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English
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"Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch pursue a vicious killer in the grittiest entry yet of the New York Times-bestselling series. After marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch lay Appaloosa's sheriff to rest, an emerging handful of men eagerly vie for the deceased sheriff's vacant office. No sooner are various campaigns under way when gold is discovered in the foothills just outside of town, sending Appaloosa buzzing with excitement. ...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
341 p.
Language
English
Description
J. T. Latham is rotting in prison in the Yuma Territory penitentiary. But then Sheriff Del Buchman offers to commute his sentence if Latham helps execute a prisoner exchange with some dangerous banditos. The only catch is that he must guide the sheriff through the deadly Sonoran Desert.
The story was adapted from surviving transcripts of the American Legends Collection, which were written in 1936 as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of the death of his wife as she gives birth to his son, and the killing of his brother on the West Texas plains, John Kerney is forced to give up his ranch, leave his son behind, and strike out in search of the murderous outlaws and a place where he can start over. He drifts south until he meets a man who offers him work trailing cattle to the New Mexico Territory and forever changes his life"--
Author
Series
Battalion of St. Patrick volume 2
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
291 p.
Language
English
Description
"To the Color" is the continuing true story of John Riley: young (28), cynical, charming, a professional Irish soldier who deserts the U.S. army to fight for Mexico at first for money, then for something loftier in the Mexican War of 1846-48. With gritty action, humor, pathos, and romance, it not only brings to life his torturous journey of reformation but that of the rough-hewn Irish and German fellow deserters who follow him in pursuit of a shared...
Author
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
375 p.
Language
English
Description
"In 1846, the Mexican-American War cast together Latter-day Saints fleeing persecution and the U.S. Army on a desperate mission to capture California. The Mormon Battalion-including two pregnant laundresses-must march two thousand miles. Among the army's First Dragoons, Moses Cole, a Virginia farm boy running from his abusive father, grows to manhood under the mentorship of a tormented alcoholic and former professor. Among the Mormons, Orson Everett...
10) Kill or die
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Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
346 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century
One man. One rifle. One way to take on the most vicious outlaws on the frontier... In the acclaimed new series by William and J.A. Johnstone, the bounty hunter known as Flintlock brings his trusty muzzleloader and a motherlode of courage into the most bitter and vicious battle he's ever had to fight.
Blood In The Bayou
Brewster Ritter had a warning for Flintlock: Do not cross the Sabine River. Ritter,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c1990
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 378 p. : maps ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
No one captures the glory, adventure and drama of the courageous men and women who tamed the American West like award-winning author Terry Johnston. His Plainsmen series brims with colorful characters, fierce battles and compelling historical lore.
Entrenched on a poorly sheltered island, many of Seamus Donegan's crack squad of Army scouts lie dead-and many more are dying. Led by Colonel George Forsyth, fifty seasoned plainsmen had combed the Colorado...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First editon.
Physical Desc
201 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Heading into the wild West seems an adventure to fifteen-year-old Justin Bodean, until the bullet and arrows begin to fly. The lure of a treasure of Civil War gold drives him, but out where fortunes can be grabbed by the strongest and quickest, he has a lot to learn.
Author
Publisher
Five Star Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
321 p.
Language
English
Description
"Can the walls of an abandoned house absolve a man accused of a thirty-year-old murder? Not before Silent Cooper and Dempsy Nealy battle Apache thieves, Pancho's Villistas, marauding outlaws, and El Tigre of the Playas Valley. The loss of a letter beneath the ruins of a famous Arizona ranch house thirty years ago led to an untimely marriage for Dempsy's Aunt Cindy, who now runs three ranches with an iron will and a shotgun loaded with buckshot....
Author
Publisher
Goldminds
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
244 p.
Language
English
Description
In August 1876, Jack Jones, a reporter for a Chicago newspaper, is assigned to write about the doings of Deadwood, Dakota Territory-an illegal gold camp that knows no law. The lure of gold in the Lakota's Black Hills draws prospectors and many colorful characters, such as Al Swearengen, Calamity Jane, Colorado Charlie Utter, Seth Bullock, Madame Mustache, and Sol Star, and it also lures crime. After the shocking murder of an acquaintance, Jack Jones...
16) Red ruckus
Author
Series
A Morgan Clyde western volume 3
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
264 p.
Language
English
Description
"Morgan Clyde, legendary town tamer and shootist, is the kind of man who will look down the barrel of your loaded gun and keep on coming, and the kind of man there's no stopping short of putting him in a grave when he thinks he's in the right. He's just the kind of man that a certain little town in the lawless Indian Territory needs, the town once known as Ironhead Station and the town that has already almost killed him more than once. Only this time,...
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
395 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
The families Jensen and MacCallister reunite in a gripping tale of tragedy, survival, love, betrayal, and maybe even a miracle . . .
Three days before Christmas, Matt Jensen is traveling the Denver and Pacific railway when an avalanche slams down onto the train, trapping it in desolate Trout Creek Pass. But it wasn't an act of nature that caused the accident; it was a gang of outlaws attempting to...
20) Violent land
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Pub
Pub. Date
�2012
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century
William W, Johnstone's legendary mountain men have fought their battles and conquered a fierce frontier. Now, three generations of the Jensen clan are trying to live in peace on their sprawling Colorado ranch. But for men with fighting in their blood, trouble is never very far from their doorstep......
Into The Eye Of A Storm
They are strangers in a strange land--a band of German immigrants trespassing...