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When L'Amour's first fiction was being published in "pulp" Western magazines, he wrote several novel-length stories. Three of these tales--The Trail to Crazy Man, Riders of the Dawn, and Showdown on the Hogback--are collected here in one volume for fans who relish the chance to enjoy the early works of a master storyteller.
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John Ford's The Searchers defined the spirit of America, influenced a generation of film makers, and was named the Greatest Western Movie of All Time by the American Film Institute in 2008. Now, the novel that gave birth to the film returns to print, a timeless work of vivid, raw western fiction and a no-holds-barred portrait of the real American frontier. From the moment they left their homestead unguarded on that scorching Texas day, Martin Pauley...
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Jesse Jackson was a crook that robbed other crooks. He goes straight and on the day he is to be married, an old friend is pursued by a posse and stops at his house. He leaves the girl at the altar and throws off the posse. She does not want him back, but he follows her. He goes back to his old life and realizes he likes it and the adventures continue. However, he still pursues the woman.
4) Blue Steel
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An U.S. Marshal is suspected of a robbery when he witnesses it. As he investigates, he realizes the town's leading citizen is planning a massive heist. He must clear his name and stop the real culprits.
1934 American Western film directed by Robert N. Bradbury. The film stars John Wayne in one of his earlier leading roles. The story revolves around a U.S. marshal who gets caught up in a robbery where he is suspected of being the culprit.
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Government agent Singin' Sandy Saunders infiltrates a small town to investigate a corrupt land baron who is hoarding water and extorting ranchers. Saunders teams up with a young woman whose mine has been stolen by the baron, and together they fight to bring him down.
1933 pre-Code Western musical film starring 26-year-old John Wayne as Singin' Sandy Saunders. It was the first of a series of sixteen Lone Star Westerns made for Monogram Pictures between...
6) Wagontongue
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Isaac Jefford, a former slave, has become one of Major Lytton's top cowhands, but while he is respected, he is never totally accepted, a fact that becomes very clear when he is sent with Pete Runyan, a bitter southerner, to deliver a payment to the bank in Fort Worth before the Major's loan comes due.
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The Baron Range, Spur Award-winning author Jory Sherman continues the gritty, exhilarating story of the Baron family. Years ago Martin Baron came to Texas with the dream of building a cattle empire. Now, savage floods and battles with the Apache threaten both his hopes and the lives of his family and ranch hands. Even more menacing than the environment, however, are the powerful desires and furies of the people determined to make a place for themselves...
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Mike Blakely again takes us on the trail with cowboy musician Caleb Holcomb. Caleb now becomes embroiled in Wyoming's Johnson County War, the Arapaho uprisings, the West's bloody cattle wars, the great cattle drives, and the wild, lawless land rushes that settled the Indian Territory.
Through it all Caleb finds music, friends, and wonderful women. But will he ever settle down with Amelia Holcomb, his brother's widow, the only woman he's ever loved?...
9) Bloody Hand
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Bloody Hand
Matt Braun
He found a people who needed his courage…
Born a slave, Jim Beckwirth forged his own path to freedom as a mountain man. But when a wealthy trading company owner offered to pay him to live among the Crow Indians, Beckwirth accepted the deal-and discovered another way of life that changed him forever.
He fought a battle that had to be won…
Here in the Wind River Mountains, amidst blood feuds and blood brothers, he became...
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What the readers say about the book:'I have read a lot of westerns, this one ranks as one of the top 10.''I liked the entire book from start to finish, once started couldn't put it down.''I was captivated from page one!'I read the book in two days. I couldn't put it down.'Millions of people love Yellowstone, loved Lonesome Dove, and will love The Vindicated Man, by G.K. Beatty. The spirit of the American West is still alive and still captures the...
11) The Blessing Way
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Don't miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+!
"Brilliant...as fascinating as it is original."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
From New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, the first novel in his series featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn & Officer Jim Chee who encounter a bizarre case that borders between the supernatural
...12) Donovan
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Donovan was supposed to be dead. The town of Dry Fork, southern Texas, had buried him years before when Uncle Joe Vickers had fired off both barrels of a shotgun into the vicious outlaw's face as he was escaping from jail.
Now, Uncle Joe has been shot-in just the same way. And Judge Upshaw had found a noose hanging on his door. It looked as though Donovan was back-gunning for the people who had tracked him down and tried him.
Sheriff Webb Matlock,...
13) The Savage Land
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Print Oliver gave his blood and his soul for the Confederacy. Then he came home to find his family ranch under siege from Union carpetbaggers and his neighbors turned against him. For the Texan there was no choice but to blaze a trail toward power, rounding up wild longhorns and driving them toward markets from Galveston to Abilene. But as Print forged an empire, his family paid a heavy toll. Now he had to make a bitter choice-- between the blood...
14) Barbed Wire
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Irishman Doug Monahan runs a fencing crew outside the south Texas town of Twin Wells, digging post-holes and stringing red painted barbed wire for ranchers as protection against wandering stock, rustlers, and land hungry thugs.
Monahan's fencing operation is opposed by Captain Andrew Rinehart, a former Confederate officer and an old-school open range baron of the huge R Cross spread.
With his brutal foreman, Archer Spann, assigned to the violent...
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In 1875, nearly forty years after the Mexican War, Mexicans and Texans are still spilling blood over ownership of the Nueces Strip--a hot, dry stretch of coastal prairie that bushwackers and horse thieves have turned into a lawless hell.
Captain L.H. McNelly, a complex and determined Confederate veteran, is brought into the Nueces Strip for one purpose: to keep the peace. His measures are harsh and controversial--but McNelly wasn't sent in to be...
16) Buffalo Wagons
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For Gage Jameson, the summer of 1873 has been a poor hunt. A year ago he felled sixty-two buffalo in one stand, but now the great Arkansas River herd is gone, like the Republican herd before it.
In Dodge City, old hide hunters speak is awe of a last great heard to the south--but no hunter who values his scalp dares ride south of the Cimarron and into Comanche territory. None but Gage Jameson....
At the Publisher's request, this title is being...
17) The Devil's Rope
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The Ridgeway family faces their greatest challenge when a devastating drought threatens to spark an open range war, forcing them to fight for their ranch, their dream-and their lives . . .
DEATH BY THE DEVIL'S ROPE
It's the summer of 1883. A severe drought threatens to bankrupt the Ridgeway's Rocking R Ranch and every rancher in northwest Texas. The cattle are thirsty and hungry. The ranchers are getting desperate. And a simple new invention...
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National bestselling Western authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone return with another breakneck, trigger-happy historical western featuring the redoubtable saloon ranger Ben Savage.
JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. ALL SHOTS ON THE HOUSE.
Running a small town saloon is no easy task, even for a former Texas Ranger like Ben Savage. A lot of men get mean after a few shots of hooch. Some get violent. Others get revenge-bloody, bloody revenge...
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19) Hangman's Creek
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"MATT BRAUN IS A MASTER STORYTELLER OF FRONTIER HISTORY." -Elmer Kelton
In a place called No Man's Land
Texas rancher Ben Langham hired Luke Starbuck for his loyalty and toughness gained by riding with Rip Ford's Texas volunteers. But when Langham sent Starbuck after a band of horse thieves, a loyal man left behind the only home he had ever known-and met the stranger in himself.
One man found a home...
To track down a thief, Starbuck posed as...
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When Texan-born Josh Buckalew met Teresa, a young and beautiful Mexican woman, it was love at first sight. But with the Alamo recently sieged and destroyed, Josh knew this rosebud love would be unobtainable on account of the war thorns harrowing the country.
So the Buckalew brothers, Josh and Thomas, along with Josh's friend Muley, the man-child, come together with other Texans to protect their land at Goliad against the Mexicans who have just ravished...
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