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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Texas Flat
In this duo's title story, twenty-eight-year-old Dave Bradford is close to achieving his dreams. In an effort to expand his cattle ranch and marry Sirral Drury, Bradford plans to sell four hundred of his cattle in Wichita. But JJ Farman, owner of the biggest ranch in the basin, calls a meeting and warns Bradford he best not try to take the cattle across Texas Flat, even though it's open range. Going around Texas Flat would add two hundred...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Ride, You Tonto Raiders"
Matt Sabre is a young and experienced gunfighter-but not a trouble seeker. But when Billy Curtin calls him a liar and goes for his gun, Matt has no choice but to draw and fire. To his surprise, the dying man gives him $5,000 and begs him to take the money to his wife, who is alone in defending the family ranch in the Mogollons. A combination of guilt, regret, and wanting to do the right thing leads Sabre to make that ride.
"Riders...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Samuel Parker is traveling through the mountains hoping to find a place to settle his two children before lung fever kills him when they help an injured man whom Samuel fears may be an outlaw. As the man heals, he directs Samuel to Absaroka Valley where they are drawn into the center of a land fight"--
4) MacKinnon
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
Description
Saddle tramp Sam MacKinnon is in trouble. Double-crossed by his partners after robbing a saloon and gambling hall, MacKinnon has been left behind in the mountains of southern New Mexico with busted ribs, a banged-up head, no gun, and no horse. And no chance-because aging lawman Nelson Bookbinder and his Mescalero Apache scout, Nikita-both made legendary by dime novels MacKinnon has read-are leading a small posse hot in pursuit of the bandits. Miraculously,...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Hugh Collier in "The Danger Lover" feels he is living an empty life as little more than a competent bank employee in the town of Stanton. He decides to leave behind a life that for him was a "caricature and savage cartoon of the beautiful truth that life may be" and heads into the mountains alone, carrying only the essentials on his horse. Two things change course of his adventure: he sees a town from a hill, and a stranger, desperate to file on...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"They sing songs about Matthew Johnson. The hero of dime novels, Matt won national fame during a range war in Idaho when he shot and killed an outlaw -- and former saddle pal. But the past seventeen years have been an alcoholic blur rather than a heroic journey. The West has modernized and practically disappeared when Matt arrives in Denver in 1894 as the newly appointed U.S. marshal for the state of Colorado. The cowboy-turned-lawman inherits a state...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Stories included: "The Woman from Cougar Creek” “The Price of Pride” “The Devil and Old Man Gillis” “Shooting for a Fall” “It’s Hell to Be a Hero” “The Tongue-Tied Cowboy” “From Hell to Leadville” “The Deputy with a Past” “Judge Peterson's Colt Law” “The Breaking of Sam McKay” “Fugitive from the Boot hill Brigade” “The Man Ten Feet Tall"
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Collected here are all the Western short stories of Richard S. Wheeler, tales which span the Western landscape from Montana to Arizona and Washington to Wyoming in a period that covers the late 19th century through modern times. Here are a wide cast of characters -- madams, miners, morticians, detectives, newsman, and lawman. Some characters are drawn from history -- the Earp brothers, Mark Twain, William Wright, a reporter for the Territorial Enterprise,...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Two western stories--'Black Rock Desert' and 'The Desert Rider'--find two young men returning to the towns where their hopes were shattered. Each one finds that past experiences have prepared him to face the challenges waiting for him as he helps expose and stop shady characters"--
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