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A cowboy struggles to adapt to the modern world in 1910s Texas. Hewey Calloway finds it difficult to accept fences, cars and, worst of all--sheep. Also, he is advancing in years, though here there is a consolation, he is teaching the trade to his nephew.
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Crow Feather series volume 2
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In 1874 Jeff Layne, a Confederate veteran and reformed hide hunter sick of killing both men and buffalo, is on his way back to Texas to revive the family ranch, which fell into carpetbagger hands. Sequel to: Slaughter.
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Hewey Calloway has a problem. In his west Texas home of 1906, the land and way of life he loves are changing too quickly. As Hewey struggles against the relentless stream of progress, he comes to realize that the simple life of his childhood is vanishing - and that every choice he makes requires a sacrifice. --
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2007.
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The harrowing story of the revolution is seen through the eyes of the Lewis brothers and their wives and kin: the battles of Gonzales, Bexar, Goliad, and the bloody siege of the Alamo, where the Lewises join forces with such Texas immortals as Juan Sequin, James Butler Bonham, William Barret Travis, James Bowie, and David Crockett.
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 8
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[2009]
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Setting out to arrest a trader accused of killing a horse thief, young Texas Ranger Andy Pickard finds the case complicated by the trader's honor-bound nature, a situation that makes Andy wonder if he is fighting on the right side.
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 1
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This is a story of the early days when...
An intense, red-haired young man named Rusty Shannon rides into Fort Belknap on the Brazos River and joins the Texas Rangers. Years before, Mike Shannon rescued Rusty from a Comanche war party and became his adoptive father. Not long ago, Mike Shannon, was bushwhacked and killed, and his death still haunts Rusty. Rusty thinks he knows the identity of Mike's killers. But with Texas now in the throes of seceding...
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In "Massacre at Goliad," a pair of brothers arrives in the Mexican-controlled province of Texas only to witness the outbreak of the revolution, and in "After the Bugles," Joshua struggles to start over in a new republic that is finding its independence challenging.
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