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Author
Publisher
Five Star Western
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
The Burnt Creek stories deal with the early days of the twentieth century and capture indelibly the people and the land when homesteaders were still coming to Oregon. The remaining stories depict the Americans locked in a battle of survival with their British overlords. The British outfitted their Indian allies with red-handled scalping knives with which they were to kill Americans on sight.
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
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Western Bill Rafferty knows the wherabouts of fifty thousand dollars the loot stolen by him and Charles Cune. But he runs into an obstacle. Larry Day, the man from whom the money was stole, keeps Rafferty a virtual prisoner in Jasperville. In The Strange Ride of Perry Woodstock, a man comes into possession of a coded message regarding the location of a buried treasure. Reata is the story of a man who is apprehended as a pickpocket. He has escaped...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
In The Outlaw Breed, sheriff Brad Tantrall's father and uncles were all infamous train robbers, and his brother is serving time for murder, making Brad's job as a lawman all the more dangerous. In Bitter Valley, Matt Donnigan returns from serving time for a crime he didn't commit to find his partner has been murdered and his ranch devastated. Bullets to the Pecos follows thieving and treachery on a cattle drive from Texas to Colorado. The title story...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A riveting true story of money, madness, and murder--from the bestselling author of The Falcon and the Snowman. When a modest California beauty is swept off her feet by a quiet, handsome Englishman of incredible wealth, she never realizes that her storybook romance will quickly become an unstoppable horror. Too late she realizes, and eventually her bullet-ridden, headless corpse is found in the English countryside. 8 pages of photographs.
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Having survived a violent war against the Omaha and Montana Cattle company over his family's Montana Territory, Billy Buttons is accused of murdering the man that led company's takeover attempt. Can he get a fair trial when the courtroom is packed with Company men?
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
The daughter of an Arizona bounty hunter follows in her father's footsteps when bandits kill her parents. One by one, Delphinia Estes, 20, turns in their bodies to the sheriff and receives vouchers for the price on their heads.
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Known as "The King of the Westerns," "The Cowboy Author," and "The King of the Pulps," Walt Coburn ruled the roost for decades when it came to Western fiction. His work appeared in virtually every important Western magazine and became the standard by which other Western fiction was judged. Now, three of his greatest short novels are presented in all their original glory. This classic collection includes "Cof?n Ranch," a novel of the Wild Bunch, some...
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
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
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
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
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A collection of Western stories, one of which is The Wolf Hunter, on a bounty hunter who is tormented by his prey, a coyote. In Delayed Action, a man who forced a sheriff to back down is killed by a bullet from the sheriff's gun, but the lawman claims innocence. By the author of The Searchers.
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...
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