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Summary: "In the American West, as the nation heals from the Civil War that nearly destroyed it, new battle lines are being drawn. Caleb Justin, orphaned and grieving, and his comrade Joshua Hart, a tough, worldly runaway, leave their home along the Ohio River bound for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, intent to join Sheridan's troops in their pursuit of Indian lands. But a badly healed foot injury ends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cennan Books, an imprint of Cynren Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSElno, Robin
Summary: "The price on William's head keeps rising, and the gunfighters keep coming. William blames Jesse Evans for starting this violent life and wants to pay the man back in kind, but first he must stop the flow of bounty hunters that dog his trail. Ultimately, however, he must defeat his own internal tornado-before he becomes one of its victims"--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: Western Elno 2019Warren, Mark
Summary: Shunted from his entrepreneurial ambitions to profit from the boomtowns of the frontier, Wyatt Earp returns to law enforcement. In Wichita, Kansas the town leaders become disenchanted with his hardline methods, and so he moves to a place where an iron-rule is needed - Dodge City. With him comes Mattie Blaylock, a runaway prostitute, who, like Wyatt, is searching for a chance at a better life....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARElno, Robin
Summary: When William escorts the lady Emily over the mountains and into Lincoln, New Mexico, he finds her brother John in a battle for survival in the infamous Lincoln County War. The sheriff and his posse of hired killers, secure under the protection of the courts and the governor, have a stranglehold on the town. Eastern newspapers called Lincoln's main street "the most dangerous street in America."...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: Western Elno 2018Jones, Douglas C. (Douglas Clyde)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1993
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP W JONJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "A hot meal, a hard drink, and maybe a friendly hand of poker -- that's all Mac Mackenzie wants when he drifts into the small town of Harcourt City, Montana. What he gets is a fistful of trouble. When he defends a saloon girl from the unwanted advances of some local toughs, he earns the wrath of the town's powerful namesake, Oscar Harcourt. Harcourt rules this place with an iron fist -- and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: WES FIC JOHJohnstone, William W.
Summary: Hired to track down the lady friend of a notorious outlaw, Slash and Pecos have their work cut out for them when they meet Miss Fannie Diamond, a glamorous--and elusive--showgirl who refuses to go quietly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 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'AMGrey, Zane
Summary: After a Texan stole another man's woman, a feud errupted into war. A son and daughter of the feuding clans fell in love, becoming pawns in a bloodbath that raged until no one was left to kill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.J. Black, Inc. 1950
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREGrey, Zane
Summary: Milt Dale takes shelter at an old log cabin in the forest. It is here he overhears vengeful men scheming to kidnap Helen, the niece and heiress of a prominent rancher in poor health, and take over her uncle's vast property themselves. Determined to thwart the men, Milt springs into action. After narrowly escaping, Milt leads Helen and her kid sister away from manmade danger and deep into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GREL'Amour, Louis
Summary: Macon had never needed more than a deck of cards, a fast horse, and a ready gun; he was counting on those things now as he led an unsuspecting group of settlers to an abandoned mining town. But while he prepared to pass the ghost town off as a gold mine in the making, a funny thing happened: a real-life community started to take shape in the town he'd christened Red Horse. So when a band of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, Inc 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAMOke, Janette
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1995
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC OKERundell, B. N.
Summary: "Osage, Kansa, Otoe, were all tribes west of the Mississippi and dwelt directly in the path of the two friends determined to escape the bounty hunters from Philadelphia and to explore the uncharted wilderness of the west. But when they encounter former French Voyageurs turned slave traders that take Pawnee women captive, their purposes take a turn. But slave-traders are nothing compared to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNHogan, Ray
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star Western 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOGSickels, Noëlle
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SICWilliamson, Penelope.
Summary: A sprawling Western saga featuring Clementine Kennicutt, a well-to-do Boston woman. To escape her tyrannical father she elopes with Gus McQueen, a Montana rancher, only to fall in love with Zach, his brother. The time is the late 1800s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILKirkpatrick, Jane
Summary: Madison Bacon, a young wife in southern Wisconsin, finds her comfortable life uprooted when her husband decides to sell their homestead and head west, as she joins eleven other women on the journey to an uncertain destiny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KirkpZollinger, Norman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZOLDallas, Sandra
Summary: "It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees postings soliciting 'eligible women' to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter, she has nothing to lose. She joins forty-three other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2,000-mile journey west. None are prepared for the hardships they face on the trek or for the strengths they didn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC DALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DALGrey, Zane
Summary: Lynn Weston, a college athlete, finds adventure when gangsters try to blow up a great American dam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walter J. Black 1963
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "It's one of the great mysteries of the Old West. The unexplained disappearance of a hunting party of Prussian nobles who entered the American wilderness--and never returned. Now, years later, the Prussian government demands an explanation. In response, the U.S. Army hires Preacher and Jamie MacCallister to join their search party--along with a band of Prussian soldiers led by the sinister...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHMayo, Matthew P.
Summary: In autumn, 1849, 14-year-old Janette Riker travels westward to Oregon Territory with her father and two brothers. Before crossing the Rockies, they stop briefly to hunt buffalo. The men leave camp early on the second day ... and never return. Based on actual events, and told in diary format, Stranded is the harrowing account of young Janette Riker's struggle to survive the long winter alone....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star Publishing, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MAYMcClure, Marcia Lynn
Summary: "Following news of the deaths of her parents in 1885, Haven Abernathy moves from Georgia to Fletcher, Colorado, starting fresh with a millinery shop and teaching etiquette and decorum to the town's children. She is instantly drawn to Fletcher's brooding newcomer, Valentine Briscoe, but their family secrets may keep them apart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCGrey, Zane
Summary: Old Adam Brite recruits a tough outfit to drive four thousand cattle along the Chisholm Trail, haunt of gunslingers and rustlers. One of his gun-toting horse wranglers is Reddie Bayne, a youth who turns out to be slightly different.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walter J. Black 1936