough-and-tumble Rouge River mining country, where he is determined to break the stranglehold Charlie Hammaker has on the area by competing against his overland...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomson/Gale
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In "Ride 'Im Cowboy" Tom Rawlins finds his identity papers gone, necessary for him to claim the inheritance of the Cross P Ranch in Arizona. He then witnesses a train robbery and finds himself accused of participating. Now there is another man who claims to be Tom Rawlins.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomson/Gale
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
"'Prairie Guns' is set on the plains of Colorado. Homesteaders have taken up land on vast areas that were formerly free range for cattle baron Colton Miller. Among these newly settled homesteaders are Buff Brady and Luther Hart, whose hope is eventually to throw their quarter-sections together to form a cattle ranch. They are former cowboys and so are hated even more by Colton and his hired gun riders since they have betrayed what was once their calling....
Author
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
This Western duo opens with -What Colour is Heaven?-. Rick Candleman is convinced that the Iron Hat range holds bad luck. His younger brother, Joe, has joined the Obrion gang of border raiders. His older brother is locked in a vicious battle with Rufus Madden who wants to destroy the Candlemans. Rick must turn to Joe for help but Joe has his own connection to Madden. Mike Shafter in Shafter Range was a boy of nine when his mother sold out and left...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
After a couple of business failures, Paul Hagar becomes a drifter, but it looks like he's drifted into a golden opportunity. He files a claim on government land in Wyoming known as the Bloody Quarter. It puts Hagar at odds with a powerful and ruthless rancher and a gambling syndicate. They'll do anything to get their hands on the Bloody Quarter.
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Lance Barlow joined the Border Ruffians, a Missouri militia, for adventure, but now he finds himself rebelling against the wanton murder and destruction being committed. Then he is reunited with his friend Shadrack, a freed slave. Later as pony express rider, Lance loses track of Shadrack again until he hears that he's been forced back into slavery by a notorious slave dealer. Lance makes it his mission to rescue Shadrack and in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
The title story continues the saga of Reata who is now wanted for theft and whose fate now lies in the hands of a Gypsy girl. "Phil the Fiddler" is a rich family drama about a feud between cousins -- one a layabout, the other a hardworking rancher -- surrounding their equal inheritance of the family ranch. Thanks to Steve Borrow's management, Jess Fanning's ranch is the most prosperous in the territory, but when Fanning learns that Borrow arranged...
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