Lauran Paine
1) Long bow
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Pub. Date
2009
Description
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...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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"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"--
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Pub. Date
2017.
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"Ben Albright has successfully made five cattle drives from Texas to Kansas, but this spring will be his most difficult. With the death of Ewell Lansing, Northerners have taken over his trading post and ferry and refused provisions or passage to Texas cattle drives, but Albright will not turn back or change his traditional course"--
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Pub. Date
2012.
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Jackson Miggs was a loner who wintered under the Ute Peak in his log cabin. He liked people well enough, but didn't care much for crowds. He even tolerated the cowmen like Hyatt Tolman who used the high meadows around Ute Peak to graze his herd--even when the animals cropped the forage too closely and drove the elk and deer into the higher mountains.Miggs once told his friend Frank McCoy that if he looked out a window and saw a building less than...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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"A feud between the biggest and richest cattleman, Richard DeFore, and the local stage line couldn't have come at a worse time to Winchester, Colorado. The town's new sheriff, John Klinger, young, inexperienced, and hot-headed, hasn't been in the job for a month yet when DeFore, who has never sold or donated the right of way for the pass which is on his land, demands the stage line pay a toll for passage, which the company is refusing to do..."--Back...
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Pub. Date
2019
Description
A bushwhacking killer is on the loose and Sheriff Claude Rainey is in the thick of it in this tale of treachery and greed from Lauren Pain, the most prolific pen in the West. The trouble began for Sheriff Claude Rainey when the Hightower Ranch cowboys discovered a mummified man and his horse in a desert canyon near Springville, Arizona, both shot in the head. Ordinarily that should have been the end of it, since many a man riding the outlaw trail...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Walt Hodge had delivered eighty horses to Whipple Barracks for the Army and he wasn't in a big hurry to get home. He traveled down the Saginaw Mountains and into the upland cow country of Sunflower, Arizona, seeking only a cold glass of beer, food, and a bed for himself, along with feed for his horse. He should have listened and turned around when he asked the hostler what was going on and was told: "Trouble, mister. Bad trouble." After Walt had...
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To give a man the upper hand in avenging a death, a gunsmith customizes a revolver to fire at half cock, saving the time it takes to pull back the hammer before firing. But the weapon is stolen and the novel traces the fortunes of its owners as the revolver passes from hand to hand. By the author of The White Bird.
11) Dead Man's Canon
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"The discovery of a man and his horse, both shot dead through the head, with $10,000 buried nearby in a desert canon near Springville, Arizona, lead Sheriff Claude Rainey to believe this is something bigger than a simple bushwhacking"--
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"Panhandle Preston and his son Quent owned a cattle ranch in Wyoming. Since it was on the right of way of the proposed Union Pacific railway, it was a prized piece of property and coveted by many a man. The most cunning by far was Boone Delivan, a crooked speculator who was determined to get hold of the land no matter what it took. When Quent refused to sell, Boone shot the young vaquero's father, set the ranch on fire, and stampeded the cattle. Then...
13) Open range
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The false arrest and murder of a ranch hand under his care raises the ire of Boss Spearman, who is determined to bring the killers to justice.
Boss Spearman knew the end was near for open range men like him, cattlemen who drove their herds through the country to graze and then move on. Local stockmen were staking claims to grazing areas throughout the West. Spearman had no quarrel with that, but he wasn't about to let anyone intimidate him without...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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"U.S. Deputy Marshal Ben Knight takes off his badge and rides into Gunsight seeking vengeance for his kid brother's hanging. But the town marshal was killed during the lynching and the townspeople want Ben to take his place. Ben must choose between his trail of vengeance or protecting the town against the Diamond H Ranch"--
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Pub. Date
2009
Description
In "The killing at Pipestone," small rancher Jack Cole saves the life of a young woman who calls herself Julie Krohn. He takes her back to his ranch house to recover, and the very next day he's arrested in Pipestone--for the murder of Julie Krohn! Jess Howard is an experienced trail boss whose job is to take a herd of longhorns to Kansas in "Longhorn Trail." He's hired a veteran crew, as well as Wayne Levitt and Jeb Brown. Wayne Levitt is an odd man...