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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
471 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
At the Sugarloaf Ranch, Smoke and Sally Jensen prepare to welcome Preacher home for the holidays unaware that their friend is trailed by a storm full of trouble. On a mission of vengeance, an old trapper is rescued by Ace and Chance Jensen from ruthless outlaws and wanted by a driven bounty hunter named Luke Jensen. And, just released from prison, a criminal mastermind assembles a vicious gang of cutthroats to extract his final revenge against his...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
365 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
575 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
From rodeos to rustlers, from ranch life to the outlaw trail, Elmer Kelton's take on the human condition shows us life in Texas as it was back then: simpler but harder, with danger always present. Filled with unforgettable characters and adventure, and imbued with a love of the time, the people, and the place, these stories take us from the earliest days of the Wild West well into the twentieth century, each one embodying a passion for life that's...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Give-a-Damn Jones, an itinerant typographer, arrives in the small Montana town of Box Elder. The town is rife with tensions related to a convict's efforts to prove his innocence, a cattleman's demand for respect, a snooping editor, and a feud between a dentist and a blacksmith. Jones keeps finding himself in the wrong place at the wrong time-- but this time, he may be the hero that this town needs.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
483 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Johnstone Justice. Made in America.
William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone deliver a special holiday gift for devoted fans of the Jensen saga-a warmhearted story of burning revenge, blazing bullets, and other Jensen family traditions . . .
Like most families, the Jensens gather together to celebrate the holidays. This year, since half the clan is scattered across the American West, they've decided to split the difference and meet up in Tucson....
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
379 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Texas Ranger Bill Sayles is on the wrong side of three score years, but he still hits what he aims at and is not a man to cross. Ten days before Christmas, 1876, he arrives at the state prison to escort Jake Eddings on a furlough to lay his ten-year-old son to rest. But when Sayles gets wind that the murderous Litchfield brothers are headed for Eddings' farm, the Ranger and his prisoner join forces to grab a last shot at redemption.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
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Gil Ryan is nearly dead from starvation and hypothermia when he stumbles into the little mountain town of Larkspur just ahead of a blizzard. Owing his life to a kindly doctor and a widowed mother, Gil soon finds himself drawn into a bloody range war between the Ensillado Basin|s largest rancher and the small homesteaders who have begun squeezing into the valley. Gil wants no part of the trouble about to descend upon the Basin, but he won|t turn his...
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Language
English
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Charlie Deegan, former soldier and Army sharpshooter turned brawler and drunk, winds up in Yuma Territorial Prison. Knowing he can't last the remaining nine years of his sentence, Charlie escapes and heads north hoping to become a cowboy. In the harsh Sonora Desert, he discovers a dead miner's hoard of supplies and gets a new chance at life. Then he befriends a cowboy who helps him get a job on a northbound cattle drive. Starting out as the cook's...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Nick Graves ran wild for years before he turned respectable and began plying his father's trade. Now he buries the dead for a living -- but the past won't die. A killer he once rode with wants Graves to pay for his desertion, and he means to hit Nick where he's most vulnerable: his family. But this time Nick's going to make sure that what's dead stays dead.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
447 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling authors William W. and J.A. Johnstone comes the fiery saga of Perley Gates, a legend born out of the brutality and violence of the American West. He's the son of a cattle rancher. A restless young dreamer who, under normal circumstances, would follow in his father's footsteps. Normal, however, is not his style. Like his famous grandfather and namesake Perley Gates--a hell-raising mountain man with a heavenly name--young Perley wants...
13) Hard ride
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
641 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Each of Elmer Kelton's superb stories of the West showcase the strength and power of western spirit. They are filled with marvelous characters--from a rodeo clown who seeks redemption via romance, to an outlaw who comes to the aid of ranchers with no other recourse to justice. Powerful Western women feature as importantly as the menfolk here, including a cattle buyer's daughter who can hold her own with any man on the trail, a renowned lady outlaw...
15) Killing plain
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
Me. c2005
Physical Desc
352 p. : 22 cm.
Language
English
16) Midnight rider
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
18) Buckshot
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
299 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
John Tenkiller got his name in the usual way -- from his father. What was unusual was how seriously he took it. Talk was he'd killed ten men by the time he was twenty-one. But he must have lost count -- he was still killing. Bakersfield City Marshal Ned Cody read the telegram: John Tenkiller said to be heading your way stop last seen riding bay with three white stockings stop known to have killed three men in our county stop please detain stop.