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4724) Ride to battle mountain
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Three men met in the little New Mexico cow2town of Shafter. The only thing they had in common was that each rider had an ivory butt on his sixgun. They had robbed a bank in Laraime, Wyoming, and had previously arranged to meet in isolated, insular Shafter. But the fates that pull at men decreed that each of those three riders would end one phase of his life in Shafter, and begin another phase-and before this all happened, there would be a gunfight....
4726) Sandhills boy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
p2007
Description
Born in 1926 to a struggling West Texas cowboy, Elmer toils beside the last generation of horse-riding cow-punchers. Nearsighted and convince he'll never be the cowboy his dad is, Elmer determines to become a writer. But as he struggles to persuade a disappointed father to let him attend the faraway University of Texas--and see writing as legitimate work--the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and trigger events that carry bashful Elmer to the Austrian...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Mama and little Elsa are kidnapped by Indians. As his father lies dying, fourteen-year-old Ryker Landstad promises to take the nine-year-old twins to safety and rescue Mama and Elsa. It takes all Ryker's gumption, to reach the fort, only to discover that Fort Abercrombie is besieged by 500 warriors"--
4728) The sheriff's surrender
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
In 1885 in Fergus, Idaho, Gert Dooley has an unusual job for a woman--test firing guns for her brother the gunsmith--and years of practice have made her an excellent shot. When a murder in town scares her friends, Gert starts the Ladies' Shooting Club to teach the women how to shoot. Their independence upsets the men in town, and Sheriff Chapman finds himself trying to solve a murder and restore peace between the town's women and men.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
""Too Much Dancing Going On" is the account of an independent-minded young woman in a wide-open Montana who loved books and horses, and later a certain literary young man. When Lyle Hardiman, easy-going, illiterate, Montana cowboy, accidentally blunders into the new library with his horse (he thought it was a livery), he meets the new librarian, Miss Rebecca Spark, and sets into motion a chain of events that will ensure the little town of Burnt Creek...
4730) Cantrell: a Western duo
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"'In Strangers Talk or Die', Jeff Parker takes on the syndicate that killed his father and brother when he was a boy. In 'Cantrell', Tom Cantrell attempts to stop the Indian raids on Texas ranches and protect his ranch in New Mexico by going after the men who trade with the Indians for the stolen cattle"--
4731) Ranger man
Author
Pub. Date
2009, c1951
Description
"Johnny Barlow's friend, Matt Melville, was shot just as Johnny rode into Rawhide City. Now missing is the satchel of gold Matt was carrying. Johnny, a border ranger, suspects that his friend's murder and the missing gold might have been intentional. First, the sheriff ordered him to turn in his guns, then gave him one hour to get out of town. Later that night, someone took a shot at Johnny. But Johnny is a ranger, and rangers are a persistent lot..."--p....
4734) Railroad schemes
Author
Pub. Date
1998, c1997
Description
Strange Irish outlaw King Callahan is a criminal with a mission: he hates the railroad and he intends to do whatever he can to stem its spread in California.
4736) Maverick Canyon
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Rush Rago was regarded with open suspicion in the Maverick Canyon country. The long-geared pilgrim claimed he had believed a desert rat's story about a gold strike in the region, and was aiming to sell pick-axes and other equipment to the prospectors. Which in itself was an unlikely yarn -- since there'd been no mother lode sighted near Tyrone, but only plenty of copper. Rago was more or less prepared for trouble -- but he hadn't expected his first...
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