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In 1871 Utah, young Jane Withersteen is courted by Elder Tull, the leader of her polygamous Mormon church. When Jane refuses, the local Mormons persecute her. Meanwhile, Jane's friend, Bern Venters, is captured by Tull's posse and faces a harsh sentence. Jane defends him, causing even more friction with the Mormon populace. Enter Lassiter, a friend to Venters and an infamous gunslinger. His appearance causes Tull and his men to release Venters and...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2005.
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349 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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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 - matching kill for kill, outrage for outrage. Defying both sides, Smoke uncovers a sinister conspiracy to set ranchers and Kiowa at each other's throats.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
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429 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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Accomplished film and television writer Andrew J. Fenady has been honored with the Golden Boot Award for his contributions to the Western genre. Also a popular novelist, Fenady shines when telling this story of a cowboy who just doesn't seem to fit in with the rest of the world. Raised by Kiowa Indians before being taken in by a wealthy rancher, Shannon has never been able to claim what is rightfully
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2008
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English
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Hard Trail to Follow is the seventh novel in Elmer Kelton's acclaimed "Texas Ranger" series from Elmer Kelton
Former Texas Ranger Andy Pickard, called "Badger Boy" when he lived with Comanches as a child, is following the plow on West Texas land until he learns that his friend, Sheriff Tom Blessing, has been killed during a jailbreak. The escaped bank robbers are led by a man calling himself Cordell. Andy gets reinstated as a Ranger so he can catch...
10) The sky-liners
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008
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639 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
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English
12) Savage vengeance
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
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Large print ed.
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When Fergus Blanchette, the brother of an outlaw he once killed, kidnaps a young girl and takes her on a deadly crime spree, John Savage, while grappling with the guilt of the innocents lost to Fergus's brutal hands, must stop the murderous rampage.
14) Midnight rider
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
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Large print ed.
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359 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
15) Shadow river
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Large print edition.
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357 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
16) Mesa Grande
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Large print edition.
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353 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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"When Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack arrives in Mesa Grande with a few outlaws in tow, he finds the town in chaos. The sheriff's just been shot, and the new deputy--supposedly out in search of the gunman--is acting suspicious. Now it's up to Burrack to sort out who can be trusted and who needs to be put behind bars. But just as he starts putting the pieces together, a new kind of threat descends on Mesa Grande: Scalp hunters ride in...with a band of wrathful...
17) Paradise sky
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Taken in by a man named Loving after his father is murdered, young Willie learns to shoot, ride, read, and garden. When Loving dies, Willie re-christens himself Nat Love in tribute and heads west. In South Dakota Territory, Nat becomes a Buffalo Soldier, is befriended by Wild Bill Hickok, earns the nickname Deadwood Dick and the love of a beautiful woman.
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"Arizona Territory Ranger Sam Burrack knows all too well that criminals don't concern themselves with consequences. So it's no surprise to him when Sheppard Stone, the sheriff of Big Silver, makes an enemy of wealth cattle rancher Edsel Centrila, whose son thinks he's above the law. After Stone refuses to help Centrila get his son out of jail, Centrila throws all of his money into buying up Big Silver and putting gunmen on every corner, some aiming...
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A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, this is the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass -- a remarkable tale of obsession, the human will stretched to its limits, and the lengths a man will go to for vengeance.
20) The bank robber
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
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379 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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Wilson Young got his stretch of Texas hardscrabble fair and square. Now a bunch of lowlife carpetbaggers have stolen it. Taking his case to the law taught him that justice was best served by pointing his gun and shooting until every last miscreant was squashed under the heel of his boot. Now he's a legend. That's the easy part. Staying alive is going to take a lot more bullets . . .