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Author
Publisher
Five Star Western
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
Five tales of the West portray a rancher who goes up against nocturnal raiders, a man framed for murder by a crooked judge, the showdown between a sheriff and a wealthy land owner, an accused murderer and cattle rustler, and a confrontation with armed sheep-herders.
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In "Brand of Luck" Hugh Conner thought he had finally found a place of his own until Wyatt Keyes appears with the sheriff and a prior claim to the land. In "Death Brings in the Ophir" Nick Treacher has an option on the Ophir, one of two mines still operating within sight of the town of Strike. In "Forgotten Destiny" Bill Duncan's journey to help a friend is interrupted by an assassin's bullet.
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Luke Barron, riding at night beyond Rattlesnake Mesa on his way to the Eagle Cañon mining camp, sees an old woman cutting down a body hanging from a tree. A sign is attached to the body: Luke Barron, Beware! And things only get worse when Luke rides into the camp, determined to find out why anyone would want him dead. That's when he discovers that a certain Luke Barron, along with his gang, has been preying on the miners, and the miners are dead...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The heart of the American West lives in Peter Dawson's stories, with characters that blaze a trail over a land of frontier dreams and nightmares and across a country coming of age. Sometimes, as in "A Tinhorn Takes a Tank Town," the conflict has to do with murder and power. Sometimes, as in "Unwanted Gold," it is brother against brother. At other times, as in "Hell for Homesteaders," the conflict has to do with greed. Then, as in "Back-Trail Betrayal"...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
'Ghost of the Chinook' features western stories from the pen of Peter Dawson. The stories included are 'Spawn of Yuma', 'The Colt-Cure for Woolly Fever', 'Posse of Outlawed Men', 'Bondage of the Dark Trails', and 'Ghost of the Chinook'.
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
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In Retribution River, the conflict has to do with the disenfranchised, struggling desperately to regain their land and their dignity. In Cutbank Welcome, it is a matter of having to learn the identity of a murderer. Sometimes, the weather adds mayhem, such as the blizzard in Signed on Satan's Payroll. Matched Pair poses the question of whether or not the past can ever be rectified. In the title story, Phantom Raiders, even an honest lawman must resort...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After five years of virtual banishment because he sold out his small outfit to the Middle Arizona Cattle Company, giving it a foothold on the Mesa Grande range, violent-tempered Joe Bonnyman is summoned back to Lodgepole by his father when it appears that a cattle war between the syndicate and the various rangers is imminent. During his short stay in town, Joe has an unpleasant meeting with Ed Merrill, the brother of a girl Joe had once courted. Warned...
11) The big outfit
Author
Series
Publisher
Chivers
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Big Jim Harbour had turned in his badge and staked a claim high on the mountainside. Then Gardies, who owned the Big Outfit, died and left his daughter to run the spread alone. When ruthless land-grabbers came, Big Jim strapped on his guns again.
Author
Series
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Tush Wisdom was condemned to the hell of the Territorial Prison at Yuma for the murder of his own brother. He broke his shackles and crashed out, over a precipice and down into a wild, flooding river. He was determined to find the man who had killed his brother, and as they were saying in Longbow, "if Wisdom got out alive, he'll be after you. Tomorrow. Or the next day, or the next."
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Because of reports of a potential range war in Penasco County, U.S. Commissioner Guilford dispatches Deputy U.S. Marshal Ed Church to the area, but after arriving in Agua Verde by stagecoach and renting a horse to ride to the troubled area, Church disappears. At the same time Mike Sternes, foreman of Frank Bishop's Crescent B cattle ranch, is in town to meet the same stage, carrying Frank Bishop's daughter, Cathy. Also in town is Pete Dallam, leader...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"In Bullets Starve a Fever, cattle infected with Texas Fever offer a deadly opportunity for Bill Fear's plan of revenge. In Wanted for Blackmail, Sheriff Walt Crowe, also a wanted man, gives local strongman Mike O'Hara an advantage for his own devious plans. In Mission to the Gilas, Fat Holden has sent for his former saddlemate, Luke McVickers, to make the difference in the contest between the Circle W and Ren Emrath's Box M. The dispute is over the...
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