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Young Irish American Saul Sullivan marries a beautiful Cherokee woman named Vine. As a mixed race couple, they weather a storm of prejudice, but eventually find acceptance with Saul's family. Then Saul must move away to another country for a year to find work. Taking advantage of his absence, Aaron, Saul's jealous younger brother, begins to make unwanted advances on Vine. The tragic violence to come will change all of their lives forever.
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Last Mountain Man series volume 9
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2001
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Summary: When Count Frederick von Hausen journeys from Germany and enlists the help of the most vile and ruthless hired guns to destroy him, Smoke Jensen, the West's fastest gun and last mountain man, must use his skill and prowess to outwit the determined band of killers.
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Last Mountain Man series volume 10
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Clint Black ran the biggest cattle operation in Montana. His Circle .45 spread controlled the best water, the richest graze, and he had his own personal army of cutthroats. And he didn't like competition. Only a fool would fail to see trouble when Smoke Jensen brought 3,500 head up from Colorado to sell to Black's neighbor.
Jensen was willing to talk to the man, but Clint Black was more hardheaded than sensible, more bloodthirsty than businesslike...
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Last Mountain Man series volume 31
Pub. Date
p2005
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THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITER OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Smoke Jensen never wanted to kill, but fate had other plans, and the Mountain Man has left plenty of blood, tears and fury in his wake. Angus MacDougal, the father of one of Smoke's victims, wants revenge. Riding up to Big Rock, Colorado, MacDougal has decided that killing Smoke won't be enough. He intends to bring him back to Pueblo and hang him before a crowd. It's a bloodthirsty plan that...
Smoke Jensen never wanted to kill, but fate had other plans, and the Mountain Man has left plenty of blood, tears and fury in his wake. Angus MacDougal, the father of one of Smoke's victims, wants revenge. Riding up to Big Rock, Colorado, MacDougal has decided that killing Smoke won't be enough. He intends to bring him back to Pueblo and hang him before a crowd. It's a bloodthirsty plan that...
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This edition was created from the clothbound edition of "Mountain Man: a Novel of Male and Female in the Early American West", which was published in 1965 by Opal Laurel Holmes, Boise, Idaho.
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When Ree Dolly's father skips bail, the 16-year-old knows if he doesn't show up to answer the drug charges against him, her family will lose their home. Her goal had been to leave her messy life of poverty and join the army, but first she must find her father, teach her little brothers to fend for themselves, and escape a downward spiral of misery.
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Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe is about a young man's burning desire to leave his small town and tumultuous family in search of a better life, in 1929. It is Wolfe's first novel, and is, considered a highly autobiographical American coming-of-age story. The character of Eugene Gant is generally, believed to be a depiction of Wolfe himself. The novel covers the span of time from Eugene's birth to the age of 19. The setting is the fictional town...
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Big Max Higgins ran the outlaw town of Hell's Creek up in the north Montana Rockies ... and he decided to include the nearby town of Barlow in his cutthroat operation. What he didn't know was that Smoke Jensen was there with his wife, visiting relatives. It didn't take Smoke long to rout out the lot of them with angry fists and blazing guns ... but Smoke didn't count on Big Max doing something as daring, desperate, and stupid as kidnapping his wife-and...
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Spirit of Appalachia volume 3
Pub. Date
c1998
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While Sarah MacNeal struggles with the death of Philip Baxter, her stepbrother, Jacob Spencer, escorts her and her friend Amanda Taylor back across the mountains to Williamsburg to visit Jacob's grandparents. There Jacob becomes embroiled in a struggle that forces him to decide his loyalty between the British and the patriots, and between the two women who have touched his heart.
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2018.
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In 1952, "bootlegger Rory Docherty has returned home to the fabled mountain of his childhood, a misty wilderness that holds its secrets close and keeps the outside world at gunpoint. Slowed by a wooden leg and haunted by memories of the Korean War, Rory runs bootleg whiskey for a powerful mountain clan in a retro-fitted '40 Ford coupe ... In the mill town at the foot of the mountains--a hotbed of violence, moonshine, and the burgeoning sport of stock-car...
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2014.
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On the last day of eighth grade, Maggie begins to dream of finding a way to escape the drudgery and confinement of life in the hollow and establish her independence. Her plan begins to fall in place when she enters high school and discovers she has a natural talent for excelling in shorthand, typing, and other business classes. Meanwhile she spares no effort in helping her family continue to survive despite their poverty, a less than fertile few acres,...
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Chad, an orphan from the little town of Kingdom Come in the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky, finds his way into an affluent, slave-owning bluegrass community with his dog Jack just before the Civil War breaks out. Befriended by the aristocratic Major Calvin Buford, he begins a new life as "Chadwick Buford, Gentleman."
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"Kentucky packhorse librarian Tansy Calhoun doesn't mind the rough trails and long hours as she serves her Appalachian mountain community during the Great Depression. Yet she longs to find love like the heroines in the books she loves. When a charming writer comes to town, she thinks she might have found it-- or is the perfect man actually closer than she thinks? Perdita Sweet has called these mountains home for so long that she's nearly as rocky...
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First mountain man series volume 27
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2021.
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Preacher is no hired killer. When a wagon train is brutally ambushed on the Sante Fe Trail though, he can't say no to the St. Louis businessman willing to pay him for justice. It's not the stolen gold that's convinced Preacher to take the job And it's not the missing body of one of the wagon train's crew, a prime suspect who may have plotted the ambush and taken off with the gold. No, it's the suspect's lovely fiance, Alita Montez. She believes her...