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1) Cotton's war
Author
Series
Dunlap Phil volume 1
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
As sheriff of Catron County in New Mexico Territory, Cotton Burke has put his life on the line against some of the West's most unrepentant outlaws. Like Virgil Cruz - who's kidnapped the woman Cotton loves. Memphis Jack Stump used to wear a badge until one drink too many cost him his job and his friendship with Cotton. But he's the only man Cotton trusts to infiltrate Cruz's gang and take them down before the bandit exacts a terrible revenge.
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English
Description
It's December 1890. A Texas Ranger named Big Ben Conyers has a deal with a Scottish-born, Wyoming cattleman named Duff MacCallister. Along with Smoke and Matt Jensen, the party bears down on Dodge, Kansas, to make a cattle drive back to Fort Worth. But before they can get out of Dodge, guns go off and a rich man's son is killed. Soon the drive turns into a deadly pursuit, then a staggering series of clashes with Indians and rustlers and a blizzard....
3) Savage Texas
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Series
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English
Description
Arriving in the lawless town of Hangtree, Sam Heller, a former Yankee soldier, and Johnny Cross, a gun for hire, find themselves on opposite sides of the law when the town's rich grazing land and mineral deposits cause an eruption of murderous violence.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Even before his birth, Danny Duly relates his life story as his mother leaves his father in a Chicago asylum in 1866 and heads for her sister's home in the boomtown of Virginia City, encountering many colorful characters and giving birth to Danny along the way.
5) Montana Red
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A story about lawmen and the lawless--and of gun justice in the rugged American West.
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Presents a fictionalized account of the controversy over Sheriff Pat Garrett's claim that he killed Billy the Kid, a report called into question by John Poe and the emergence of a gunfighter weeks after the Kid's alleged death.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Former Cheyenne Sheriff Ty Ledger and bounty hunter Johnny Roth pursue a half-breed serial killer responsible for the death of Ledger's wife and unborn child. The bloody trail leads to Lincoln County, New Mexico, and a town girding for war. The killer leads Ledger and Roth to an encounter with renegade Comanche that has the pair counting bullets, each saving one for his final escape." -- Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Kerrigans risked everything to stake a claim under a big Texas sky. Now one brave woman is fighting to keep that home, against hard weather, harder luck, and the West's most dangerous men. A Ranch Divided. . . After a long hard journey up the Chisholm Trail, Kate Kerrigan is in Dodge City, facing a mystery of murder. A cowboy she hired, a man with a notorious past, has been accused of killing a prostitute and sentenced to hang. Kate still trusts...
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English
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"The life of a cowboy suits Thalis Christie just fine. A puncher for the Crescent H in Texas, he loves what he does and is damn good at it too. He doesn't even mind being away from his family--he's got good friends to keep him from getting too homesick. That is, until his folks write, imploring him to hunt down his brother, Myles, who's been shot while prospecting in the Black Hills. Thalis sets out to do his family duty and find his little brother--still...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by memories of the Civil War, Coy Jennings just wants to find work as a ranch hand and to begin saving for a small farm where he could finally enjoy peace and quiet. Arriving in the Texas settlement of Phantom Hill, Coy soon befriends a damaged but likable stable hand by the name of Ira Dalton and hopes for a future with a lovely widowed mother and her eight-year-old daughter. In order to make the Hill a decent place to settle down, Coy must...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
While investigating the sightings of a mysterious lone rider haunting Phantom Canyon, half-Lakota lawman Joshua Strongheart must bring peace to the Royal Gorge territory between competing railroads before an all-out war breaks out.
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When a stagecoach mishap leaves Shawn O'Brien stranded he finds himself in a tight spot."Unlike his brothers, Shawn O'Brien isn't content to settle down on the family ranch in New Mexico territory. With his razor-sharp eye, lightning-fast draw, and burning thirst for justice, Shawn is carving out a reputation of his own. He takes the most dangerous, lawless towns in the West and makes them safe for decent people. And when a stagecoach accident leaves...
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English
Description
Framed for murder, Dewey "Mac" McKenzie is running for his life. Though he's never even made a pot of coffee, Mac talks his way onto a cattle drive as a chuckwagon cook. Turns out he's as good with a pot and pan as he is with a gun. But trail boss Deke Northrup is one mean spit in the eye, and has soon made enemies of all the men. When Mac learns that Northrup is planning to double-cross the herd's owner, he stands up to the trail boss and his henchman....
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Lou Prophet knows you never overstay your welcome in a town that wants you dead. Now, just because a young fool with a lousy poker hand couldn't hold his temper, Prophet has a bloodthirsty posse aiming to pump him full of lead for murdering the son of a prominent cattleman. Unfortunately, before he has the chance to hightail it out of the Dakota Badlands, Prophet is shot and left for dead. Saved by a woman rancher named Layla Carr who hides him out...
15) Four furlongs
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Smart and sassy bookkeeper China Bohannon is a modern 1890's career woman who'd rather sleuth than type. She's in charge of the Doyle and Howe Detective Agency office on the day a fourteen-year-old girl shows up seeking help in a case she's calling murder. Neva Sue O'Dell's jockey brother has been killed during a race, the horse he was riding, the dead-on Derby favorite, lamed. Neva claims her mother and grandfather were paid a lot of money to rig...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In 1880 one of the most unusual men in the territories rides into Tombstone. He is tall and handsome, dressed in white fringed buckskins, with long yellow hair and a mustache. One of his pearl-handled Colts is adorned with notches. He says his name is Captain William R. Tettenborn, formerly of the Russian army, and he is here to find the notorious outlaw Curly Bill Brocius. Everyone in town thinks that Tettenborn is a strange fellow. But he buys them...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Vince is a mustanger with a solitary camp high in the Hondo Mountains, where he works his operation alone. He likes it that way. Then, on a trip back from selling some mustangs, he comes across Julie, a saloon girl on the run from some pretty bad hombres. Vince takes her back to his camp with the idea that, as soon as her horse heals up, he'll send her on her way. But then he falls in love with her. Before he knows it, her fight is his fight, and...
18) Remington, 1894
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Language
English
Description
"Johnstone Justice. What America needs now. Bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone celebrate a legend of the American West and the weapon that shaped a nation's destiny. As a teenager, John McMasters won the Medal of Honor as a sniper for the Union Army during the Civil War. Thirty years later, McMasters lives a peaceful life in the Arizona Territory, raising a family and running cattle. These days, he needs eyeglasses to hit...
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Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Newt Jones is none too proud of his deadly nickname. But when you tangle with the likes of Judge Roy Bean and the notorious Mexican outlaw Juan Cortina, a man's bound to earn a reputation. Or get stuck with a moniker like "Widowmaker." Even so, Newt is ready to put his gunslinging days behind him, hang up his Winchester, and take it easy. There's just one problem: Ain't nothing easy about living in Apache country . . . When Newt gets word that a renegade...
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" Can the walls of an abandoned house absolve a man accused of a thirty-year-old murder? Not before Silent Cooper and Dempsy Nealy battle Apache thieves, Pancho's Villistas, marauding outlaws, and El Tigre of the Playas Valley. The loss of a letter beneath the ruins of a famous Arizona ranch house thirty years ago led to an untimely marriage for Dempsy's Aunt Cindy, who now runs three ranches with an iron will and a shotgun loaded with buckshot. No...