L'Amour, Louis
Summary: It was no work for a woman. That's what they told Mary Breydon when she came to manage a rundown stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail. But Mary had no choice. Her fine Virginia home burned to ashes in the Civil War and her husband was brutally shot down on the way to Colorado. She needed to make a new beginning for herself and her young daughter on the raw frontier. Isolated in an untamed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1982
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Summary: Though primarily known as a novelist, L'Amour wrote hundreds of short stories. This volume collects 35 of his Western stories, the genre for which he has received the most notice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2007
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Summary: "The posse was aiming to string Matt Keelock up from the highest tree. But Keelock was a real he-coon. He should have been running scared, but he was playing Injun with them ... circling back and then coming up behind ... leaving crazy notes ... shooting up their canteens like they was clay pigeons. If they'd had any sense, they'd have turned back before they even started, 'cause when Keelock...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1986
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Summary: When an Indian brings news to Yance Sackett that his sister-in-law and a woman reputed to be a witch have been kidnapped by the bloodthirsty Pequot Indians, Yance and his brother Kin set out to find them. Searching the dangerous Warrior's Path, an old war trail that led from the vicinity of Chattanooga to Boston, they discover that ruthless white slavers, exploiting tensions between the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2011
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Summary: Presents a collection of tales of danger, hardship, and adventure in the Old West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005
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Summary: The story was that Eli Patterson had died in a gunfight, but Mike Shevlin knew it couldn’t be true: the man who’d been like a father to him had been a Quaker. But when Shevlin rides back to Rafter Crossing to uncover the truth, he finds that the quiet ranching community has become a booming mining town. Newfound wealth has not made Rafter a peaceful place, however, and the smell of fear and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1985
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Summary: Eight vintage stories of the Old West chronicle the adventures of Marshal Lou Morgan, Leo Carver, the Cactus Kid, and other tough heroes, accompanied by notes on western history and lore.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1990
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Summary: Lance Kilkenny has a debt to pay. Hes determined not to let the friend who saved his life go down in a range war. But when Kilkenny tries to stop the fighting, he finds there's more at stake than land and wire. Whoever is stirring up trouble has big ideas for the Live Oak country and has an army of hired guns to back them up. Nita Riordan, the beautiful and fiery owner of the Apple Canyon...
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Summary: "Ross Hardy had made his decision. He sat in the middle of all he owned, a splendid Appaloosa gelding, a fine California saddle, a .44 Winchester rifle, and two walnut-stocked Colt .44 pistols. These were his all. It was a life that had left him rich in experience but poor in good of the world. The experience was the hard-fisted experience of cold winters, dry ranges, and the dusty bitterness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1986
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Summary: They came west to stay, risking their blood to dig the gold, ride the range, conquer the greedy, and carve out a legacy of freedom. Men honed by desert fires and edged by combat with fist and gun. Women tested to the limit of endurance by an unrelenting land. Now, in a long-awaited collection of his stories, Louis L'Amour tells of the real heroes of the frontier, the survivors for whom hanging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1984
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Summary: 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 Devereaux’s 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1984
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Summary: "Chick Bowdrie could have been an outlaw, but he rode a different trail. The Texas Rangers recruited Bowdrie to help pursue the most wanted men in the Southwest. And Bowdrie knew the terrain all too well: the dusty trails, bitter cattle feuds, the desperate killers, and the weather-beaten towns that could explode into chaos at the wrong word. The Rangers were called in to handle the tough...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1986
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Summary: The second volume in a series of anthologies that will present the complete collection of short fiction by the popular novelist features more of his action-packed tales of danger, hardship, and adventure in the Old West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2004
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Summary: A loner, Val Trevallion, and a beautiful actress stake a claim in hope of finding silver and a future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1993
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Summary: Forced to kill a man in Tennessee, Tyrel Sackett and his brother Orrin hit the trail heading west. Arriving in Montana, Orrin takes on a job as a marshal in a frontier town, with Tye, the fastest gun alive, backing him up every step of the way. Determined to bring peace and security to the area riddled by rustlers, killers, and Indians, the two work to make the West a place where decent men and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1981
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Summary: On the edge of the frontier, boomtowns like Confusion sprang up overnight. Here honest men came to work the mines, while thieves, gamblers and outlaws worked on them. But in Confusion there was more at stake than law and order-the mines themselves were the target of a violent plot. Matt Coburn had cleaned up tough towns before, but he wanted no part of Confusion. Too many enemies knew he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1985
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Summary: While in the army in Paris, Major Frank Paddock and Barnes Kilrone fought over women, but now they fight a common enemy as Paddock tries to kill the Bannock war party before they get to Kilrone and the fort full of women and children Kilrone is protecting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1982
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Summary: No matter that Echo Sackett was young, and a woman, and had never been far from the valley, she was still a Sackett. Sharp and smart and a better hunter than most of the men she knew. Like her bold ancestors, Echo couldn't ignore a challenge. A sure hand with a horse, a dead shot with a rifle, and fast with her wits, Echo traveled to the mountains of Tennessee, coming up against ruthless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1983
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1987
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1993
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Summary: On the rain-drenched trail to the lawless town of Seven Pines, Hopalong discovers two men, one dead, the other badly wounded. Returning with medical help, Hopalong finds the wounded man has been shot through the temple. Who would commit such a murder? To find out, Hopalong hires on at Bob Ronson's Rocking R Ranch. There he learns that more than a thousand cattle have been run off by men keeping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1992
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Summary: Brothers Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to New Orleans to unravel the mystery of their father's disappearance twenty years before. To uncover the truth, they enlisted the aid of a trailwise gypsy and a voodoo priest as they sought to recreate their father's last trek. But Louisiana was a dangerous land, and with one misstep, the brothers could disappear in the bayous before finding whatever...
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Contents: East of Gorontalo -- On the road to Amurang -- From here to Banggai -- The house of Qasavara -- Well of the unholy light -- West from Singapore -- South of Suez.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1987