Peter Dawson
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Because of reports of a potential range war in Peñasco County, U.S. Commissioner Guilford dispatches Deputy U.S. Marshal Ed Church to the area. After arriving in Agua Verde by stagecoach and renting a horse to ride to the troubled area, Church disappears. At the same time, Mike Sternes, foreman of Frank Bishop's Crescent B cattle ranch, is in town to meet Frank's daughter, Cathy, who was traveling on the same stagecoach as Church. Also in town is...
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2012
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Joe Bonnyman left town after he sold his small outfit to the Middle Arizona Cattle Company, which earned him the scorn of his fellow ranchers. Now that a cattle war between the syndicate Joe sold to and the various ranches seems imminent, Joe's father summons him home to Lodgepole. But some back-door deals of the most underhanded kind suddenly ease the situation, and Yace Bonnyman tells his son to go back where he came from. In his short stay at home,...
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2013.
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After Fred Vance's father died, his mother married an alcoholic named Milt Hurd. When his mother died, she left the Stirrup Ranch to Vance with the provision that Hurd be supported. Rather than stay on the Stirrup with Hurd, Vance left to seek his fortune in the New Mexico Territory. When Vance returned, summoned by Hurd, he learned the Stirrup has nearly gone to ruin under Hurd's stewardship.
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2015.
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The heart of the American West lives in Peter Dawson's stories, with characters that blaze a trail over a land of frontier dreams and nightmares and across a country coming of age. Sometimes, as in "A Tinhorn Takes a Tank Town," the conflict has to do with murder and power, as when High-Card Stevens goes up against a crooked saloon owner. Sometimes, as in "Unwanted Gold," it is brother against brother, as when Dave Sanders finds his older brother,...
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2013.
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In "Outcast Deputy," Hugh Connor has to find a way to stop the men who want to take his land without getting himself killed in the process. Tom Marolt is a hardworking sheriff who takes a desperate gamble to end a rustling spree in "The Bullet." "Doc Gentry" spends most of his time digging bullets out of Clyde Neal's victims. But when one of those victims turns out to be twelve-year-old Joe Egan, Doc decides that it's time to stop Neal. In "A Notch...
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2017.
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"Captain Dan Gentry was court-martialed after his men were massacred by the Apache. His plans to start a new life elsewhere change when he finds a young woman still alive at the site of another Apache attack. He determines to help her and catch the man he feels is responsible for these attacks"--
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c2003
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The heart of the Americna West lives in Peter Dawson's stories, with characters who blaze a trail over a land of frontier dreams and accross a country coing of age. Each of these seven stories embodies the dramatic struggles that made the American frontier so unique and its people the stuff of legend.
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2006
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Originally published in the 1930s and 1940s, seven stories celebrate the soul and spirit of the American West, from a newly sworn deputy who risks his life and reputation to help a wanted man, to a frontier doctor who must choose between duty and honor.
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