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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"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,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Town Marshal John Beck is a haunted man. He came to the town of Mother Lode, Arizona, to escape his past as a Pinkerton agent, but blood has a way of staying with a man. So when The Brickhouse Gang rides into town one morning, Beck figures they're doling out their own kind of justice for his past sins. But he wasn't counting on them riding him out of town on a rail and turning him loose in the harsh Arizona desert."--
Author
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Description
Years ago, Charlie Pike witnessed the horrors of the War Between the States from the losing side. Now all he wants to do is work his cattle ranch and marry the spirited schoolmarm. But when his old commanding officer calls him to action, he cannot refuse. Brigadier General Henry J. Dryden was a blustery, demanding leader -- and he saved Pike's life in the war. Later, he became a judge in the war. Later, he became a judge in the New Mexico Territory....
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Young doctor Gabriel Kincaid has come west to help an aging colleague who is straining to deal with the demands of a growing town, but Kincaid is looking to do more than just experience the challenges of frontier medicine. He's determined to start a new life. But the trials he faces aren't confined to the doctor's surgery. After an incident in a saloon, Gabe finds himself with a new nickname: Dr. Death. It's dangerous to have a reputation as a good...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Bounty Hunter John Tone is good at his job. Some say ruthless. If there's killing to be done, he shows no mercy. In another time, far across the ocean, Tone lost the only person he 's ever loved and he's been dead inside ever since. That's the hand fate dealt him, and he'll play it out. But then a powerful criminal from San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast makes him an offer he can't refuse, and Tone has to draw out six of his client's worst enemies....
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Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
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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Pub. Date
2022.
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"In this compelling new installment of bestselling author Ralph Compton's Sundown Riders series, a man seeks revenge for the death of his wife and sons while caring for his traumatized daughter. Carl Novak returned to the Texas hill country after fighting in the Civil War, but unlike most of his neighbors, Carl didn't fight for the Confederacy. He was a Union soldier. Carl tries to resume his life as a farmer with his wife and three children. One...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Frontier life is hard enough without having kids to worry about-especially for a widower like Paul Meakes. Still, hes resolved to stay in the small Colorado town his son and daughter call home. So when his daughter is hit by a seemingly poisoned arrow during an Indian raid, Paul is determined to track them down and bring them to justice. But when the trail leads from a close call with Indian warriors to a deadly intrigue, Paul discovers that the dangers...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
As he transports six cold-blooded convicts across hard country, Deputy Marshal Logan Kane has to be prepared for anything. Evan with the hard cases caged in his prison wagon, Kane needs to watch his back and keep his Colt close at hand. There are rustlers, lynch mobs, and three brothers from a New Orleans gang to contend with, not to mention the convicts' cronies who are looking to bust them loose. Kane is on the lookout for danger every waking moment,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Description
"When twenty-five-year-old Lewis Taylor is released from the Texas State Prison, he receives little attention as he walks into the midday sunlight, free after serving five years for a crime he didn't commit. His only interest is in getting back to his hometown of Gila Bend, Texas ... What he finds ... is a town dramatically changed: once a happy and carefree place to live, it is now populated by people who are angry and afraid. One man, Captain Archer...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Marshal John Beck was the law in the dangerous town of Mother Lode, Arizona. On his own, he'd managed to keep bandits, rustlers, and desperados at bay. It was a tough job for one man to handle, but he made it work...until the day Bram Hogan and his Brickhouse Gang got the drop on the lawman. They beat Beck to within an inch of his life and dropped him in the desert where nothing but a slow, painful death awaited him. But the gang underestimated...
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Clay Forsythe never even knew there was such a thing as a paniolo-a Hawaiian cowboy-before two of them save his life. But when he meets Jose Vasquez and Leo Suarez he quickly realizes two things: they're talented and worldly-Clay's never even seen the ocean. With no job offers on the horizon, things aren't going as well for Clay as they are for the paniolo. So when the pair offer him a job helping them drive new breeding stock to the coast, he sees...