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Summary: Lance Kilkenny's is believed to be the fastest gun in the West, but once the gunfight is over, he disappears. Most folks don't even know what he looks like. Some time back, Mort Davis saved Kilkenny's life after he was shot up. Now Davis needs Kilkenny's help. He has filed a claim on a water hole near Lost Creek in the live oak country. The district is dominated by two wealthy cattlemen, Webb...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2006
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Summary: A former gunfighter becomes involved in a range war when a cattle baron decides to take over the land of small ranchers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1986
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Summary: Ruble Noon vows to protect Fan Davidge's ranch from dangerous people who seek the gold that is buried there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1989
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Summary: When Tom Chantry comes west to buy cattle, he quickly runs into trouble. During a drunken scuffle in a bar, Dutch Akin challenges Chantry to a gunfight. Leaving town rather than face Akin, Chantry is quickly branded a coward. Later, when hiring men to take his herd to the railroad, Chantry faces a dilemma: No one wants to make the long, dangerous ride with a leader of questionable courage. So...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1985
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Summary: Dan Killoe--over six feet of tough, raw, lightning fast man. He had a trail heard and a mass of settlers to get across unknown territory to a new land. Then he gave shelter to a stranger being hunted by Felipe Soto, scar-faced leader of the renegade Comancheros. This time Killoe was borrowing more trouble than he wanted to handle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1962
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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: They tried to tell him that his father had killed himself, but Kearney McRaven knew better. No matter what life had dealt him, his father would go down fighting. And as he delved deeper into the mystery, he learned that just before his father died, the elder, McRaven had experienced a remarkable run of luck: he'd won nearly ten thousand dollars and the deed to a cattle ranch. Not yet eighteen,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1984
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Summary: Wagon trains heading west were forced to defend themselves against Indians, cope with injuries and illness, and struggle to find food. The group of westerners Rock Bannon was scouting for faced another problem. They were being deceived. When he warned them to remain on the Humboldt Trail, Sharon Crockett and the others refused to listen. Mort Harper, a stranger riding a beautiful black mare,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1987
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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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Summary: Originally written as magazine pieces, these 14 short stories by the beloved L'Amour have never been in book form.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1996
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Summary: Flagan Sackett has just escaped the clutches of his brutal Apache torturers. Once he and his brother Galloway are reunited, their efforts to establish a ranch are impeded by the cruel Dunn clan, which has decided that only Dunns shall have dominion over the vast range. The Sacketts must fight the Dunns, against insurmountable odds--but the Sacketts have never shied away from battle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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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: From one of the greatest storytellers of the American West comes a collection of short stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018
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Summary: Crispin Mayo had a wish to walk the high land with the company of eagles and the shadow of clouds. But what he found was danger and wild adventure when the train he is traveling on leaves him at a remote station on the plains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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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: As far as the eye can see is a vast, empty horizon. Evie Teale has finally accepted that her husband won't be coming home. To make ends meet she runs a temporary stage station. But though she is diligent and careful, Evie must prepare for the day when the passengers no longer come and she must protect her children in an untamed country where's it's far easier to die than to live. Miles away,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: The rare letters Tell Sackett received always had trouble inside. And the terse note from his cousin Logan is no exception. Logan faces starvation or a hanging if Tell can't drive a herd of cattle from Kansas to British Columbia before winter. To get to Logan, he must brave prairie fires, buffalo stampedes, and Sioux war parties. But worse trouble waits, for a mysterious enemy shadows Sackett's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1986
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Summary: Crispin Mayo finds himself involved in the battle of his life when he inadvertently comes upon an abandoned telegraph station -- the scene of a crime -- and a band of Civil War veterans with a score to settle. Crispin Mayo was a reckless young brawler who?d left his tiny fishing village for the vast American frontier. Headed west to join a railroad construction crew, he came upon an isolated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1984
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Summary: A novella and stories. In the novella, Rustler Roundup, the lone hero outwits a gang of cattle rustlers, Desperate Men is on a prison break during an earthquake, and in the title tale a cowboy finds women more of a challenge than a cattle drive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997
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Summary: They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endless distances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the Sierra Nevada. They were men like Linus Rawlings, a restless survivor of Indian country who?d headed east to see the ocean but left his heart -- and his home -- in the West. They were women like Lilith Prescott, a smart, spirited beauty who fled her family and fell for a gambling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2003
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Summary: This is the concluding volume of the saga of Barnabus Sackett, patriarch of that family. He returns to England, where he learns of an order for his arrest. The gold coins he found in Sackett's land are thought to be the royal treasure King John lost in the Wash during the time of the Crusades. After encountering some old friends and enemies from the previous book, he returns to America with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1976
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Summary: A drifter, reckless and hard, has vengeance on his mind. Some citizens from the last town had attempted to hang him, but he escaped and intends to return to that town to make them sorry they didn't finish the job.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1985
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Summary: Cattlemen ride alone across the open range under the deadly aim of roving desperadoes--. Gamblers stake their fortunes and their lives on a deck of cards--. Strong-willed senoritas seek independence through an enticing combination of beauty, audacity, and spirit--. Lawmen and outlaws walk the same dusty streets and speak a common language: Colt, Winchester, Smith & Wesson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1995
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Summary: "Pronto Pike had known plenty of trouble, but none like that winter on Hanging Woman Creek. He and his partner Eddie Holt - as good a man with a rifle as ever rode - were making things tough for the rustlers lifting Bar J cattle. Then Ann Farley came to stay with her brother and vigilantes cut them down. Pronto and Eddie knew they had real trouble because men who will shoot at a woman will do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005