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Western books in the Oregon City Adult Fiction Collection.
Updated November 15, 2024
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Hondo : a novel
L'Amour, Louis
Paper Book
As part of the Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials! He was etched by the desert's howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and the ways of staying alive. She was a woman alone raising a young son...
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Josey Wales : two westerns
Carter, Forrest.
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Josey Wales was the most wanted man in Texas. His wife and child had been lost to pre-civil War destruction and, like Jesse James and other young farmers, he joined the guerrilla soldiers of Missouri--men with no cause but survival and no purpose but revenge. Josey Wales and his Cherokee...
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Death comes for the archbishop
Cather, Willa
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From one of the most highly acclaimed novelists of the twentieth century: a truly remarkable book" (The New York Times), an epic story of a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. With a new introduction by Claire Messud. In 1851 Father Jean Marie...
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The ox-bow incident
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg
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Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally...
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Death along the Cimarron : a Ralph Compton novel
Cotton, Ralph W.
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A gunslinging woman can't escape her past in this Ralph Compton western. Disguised as "Danny Duggin," Danielle Strange hunted down the merciless cutthroats who murdered her father. Now the feared gunslick has hung up her trademark twin Colts-and given up her secret identity-to...
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Ralph Compton's The shadow of a noose : a novel
Cotton, Ralph W.
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In this Ralph Compton western, the Strange twins find themselves in double trouble... Young Jed and Tim Strange lost their father to an outlaw's bullet, and now their mother has succumbed to a fatal illness. Unable to farm their land due to a lack of funds, the twins set out to...
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My name is Yip
Crewe, Paddy
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For readers of Charles Portis and Cormac McCarthy, My Name Is Yip is a bold, revisionist take on the Western novel set in the Georgia gold rush, by a powerful debut novelist with an original voice. With its colorful description of people and places, comic...
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The madstone : a novel
Crook, Elizabeth
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The sisters brothers
deWitt, Patrick
Paper Book
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL, RIZ AHMED, JOHN C. REILLY, AND JOAQUIN PHOENIX A BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST AND A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Publishers Weekly * Amazon * Hudson Booksellers * Washington Post Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The...
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Desperate warrior days of war, days of peace
Farmer, W. Michael
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Giant
Ferber, Edna
Paper Book
This sweeping tale captures the essence of Texas on a staggering scale as it chronicles the life and times of cattleman Jordan "Bick" Benedict, his naive young society wife, Leslie, and three generations of land-rich sons. A sensational story of power, love, cattle barons, and oil tycoons, Giant was...
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The rustlers of Pecos County
Grey, Zane
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In the morning after breakfasting early I took a turn up and down the main street of Sanderson made observations and got information likely to serve me at some future day and then I returned to the hotel ready for what might happen.
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The big sky : a novel
Guthrie, A. B., Jr.
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. B. Guthrie, Jr., The Big Sky is a classic portrait of America's vast frontier that inspired the Western genre in fiction. The Best Novel of the American West as chosen by members of the Western Literature Association ...
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A century of great Western stories
Jakes, John
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John Jakes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of such acclaimed historical novels as North and South and The Kent Family Chronicles compiled in one volume a century's worth of his favorite American Western fiction. To illustrate the evolution of the...
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Hell is empty
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
Walt faces an icy hell in this New York Times bestseller from the author ofThe Cold Dish and Dry Bones, the seventh novel in the Longmire series, the basis for LONGMIRE, the hit Netflix original series Well-read and world-weary, Sheriff Walt Longmire...
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The man who shot Liberty Valance : and, A man called horse ; Lost sister ; The hanging tree
Johnson, Dorothy M.
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Dorothy M. Johnson wrote dozens of highly acclaimed western stories and books in her long career. The stories in this book are her very best. They were ranked as four of the top five stories of the 20th century by the Western Writers of America, with "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" as number one....
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The Hanging Party A Texas Lightning Novel
Johnstone, William W.
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In this bold new series from the bestselling Johnstones, a legendary gunslinger tries to outrun his past and start a new life. But after so many years, so many bullets-and so much bloodshed-he finds old habits die hard. And new enemies die harder . . . THEY CALL HIM "TEXAS...
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While the Town Slept
Johnstone, William W.
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JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. LAND OF ASSASSINS. Deputy U.S. Marshal Tim Colter, an unsung hero of the American West who survived the harsh frontier, fought in the Civil War, and now faces the greatest danger of all- a plot to kill the U.S. President . . . ...
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Hard land
Legg, John
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All the pretty horses
McCarthy, Cormac
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at...
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Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West
McCarthy, Cormac
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25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION * From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the...
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Lonesome dove : a novel
McMurtry, Larry.
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A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning classicLonesome Dove, the third book in theLonesome Dovetetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last, defiant wilderness of America. Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome...
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Cold wind
Overholser, Stephen.
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Life in the Colorado Rockies isn't easy for rancher Gideon Coopersmith. With the help of hired hands, he, his wife, Maggs, and their daughter, Annie, live peacefully. Soon, one of the hands disappears with Annie's pony, and Gideon goes after him. When Gideon discovers a vigilante group has found and...
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Appaloosa
MacLeod, Robert Parker.
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A New York Times Bestselling AuthorThis is 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 (The San Diego Union-Tribune).Simultaneous publication with G.P. Putnam's Standard Print Edition.
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Brimstone
Parker, Robert B.
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"New York Times"-bestselling author Parker takes aim at the Old West with this brilliantly crafted follow-up to "Resolution" and "Appaloosa," again featuring guns-for-hire Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch.
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True grit
Portis, Charles.
Paper Book
A #1 New York Times bestseller, Charles Portis's True Grit is "an epic and a legend" (Washington Post), a story of danger and adventure in the Old West--the basis for two award-winning films, the first starring John Wayne in his only Oscar-winning role, as...
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Stagecoach revenge
Pulliam, D. B.
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Range War of Callie County
Richards, Dusty
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Western stars : two novels in one
Roberts, Nora
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon Nora Roberts presents two novels of untamed desire in one volume with Western Stars... Song of the West Philadelphian Samantha Evans is content with the life she made for herself after competing...
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The shootist
Swarthout, Glendon
Paper Book
This is an extremely well-written Western and gives the reader vivid insight into the workings of the mind of a wanderer and gunman.?Baton Rouge, Louisiana Sunday Advocate By the author of The Homesman, now a major motion picture The Shootist...
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Orphan cowboy
Vaughan, Robert
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The Virginian
Wister, Owen
Paper Book
In the thousands of miles of rugged rangeland around Medicine Bow, Wyoming, the only law that rules is the law of the gun. A man has to have an iron jaw and a fast trigger to stay alive. And no one is tougher than the Virginian. A peaceable man by nature, slow to anger and soft-spoken, fair and...
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