Tim Getman
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Two tough-as-nails Americans head to Mexico in the midst of a bloody civil war and finds themselves on the run from a ruthless bandito and doing anything necessary to stay alive. Denmon portrays the American frontier as it really was: dark, gritty, unromantic, and--at times--downright deadly.
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"Former Texas Ranger Andy Pickard ("Badger Boy" as he was known as a youth living among Comanches), leaves his fiancées farm in north central Texas. He begins to track the man, Luther Cordell, who he believes killed his friend, Sheriff Tom Blessing. Pickard is mistaken. But although Cordell did not kill Blessing, the robber-ringleader must be brought to Ranger justice and the rest sorted out later."--Publisher website: http://us.macmillan.com/hardtrailtofollow...
3) Panhandle
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2013.
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The Texas Panhandle of the late 1880s is America's last great open range. Into that wild unknown country ride two young cowboys: Nate Reynolds, the scion of a well-to-do family in search of adventure and gold; and Billy Champion, a ne'er-do-well with a stubborn streak and an eye for the ladies. Together they aim to rid this violent territory of rustlers, horse thieves, and the rest of the devils who slaughter innocents with no remorse. But when the...
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Last Mountain Man series volume 44
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"Kate Coldane has sweated blood for this saloon, and she won't let it go down without a fight. Silas Atwood may be the richest rancher in Hudspeth County, but that doesn't give him the right to push her around. When Atwood sends one of his goons to cause trouble at her watering hole, Kate's son Rusty guns him down. It may have been self defense, but Atwood is the law, and that means Rusty has to run. Rusty flees to the home of his uncle, Pearlie,...
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In the fall of 1873, a wagon train of immigrants sets off from Missouri for the Montana Territory. Leading them is wagon master Jamie Ian MacCallister, a giant of a man who swears he can get them there by Christmas. The journey is plagued by brutal storms and rugged terrain, outlaws and hostile Indians. Just when things look nearly hopeless, two unlikely saviors arrive: an old mountain man known as Preacher and legendary frontiersman Smoke Jensen....
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Trail West series volume 1
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"In 1848, Dooley Monahan, son of struggling Iowa pioneers, went off to pick up a new milk cow. Young Dooley never came home. Now, nearly three decades later, Dooley Monahan has become an accidental legend, managing to plant a bullet in the chest of a dangerous outlaw. All Dooley really wants is to claim his reward at a bank in Phoenix and make his way North to a gold strike he read about in a newspaper. But fate has other plans. It starts with a family...
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Shawn O'Brien series volume 3
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[2016]
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In Big Buck, Texas, those who profit from war are about to face a bloody battle of their own . . .
From America's bestselling Western authors comes this violent saga of the frontier legend known as the Town Tamer: the man who appears when all justice has fled . . .
Feed the beast—or die
On the West Texas border a behemoth is bellowing smoke, fire, and death. This monster is the infamous Abaddon Cannon Foundry,...
From America's bestselling Western authors comes this violent saga of the frontier legend known as the Town Tamer: the man who appears when all justice has fled . . .
Feed the beast—or die
On the West Texas border a behemoth is bellowing smoke, fire, and death. This monster is the infamous Abaddon Cannon Foundry,...
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Frontiersman series volume 3
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[2017]
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While back on the trail, Breck Wallace, exiled from the Smoky Mountains for gunning down a man in self-defense, must evade a vicious gang of trappers who are after his goods and who force him to ride deeper into the mountains than he has ever gone.
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2021.
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In 'Traynor' the title character is believed to be a weak young man, having let Dr. Parker Channing steal his love, Rose Laymon, away from him. When the stage Traynor is driving into Little Snake is robbed and Traynor's best friend and stage guard, Sam Whitney, is killed by the robber, Traynor chases the thief and recovers his dropped Stetson, which was sold to Dr. Channing less than a month earlier. The medico takes off after Traynor confronts him...
10) Texas vendetta
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 5
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Ranger privates Andy Pickard, the onetime Comanche captive called Badger Boy, and the war-anguished Farley Brackett, are assigned to deliver a prisoner to the sheriff of a county some distance from the ranger camp on the San Saba River. The prisoner, Jayce Landon, has recently killed a man named Ned Hopper and is to stand trial for murder. The rangers quickly learn that the Landon and Hopper families are involved in a blood feud and that Jayce Landon...
11) Damnation Valley
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Frontiersman series volume 4
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[2018]
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Following the trail of carnage left by bloodthirsty trapper Judd Carnahan, fearless pioneer Breckenridge Wallace, aka the Frontiersman, walks into a trap but nevertheless, fueled by righteous fury, he battles to destroy his enemy.
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Smoke Jensen already has a good woman by his side--now all he needs to make Sugarloaf the best damned cattle ranch in Colorado is John Chisum's prime steer. But getting Chisum's herd out of New Mexico territory takes a tough hide. A cattle war has turned the landscape hostile and a brutal high lonesome blizzard is threatening a frozen night's death. But the greatest danger is yet to come. Rustler Jesse Evans and his Mescalero half-breed gang are hot...
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Savage Texas volume 5
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[2017]
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On the trail to Hangtree, a gang of bandits give chase to a teenage gunslinger. Young Bill is bracing for the end when the crack of a Winchester scatters the bandits. Sam Heller, Hangtree lawman, has saved another life. And Bill will beg Heller to save one more. Bill rode in from East Texas, where Cullen Baker, the original quick-draw artist, fights a life-and-death battle with a corrupt robber baron for control of the Torrent River. Bill came seeking...
14) River of blood
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Breck Wallace was tuning into a true mountain man on the American frontier. As a teenager in Tennessee he killed in self-defense, then left behind a woman he loved. With a gun and trap lines he is learning how to survive in the Rockies, braving the punishing elements, ruthless outlaws, and forging an uneasy peace with the Indians. But as dangerous as life is, nothing is worse than a powerful man with a murderous grudge. Breckenridge has left two such...
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copyright 1999.
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Smoke Jensen has tried to make peace with the land--and the past. But trying to outrun a reputation as a fearless gunslinger in the wilds of Colorado can be life's toughest game. This time it's calling Smoke to the restless Wyoming range, to fight the bloodiest private war in American history.
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2002
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The historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalities have dominated, endured, and most important of all, found champions. John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, and Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets are classic celebrations of the greatest, the brightest, the eternally constellated.
Paul Collins' Banvard's Folly is a different...
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c2006
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There's Nothing A Man Won't Do To Clear His Name.
They called him fastest gun alive, but Smoke Jensen is determined to stay on the right side of the law. That is, until he's jumped by six low-life robbers who steal his shirt--and his identity. Smoke's tried for robbery and murder, and sentenced to hang in morning. Someone's out to frame the Mountain Man . . . someone who's made a big mistake.
Justice--Mountain Man Style.
Barely managing to escape...
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1993
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This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of...
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Born and bred in the Texas Pandhandle town of Comanche Crossing, William "Wild Bill" Longley gunned down a dozen of its men in cold blood before he got around to the sheriff and deputy--so he could take over the job himself. Then he found the perfect sidekick in a vicious career criminal named Booker Tate. With his remorseless heart set on a beautiful young woman, Wild Bill and Booker take the whole town hostage until the young lady agrees to marry...
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Last Mountain Man series volume 28
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When an old friend's family is massacred, legendary mountain man Smoke Jensen hits the vengeance trail. He's soon riding into a bloody Colorado war that has militia cavalry volunteers and Kiowa warriors stalking each other across the territory.