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Family sagas, historical lawmen, and the wide open spaces of the West
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An Arizona Christmas
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
Johnstone Justice. Made in America. William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone deliver a special holiday gift for devoted fans of the Jensen saga--a warmhearted story of burning revenge, blazing bullets, and other Jensen family traditions . . . Like most families, the...
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Below zero
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
It's an unassuming phone message: "Tell Sherry April called," but the Pickett family is shaken to the core. Sherry is Joe Pickett's oldest daughter. April is his foster daughter who was killed in a murder, arson spree. April couldn't have survived the massacre, yet Sherry believes that her sister is...
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The bitter past
Borgos, Bruce
Paper Book
In the tradition of Craig Johnson and C. J. Box, Bruce Borgos's The Bitter Past begins a compelling series set in the high desert of Nevada featuring Sheriff Porter Beck... Porter Beck is the sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, north of Las Vegas. Born and raised...
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The black hills
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
Johnstone Country.Frontier Spirit Lives Here. Meet Hunter Buchanon, a towering mountain of a man who learned how to track prey in Georgia, kill in the Civil War, and prospect in the Black Hills of Dakota. Now he's trying to live a peaceful gun-free life-but fate has...
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Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
Drury, Bob
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The Instant New York Times Besteller National Bestseller "[The] authors' finest work to date." --Wall Street Journal The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by...
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Blood trail
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
An award-winning writer returns with a vengeance in this thrilling new novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett.
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Breaking point
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
The thrilling new Joe Pickett novel from the New York Times–bestselling author. Critics called Force of Nature an“amazing” (Associated Press), “outstanding” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), “warp speed . . . showdown between...
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Butch Cassidy : the lost years
Johnstone, William W.
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Readers of Johnstone's many westerns appreciate his taut writing and good storytelling. --Examiner.com "Engaging and entertaining." --Spur and Lock on The Brothers O'Brien On November 3, 1908, in the town of San Vicente, suspected of stealing a mining company...
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Die by the gun
Johnstone, William W.
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"After completing a successful cattle drive as the chuckwagon cook, Dewey "Mac" McKenzie signs up for another one on the Goodnight-Loving Trail, deep in New Mexico Territory. Pursued by a gang of ruthless killers hired by his enemies, with an ornery trail boss and the cattle owner's spoiled son as...
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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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The cold dish
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
Introducing Wyoming's Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author, the first in the Longmire mystery series Craig Johnson's new novel, LAND OF WOLVES, is forthcoming from Viking Fans of Ace Atkins, Nevada Barr and...
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Cold wind
Box, C. J.
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When Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, it's his wife, Missy, who is arrested. Unfortunately for Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett, Missy is his mother-in-law, a woman he dislikes heartily, and now he doesn't know what to do - especially when the early signs point to her being...
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A Colorado Christmas
Johnstone, William W.
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THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone, the bestselling masters of the American frontier, take you back to the early days of Big Rock, Colorado, where stories are passed down from generation to generation. Where legends live on and heroes never...
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Depth of winter
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
"It's the scenery--and the big guy standing in front of the scenery--that keeps us coming back to Craig Johnson's lean and leathery mysteries." --The New York Times Book Review In the new Longmire novel, Walt must journey into the northern Mexican desert alone to...
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Desolation Creek /
Johnstone, William W.
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The fifth installment in the bestselling prequel series about Smoke Jensen's life and adventures before he became the legendary Mountain Man, is a satisfying tale of revenge-especially for Johnstone die-hards-as Smoke seeks vengeance after outlaws ambush his old friend and crossover series...
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Dig your own grave : a Will Tanner U.S. Deputy Marshal Western
Johnstone, William W.
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Johnstone Country. Keeping the West wild. U.S. Marshal Will Tanner is one hell of a manhunter. But this time, he's chasing six men across three states with one gun and no backup. This isn't justice. This is a suicide mission . . . DIG YOUR OWN GRAVE
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The disappeared
Box, C. J.
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Don't miss the JOE PICKETT series--now streaming on Paramount+ Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett has two lethal cases to contend with in this electrifying novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C.J. Box. Wyoming's new governor isn't sure what to make of...
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Dry bones
Johnson, Craig
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In the latest installment of Craig Johnson's New York Times bestselling Longmire series, Wyoming's beloved lawman takes on his coldest case yet When Jen, the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found surfaces in Sherriff Walt Longmire's...
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The edge of the Crazies /
Harrison, Jamie,
"In this madly original debut, Ms. Harrison speaks up in a fresh, animated voice to say something worth saying about the festering animosities of small minds cooped up in small towns." --The New York Times Book Review Blue Deer, Montana may seem like a tranquil town...
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Endangered
Box, C. J.
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New York Times bestselling writer C. J. Box returns with a thrilling new novel, featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. She was gone. Joe Pickett had good reason to dislike Dallas Cates, even if he was a rodeo champion, and now he has even more--Joes eighteen-year-old ward, April, has run off...
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Evil never sleeps
Johnstone, William W.
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He's the most notorious cattle rustler in all of Texas. His name -- Jebediah Cotton -- strikes fear into the hearts of every rancher in the territory. So it's more than a little strange that someone would shoot Cotton's youngest son in the back. Whoever did it is either a coward, a fool, or a crazy...
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First frost
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
The past and future collide in this gripping new addition to the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. It's the summer of 1964, and recent college graduates Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear read the writing on the wall and enlist to serve in the Vietnam...
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The first mountain man : Preacher's slaughter
Johnstone, William W.
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A New York Times Bestselling AuthorOn the rolling Missouri River, a riverboat carrying fur traders, a U.S. Senator, and Prussian royalty is heading to the Yellowstone. Preacher is onboard because the nation's fate depends on the passengers landing safe and sound. But it won't be easy. Because...
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Follow me to hell :
Clavin, Tom,
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Tom Clavin's Follow Me to Hell is the explosive true story of how legendary Ranger Leander McNelly and his men brought justice to a lawless Texan frontier. In turbulent 1870s Texas, the revered and fearless...
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Follow the angels, follow the doves /
Thompson, Sidney,
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Force of nature
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
A Library Journal Best Mystery of 2012 He never wanted to tell Joe Pickett about it, but Nate Romanowski always knew trouble was coming out of his past. Now it's here, and it may not only be the battle of his life-but of Joe's. In 1995, Nate was in a secret...
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Forever Texas
Johnstone, William W./ Johnstone, J. A.
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" Based on real events and the true history of the legendary King Ranch in South Texas, this riveting historical adventure evokes the reality of life on the Texas frontier, as one pioneering family battles to forge a new life and carve out their own piece of the American West... ...
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Free fire
Box, C. J.
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Joe Picket returns, this time to the wilds of Yellowstone National Park. Deftly plotted and full of intrigue, Free Fireis C. J. Box's best novel yet. Joe Pickett, having recently been fired from his job as a Wyoming game warden, is working on his father-in-law's ranch when he receives a call from...
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A frontier Christmas
Johnstone, William W.
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A New York Times Bestselling Author A USA Today Bestselling AuthorThree weeks before Christmas, the little town of Chug Water in Wyoming Territory is stunned by the brutal slaughter of the mayor's family. Duff MacCallister captures cold-blooded killers Jesse and T. Bob Cave. But the day before...
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Go West, Young Man
Johnstone, William W./ Johnstone, J. A.
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Hard ride to hell : the Family Jensen
Johnstone, William W.
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The Jensen clan is William W. Johnstone's epic creation -- God-fearing pioneers bound by blood on an untamed and beautiful land. Once more, Preacher, Smoke, and Matt are reunited in a clash of cultures and a brutal all-out fight for justice.Smoke Jensen and his adopted son, Matt, are cooling their...
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A High Sierra Christmas
Johnstone, William W.
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New York Times and USA Today Bestselling AuthorsSmoke Jensen and his children won't let a little snow stop them from heading to Reno for the holidays. And Smoke decides to take the short way -- through the Sierra Nevada Mountains on the trail that brought the legendary Donner Party to a gruesome,...
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The highwayman
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
New York Times Bestselling AuthorThe basis for the hit drama Longmire, now on Netflix A Walt Longmire Mystery Sheriff Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear embark on their latest adventure in this novella set in the world of Craig Johnson's Longmire series. In an investigation that spans this world...
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In plain sight : a Joe Pickett novel
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
Don't miss the JOE PICKETT series--now streaming on Paramount+ Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett's hunt for a missing woman forces him to confront his own past in this gripping novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Ranch owner and matriarch Opal...
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The last outlaws : the desperate final days of the Dalton Gang
Clavin, Tom
Paper Book
The definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multiple New York Times bestselling author. The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of one of the greatest outlaw gangs. The dreaded Dalton Gang consisted...
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Long range :
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
"Impressive precision and heart-gripping suspense....Good characters, an extra good story, and great scenes of life and death in the wilderness"--New York Times Book Review Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must investigate an attempted murder--a crime committed from a...
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The Longmire defense
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
Sheriff Walt Longmire uncovers a cold case that hits very close to home and forces him to put his life on the line with implications that some people would kill to keep buried forever Sheriff Walt Longmire and Dog are called on a routine search and rescue to Wyoming's Bighorn...
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Next to last stand
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
The new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. One of the most viewed paintings in American history, Custer's Last Fight, copied and distributed by Anheuser-Busch at a rate of over two million copies a year, was destroyed in a fire at the 7th...
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Nowhere to run
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
Joe Pickett is in his last week as the temporary game warden in the isolated town of Baggs, Wyoming, but there have been strange things going on in the surrounding mountains, and his conscience won't let him leave without checking them out: reports of camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. And...
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An obvious fact
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorA Walt Longmire MysteryIn the midst of the world's largest motorcycle rally, a young biker is run off the road and ends up in critical condition. When Sheriff Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear are called to Hulett, Wyoming -- the town nearest America's first...
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Open season
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
Few first mysteries have been welcomed as enthusiastically as Open Season, or with better cause. "When a high-powered bullet hits living flesh, it makes a distinctive -pow-WHOP-sound that is unmistakable even at tremendous distance." And so it begins for Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden who, with...
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Out of range
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is about to become the hunted in this suspenseful thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. When a good friend and fellow warden kills himself, Joe Pickett is chosen to temporarily run his Teton district. But Jackson, Wyoming, is...
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Outlaw country /
Johnstone, William W.
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"For most couples, the marriage vows end with Til death do us part. But when Smoke Jensen takes Sally Reynolds as his lawfully wedded wife, its just the beginning. The tragic deaths of Smokés first wife and child weigh heavily on his heart. Thankfully, Sally is there to give him the support he needs...
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Prairie fire
Johnstone, William W.
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The Greatest Western Writers of the 21st Century present the 9th chapter in their USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling series featuring Luke Jensen, the long-lost brother of Mountain Man Smoke Jensen. A legend among bounty hunters, Luke Jensen is called to track down a deranged...
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Ride the savage land /
Johnstone, William W.
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FIVE MAIL-ORDER BRIDES A prostitute. A virgin. A tomboy. A woman on the run. And a bank robber's girlfriend. These five brides-to-be are ready to get hitched in San Angelo, Texas-and it's Ace and Chance's job to get them to the church on time. But this is no easy walk down the aisle. It...
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Rimfire /
Johnstone, William W.
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Smoke Jensen was a towering Western hero. Now his two freewheeling, long-lost nephews, Ace and Chance Jensen, are blazing a legendary trail of their own.. Riverboat gambling is a blast, until hot-headed Chance finds out just what he won in his final hand against a Missouri River gambler...
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The river view /
Harrison, Jamie,
Paper Book
Jules Clement is back in Blue Deer, working as an archaeologist and private investigator. He's a mostly happy man: he's a new father, and he and his wife Caroline are building their dream house on an idyllic patch of river bottomland. But everything that can go wrong will, in terms of money, love,...
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Rope burn /
Johnstone, William W.
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When a barroom brawl lands Ace and Chance Jensen in jail, it's just the beginning of a nightmare that will never end. Their jailmates are army deserters. Even worse, their jailers assume Ace and Chance are deserters, too. Which earns them even more hard time-on a brutal prison chain gang . . . ...
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Savage run
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
C. J. Box's debut novel, Open Season, with its memorable new hero, thrilling plot, and vivid settings, hit the mystery-book world with the force of a speeding rifle bullet-and put it "on the Best of the Year track" (Los Angeles Times). Now C. J. Box returns with a gripping and suspenseful new novel,...
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A serpent's tooth
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
The inspiration for A&E's Longmire finds himself in the crosshairs in the ninth book of the New York Times bestselling series The success of Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire series that began with The Cold Dish continues to grow after A&E's hit show Longmire<...
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Settling his hash
Johnstone, William W.
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Shadow of a Dead Man
Johnstone, William W./ Johnstone, J. A.
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The top dogs of bestselling western action thrillers hit the bullseye with Shotgun Johnny, a disgraced lawman whose quest for vengeance becomes a legendary fight for justice. Shotgun Johnny Greenway thought he'd hit rock bottom when he lost his wife and son, hung up his badge,...
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Shadows reel
Box, C. J.
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Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett is called out for a moose poaching incident that turns out to be something much more sinister: a local fishing guide has been brutally murdered. At the same time, Marybeth opens an unmarked package and finds a photo album that belonged to an infamous Nazi official....
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Smoke Jensen : the beginning
Johnstone, William W.
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The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century For the first time, an epic account of a boy born into a struggle for survival on the harsh and unforgiving American frontier, the story behind the legend of Smoke Jensen. . . On the eve of the Civil War, Kirby Jensen is the youngest of three...
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Stone cold
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
The electrifying new Joe Pickett novel from the New York Times–bestselling author. Everything about the man is a mystery: the massive ranch in the remote Black Hills of Wyoming that nobody ever visits, the women who live with him, the secret philanthropies, the...
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Storm watch
Box, C. J.
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Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett investigates a mysterious death at a secret remote high-tech facility in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box. When a prominent University of Wyoming professor goes missing,...
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A Texas Hill country Christmas
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling AuthorsAs winter descends on the great state of Texas, the Jensen family faces off with renegades, rivals, and one raging storm -- in this special yuletide adventure from America's beloved western storytellers. This year, the Jensen family is in for a stormy...
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This violent land :
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY In this powerful new novel, William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone chronicle Smoke Jensen's early years, long before he became a legend . . . Kirby-later Smoke-Jensen has just earned his first paying job as a...
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Three-inch teeth /
Box, C. J.
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Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts--one animal, one human--in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box. A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage--killing, among others, the potential fiancé of Joe's...
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Tombstone : the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the vendetta ride from hell
Clavin, Thomas
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THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Tombstone is written in a distinctly American voice." --T.J. Stiles, The New York Times "With a former newsman's nose for the truth, Clavin has sifted the facts, myths, and lies to produce...
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Trophy hunt
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
Don't miss the JOE PICKETT series--now streaming on Paramount+ In this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Joe Pickett series, the Wyoming game warden is up against a vicious killer who's more beast than man... Local authorities in Twelve Sleep...
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Twelve dead men /
Johnstone, William W.
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For generations, the Jensen family has staked their claim in the heart of the American West. Now the legacy continues as twin brothers Ace and Chance Jensen find justice . . . swinging from a hangman's noose. THE BAD ALSO DIE YOUNG In a court of law, it takes twelve...
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Vicious circle
Box, C. J.
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The past comes back to haunt game warden Joe Pickett and his family with devastating effect in the thrilling new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. The plane circled in the dark. Joe Pickett could just make out down below a figure in the snow and...
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Wait for signs : twelve Longmire stories
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
Twelve Longmire short stories available for the first time in a single volume; featuring an introduction by Lou Diamond Phillips of A&E's Longmire Ten years ago, Craig Johnson wrote his first short story, the Hillerman Award; winning Old Indian Trick.; This was one...
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The western star
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
New York Times Bestselling AuthorA Longmire MysterySheriff Walt Longmire is enjoying a celebratory beer after a weapons certification at the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy when a younger sheriff confronts him with a photograph that hurtles the sheriff into a head-on collision of past and present,...
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When the shooting starts /
Johnstone, William W.
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Before he became known as The Last Mountain Man, Smoke Jensen and his bride Sally were hardworking ranchers on the Colorado frontier, when times were hard, tensions were high, and guns were the law...
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Wild Bill : the true story of the American frontier's first gunfighter
Clavin, Thomas
Paper Book
The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City. In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO--the first quick-draw...
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Winterkill : a novel
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
Award-winning writer C. J. Box returns with a vengeance in this thrilling new novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. It's an hour away from darkness with a bitter winter storm raging when Joe Pickett finds himself deep in the forest edging Battle Mountain, shotgun in his left hand, his...
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Wolf pack
Box, C. J.
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Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett encounters bad behavior on his own turf--only to have the FBI and the DOJ ask him to stand down--in the thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C.J. Box. The good news is that Joe Pickett has his job back, after his...
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