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1) Wayward son
Author
Series
Simon Snow volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The story is supposed to be over. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after... So why can't Simon Snow get off the couch? What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. He just needs to see himself in a new light. That's how Simon and Penny and Baz end up in a vintage convertible, tearing across the...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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When a frontier baron known as the Commodore orders Charlie and Eli Sisters, his hired gunslingers, to track down and kill a prospector named Herman Kermit Warm, the brothers journey from Oregon to San Francisco, and eventually to Warm's claim in the Sierra foothills, running into a witch, a bear, a dead Indian, a parlor of drunken floozies, and a gang of murderous fur trappers.
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English
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Jane Withersteen is etermined to defend her Utah ranch. She stands alone against the villains who rustle and stampede her cattle - until a stranger rides into the territory. Notorious as the scourge of Mormon transgressors, the stranger stays on to assist in the inevitable showdown, and romance blooms amid the canyons and cottonwoods. --from Amazon.
After inheriting a southern Utah estate from her Mormon father, Jane Withersteen becomes the victim...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A farmboy becomes a cowboy in 1870's Texas. He is Trey McLean who leaves his father's homestead to head west with a few dollars in his pocket, which he promptly loses in a card game. But he finds work, survives Indians and gunmen, and becomes a professional drover. By the author of The Far Canyon.
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 2
Language
English
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In To the Far Blue Mountains, Louis L'Amour weaves the unforgettable tale of a man who, after returning to his homeland, discovers that finding his way back to America may be impossible. Barnabas Sackett was leaving England to make his fortune in the New World. But as he settled his affairs, he learned that a royal warrant had been sworn out against him and that men were searching for him in every port. At issue were some rare gold coins Sackett...
Author
Series
Crow Feather series volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
In 1874 Jeff Layne, a Confederate veteran and reformed hide hunter sick of killing both men and buffalo, is on his way back to Texas to revive the family ranch, which fell into carpetbagger hands. Sequel to: Slaughter.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Bill Canavan rode into the valley with a dream to start his own ranch. But when he managed to stake claims on the three best water holes, the other ranchers turned against him. No one is more determined to see Canavan dead than Star Levitt. Levitt is an unscrupulous businessman who has been accumulating cattle at an alarming rate. Suspicious after witnessing a secret meeting between the riders of warring ranches, Bill begins noticing other dubious...
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 14
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Tell Sackett had fought his share of Indians and had managed to take something of value from his battles--respect for the Apaches as warriors. But that respect is lost when Apache braves kidnap Tell's nephew, forcing him to cross the border into the Sierra Madres to bring the boy back."--Back cover.
In The Lonely Men, Louis L'Amour spins the tale of a man who must elude an Apache trap-only to discover that his greatest enemy might be very close...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When twenty-two-year-old Nellie Courtright and her teenage brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned by their father's suicide on his new and unprosperous ranch, they make their way to the nearby town of Rita Blanca, where Jackson manages to secure a job as a sheriff's deputy, while Nellie, ever resourceful, becomes the town's telegrapher. Together, they inadvertently put Rita Blanca on the map when young Jackson succeeds in shooting down all six...
10) Mr. Tucket
Author
Series
Tucket adventures volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.
14) Cowboy Christmas
Author
Publisher
Golden Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Three grizzled cowboys-- Dwight, Darryl, and Dub-- are stuck out on the range at Christmastime, roping steers and wrestling longhorns. Reminiscing about their childhood Christmases, they try to make the cowboy camp feel festive and it's no surprise that a cactus decorated with tin cans, and cows dressed as reindeer, don't fill them with holiday cheer! But a surprise is in store for the Circle D dudes when Santa pays a visit to the cowboy campfire!"--Amazon.com....
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"The four McBride brothers have their worlds turned upside down when their precocious younger sister secretly places an advertisement for a mail-order bride. Kit McBride knows that Buck's Creek, Montana, is no place to find a wife. Between him and his three brothers-plus little Junebug-they manage all right on their own, thank you very much. But unbeknownst to Kit, his sister is sick to death of cleaning, cooking, and mending for her big brothers,...
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"In 1853, Abigail Scott was a 19-year-old school teacher in Oregon Territory when she married Ben Duniway. Marriage meant giving up on teaching, but Abigail always believed she was meant to be more than a good wife and mother. When financial mistakes and an injury force Ben to stop working, Abigail becomes the primary breadwinner for her growing family. What she sees as a working woman appalls her, and she devotes her life to fighting for the rights...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both. But life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of the journey and their disparate pasts...
18) Lucky's diary
Author
Series
Spirit riding free volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Dear Diary,This summer is turning out to be so weird. After I broke Aunt Cora's expensive glass bottle, I was sure I'd be working all summer just to buy her a new one. That's when Pru, Abigail, and I decided to start our very own PALs Adventure Camp to earn some money and babysit youngsters around town! But now my con boy cousin, Julian, is visiting Miradero, and he left me to take care of his little brother, Oliver! I can't tell if Oliver is a mini...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"It's the spring of 1887, and Rose Gallagher is finally coming into her own as a detective, working alongside her partner, Thomas, as an agent of the special paranormal branch of the Pinkerton Agency. Things are going almost too well, so Rose is hardly surprised when Theodore Roosevelt descends on them like a storm cloud, hiring them for a mysterious job out West. It began with livestock being torn apart by an unknown predator. Now people are being...
20) Varmints
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
While searching for their ma in the old West, Opie and Ned find a new mission when they get wind of their mysterious pa, the crime kingpin of the West.
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