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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELL'Amour, Louis
Summary: Tap Duvarney lost his innocence in the War Between the States, and then put his skills to the test as a soldier in the frontier army. Now he has settled on the Texas coast, working a ranch as the partner of his old friend Tom Kittery - and finding himself in the middle of a feud between Kittery and the neighboring Munson family. Around Matagorda Island, most people are either backing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LAMErickson, John R.
Summary: #1: While investigating a murder on the ranch, Hank finds himself the number one suspect. #2: Hank conducts defensive maneuvers against an attacking silver monster bird.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maverick Books 1983
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: J CD ERIErickson, John R.
Summary: Hank the Cowdog has one of the scariest adventures of his life when he and his cowardly companion, Drover, find themselves in a strange and spooky place on Halloween night.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Hank Erickson 2012Gemeinhart, Dan
Summary: In 1890 Washington the only family Joseph Johnson has left is his half-wild Indian pony, Sarah, so when she is sold by a man who has no right to do so, he sets out to get her back--and he plans to let nothing stop him in his quest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GEML'Amour, Louis
Summary: Presents a collection of tales of danger, hardship, and adventure in the Old West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Bonham, Frank.
Summary: "In 'Sergeant Forson's Dirty-Shirt Army' a seasoned sergeant tries to turn undisciplined recruits into true soldiers despite his commanding officer's indifference, but things change when Major King learns his daughter's stagecoach will likely be attacked by Indians. 'Furnace Flat' tells of Grady Ryan's attempt to get rich mining borax in Death Valley"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BONL'Amour, Louis
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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD W L'AML'Amour, Louis
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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The long-lost soundtrack of visionary Italian film director Stefano Paradisi's masterpiece, The Black Stone Affair. An adventure-western-noir starring Sophia Guccio, Bruno Serafini and Luigi Nicolosi, and introducing Paradisi's personal masseuse, Rita Chevrolet, the movie was shot in Rome, Budapest, Paris and Reno. It's soundtrack was composed and performed by Gruppo Whatitdo Archive, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC BLAL'Amour, Louis
Summary: Facts about the Sackett novels that includes real and fictional characters, geography, and historical eras.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1989
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 LAMAuerbach, Annie
Summary: Callie and Spark end up stuck at the bottom of a deep canyon after trying to help too many townsfolk at once. Who will come to Sheriff Callie's rescue?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Spotlight 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN AUEBoggs, Johnny D.
Summary: "The Civil War is over. The future of the American West is up for grabs. Any man crazy enough to lead a herd of Texas longhorns to the north stands to make a fortune -- and make history. That man would be Nelson Story. A bold entrepreneur and miner, he knows a golden opportunity when he sees one. But it won't be easy. Cowboys and bandits have got guns, farmers have got sick livestock, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BOGBrand, Max
Summary: While Riley Sinclair relentlessly pursues the men who abandoned his injured younger brother, leaving him to die in the desert, one of the pursued commits suicide and another saves Sinclair from a lynching party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dodd, Mead 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRAWheeler, Richard S.
Summary: "Collected here for the first time are all the Western short stories of Richard S. Wheeler, winner of four Spur Awards and the Owen Wister Award for his lifetime achievement in the world of Western literature by the Western Writers of America, with a cast of vividly drawn characters including madams, miners, morticians, detectives, newsmen, and lawmen."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHEAuerbach, Annie
Summary: Discovering that his trail mix is slowly disappearing throughout the day, Peck embarks on a daring quest to catch a trail mix thief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Spotlight 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN AUEBailey, Michael
Summary: Based on a true story, Hangtown is a historical western about the hangings in a placer mining town that once went by that moniker, one of the first established diggings during the chaos of the gold rush. Set in 1848 to 1850, the unlawful were punished and hanged swiftly for crimes of theft and violence, haunting forever what is now Placerville, California. With testimonies revealed in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Written Backwards 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAIErickson, John R.
Summary: Hank the Cowdog gets into more and more trouble before he is able to find a happy solution to his problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maverick Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Hank Erickson 2012Summary: "'Too Much Dancing Going On' is the account of an independent-minded young woman in a wide-open Montana who loved books and horses, and later a certain literary young man. When Lyle Hardiman, easy-going, illiterate, Montana cowboy, accidentally blunders into the new library with his horse (he thought it was a livery), he meets the new librarian, Miss Rebecca Spark, and sets into motion a chain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star, A part of Gale, a Cenage Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIBJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "Life on the straight and narrow is easier said than done for a pair of crooks like Jimmy Slash Braddock and Melvin Pecos Kid Baker. But these reprobates are doing their damnedest to make an honest go of it. Theyve managed to safely deliver a church organ to a mountain parish when their sometime employerChief U.S. Marshal Luther T. Bleed-m-So Blhe long arm of the law"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHL'Amour, Louis
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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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LAML'Amour, Louis
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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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP WES LAMMayo, Matthew P.
Summary: A high-country train trek turns into a blizzard-bound trainwreck-from-hell for Roamer as a gang of gunmen run roughshod on the rails. They blow the safe, abscond with a mysterious young woman, and torch the train, leaving passengers to burn in the midst of a blizzard. Trailing death in its wake, the gang heads to the high country with Roamer dogging them on foot, the only man bold enough to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Spirit, a wild young mustang, journeys across the wilderness of the American frontier to regain his freedom and save his homeland. Along the way he forms a friendship with a Lakota brave, falls in love with a mare named Rain, and outwits an Army General.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018