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Peter Dunstan is a big rancher who wants to become bigger, to control more land. So when he buys Dr. Henry Morgan's ranchland that has been unsuccessfully converted to farming, it is his intention to return it to open range. The only stipulation the doctor makes is that Dunstan must retain Sandy Sweyn, who has more or less been Dr. Morgan's ward. Though the man is of age, he is generally considered a half-wit, even by the doctor. Still, Sandy has...
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When rancher Tom Baldwin is mortally wounded by an old enemy, he leaves his ranch and his money to the six industrious sons who have helped build it into a successful enterprise. To Flash, his never-do-well seventh son, Baldwin leaves a six-gun, a thoroughbred, and the task of avenging his death.
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Longtime thief and card sharp Steven Train is sought out by another crook, John Rainier, who has a proposal. Rainier saved rich rancher Patrick Comstock from serious injury and was rewarded with an easy job. Now Comstock has asked him to help find an honest man skilled with firearms for a special mission. Rainier wants Train to apply for the job - with the understanding that they'll split the money that Rainier is certain will be entrusted to Train...
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"The house on the hill in Merridan belonged to Captain Slocum. It was regarded as a house of mystery, and it was protected by dogs that ran the grounds at night and armed men who allowed no visitors, even when the captain was away from the house, which he often was. At just twelve years old, Don Grier braved the terrors of the captain's domain to steal a watermelon - a feat that made him a local hero. Don lives with his mean-spirited Aunt Lizzie,...
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Winsor Glanvil and Louise Carney plan to be married in a sequestered valley by a local clergyman, but Jack Rutledge, a jealous rival, decides to prevent Glanvil from marrying any woman by disfiguring him permanently, destroying one side of his face with the cutting edge of a spur.
8) Daring Duval
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"Newcomer David Duval is secretive about his past and Marian Lane is determined to discover what he is hiding. When she enlists the aid of the famous manhunter, Marshal Richard Kinkaid, a dangerous game of matching wits between Duval and Kinkaid begins"--
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"Doc Willis, despite the nickname, is just an unemployed cowboy in The Valley of Jewels. Daggett Valley holds many secrets from the past, including a now deserted mining camp. It is there that Buck Logan lures Willis with the promise of great riches to be gained. What Doc doesn't even suspect is that he is to play a part in a most subtle feat of deception in which an old man, William Daggett, will be conned into believing that he is reliving his past....
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"John Sherburn, a troublemaking gunfighter rides into Amityville, Texas, where Peter Gresham, the most successful businessman in town, asks Sherburn to oversee his business interests while Gresham devotes his time to finding and killing Red Hawk, the renegade chief that killed his brother, forming a partnership that puts them both in danger"--
11) Torturous trek
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"Sammy Day takes a job with Bill the Dogman, a peculiar man who breeds sled dogs, despite warnings that he could never survive. If he makes it a year and a day, Goldie Mahan will marry him. After the first day he begins to doubt if he will survive, but he is too stubborn to quit"--
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334 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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When Samuel Cross was growing up, he was rarely found without a book in his hands and that was the way his mother, a widow, wanted him raised. His uncle, Stephen Larkin, a frontiersman like Sam's father, wanted him to be strong and able to fend for himself, so he would take him into the mountains every summer to teach him how to fight and use a weapon. He proved to be as adept at these subjects as he had been at book learning, but when he was eighteen...
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Peter Quince--young, orphaned fighter--flees to Mexico to escape a bounty on his head, but finds himself in just as much trouble when he arrives. In his travels Peter Quince would seek out those with skills he needed and learn from them until he was able to master his teacher. At barely twenty, he had a price on his head for shooting a man in self-defense. As he outsmarted lawmen in five states and territories, the bounty rose to over $100,000. He...
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"Tom Palding offers Ned Rippon $500 to impersonate him for five days to find out why Charles Barrett has summoned him back to Tyndal Valley which he fled twenty years ago after killing Sam Barrett. Rippon needs the money and agrees, but soon wonders if he'll survive the five days to collect it"--
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Don Sebastian Valdivia and his secretary, Juan CarreƱo, attend a horse auction at the Garrison Ranch, where an outlaw stallion, Twilight, is held back until last. The only man who can ride this magnificent beast is Charles Dupont, known as The Crisco Kid, who has bonded with the horse since he was a colt. Because gunman Bud Carew despises The Kid, he desperately wants to possess Twilight. Those attending the auction know that no matter which one...
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Lew Weldon has spent his life being a tumbleweed and rolling where the wind blows him. Up to Canada, down to Mexico, through deserts, forests, and mountains; anywhere fortune could be found. Those travels helped earn him a reputation as a gambler and a gunfighter, a reputation that frequently preceded him. When Weldon rode into San Trinidad, he found he immediately had two job offers: the outlaw Roger Cunningham wants Lew to join his smuggling operation...
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Outlaw Lawrence Grey has been captured in El Paso-- but Marshal Neilan will set him free if he can locate John Ray, now in Mexico, and heir to a fortune. During the search, Lawrence finds himself surrounding by intrigue, with his life threatened from all sides.
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