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2) Buckskin run
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For the westerner, trouble came with the territory. Long grass valleys, merciless deserts, sheer rock cliffs, icy streams, hidden trails, dusty towns. These were the proving grounds of daily life. At any time violence could explode and on the frontier there was no avoiding its sudden terrible impact. In this collection of his stories Louis LAmour guides us to some of these untamed places where men and women faced the challenge of survival....
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Dal and Mac Traven left Texas young and idealistic. They came back from opposite sides of a living hell, a war that had torn the nation in two. They wanted only to reclaim their old lives...but one man held their future hostage. Colonel Henry T. Ashford had gathered an army of criminals and renegade soldiers, leading them on a path of destruction and kidnapping through Texas to the Gulf. Among Ashford's captives were the Travens' sister and Dal's...
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Sacketts volume 2
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This is the concluding volume of the saga of Barnabus Sackett, patriarch of that family. He returns to England, where he learns of an order for his arrest. The gold coins he found in Sackett's land are thought to be the royal treasure King John lost in the Wash during the time of the Crusades. After encountering some old friends and enemies from the previous book, he returns to America with Abigail, his new bride. He establishes a community between...
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Rock Bannon had tried to warn the Eastern-bred settlers against following a fast-talker named Morton Harper. When they realized their mistake and had no one else to turn to, Rock showed them what a real man was made of, and, with a smoking rifle, fought to put down Harper's outlaw crew.
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In peerless fiction spanning five decades and as many continents, Louis LAmour has proven himself the preeminent storyteller of the American experience. Whether set aboard a ship trapped in enemy seas or amidst a showdown in the deserts of Death Valley, his stories brilliantly capture the heroic and indomitable spirit of our great land. The twelve stories in this collection--appearing for the first time in one complete volume--run the spectrum...
9) Killoe
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Driving a herd of longhorns from Texas to New Mexico provides Dan Killoe the opportunity to prove himself to his father, and to learn more about Tap Henry, the dashing gunman that Dan thought he knew like a brother.
10) Radigan
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Radigan must defend his land from beautiful Angelina Foley, her hired gunfighters, and the old Spanish grant to his land that she somehow acquired.
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Everyone was dead. Indian raiders massacred the entire wagon train. Only seven-year-old Hardy Collins and three-year-old Betty Sue Powell managed to survive. With a knife, a horse, and the survival lessons his father taught him, Hardy must face the challenges of the open prairie. Using ingenuity and common sense, he builds shelters, searches out water, and forages for food. But as he struggles to keep them alive, he realizes that their survival will...
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Clay Bell had spent the last six years fighting Indians, rustlers, and the wilderness itself to make the B-Bar ranch the prize of the Deep Creek Range. But Jud Devitt, a ruthless speculator from the east, now threatens everything Clay has worked so hard to accomplish. Devitt has a contract with the Mexican Central to deliver railroad ties and wants to harvest timber off the government land where Clay grazes his cattle. Backing Devitt are corrupt judges,...
14) Borden Chantry
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The marshal's name was Borden Chantry. Young, lean, rugged, he's buried a few men in this two-bit cow townevery single one killed in a fair fight. Then, one dark, grim day a mysterious gunman shot a man in cold blood. Five grisly murders later, Chantey was faced with the roughest assignment of his lifefind that savage, trigger-happy hard case before he blasts apart every man in town... one by bloody one.
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Tom Chantry wore no gun and wished no man harm. French Williams was a ruthless cattleman more than willing to use his weapon. But Tom needed Williams to help him drive a herd north to Dodge. Setting off together on a trail alive with danger, soft-spoken Chantry and hard-bitten Williams faced storms, treachery, and Indian attacks.
17) Flint
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Rich beyond belief and despised by many, Flint comes home to die of cancer with no one at his side, until Nancy Kerrigan, a local rancher, needs his help in saving her ranch, and only Flint has the resources and skills to help her before his time runs out.
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Bill Canavan was a young man who knew what he wanted--a ranch in good stock country. He intended to settle for nothing less. The big ranchers, former rustlers turned respectable, were now in a shooting war with one another. In the middle of the fracas was a small spread and one elusive lady--and where Canavan decided to stake his claim
19) The lonely men
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Sacketts volume 12
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Lured by a beautiful woman into an Apache mountain stronghold, four men enter a contest that few would dare to enter and fewer could hope to win.
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Mary Breydon knew how to get things done. Raised on a Virginia plantation, she learned how to care for livestock, respect her workers, and keep good books. But after her husband is killed, she must make a living running a stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail. Mary faces challenges that even the men eagerly anticipating her failure would have a difficult time overcoming. After being forced to fire the previous station manager with the aid of a...
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