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2020
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He thought the war was over... it was just getting started.
Confederate war hero Clayton Wallace earned a taste for justice on the battlefield.
But... his taste for revenge was learned as a boy in Snake Bend, Texas.
His pregnant sister was murdered in front of him by August Graves, her evil, abusive husband who's gone unpunished all these years.
Clay is about
...2) The wild west of Louis L'Amour: an illustrated companion to the frontier fiction of an American icon
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Pub. Date
2015.
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"A commemoration of themes and characters found in Louis L'Amour's books. Explores geography of the west, lone heroes, gunfighters, mining and ranching, women, Native Americans, food, and transportation as portrayed in L'Amour's books"--
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Tom Chantry wore no gun and wished no man harm. French Williams was a ruthless cattleman more than willing to use his weapon. But Tom needed Williams to help him drive a herd north to Dodge. Setting off together on a trail alive with danger, soft-spoken Chantry and hard-bitten Williams faced storms, treachery, and Indian attacks. Now the man some call a coward and the man many call a killer have no choice but to trust each other with their lives--for...
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2020.
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"Unflinching and plainspoken, Tessa Swan is not your typical 18th-century woman. Born and bred on the western Virginia frontier along with her five brothers, she is a force to be reckoned with. Quiet and courageous, Clay Tygart is not your typical 18th-century man. Raised by Lenape Indians, he returns a hero from the French and Indian War to the fort that bears his name, bringing with him Tessa's long-lost friend, Keturah, a redeemed Indian captive...
6) Scalpdancers
Author
Pub. Date
c1990
Description
Two men from opposite sides of the world--one epic battle for survival.
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First mountain man series volume 10
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
In St. Louis, a girl from Preacher's past has been murdered. For the man whose heart she once touched, the time has come to leave the high wild country--for truth, justice and new reason to kill...
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Pub. Date
c2003
Description
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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""My boy, may an old man's curse rest upon you, if you do not try to avenge your father!" Answering those words, young Frank Eaton determines to settle with each of the six men who had riddled his father full of lead. Frank's thirst for a reckoning takes him across the lawless Indian Territory, to Southwest City, Missouri, to the wide-open mesa lands of eastern New Mexico and, finally, to Albuquerque. Curses hide behind every corner of the devil and...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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For twenty-four years, Five Star Publishing, an imprint of Gale/Cengage, has offered readers the best in new voices, as well as many beloved authors, in the traditional Western and American frontier fiction genres. Contention and Other Frontier Stories, edited by Hazel Rumney, features seventeen brand-new stories that will delight historical fiction fans. These stories capture the spirit of freedom and individualism in the evolving American frontier...
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After a seven-year absence, lifelong friends Buell Mace and Simon Steele return to the town they grew up in. Carlisle, Nebraska in 1879 is trying to become a more genteel and law abiding place than the one a hot-headed Buell had been encouraged to leave at the age of nineteen. Sheriff Lorin Staker is one of the first people Buell talks to on returning, and Buell is amazed when he offers Buell a badge. The sheriff is having trouble with drifters, "Islanders"...
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Lawman: A lawman defies the odds when he single-handedly confronts a gang of killers.
The Kentuckian: Big Eli Wakefield and his son Little Eli are Kentucky adventurers looking for an exciting life on the Texas frontier. They meet challenges along the way when they are cought in a bitter family fued, run into a madman, and fall in love with a beautiful woman.
The unforgiven: Indian by birth, but secretly adopted by whites, Rachel Zachary soon becomes...