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The fifty empty freights danced and rolled and rattled on the rough roadbed and filled Jericho Pass with thunder, the big engine was laboring and grunting at the grade, but five cars back the noise of the locomotive was lost. Yet there is a way to talk above the noise of a freight train just as there is a way to whistle into the teeth of a stiff wind. This freight-car talk is pitched just above the ordinary tone-it is an overtone of conversation,...
3) The untamed
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The Untamed, Max Brand's first foray into Westerns, is regarded by critics and fans alike as one of the writer's most successful efforts. Combining an unforgettable main character with a story packed with action, conflict, and revenge, The Untamed is a classic of the genre that will captivate any reader.
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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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Born to white parents, Rusty Sabin was taken prisoner and raised by the Cheyennes, who know him now as Red Hawk, an admired leader and great warrior. When Sabin extracts two full bags of gold from along the creek of the Sacred Valley, a place that is holy to the Cheyennes, his intention is to spend half of it on improving the lot of the Cheyennes. The other half is for Maisry Lester, the girl he hopes to marry. Rusty and Standing Bull, a Cheyenne...
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"Sammy Gregg heads west where fortunes are made with the goal of raising $15,000 in six months and returning to marry his childhood sweetheart. With frail physique and knowing nothing of fighting, guns, or horses, he sees an opportunity in the tough town of Munson, but it means going up against the toughest man in town"--
8) Chinook
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During the Klondike Gold Rush, two prospectors and their wolf dog Chinook encounter a mysterious woman travelling with her dog team. One man warms to her - the other distrusts her ...
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