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21) Dreams of eagles
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From the Texas battlegrounds to the Colorado Rockies and the California goldfields, Jamie MacCallister blazes new trails along the Western frontier, joining Kit Carson on his expedition from the Missouri to the Pacific.
22) The last trail
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing...
23) Tortilla flat
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Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a "Camelot" on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey,California and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. At the center of the tale is Danny, whose house, like Arthur's castle, becomes a gathering place for men looking for adventure, camaraderie, and a sense of belonging. These "knights" are paisanos, men of mixed heritage, whose ancestors settled California...
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Sidewinders volume 2
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In the west, there's always work for the kind of men willing to get their hands dirty--from rounding stray cattle to stringing barbed wire. Bo Creel and Scratch Morton are just such men. Now they've been hired for the one job they've never tried: wearing badges--in a little stain of a town called Whiskey Flats. What Bo and Scratch don't know is that a gang of outlaws is bent on burning down the town the Sidewinders have been hired to protect. With...
26) Centennial
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The story of Centennial, Colorado, begins when the earth formed the area and ends in the 1970s with human disregard for its benefits and beauties, and also tells the history of relations between the white settlers and Native Americans.
27) Conagher
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In this classic L'Amour adventure, a dark-eyed drifter wages a war against a murderous band of rustlers. As far as the eye could see was a vast, lonely horizon. And Evie Teale and her two children were all alone here now, alone in an untamed country where the elements, the Indians, and the thieves made it far easier to die than to live. But soon a man named Conagher would drift into her life -- and together they would have the courage to make a stand....
29) The red pony
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Ownership of a red pony teaches ten-year-old Jody about life and death.
30) The Californios
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With the help of a mysterious Indian, Eileen and her son set out on a perilous journey to recover the secret treasure found by her deceased husband.
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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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Sacketts volume 10
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Forty gunslingers from the Lazy A have got Tell Sackett cornered under the Mogollon Rim. They're fixing to hang him if they can capture him alive, fill him extra full of lead if they can't. But the Sacketts don't cotton to that kind of treatment. Hunt one Sackett and you hunt 'em all. So they're riding in from all overmountain Sacketts, outlaws, cattlemen, bankers and the rest. They'll fight with Tell on this oneif they can get there...
33) Long ride home
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A collection of vintage frontier stories that introduce you to lawmen and loners, ranchers and renegades, gunslingers, cardsharps, bank robbers, etc. --stories that surprise like the sharp crack of a Winchester and move like the lonely howl of the wind across an empty plain on the long ride home.
34) Little Big Man
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So starts the story of Jack Crabb, the 111-year old narrator of Thomas Berger's masterpiece of American fiction. As a "human being", as the Cheyenne called their own, he won the name Little Big Man. He dressed in skins, feasted on dog, loved four wives and saw his people butchered by the horse soldiers of General Custer, the man he had sworn to kill. As a white man, Crabb hunted buffalo, tangled with Wyatt Earp, cheated Wild Bill Hickok and survived...
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Deep in Indian country, Major Mark Devereaux and his men find a grisly scene: a wagon train savagely attacked, with no survivors. One of the wagons originally with the group is missing; in it is a fortune in gold and Devereauxs daughter, Mary. The slaughter, Devereaux learns, was not the work of Indians but of a murderous outlaw band. With the stakes rising in a deadly game, the only wild card is Lieutenant Tenadore Brian, who is riding with...
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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.
37) The empty land
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In the mining town of Confusion, the mines were the target of a violent plot. Though Matt Coburn had cleaned up towns before, he just wanted out of here, but now the only way out could cost him his life.
38) Silver Canyon
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Matt Brennan inherits a ranch from a murdered man and must use his well-practiced gunfighting skills to keep it.
39) The iron marshal
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Tom Shanaghy is tough, but when he becomes marshal, he will have to prove he is tough enough to overcome the resentment of the townspeople and outwit gold thieves.
40) 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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