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Based on a true story of Northern Arizona's notorious Hashknife gang, Zane Grey's classic 1921 western novel tells the tale of Jean Isbel, a woodsman hailing from Oregon. Caught in a bitter feud between the Isbels and the cattle-rustling Jorths, Jean is dragged into a generations-long clash between the two families, both of whom have sworn to fight until no man on the other side is left standing. Amidst it all, Jean finds himself hopelessly in love...
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[2010]
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His background is shadowy, his presence commanding. He brings law and order to a frontier town and wins the love of a pretty schoolteacher from the East. He is the Virginian -- the first fully realized cowboy hero in American literature, a near-mythic figure whose idealized image has profoundly influenced our national consciousness. This enduring work of fiction marks his first appearance in popular culture -- the birth of a legend that lives with...
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Ranger Andy Pickard and his partner, Logan Daggett, are sent to central Texas to investigate a series of killings and cattle thefts. The two biggest cattlemen in the area blame each other for the violence, but it seems to Andy that neither man may be guilty. The case is complicated by the rise of a gang of "regulators" - masked vigilantes - and the arrival of a notorious hired gunman whose employer is unknown.
4) Llano River
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In "Llano River," Dundee works to stop a cattle rustling operation and gets caught in the middle of a deadly feud.
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"He's Faced Countless Perils on the Battlefield, but Nothing so Dangerous as Falling in Love. Luke Davenport has been fighting all his life--for respect, for country, and for those unable to fight for themselves. But now that his Horsemen brothers are domesticated, he's left alone to battle the wildness within. When an opportunity arises to take a job on his own, tracking down a group of rustlers, he jumps at the chance. Damaris Baxter has mastered...
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A killer is on the loose in the Arizona Territory. One by one, Tonto Basin ranchers are being murdered for their livestock--and the Cattle Raisers Association has hired two range detectives to catch the culprit. From the looks of them, Stovepipe Stewart and Wilbur Coleman are just another pair of high plains drifters. But with their razor-sharp detective skills and rare talent for trouble, they're the last remaining hope for one young cowboy who's...
8) Texas free
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Tylers of Texas volume 5
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Rose Landro is on the run. Seeking refuge at the Rimrock Ranch, she is finally ready to claim the land her granddaddy left her and make a fresh start. But her return is rife with controversy when cattle begin disappearing - and a handsome menace named Tanner McCade starts watching Rose a little too closely. Could the new cowhand be connected to the men she's hiding from? Or is there another reason the rugged stranger is shadowing her every move?
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2009.
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Tom Connell is a deputy hired by the Cattlemen's Association to combat rustling on the open range, and Clifford Crossley-Hunt, a tough former soldier, works for the Diamond R ranch. Both men arrive in a district where suspected rustlers are lynched and stock thefts are alleged to be excessive. However they soon find that all is not as it is claimed to be. The matter is further complicated by an unknown gunman who starts killing men from a large local...
10) Long bow
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Long Bow Ranch was huge, even by standards of landholdings west of the Missouri River. The Long Bow riders couldn't patrol the entire ranch -- it was just too big -- and they were losing cattle in the Lost River Country to the Arapaho. When ranch owner old Jim Welsh had had enough, he went directly to the Arapaho and over four parlays came to an agreement -- the Arapaho would take no more than ten cattle a year. And that arrangement was still in place...
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[2004]
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Bucker Fletcher plans to ride his horse for a $10,000 prize, money he needs to send his sick daughter to a faraway clinic. Then some outlaws steal his steed - and with it, his sick daughter's last hope. Though it's been ten years since Buck slapped leather and traded lead with the badmen of the frontier, he's quick to fasten on his gun belt again for the chase.
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Art Pendragon, owner of the Keystone Ranch, has called a special meeting of the ranchers to address the problem of rustling. The gang and its suspected leader, Flynt Malin, appear to be operating out of the fortified Gorre Valley. It'll take a small army to batter its way into the valley, and casualties are sure to be high. As a result, people are hesitant to fight. But when the rustlers daringly raid a picnic of women and children, kill a Keystone...
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Cam Jansen mysteries. Main series volume 30
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2010.
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Cam Jansen and her friends are volunteering at the local senior center talent show. They're having fun entertaining the guests and enjoying treats donated by Ken's Bakeshop. But during the show someone steals the wedding cake from Ken's truck outside. Can Cam use her photographic memory to solve the mystery before the wedding?
15) Jericho's Road
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 6
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2004.
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Elmer Kelton, author of more than 40 Western adventures, has won an unprecedented seven Spur Awards. Jericho's Road follows the perilous trail of young Texas Ranger Andy Pickard, who has been assigned to control feuding ranchers on each side of the Mexico-Texas border. Caught in the middle of a potential bloodbath, Andy is determined to find a peaceful way to end the conflict.
16) Dressed to steal
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When a friend's expensive dress is destroyed and her boutique vandalized, sleuth Nancy Drew is on the case.
17) Day of the gun
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2015.
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The county of Singletree, Montana has a problem with rustlers. Cyrus McCall strings barbed wire between his land and that of his neighbour, Maggie Carter. But this means that Maggie must herd her cows an extra two miles to their drinking water, taking time and manpower she can't spare - not to mention implying she is in league with the rustlers who push stolen stock across her land. Maggie promises hell if the fences aren't taken down - and hell is...
19) Heaven's gate
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Criterion collection volume 636
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2012.
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A Harvard graduate, turned federal Marshal in Wyoming, learns of a government sanctioned plot by cattle barons to kill the area's European settlers for their land. The resulting battle is based on the Johnson County War of 1892.
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Thieves of shadow volume 1
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2021.
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