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From a master storyteller of Old West adventures comes this novel of romance and redemption. Zane Grey, author of Riders of the Purple Sage, introduces Hell-Bent Wade, a gunfighter with a shadowy past. Wade arrives at a Colorado homestead where a young woman is being pressured into matrimony. Rancher Bill believes that marriage to Columbine, his foster daughter, will steady his wild and unruly son, Jack. Columbine is torn between her feelings
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Jane Witherspoon has a vast inheritance left to her by her Mormon father. Knowing she is romantically involved with a Gentile, Elder Tull has published his claim to make her his wife and obtain her inheritance. Just as Elder Tull and a group of Mormons are about to whip the Gentile and banish him from Mormon Utah, the notorious gunman--and enemy of the Mormons--known as Lassiter rides in and intervenes. The Mormons initiate their punishment on Jane...
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"Accidentally overhearing a plot to kidnap the niece of a prominent rancher as she arrives from the East, Milt Dale springs into action. He comes out of his splendid isolation to protect Helen and her kid sister, Bo. Leading them away from manmade danger, exposing them to unaccustomed rigor on mountain trails, Dale imparts his rugged philosophy. Beyond the forest, Beasley and Snake Anson are still waiting to carry out their evil plot"--Amazon.
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This 1914 novel of frontier romance by "the greatest Western writer of all time" was the basis for the classic film starring Victor Jory (Jackson Cain, author of Hellbreak Country).
Feeling constrained by her high-society life back east, Madeline Hammond decides to join her brother Alfred at his cattle ranch in El Cajon, New Mexico. But she gets a rude introduction to frontier living when she encounters a drunken cowboy named Gene Stewart. Though...
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A soldier returns home to find his parents displaced and their property stolen in this classic Western. "He leaned propped against the rail of the great ship, in an obscure place aft, shadowed by the life-boats. It was the second night out of Cherbourg and the first time for him to be on deck. The ridged and waved Atlantic, but for its turbulence, looked like the desert undulating away to the uneven horizon. The roar of the wind in the rigging bore...
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From the best-selling novelist of the American West, comes a novel of romance, danger, and life along the trail.
After his first successful venture of moving 2,500 cattle along the infamous Chisholm Trail, Adam Brite couldn't resist the allure of a second drive. To prepare for his greatest and most dangerous prospect yet, Brite begins purchasing cattle at every possible opportunity he gets and searching for an able crew to aid him in the arduous...
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"Helen Sheppard's arrival at Fort Henry on the Ohio frontier comes at a time when outlaws are being driven from the land by determined bordermen like Jack Zane, who have no time for women in their lonely lives. There is something about Helen, however, that unsettles Zane's ways and drives him on a last trail in pursuit of the vilest and most desperate outlaws he has ever encountered on the frontier"--Back cover.
10) Code of the West
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Hot-blooded Georgiana Stockwell will break a man's heart while he's eating out of her hand. Moving from the East to join her schoolteacher sister in the rugged wilds of Tonto Basin, Arizona, Georgiana makes quite an impression. Despite her sister's best efforts, Georgiana creates a culture clash as her modern, free-spirited personality comes up against the code of the West, the unwritten law of the range that everyone is expected to follow. Georgiana's...
11) Betty Zane
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Zane Grey's debut novel, which he self-published in 1905, "Betty Zane" is the first book in Grey's "Frontier Trilogy" and tells the true biographical story of Elizabeth "Betty" Zane, a hero of the American Revolutionary War and direct ancestor of the author. While under siege at Fort Henry by American Indian allies of the British Army and faced with dwindling supplies, the lovely and sixteen-year-old Betty bravely volunteers to venture out of the...
12) Stairs of sand
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"Fast-moving drama of the overwhelming power and pull of the desert."
13) Arizona Ames
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Avenging his twin sister, Rich "Arizona" Ames kills Lee Tate, earning a reputation that forces him to live the life of a wanderer.
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Great western edition volume 56
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"Steel-hard, gun-quick Bruce Lockheart never gambled -- except with his life!" -- dust jkt.
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Excerpt: "Tappan gazed down upon the newly-born little burro with something of pity and consternation. It was not a vigorous offspring of the redoubtable Jennie, champion of all the numberless burros he had driven in his desert-prospecting years. He could not leave it there to die. Surely it was not strong enough to follow its mother. And to kill it was beyond him. "Poor little devil!" soliloquized Tappan. "Reckon neither Jennie nor I wanted it to...
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Easterner Jack Hare comes west to improve his health, but is mistaken for a cattleman's spy by outlaws. He is saved from certain death by Mormon rancher August Naab and taken into Naab's family. Hare thrives working hard outdoors and herding sheep. He falls in love with half-Navajo herder Mescal, but she is pledged to be second wife to Naab's son Snap, who is an ill-tempered drunk. How Hare solves this conflict and helps save Naab's cattle and ranch...
17) Desert Gold
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"A border town like Casita is no place for a drifter - especially a rich man's son looking for adventure. From the moment Dick Gale steps into this stinking, sun-baked hellhole of gambling and corruption, revolution, and revenge, he gets more than a bargained for. His old friend Thorne is in love with a beautiful senorita who's been targeted by the Mexican rebel Rojas. A bold, sneering devil of a man, feared, envied, and idolized by his people, Rojas...
18) The dude ranger
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Upon the death of his uncle, tenderfoot Easterner Ernest Selby takes over his uncle's Arizona ranch and has to quickly learn how to be a rancher, a law-enforcer, and a cowboy.
19) Robbers' roost
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Robbers' Roost is the perfect hideout - a box canyon in no-man's land. But the Heeseman mob trails the Hays gang to The Roost and pins them under a murderous crossfire. Only one man and a kidnapped woman, the sister of a rich English rancher, survive, as well as a fortune of hard cash.
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