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In the thousands of miles of rugged rangeland around Medicine Bow, Wyoming, the only law that rules is the law of the gun. A man has to have an iron jaw and a fast trigger to stay alive. And no one is tougher than the ranch foreman known only as the Virginian. A peaceable man by nature, slow to anger and soft-spoken, fair and just, nonetheless he brooks nonsense from no man. Once wronged, he is a judge with a gavel forged of cold steel. Frontier justice...
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A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 13
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c2001
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Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose help catch the thieves who have stolen the treasure from the museum's mummy exhibit.
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Hopalong Cassidy novels volume 3
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Hopalong Cassidy rides straight into an ambush in the West's untamed territories.
5) Conagher
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As far as the eye could see was vast empty horizon. Evie Teale had finally accepted that her husband would not be coming home. She and the children were alone now. Conagher was a dark-eyed drifter who wasn't about to let a gang of rustlers push him around.
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"Nothing stirs up emotions in Texas like men stealing other men's horses. Texas Ranger Andy Pickard is assigned what appears to be a routine duty. West Texas horse trader Donley Bannister has killed Cletus Slocum for stealing one of his horses. Ranger Pickard is to find and arrest Bannister and bring him to trial. But the case turns out to be anything but routine. When Pickard picks up on Bannister's trail, he finds him holed up with some cohorts...
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In Texas Standoff, Ranger Andy Pickard and his partner, Logan Daggett, are sent to central Texas to investigate a series of killings and cattle thefts. The two biggest cattlemen in the area blame each other for the violence, but it seems to Andy that neither man may be guilty. The case is complicated by the rise of a gang of "regulators"-masked vigilantes-and the arrival of a notorious hired gunman whose employer is unknown. The murder of a captured...
8) The Accused
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Theodore Boone volume 3
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Big trouble is brewing for Theodore Boone. While all of Strattenburg anxiously awaits the new trial of infamous murder suspect Pete Duffy, problems arise for their own kid lawyer. There's been a robbery and Theo is the accused. His reputation is on the line, and with the evidence building against him and dangerous threats looming, Theo will do whatever it takes to prove his innocence even if it means breaking a few rules.
9) Texas Free
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2018.
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Rose Landro is on the run. Seeking refuge at the Rimrock Ranch, she is finally ready to claim the land her granddaddy left her and make a fresh start. But her return is rife with controversy when cattle begin disappearing - and a handsome menace named Tanner McCade starts watching Rose a little too closely. Could the new cowhand be connected to the men she's hiding from? Or is there another reason the rugged stranger is shadowing her every move?
10) Long bow
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2009
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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...
11) Framed
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Swindle mysteries volume 3
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Griffin Bing is in big trouble when a Super Bowl ring disappears from his middle school's display case, replaced by Griffin's retainer, and the more he and his friends investigate, the worse his situation becomes.
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The Virginian is the quiet, noble foreman of a Wyoming cattle ranch in the 1870s. More comfortable keeping company with his trusted horse than with other people, he nevertheless falls for pretty schoolteacher Molly Wood, who helps him develop an appreciation for Shakespeare, Keats, and the finer things. But when a rival suitor challenges his honor, the Virginian struggles to make his beloved Molly understand the harsh justice of the West.
13) Nightwork
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"Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head, slipping into luxurious, empty homes at night to find items he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer, he left Chicago--but kept up his nightwork. Wandering from the Outer Banks to Savannah to New Orleans, he dons new identities and stays careful, observant, distant. He can't afford to attract attention--or get attached. Still, he...
14) To the last man
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After a Texan stole another man's woman, a feud errupted into war. A son and daughter of the feuding clans fell in love, becoming pawns in a bloodbath that raged until no one was left to kill.
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A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 25
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The kids are visiting their friend the prince fo Costra. The owner of a birght yellow yacht are acting suspicious. Then there's a robbery on the island. Could there be a connection?
16) Way of the gun
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2013
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Even at seventeen, Carson Ryan knows enough about cow herding to realize the crew he's with is about the worst ever. Then gunshots ring across the range. Suspecting an Indian attack, Ryan gallops straight into a U.S. Army raid. The outfit he's with is nothing but a bunch of murdering cattle rustlers, and the law thinks he's one of them. Tied up, thrown in jail, and tried by a hanging court, he has only two options: escape or die trying.--
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Owl diaries volume 3
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Eva's teacher, Miss Featherbottom, is getting married, but when her special necklace disappears, Eva and her friends set out to track down the thief and return the necklace before the wedding.