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Wild justice
Estleman, Loren D.
Paper Book
A riveting western novel starring beloved character Page Murdock from Spur Award-winning author Loren D. Estleman! In the spring of 1896, after thirty years spent dispensing justice in the territory of Montana, Judge Harlan Blackthorne expires, leaving Deputy U.S. Marshal Page...
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Smoke wagon
Cogburn, Brett
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Spur-Award winner and bestselling western author Brett Cogburn crafts a post-Civil War railway thriller. "Readers who enjoy tall tales built around real history-and aren't turned off by the sight of a bit of blood-will enjoy this read." -Booklist ...
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The Last Kind Words Saloon : a novel
McMurtry, Larry.
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Larry McMurtry has done more than any other living writer to shape our literary imagination of the American West. With The Last Kind Words Saloon he returns again to the vivid and unsparing portrait of the nineteenth-century and cowboy lifestyle made so memorable in his classic Lonesome Dove....
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Wolves of Eden : a novel
McCarthy, Kevin
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A saga of loyalty and survival in the vast, severe American West. Irish immigrant brothers Michael and Thomas O'Driscoll have returned from the brutal front lines of the Civil War. Unable to adapt to life as farm laborers, they reenlist in the army and are thrown into ferocious...
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Give-a-Damn Jones
Pronzini, Bill
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Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Bill Pronzini debuts a thrilling western with expert storytelling and a mysterious hero who will appeal to Pronzini's Nameless fans. Not all the folks who roamed the Old West were cowhands, rustlers, or cardsharps. And they certainly...
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Robert B. Parker's Buckskin
Knott, Robert
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Lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch must prevent all-out war between rival factions in the latest adventure in the New York Times-bestselling series. When gold is discovered in the foothills just outside of Appaloosa, it sets off a fight between two shrewd local business...
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Springfield 1880
Johnstone, William W.
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With a handful of murderous rogues, Captain Jed Foster has run off with four wagons containing new Springfield rifles, bayonets, and ammunition meant to resupply the troops at Fort Bowie in Arizona Territory. Foster plans to sell the weapons to the highest bidder-whether it's Apaches, Mexican...
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Texas Ranger
Patterson, James
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In James Patterson's #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, a Texas Ranger fights for his life, his freedom, and the town he loves as he investigates his ex-wife's murder. Across the ranchlands and cities of his home state, Rory Yates's...
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The last cowboys of San Geronimo
Stansel, Ian
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"One of the most compelling novels I've read in a long time."--Eowyn Ivey, author of theTo the Bright Edge of the World and the Pulitzer finalistThe Snow Child A contemporary Western debut about two brothers locked in a deadly feud, a woman on...
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Black wind pass
Davis, Rusty
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The big showdown
Spillane, Mickey
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Caleb York has made up his mind and packed his bags. He'll be on the next stage, bound for San Diego and a new life as a Pinkerton man. But before Caleb can say a proper goodbye to his sweetheart, Willa, a peaceful morning erupts into blazing gunfire. Someone has to bring law and order...
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The cold dish
Johnson, Craig
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Introducing Wyoming's Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting first Longmire novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Land of Wolves Fans of Ace Atkins, Nevada Barr and Robert B. Parker will love this outstanding first novel, in which ...
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The long high noon
Estleman, Loren D.
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Locked in a deadly feud, cowboys Randy Locke and Frank Farmer have spent decades attempting to annihilate each other any time they are within shooting distance. So far, the men are even. One of Frank's bullets has given Randy a permanent limp. Vain Frank wears a prosthetic ear, his own...
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Don't be a stranger
Nesbitt, John D.
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Elwood Lawrence, top hand at the Crown Butte ranch, tries to find out where the cattle are disappearing to. It looks like an inside job. His work becomes complicated when he develops an interest in a woman who comes to visit the ranch, and behind it all is the disappearance of a flashy stranger who...
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The regulator
Wolfe, Ethan J.
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Soldier, Sniper, Secret Service Agent, Regulator. Murphy answers only to the President. His latest assignment comes from President Garfield and is classified Top Secret. A serial killer is murdering railroad workers and settlers in the western states and territories. With nothing but his skill as a...
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Miami gundown : a frontier story
Zimmer, Michael
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Boone McCallister was interviewed in 1937 as a contributor to the American Legends Collection, a part of the Federal Writers Project. He narrated the events concerning a dangerous cattle drive in Florida when that state was very much cattle country and not at all a place of citrus growers and...
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A question of bounty : the shadow of doubt
Colt, Paul.
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A Question of Bounty: The Shadow of Doubt examines the 130-year-old controversy over Sheriff Pat Garrett's claim that he killed Billy the Kid on July 14, 1881. John Poe, Garrett's deputy on the scene that night, and others question Garrett's claim. They suggest he killed the wrong man and covered it...
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Wreaths of glory : a western story
Boggs, Johnny D.
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William Clarke Quantrill was a hated name during the War Between the States by the Federals of the Union Army as well as by many non-combatants. Even the high command of the Confederacy distrusted him. But there were others who were passionate sympathizers. He was both friend and mentor, but also...
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With blood in their eyes
Cobb, Thomas
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Winner, Spur Award for Best Western Long Novel (Western Writers of America) and Southwest Book Award (Border Regional Library Association) On February 10, 1918, John Power woke to the sound of bells and horses' hooves. He was sharing a cabin near the family...
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Hard country : a novel
McGarrity, Michael.
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The hot kid
Leonard, Elmore
Paper Book
The undisputed master of the crime novel strikes again with this powerfully entertaining story, set in 1920s Oklahoma, that introduces one of the toughest lawmen ever to come out of the west. . . . Carlos Webster was 15 the day he witnessed his first murder--but it wouldn't be his...
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The thicket
Lansdale, Joe R.
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In The Thicket, award-winning novelist Joe R. Lansdale lets loose like never before, in a rip-roaring adventure set at the dark dawn of the East Texas oil boom, the perfect introduction to an acclaimed writer whose work has been called "as funny and frightening as anything that could...
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The chuckwagon trail
Johnstone, William W.
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Framed for murder, Dewey "Mac" McKenzie is running for his life. Though Mac's never even made a pot of coffee, he talks his way onto a cattle drive heading west--as a chuckwagon cook. Turns out he has a natural talent for turning salt pork and dried beans into culinary gold. He's as good with a pot...
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Appaloosa
Parker, Robert B.
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A richly imagined novel of the Old West, as spare and vivid as a high plains sunset, from one of the world's most talented performers. It was a long time ago, now, and there were many gunfights to follow, but I remember as well as I remember anything the first time I saw Virgil Cole shoot. Time...
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These is my words : the diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 : Arizona territories : a novel
Turner, Nancy E.
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"Belongs on your must-read list. This novel is a gem." --Omaha World-Herald Nancy E. Turner's unforgettable These Is My Words melds the sweeping adventures and dramatic landscapes of Lonesome Dove with the heartfelt emotional saga of Oldest Living Confederate Widow...
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