Allan Vaughan Elston
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"As vigilantes tightened the rope around George Parrott's neck, they gave him one last chance to identify his confederates in the holdup of the U.P. pay train that had taken place two years earlier. "Jack Campbell," he gasped. "Jack Campbell and Homer Hatch!" Jack Campbell lay dead by the gun in nearby Montana. But Homer Hatch, under another name, had been living among them for the past year or more. Of the several hundred inhabitants of Rawlins,...
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Now, six years after the massacre of his family, Johnny is heading north from his Texas ranch, hell-bent on revenge. The murderers were thought to be Apaches, but Johnny has found a clue in the murders--a clue that turns the theory of an Apache killing on its head. He found a copper disk that was negotiable for drinks at a bar located in Las Perdidas County, Colorado--hardly something the Apaches would have left behind. Once he reaches Las Perdidas...
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"Tony Darrow lost his job at Wagon Wheel Ranch when owner Mark McCarron learned of his past. The cowboy had done time for horse stealing. With Tony out of the way, it looked like Blaise Amory, the country's most respected citizen, was a sure bet to win the love of redheaded Margie, Mark McCarron's daughter. Then Tony played a dangerous hunch. He suspected that Amory was the leader of a vicious outlaw gang stealing land from the U.S. Government. But...
10) Showdown
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2021.
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"Death or Cowardice? Randy Harker had no choice. He wanted to stay in Lander and shoot it out with Thatcher. If he left, he would carry the yellow brand of a coward till he cashed in his chips. But out in the hills was an old man being tortured for the secret he held - the whereabouts of a fortune in stolen greenbacks. Between Randy and the old man were a gang of owl-hoots and a half-breed gunny hired to shoot Randy om sight. There was only one way...
11) Forbidden valley
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2019.
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"In Wyoming in 1887, cowboys Harry Riley and Doug McLaren cross paths with a gang of train robbers. They manage to kill or capture them, but fail to recover the stolen loot. They then hire on with a local rancher who they discover is being blackmailed and set out to resolve both problems"--
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2011
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"After three days of riding across prairies, Johnnie Cameron was happy to smell the freshness of the north New Mexico mountains. As he and his horse, Blazer, stopped at a stream to refresh themselves, the burro pack that he had passed earlier approached, and the friendly elderly buckboard driver, Don Ygnacio, stopped to smoke and chat with Johnnie for a spell. Shortly after Johnnie and Blazer were back on the trail to Santa Fe, he heard shots. From...
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2022.
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"Danny Logan was a young man with only one thing on his mind--revenge! Ten years earlier he and his father had ridden into a wild, untamed Laramie, and inside of a week his father was dead, murdered by the outlaw Moyer gang. Danny had lived to see a crazed vigilante mob hang most of the killers. But remnants of the cutthroat crew remained. And Danny burned to cut every last one of them down. Then one day, in a stagecoach fight, he found a familiar-looking...
15) Paradise Prairie
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2024.
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"There was something peculiar about Paradise Prairie, south of Pendleton. It was good grassland. But when Kent Durwin went to buy up the old Costain place, where the three Costains had been killed in a Bannock Indian raid, he suspected foul play. And when he dug up the Costains' stuff that the Indians were supposed to have taken with them, he knew he was right. Then Durwin mysteriously disappeared . . . Tony Landers was bound for Pendleton to settle...
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2017.
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"After being robbed, cowboy Todd Merrill takes a job as an armed guard for the treasure coach which delivers gold from Deadwood to Cheyenne. When the coach is robbed, Todd takes it upon himself to figure out who tipped off the robbers and how it was done since the details had been kept secret"--
18) Grand mesa
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2020.
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"Ken Barry, advance scout for a group of Michigan settlers, turns into bad luck in Dos Rios where he is first accused of cattle rustling and then faced with a deadly double charge of bank robbery and murder. He cannot understand the enmity of Dale Cummings, the town's leading merchant who seems eager to dispose of him. In his favor, Channing has the support of the town's sheriff and judge over whom he holds political power, a group of unsavory gambling...