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Lauran Paine
Book List in Order: 201 titles
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The Homesteaders
- Dec-1987
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Elizabeth Bartlett's husband is dying of lung fever, men from the neighboring ranch are harassing her and the people living on the homestead, and a deadly confrontation leaves her special secret that provokes a vendetta...
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The Guns of Summer
- Aug-1988
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THE MEN OF SHERIDAN Freighters find a welcome in Sheridan. So do ranchers. No one's encountered Indians in the county for a whole while. Today stockmen have free run of the plain without reason to look over their shoulders. The town's marshal is J...
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The Squaw Men
- Feb-1992
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Remaining with the tribe after their Native American wives have died, white men Henry Potter and Amos Cardiff encounter difficulty when they must persuade the elders not to raid a camp of white settlers bent on expansion into Indian territory...
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The Prairieton Raid
- Jun-1994
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Would-be bank robbers Boice Candless, Henry Madden, and Buff Brady have a perfect plan to rob the bank, but when some bandits rob the stage, injuring Candless, Madden and Brady decide to rob the robbers instead....
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Tears of the Heart
- Nov-1995
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Arriving in the New Mexico Territory to start a new life, Toby Lincoln, who spent two years in prison for a crime he did not commit, finds his dreams of a peaceful existence destroyed by a Colorado prison guard and a federal marshal bent on sending h...
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The Past Won't End
- Oct-1996
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A few years back Frank Nolan had killed a man in New Mexico Territory. That man had been killed in self defense but Nolan had to leave in a hurry none the less. Now studying medicine in Massachusetts he reads that the Territory papers are saying that...
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The Rawhiders
- Oct-1996
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It was a fence that started the threat of war, as so many other wars had begun on the range that had once been free and open. This time it was worse, because it was Marti's fence...and she was a beautiful woman who brought out the best and worst of m...
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The Misplaced Psyche
- Feb-1997
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MysteryLarge Print EditionDoctor Walter Whalen devised what he thought was a foolproof substitute for chemical anaesthetics, but in his first human trial, something went wrong. His subject, rich and powerful Charles Southcott, emerged with part of hi...
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The White Bird
- Feb-1997
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Sam Sloan, an old buffalo hunter, finds his quest and spirit vision from the four directions of the wind, when an old Navajo, a Lakota woman, and a young girl join forces with him in a search for survival...
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The Grand Ones of San Ildefonso
- Aug-1997
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WesternSan Ildefonso is a small border town in New Mexico. Its existence dates back to well before the Mexican War after which it became part of the Mexican territories ceded to the United States. Its prize possession has always been the existence of...
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Cache Canon
- Feb-1998
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LAND OF LEGEND...AND DANGER Cache Cañon lies well outside Rock City in the Colorado high country. It was named for a legendary cache of gold hidden there, and now it's reputed to harbor a band of hold-out Indians. Although no one in Rock Ci...
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The Killer Gun
- Nov-1998
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When veteran gunsmith George Washington Mars crafts a Colt revolver that will fire when only half-cocked, giving its wielder a quick-draw advantage, he has no way of knowing that the gun, and its legend, will take on a life of their own....
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The Man from Coyanosa
- Jul-1999
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John Fitch and the mine superintendent, Mike Hernden, had worked a nice racket diverting gold from the mine to their own pockets and were wealthy men. They thought no one knew of the plot, until the day an Indian was killed trying to intercept some o...
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Man from Butte City
- Apr-2000
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Author Lauran Bosworth Paine (born February 25, 1916) is an American writer of Western fiction. He was born in Duluth, Minnesota. Paine often wrote under the names: John Armour, Reg Batchelor, Kenneth Bedford, Frank Bosworth, Mark Carrel, Robert Clar...
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Wilderness Road
- Jun-2000
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Out on the Wilderness Road goes Mort Ramsey, following an unfortunate affair when he shot his kid brothe r, Jay, in a stage robbery. If Mort hadn''t asked Pat to turn out his horses, Pat wouldn''t have been lynched. Now Mort is on the vengeance trail...
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The Dark Trail
- Aug-2001
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LAW IN A LAWLESS LAND It's often been said that the only law in the West was a gun, and that outlaws rode unchecked over anyone unlucky enough to stand in their way. But as these two classic short novels by Lauran Paine show, there were courageous...
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Thunderbird Range
- Sep-2001
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Even more dangerous to the West's large ranchers than the hired killer was the range-hog; the unscrupulous man who plotted to steal grazing land. Stewart McKenna was such a man. In secret alliance with beautiful Helen Reynolds, he devised an ingeniou...
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Guns in the Desert
- Nov-2002
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Includes
The Silent Outcast , in which Caleb Doorn, while scouting for the U.S. Army, comes to the rescue of a Blackfoot girl hostage, and Guns in the Desert , in which the Wilton gang, bent on revenge, decide to kill everyone in a smal... -
Border Town
- Mar-2003
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Nestled on the border of New Mexico since long before there was a New Mexico, the small town of San Ildefonso has survived a lot. Marauding Indians, bandoleros, soldiers in blue and raiders in rags have all come and gone. Yet the residents of San Ild...
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Gathering Storm
- Jun-2003
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Two thrilling novels in one volume, from an unrivaled frontier fiction author, includes
The Calexico Kid , in which a mysterious bandit is finally served justice, and Gathering Storm , in which two legendary gunfighters arrive in the sa... -
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Open Range
- Sep-2003
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Boss Spearman knew the end was near for open range men like him, cattlemen who drove their herds through the country to graze and then moved on. Local stockmen were staking claims to grazing areas throughout the West. Spearman had no quarrel with tha...
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Rain Valley
- Apr-2004
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As he so aptly demonstrated in his novel "Open Range," which was made into a movie starring Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall, Lauran Paine is one of the West's most powerful storytellers. In the title novella of this collection, Burt Crownover caus...
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Guns In Oregon
- Oct-2004
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Deputy Sheriff Jim Crawford is forced to trust a stranger when a gang of thieving cowboys terrorizes the town and run off with their money, a crime that turns out to be a cover for a much larger operation. Reprint....
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Six-shooter Trail
- Dec-2004
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Written by Lauran Paine. Hyatt Tolman had a reason to leave Texas in a hurry, but one generous act changed the course of his life - and indeed nearly cost him his life - when he stopped to help a despairing girl. The townsfolk of Canebrake were suspi...
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Avenger's Trail
- Mar-2005
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The 2004 movie 'Open Range' starring Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall was based on a Lauran Paine novel. The band of outlaws struck Jubal Pierce's ranch while his two daughters were there alone. They mauled and killed both girls. When Jubal, his sons ...
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Holding The Ace Card
- Apr-2005
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Lauran Paine returns with all the characteristic magic and power of his Western stories and their universal themes of learning from experience, respecting nature, and changing times and attitudes. In "Terror Trail" Reno Balfor is a small rancher cons...
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Feud On The Mesa
- Nov-2005
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In Renegades Beat the War Drum, frontiersman Caleb Dorn, known among the Indians as Silent Outcast, tries to negotiate a peace with Red Sleeves and his band of Apaches who have surrounded the town of Denton and cut off all access. But he has to face ...
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Man from Durango
- Nov-2007
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In "Prairie Guns" homesteaders have taken up land on the plains of Colorado that were formerly free range. Cattle baron Colton Miller and his hired gun riders hate the homesteaders, especially Buff Brady and Luther Hart, two former cowboys who hope e...
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Desert Journey
- May-2008
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Neither Abe Banion nor his partner Cal Madison was young, nor susceptible to delusion, nor possessed of a pristine conscience when they slipped back into the States out of Mexico, but when they arrived back in Paso Fino they encountered a crazy man....
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Rangers of El Paso
- Feb-2009
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In 'Rangers Of El Paso', the title story of this Western duo, Captain Elmer Tomlinson of the Texas Rangers is confronted with a unique and devastating problem. Rustling of livestock is occurring in the Valverde district to an unprecedented degree. He...
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The Buckskin Hills
- Mar-2009
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Sheriff Tim Holbrook believed Arnold Holfinger was behind the killing. Holfinger's crew attacked the hill cattlemen, and caught Holbrook squarely in the middle when he blazed in. But, when the dust settled, Holbrook had all the answers....
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Shepler's Spring
- Sep-2009
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The stranger on his unshod horse arrived in Shepler's Spring seeking Henry Shepler the blacksmith. That was the beginning of a killing in the roadway, then a night-long battle, and for Henry Shepler, a twist in his life he could never have imagined....
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Promise of Revenge
- Feb-2010
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Two Western novellas by the incomparable Lauran Paine, a titan of the Western genre.“Tomahawk Meadow” tells the story of Ladd Buckner, a stranger who arrives in a small town in Arizona Territory. Buckner buys the local saddle and harness shop, bu...
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Iron Marshal
- Jan-2011
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Texas Jim Collins in Iron Marshal is a legend in his own time, a legend that was twenty-five years in the making. John Setter, the most powerful and wealthy rancher in Anza County, New Mexico, thinks Collins has gotten too old for his job as marshal,...
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Prairie Town
- Jun-2011
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In, Marshal Redleaf of Mandan, a third Indian Chet Redleaf must find out who stole a shipment of $4,000 from the local stage, while the driver and guard were busy working on a wheel on the coach. The robbers left tracks, but not boot tracks, moccasin...
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The Last Gun
- Nov-2011
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This duo combines two new book-length novels by Lauran Paine, one of the great authors of unforgettable Western fiction. In Ghost Meadow, there has been rustling going on at Fort Laramie. There are those in the command who are convinced that it is t...
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Man Behind the Gun
- May-2012
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In Fort Morgan, Sam Starr, Jack Pate, and Roger Beemis arrive in town with their saddlebags bulging with the loot of their most recent robbery. Fort Morgan seems like the perfect sanctuary for them, especially when they learn that the town marshal ha...
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Ute Peak Country
- Aug-2012
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Jackson Miggs was a loner who wintered under the Ute Peak in his log cabin. He liked people well enough, but didn''t care much for crowds. He even tolerated the cowmen like Hyatt Tolman who used the high meadows around Ute Peak to graze his herd-e...
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The Drifter
- Dec-2012
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Two action-packed stories of the American West available for the first time in hardcover book format. George Alden Morgan in Gunnison Butte never knew his father and is abandoned at fourteen by his mother who runs off one morning before George is...
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Guns in Wyoming
- Jun-2013
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The Wyoming territory is vast, rich with grasslands, and largely lawless. So when a conflict arises over whose herd gets to graze in those grasslands, then it's more likely to be settled with a shootout than a lawyer. The cattlemen believed their ...
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The Texan Rides Alone
- Jul-2013
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Stormy Merrill, having outdistanced the pursuit caused by the daring robbery he had committed in the town of Colville, pauses on a ridge above Marais Valley. The two large ranches that comprise all the land in Marais Valley are rich and will be inher...
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Cache Canyon
- Sep-2013
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LAND OF LEGEND...AND DANGER Cache Cañon lies well outside Rock City in the Colorado high country. It was named for a legendary cache of gold hidden there, and now it's reputed to harbor a band of hold-out Indians. Although no one in Rock City has e...
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Ghost Meadow
- Dec-2013
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There has been rustling going on at Fort Laramie. Those in command are convinced that it is the work of the Indians. A prime suspect is John Morning Gun, a fort scout, a man who looks full-blooded, but is actually the son of a French voyager and a Cr...
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Shadow of a Hang Rope
- Jun-2014
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John Hawk was unemployed. His outriding job had ended at Vacaville in Arizona Territory. He has only $100, and isn't going anywhere until he makes more money. He overhears a conversation about a string of horses that are to be exchanged with a bill o...
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Renegades of Perdition Range
- Apr-2015
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A lone robber held up a stage of the Great Western Stage Company outside of Lordsburg and made off with $15‚000 in currency. Captain Hanson of the Arizona Rangers decides to assign one of his best men‚ Buck Windsor‚ to pursue the thief and recl...
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The San Luis Range
- Jun-2015
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There is a world of difference between a cowman and a rancher. Jeff Mordant was a cowman. His home was the JM cow-camp, his desk and office the saddle, his walls the eternity of grassland. With the coming of the settlers Jeff smelt danger and sought ...
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Trail of Shadows
- Jun-2015
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It was dusk when Todd Duncan sighted the man and his camp at a small oasis on the edge of the desert. Duncan, on his way to New Mexico to find work, knew better than to barge into a stranger's camp. After riding in and dismounting, he decided to make...
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Night of the Rustler's Moon
- Dec-2015
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Amos McCarthy has owned and operated the Rafter M Ranch for at least thirty years in the upland ranges of Wyoming. In the beginning, renegade Indian bands had harassed him. Amos gained a fearsome reputation as a rancher who would tolerate no depredat...
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Wagon Train West
- Apr-2016
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Kit Butler and Lige Turner remember the days when they had been welcome at an Indian fire, squatting at a powwow and gorging on half-cooked buffalo hump. But times had changed. Too many whites were moving West and the Indians were embarked on an atte...
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Six-Gun Crossroads
- Oct-2016
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The small town of Ballester owes its prosperity to the confluence of three big ranches Snowshoe, Mexican Hat, and Rainbow. It has a single lawman, Deputy Sheriff Percy Whittaker. Perc, as he was commonly called, had once been a rider for the Snowshoe...
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Dead Man's Canon
- Apr-2017
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The Hightower Ranch cowboys discovered a mummified man and his horse in a desert ca on near Springville, Arizona, both shot in the head. Ordinarily that should have been the end of it, since many a man riding the outlaw trail up out of Mexico didn't ...
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The Gunsmith
- Jul-2017
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When Spartanville is brutally raided, Dave Petrie leads the manhunt to track down the culprits. In retaliation, the outlaws kidnap four women - and demand Petrie in exchange for their virtue....
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Reckoning at Lansing's Ferry
- Oct-2017
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It was spring on the Llano Estacado, the Staked Plains of Texas, the time for the cattle drives to push north to the rail heads in Kansas. The “Lost Cause” of the South was still fresh in the mind of Southerners, including fifty-five-year-old Ben...
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Six-Gun Crossroad
- Oct-2018
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The small town of Ballester owes its prosperity to the confluence of three big ranches -- Snowshoe, Mexican Hat, and Rainbow. Its single lawman, Deputy Sheriff Percy Whittaker, known as Perc, didn’t have to deal with much lawbreaking other than the...
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Cheyenne Pass
- Oct-2019
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A feud between the biggest and richest cattleman, Richard DeFore, and the local stage line couldn’t have come at a worse time to Winchester, Colorado. The town’s new sheriff, John Klinger, young, inexperienced, and hot-headed, hasn’t been in...
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Deadwood Ambush
- Feb-2020
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Deadwood, Dakota Territory, was filled with luckless miners and diggers, as well as more than its share of lawlessness, and more often than not, there was nothing Marshal Fred Nolan and his two deputy marshals, Wentworth and Grubb, could do. So wh...
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Showdown in Gun Town
- Dec-2020
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An exciting Western from the author of Lockwood and Dead Man’s CañonWalt Hodge had delivered eighty horses to Whipple Barracks for the army, and he wasn’t in a big hurry to get home. He traveled down the Saginaw Mountains and into th...
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Absaroka Valley
Samuel Patton lost his wife to lung fever two years ago. Now, suffering from lung fever himself and closer to eternity every day, he is traveling south through the mountains with his small son and daughter, hoping somewhere in this savage land he ...
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The Bald Hills
Douglas City was a peaceful, isolated community, nearly cut off from the rest of the world. Until the hard-faced stranger appeared, the only real problem was to get the cattle from the Bald Hills to a market where they could be sold to raise cash. Bu...
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The Born Survivor
Jim Hewlett was a private investigator in Los Angeles, barely getting by, when he was hired for more money than he'd ever seen in all his life to try to get back a beautiful Turkish woman's hundred million dollar fortune. Her husband had taken the mo...
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Cache Canon Edition
Maybe there is and maybe there isn't a hidden cache of gold in the Colorado high country of Cache Canon. Fact is, no one can find it. And no one has spotted the hold-out band of Indians that are rumored to live there either. But when three strangers ...
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The Cloverleaf Cattle Company
Bessie Thomas believed in miracles, and her husband, Jawn Henry, did not. But after finding a murdered settler and his woman, and running down the renegades responsible - taking care of them the way justice dictated, but the law did not - Jawn Henry ...
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Death Was the Echo
Lauran Bosworth Paine (1916 - 2001) was an American writer of Western fiction. Paine wrote over 1000 books, including hundreds of Westerns as well as romance, science fiction, and mystery novels. He also wrote a number of non-fiction books on the Old...
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The Free-Graze War
Established ranchers regarded free-grazers as jackals of the cow-country, and wherever they roamed trouble flared up. Buck Handley and Hoyt McElroy were two such men and when they pushed over three thousand cattle into the Devil's Punch Bowl, old Je...
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The Gunman's Legacy
For town marshal Tad Collins the trouble started when two outlaws robbed the stage company and the general store in his town, Fort Devonshire. The pursuit was difficult; he ended up back in his own town and made a unique discovery about the outlaws. ...
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Squatter's Rights
There wasn't much between Laramie, Wyoming and Virginia Dale, Colorado--just the tiny town of Jelm, Wyoming. And the only worthwhile property in Jelm was the ranch of Grant Maxwell. Now the government's Federal Land Grant Act was handing out 640 acre...
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Terror in Gunsight
Forced to take a precipitous route off the rimrocks and down into an unknown valley to escape certain death by four men pursuing him, Pete Knight, a cowhand seeking a job, sees a town ahead in the distance. If he can just make it to that town, he ...
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Texas Revenge
A widow with a small child, CarrieLee Belleau joined a westward bound emigrant wagon train, hoping to wrest from the new lands a living for herself and her daughter. But the wild uncivilised West of the 'fifties was no place for a woman aloneand Carr...
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Trail to Trouble
Ward Cutler rode southward until he found the town of Shenandoah, where his widowed sister lived. It was a letter from her that had brought him. She had given a man named Henry Gore her savings, but he had responded by striking her. And so Ward had r...
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Tumbleweed Trail
He came along that lonely outlaw trail the locals called the Tumbleweed Trail, because anyone who chose to ride through all that emptiness and desolation had to have a very good reason to avoid civilization. This grim, silent stranger was deadly -- a...
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Western Vengeance
Everyone in Holbrook had liked Hal Simpson and when his dead body was found inside the ambushed stage, tempers rose to lynching heights. Yet when the killer's body hung limply from a tall cottonwood and it should all have been over, the real trouble ...
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Winter Moon
Five days ago, the blowing up of the express office safe in Burnt Timbers, Montana, had gone off without a hitch for the four members of the Buck Streeter gang, netting them $28,000. Since then, they have taken refuge in an abandoned shack on a plate...
