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Dillon, Matt (Fictitious character) Dillon, Matt (Fictitious character) Drama Dodge City (Kan.) History 19th century Drama Frontier and pioneer life Kansas Dodge City Law enforcement Law enforcement Kansas Dodge City Drama Outlaws Outlaws Kansas Dodge City Drama United States marshalsSummary: Matt Dillon is in charge of Dodge City, a town in the Wild West where people often have no respect for the law. He deals on a daily basis with the problems associated with frontier life: cattle rustling, gunfights, brawls, standover tactics, and land fraud. Such situations call for sound judgment and brave actions: of which Marshal Dillon has plenty. Contains the first 15 episodes from the 13th...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GUNSummary: Even on the wide expanse of the frontier, all things must end--including this beloved series. Savor these gems and more from Gunsmoke's twentieth season. With location filming at Old Tucson, Matt, Festus and Newly pose as outlaws to outwit bandits who've captured Doc. Matt enlists an ex-lawman, now an alcoholic, to help clean up a lawless town. In a multiple award-winning, poignant episode,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GUNSummary: Matt Dillon and Kitty Russell find romance at last, but not with each other, in two stand-out episodes from the penultimate, a new-to-DVD, 24 full-length collection of excellent episodes, all remastered and restored for outstanding picture and superior sound. William Conrad (radio₂s Matt Dillon) narrates a grim, two-part tale of renegade Comanches, Comancheros, and white slavers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GUNSummary: Marshal Matt Dillon keeps the peace in rough and tumble Dodge City -- this year facing Miss Kitty's departure and a ruthless psychopath's arrival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GUNSummary: A feral child is Kitty's only hope for survival after a horrific stagecoach crash, Newly must convince a veteran scout not to ruin his life with vengeance, there's a 'New Doc in Town, ' and Matt fights off outlaws in the harsh wilderness while trying to reunite a young boy with his saloon girl mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GUNSummary: Avenging Marshal Matt Dillon removes his badge and rides after a brute who left Kitty near death. Newly finds true love. In a pair of light-hearted stories, Matt can't seem to find a moment's peace, and a little man riding a big horse swears he'll change into an elephant at midnight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GUNSummary: Wily junk dealer Dirty Sally pays her first visit to Dodge, crazed 'Jaekel, 'obsessed with his ex-wife, assaults Festus, female physician 'Sam McTavish, M.D.' tests Doc₂s dominance, and against the backdrop of spectacular scenery in Taos, New Mexico and the snow-covered Back Hills in Custer, South Dakota, Dillion pursues crafty quarry 'Chato, ' and holds off marauding Indians intent on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GUNRichards, Dusty
Summary: Whip Station, a critical stop on the Butterfield stagecoach line, is dead smack in the middle of no-man's land. The lawless call it an easy target. Joe O'Malley calls it home. If anybody can tame a wild, violent territory, it's the seasoned frontiersman. So can his family, who have the same pride and honour coursing through their veins. Helping to plant roots is his son Jackson, a former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RICJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "Luke Ransom was just eighteen years old when he answered an ad in a St. Louis newspaper that would change his life forever. The American Fur Company needed one hundred enterprising men to travel up the Missouri River--the longest in North America--all the way to its source. They would hunt and trap furs for one, two, or three years. Along the way, they would face unimaginable hardships:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHSummary: Matt Dillon is in charge of Dodge City, a town in the Wild West where people often have no respect for the law. He deals on a daily basis with the problems associated with frontier life: cattle rustling, gunfights, brawls, standover tactics, and land fraud. Such situations call for sound judgment and brave actions: of which Marshal Dillon has plenty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: In 1880, citizens of Bodie, California, crowded onto Main Street to celebrate the Fourth of July. Among them were prospectors, miners, gamblers, and even gunfighters. They had all come to this dusty, remote spot in the mountains for one reasonto find gold. Within fifty years, however, the towns Main Street would be abandoned and filled with a ghostly silence. Where did everyone go? What...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.4 BLAHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOLOstrom, Melissa
Summary: In 1807, Harriet Winter leaves her family's New Hampshire farm with her brother to settle in the Genesee Valley to avoid being pushed into marriage with her neighbor, Daniel Long.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OSTHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: Far from her native Philadelphia, Miss Jane Peck continues to prove that she is more than an etiquette-schooled graduate of Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies Academy as she braves the untamed wilderness of Washington Territory in the mid 1850s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOLSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: A chronicle of the mid-nineteenth-century wagon train tragedy draws on the perspectives of one of its survivors, Sarah Graves, recounting how her new husband and she joined the Donner party on their California-bound journey and encountered violent perils, in an account that also offers insight into the scientific reasons that some died while others survived.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2010
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Summary: The arrival from Philadelphia of her spiteful nemesis Sally Biddle and the return of her corrupt ex-fiance Richard Baldt spell trouble for seventeen-year-old Miss Jane Peck, who has survived on her own in Shoalwater Bay, a community of white settlers and Chinook Indians in 1850s Washington Territory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2004
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOLOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: "Is this town haunted?" Jack and Annie wonder when the Magic Tree House whisks them to the Wild West. But before they can say "Boo!" they rush headlong into an adventure filled with horse thieves, a lost colt, rattlesnakes, and a cowboy named Slim. Will Jack and Annie have time to solve the next tree house riddle? The answer may depend on a ghost!
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC OSBLarson, Kirby
Summary: After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Johnstone, William W.
Summary: "Smoke Jensen is mighty proud of his son Louis for finishing law school. But he can't help being a little disappointed that Louis isn't returning to the Sugarloaf Ranch. Instead, he's setting up his own law practice in nearby Big Rock--a career choice that turns out to be every bit as dangerous as fending off cattle rustlers. The boy's first case lands him smack in the middle of a heated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHL'Amour, Louis
Summary: Val Darrant was just four years old the snowy night his mother abandoned him. But instead of meeting a lonely death, he met Will Reilly -- a gentleman, a gambler, and a worldly, self-taught scholar. For ten years they each were all the family the other had, traveling from dusty American boomtowns to the cities of Europe -- until the day Reilly's luck ran out in a roar of gunfire. But it wasn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC L'AMWoodside, Christine
Summary: "Drawing on original manuscripts and letters, Woodside shows how Rose reshaped her mother's story into a series of heroic tales that rebutted the policies of the New Deal. Their secret collaboration would lead in time to their estrangement. This fascinating look at the relationship between two strong-willed women is also the deconstruction of an American myth"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018