Kelton, Elmer
Summary: Bandits, outlaws, romance, and adventure abound in Hard Ride, the second-ever collection of tales of the American West from renowned, seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton Each of Elmer Kelton's superb stories of the West showcase the strength and power western spirit. They are filled with marvelous characters--from a rodeo clown who seeks redemption via romance, to an outlaw who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2018
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Summary: The earth lay dying. Crops dried up, and fertile soil dissolved into clouds of yellow. Ranchers did everything within their power, and federal forces were called in fruitlessly. Only Charlie Flagg, old-time Texas cattleman, saw it as a fight worth continuing--and refused to give up his battle against Nature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge Books 1973
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Summary: Collects three western novels, including "Joe Pepper" in which an aging gunfighter reminisces about his life of adventure throughout the Old Southwest while preparing to face the hangman's noose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1992
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Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: FORGE 0000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge Books 1969
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Summary: Examination and study of the paintings of Howard Terpning, award winning painter of the American Indian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1992
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1987
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Summary: After his company of Texas rangers is disbanded, David "Rusty" Shannon returns home to his land on the Red River, where he encounters a young white boy known as Badger Boy who had been taken from his murdered parents by a Comanche warrior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2001
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Summary: A novel on the early days of the Texas Rangers when they were merely groups of low-paid cowboys, without badges, protecting ranches from Indians. The hero, Rusty Shannon, runs into a band of Indians which killed his family when he was a child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates Book 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge Books 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2009
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Summary: In "Pecos Crossing," two young cowboys, cheated of their hard-earned salary set out to get what is due them, and in "Shotgun," rancher Blair Bishop tangles with the vengeful Macy Modock, whom Bishop had sent to prison years before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2007
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Summary: Andy, a young Texas Ranger, joins forces with Farley, a Confederate soldier turned ranger, to deliver a prisoner to stand trial for murder, but the two lawmen soon find themselves caught between two feuding families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: GraphicAudio 2010
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Joey Shipman becomes the target of a murder plot when his father dies and leaves him the family farm, thwarting the plans of his cold-hearted stepmother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1997
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1993
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Summary: In the sequel to Slaughter, Jeff Layne returns from killing buffalo to find that his enemy has stolen his girlfriend and his land, and after he departs for Texas, he encounters unhappy Comanches escaping from the new reservation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1994
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Summary: Newly married Texas Ranger Andy Pickard and his new partner, Logan Daggett, investigate a series of murders and cattle thefts in central Texas, a task complicated by a gang of masked vigilantes and the appearance of a notorious gunman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2010
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Summary: In the midst of a long-standing family feud, three Rangers must fight to keep order in the tenuous state of post-Civil War Texas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2004
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Summary: Former Comanche captive Rusty Shannon tries to resume a normal life after the end of the Civil War, but instead finds himself confronted by racial tension, murderous outlaws, brutal Comanche bands, and his nemesis--the deadly Oldham brothers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2001
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Summary: "In The Cowboy Way, acclaimed western writer Elmer Kelton chronicles the highs and lows of cowboy life. These sixteen tales, collected together for the first time, brim over with action, adventure, brotherhood, betrayal, and the romance of the American West"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, A Tom Doherty Associates Book 2020
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Summary: After the murder of his wife Josie, Texas Ranger Rusty Shannon heads out on the revenge trail, but he soon finds he is tracking the wrong man, in a novel chronicling the exploits and adventures of the Texas Rangers in the Old West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2002
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Summary: It is the mid-1830s. A growing flow of American pioneers into Mexican Texas has sown the seeds of revolution. In the midst of this turmoil are the Lewis brothers--Andrew, Michael, and James--scions of Mordecai Lewis, who crossed the Sabine River into Texas a decade past. Against the heroic, bloody backdrop of the Texas War of Independence--the battles of Gonzalez, Goliad, the Alamo, and San...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2005