Matthew P Mayo
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Since losing his wife and daughter, Samuel Tucker has wandered, drunk and bereft of a reason to go on. Now in Oregon's Rogue River region, he sees two men gun down a third. After they leave, he takes the dead man's pistol and goes to the next town, where he learns that Payton Farraday, a well-liked local rancher has been murdered -- and becomes a suspect in the shooting. But Emma Farraday, the victim's niece, believes in Samuel's innocence -- and...
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The outfit volume 1
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Rafe Barr, master tracker, spy, and war hero, is locked away in Yuma Territorial Prison for life, wrongly convicted of the murder of his wife and son. Five years into his sentence, Warden Talbot Timmons, who has made Barr's time at Yuma a living hell, offers him a deal; full pardon in exchange for rescuing the young dauther of California's Governor Pendleton from Deadwood's top bad man, Al Swearengen. Rafe smells a rat, but agrees...and finds a whole...
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Roamer novels volume 2
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2017.
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On his way to visit his old mentor, Maple Jack, Roamer makes a brief supply stop in the raw, flyblown town of Forsaken, Wyoming. There he encounters a man from his past, who possesses the deed to a valuable ranch. The type of property people kill for. Roamer begrudgingly agrees to escort the young man and a shifty gold digger of a woman deep into the Bitterroot Mountains in search of the mysterious ranch. Fearing Roamer has met with disaster, Maple...
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c2012
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Brian Middleton left his father's ranch long ago to make his own way. But now, he's returned to claim the land his late father left him--and learns the hard way that if he wants to keep something in the Wild West, he has to fight for it. With local lowlifes and shady con-men after the Driving D ranch, Middleton has no choice but to make a stand.
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"From the first bloody battles between mountain men and Indians to shootouts between famous gunslingers, this collection cuts to the chase of what draws people to the history and literature of the Wild West. Matthew Mayo, author of Western novels, takes the fifty wildest episodes in the region's history— including John Colter's harrowing escape from the Blackfeet, Hugh Glass's six-week crawl to civilisation after a grizzly attack, Custer's final...
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Big for his age, young and impressionable drifter Charlie Chilton is taken in by the gruff leader of a gang of small-time crooks and ne'er do wells who sees something of himself in kindly, wayward Charlie. But Grady Haskell, ambitious ruffian with a shady past, soon joins the gang, convincing Charlie's friends to pursue a big score. Charlie fails to thwart the crime and the heist turns bloody. As the only gang member caught alive, Big Charlie will...
7) Haunted old West: phantom cowboys, spirit-filled saloons, mystical mine camps, and spectral Indians
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c2012
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Howling hauntings from the raw mountain passes and wind-stripped plains of the Old West
The Old West is filled with enough phenomenal happenings, curious mysteries, and ghastly ghosts to send chills up and down any spine. Haunted Old West is the petrifyingly perfect collection for campfire gatherings and makes an eerily ideal guide for a ghost-hunting trip to the Old West. In these pages explore horror-filled mine shafts and outrun herds of stampeding...
8) Hornswogglers, fourflushers, & snake-oil salesmen: true tales of the old west's sleaziest swindlers
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[2015]
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"Watch your wallets, and keep an eye on your keys! It's a slippery collection of tales about the Old West's sleaziest swindlers... and they're all true. No, really" -- Back cover.
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2010
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The story of New England is built on an endless armature of fascinating tales of Yankee ingenuity and hardy, intrepid characters. Bootleggers, Lobstermen, and Lumberjacks takes the top fifty wildest episodes in the region's bygone days and presents them to the reader in one convenient, narrative-driven package. Including incredible but true tales of hardy Yankee hill folk and crusty seafarers engaged in all manner of amazing activity-from witch-hunting...
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2022.
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"After struggling for years to work a raw-patch ranch in the arid flatlands of Texas, young Mitchell Newland learns that his herd of scrubby range cattle will fetch ten times their local price if they're driven to Montana. He strikes a one-sided deal with the devil, neighbouring rancher Corliss Bilks, to back his play with cattle, men, and horses. The trail brims with hellish hardship: prairie fire, stampede, flooded rivers, hailstorms, rattlers,...
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[2014]
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Rancher Ty Farraday's hunt for stray cattle takes a turn for the worse when he discovers a shallow grave and the body of wealthy Alton Winstead, the owner of the Double Cross Ranch. Ty's first frantic thoughts are of Winstead's widow, Sue-Ellen, who picked Alton over him. Unfortunately, she chose poorly. Alton masterminded a crime and left his helpers to swing for it. Hungry for revenge, the murderous hard cases have overrun the Double Cross and are...
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"Big Charlie Chilton knows better than to lose his temper, but when a loudmouth threatens to expose his long-buried secrets, he can't help but teach the man a lesson about being quiet. Unfortunately, it turns out the man was about to make an important supply run for the town's marshal, and Marshal Watt knows just enough about Shotgun Charlie's past to draft him into service in his stead. The trek north would be treacherous enough with the snow and...
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Trail drive volume 32
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After struggling for years to work a raw-patch ranch in the arid flatlands of Texas, young Mitchell Newland learns that his herd of scrubby range cattle will fetch ten times their local price if they're driven to Montana. He strikes a one-sided deal with the devil, neighboring rancher Corliss Bilks, to back his play with cattle, men, and horses. Halfway to Montana, range pirates and a rogue Apache war party close in. With his trail team cut down to...
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The Gunfighter volume Book 15
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2022.
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"Young dandy Fletcher Ralston's privileged life of education and ease in the East comes to an abrupt end when he's summoned to the dried-up Wyoming town of Promise to inherit a run-down bordello and a lifetime of debts. The old woman he's known only via correspondence as his "aunt" is in truth the madam of the brothel. After their meeting, she is found with her throat slit, and Fletcher is suspect number one. But the old lady's paramour, crusty Gunnar...
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2017.
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In autumn, 1849, 14-year-old Janette Riker travels westward to Oregon Territory with her father and two brothers. Before crossing the Rockies, they stop briefly to hunt buffalo. The men leave camp early on the second day ... and never return. Based on actual events, and told in diary format, Stranded is the harrowing account of young Janette Riker's struggle to survive the long winter alone. Facing certain death, and with blizzards, frostbite, and...
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2013
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Since losing his wife and daughter, Samuel Tucker has wandered, drunk and bereft of a reason to go on. In Oregon's Rogue River region, Tucker watches as two men gun down a third. After they leave, he takes the dead man's pistol and makes it to the next town. There he learns that Payton Farraday, a well-liked local rancher, was the second Farraday shot to death within the past two years-- and becomes a suspect in the shooting. Emma Farraday, the victim's...
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2013
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Big Charlie Chilton knows better than to lose his temper, but when a loudmouth threatens to expose his secrets, he teaches the man a lesson. It turns out the man was about to make an important supply run for the town's marshal, who drafts Charlie instead. Snow and the threat of Indian attack make the trek north treacherous; the ragtag drunkards running the freighting outfit make it worse. When bad blood springs up between them, Charlie is left for...
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2012
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For eight years the Winters family worked hard to live down the nightmare of a bloody range war. Theirs is now a promising ranch on hard-won land in Wyoming's rugged Rockies. But on the eve of the season's first snowstorm a stranger slips in, ripping open old wounds and devolving their lives into a brutal struggle for survival. When Niall Winters returns from selling his fall herd to find his ranch burned, his Uncle Drift dead, and his wife missing,...
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©2021
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Young dandy Fletcher J. Ralston's privileged life of education and ease in the east comes to an abrupt end when he's summoned to the dried-up Wyoming town of Promise to inherit a run-down bordello and a lifetime of debts. The old woman he's known only via correspondence as his "aunt" is in truth the madam of the brothel. After their meeting, she is found with her throat slit, and Fletcher is suspect number one. But the old lady's paramour, crusty...