Tom W. Blackburn

The Cole Lavery Saga

Trail of Whitened Skulls (Sep-2006)

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  A Good Day to Die
  

  • Nov-1996
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  After the murder of Sitting Bull, the enigmatic new leader of the Plains Indians promises the tribe a return to the old buffalo days, setting the stage for an epic confrontation at Wounded Knee Creek. Original....

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  Sierra Baron
  

  • Sep-1997
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  Mike McGann journeys from the tough Irish slums of the Boston waterfront to 1840s California, where he becomes caught up in the Gold Rush and does battle with Spanish aristocrats to carve out his own empire. Original....

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  Yanqui
  

  • Feb-1998
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  WesternLarge Print EditionWhen Spencer Stanton left Virginia for the New Mexican badlands, his family called it madness. There were times when he would have agreed. With the Yanqui-hating Mexicans to the south, the blood-hungry Utes to the north, and...

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  Patron
  

  • Jun-1998
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  Companeros
  

  • Dec-1998
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  1978 copyright book by Tom W. blackburn. Blurb says: "Spencer Stanton Built Empires and his greatest pride was the sprawling, abundant Corona spread, and Tito, the strong and honest son who helped him work it. So when two trail-broke Johnny Rebs rode...

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  Buckskin Man
  

  • May-1999
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  Ranchero
  

  • Jun-2000
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  El Segundo
  

  • Aug-2000
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  He was part yanqui, part Mexican, part black , part Comanche. He called himself the Ace of Spades, and th at was the calling card he left on the bullet-ridden corpses of his victims. But Jaime Henry was about to stand in his w ay. '...

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  Trail of Whitened Skulls
  

  • Sep-2006
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  The Cole Lavery Saga
  

  For the first time in paperback, all of the Cole Lavery stories, which first appeared in the 1940s, are together in one volume and follow the exciting adventures of this jack-of-all-trades as he goes up against river pirates, bandits, and a corrupt r...

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  Navajo Canyon
  

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  Raton Pass
  

  • / General Fiction
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  This is the stormy saga of Marc Challon and the fabulous XO ranch - one hundred thousand acres of grassland, waist-high, stirrup-high, an empire built on cattle and held by the power of the Challons. It is also the story of driving passions, of men w...

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  Short Grass
  

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  This novel is about the survival of a man who stood alone, self-appointed instrument of justice in the turbulent West. It is the savage saga of the short grass sod, the grim story of a brave rancher who was always outnumbered, but never outfought....

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