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Mustang is the sweeping story of the wild horse in the culture, history, and popular imagination of the American West. It follows the wild horse across time, from its evolutionary origins on this continent to its return with the conquistadors, its bloody battles on the old frontier, its iconic status in Buffalo Bill shows and early westerns, and its plight today as it makes its last stand on the vanishing range. With the Bureau of Land Management...
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"From the creator of the "Legends of the Old West" podcast, a book exploring the overlapping narratives of the biggest legends in frontier mythology. The summer of 1876 was a key time period in the development of the mythology of the Old West. Many individuals who are considered legends by modern readers were involved in events that began their notoriety or turned out to be the most famous - or infamous - moments of their lives. Those individuals...
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When Chyna Greer returns to her West Virginia town of Black Willow after her mother's death, she is bombarded with memories of her best friend, Zoey, who disappeared when she was 16. As she delves into the mystery of the disappearance, she uncovers an evil that has been lurking there.
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From rodeos to rustlers, from ranch life to the outlaw trail, Elmer Kelton's take on the human condition shows us life in Texas as it was back then: simpler, but harder, with danger always present. Readers will meet several unforgettable characters, including a young veteran who overcomes his PTSD to fight a fire ravaging his town, a sheriff who continues to chase bandits despite having lost his job, and a frontier housewife who refuses to let her...
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Fark Seaton comes to the aid of old timer Utah Red when he and his flock of sheep are attacked. Who is responsible? The evidence seems to point towards Mitch Montgomery and his Lazy Ladder outfit; but as tension mounts and the bullets fly, Seaton is not so sure. What is the role of Nash Brandon, owner of the Mill Iron? Could Seaton's interest in Montgomery's daughter, Maisie, be clouding his judgement? When the sparks of anger finally blaze into uncontrolled...
9) Death trail
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Ardal Maloney, his wife Kate, and their two children have left Ireland to seek out a new life in the West. Leaving behind them starvation, poverty, and death, they came to the New World to start afresh. But travelling in a wagon train is a risky business. When sickness strikes and wagons must be segregated, the danger is increased - and Clem Watkins and his gang are ready to take ruthless advantage...
10) Comfort food the cowboy way: backyard favorites, country classics, and stories from a ranch cook
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"The stars of the YouTube channel Kent Rollins Cowboy Cooking and the authors of the hit cookbook A Taste of Cowboy share over 125 recipes of comfort food for the family, with true chuck wagon stories. While real-life cowboy Kent Rollins and his wife Shannon sure have a busy life on the range, slinging hash, beating Bobby Flay on Food Network, and running their YouTube channel, the Cowboy Kent Rollins Cooking Channel, they never forget to take a moment...
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"A lifeless girl slips into the river, cold and crumpled. Her body washes away with the rain. Her killer remains a mystery. Sheriff Elven Hallie has been longing for a new case that would add some excitement to his small-town life. But a dead girl wasn't what he expected. On the last murder case he worked, he was just a deputy with an experienced Sheriff to guide him and they were looking for an outsider. This time, he's in charge, and the killer...
12) Silverado
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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[2007]
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Silverado: Four comrades find that the town where their families and friends live has been taken over by a corrupt sheriff.
The quick and the dead: Top gunfighters gather for a shootout.
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"When Kelly MacThomas Pockets finished his last tour as part of the Scottish Special Forces, he was hired to consult for a film director to finesse some scenes that weren't working. In a twist he never saw coming, he ended up moving to L.A. to work as the bodyguard for movie star Maybe Joe Sue. It didn't take long for Pockets to realize there were two Joe Sues: the Joe Sue the public saw with her perfect life and her Hollywood husband, and the private...
15) Share no secrets
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"Along the banks of the Ohio River, the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, has been the home of quiet pleasures and safety for Adrienne Reynolds and her fourteen-year-old daughter Skye since the death of Adrienne's husband four years ago. Their sense of safety is shattered, however, when Adrienne and Skye find the body of one of Adrienne's best friends, Julianna, in a once-elegant, now abandoned hotel named La Belle Riviere. La Belle has...
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The Woman Who volume 4
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Center Point Large Print
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2023
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"SPUR AWARD WINNER C.K. CRIGGER IS BACK WITH TWO OF HER MOST LOVED CHARACTERS IN ANOTHER DANGER, ACTION, AND ADVENTURE FILLED INSTALLMENT OF THE FAN-FAVORITE THE WOMAN WHO... SERIES! It's hard to deny friends asking for help--even when it means stepping headlong into danger. As a sort of left-over deputy from a previous adventure, January Billings is compelled to answer the call when a valuable gun is stolen from the local mercantile, and the storekeeper...
17) Wrecker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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"Valdez Jones VIII calls himself Wrecker because his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather salvaged shipwrecks for a living. So is it destiny, irony, or just bad luck when Wrecker comes across a speedboat that has run hard aground on a sand flat? The men in the boat don't want Wrecker to call for help--in fact, they'll pay him to forget he ever saw them. Wrecker would be happy to forget, but he keeps seeing these men all over Key West--at the...
19) The last chance
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When Indians massacre an army troop, Ross Caldwell's wife fears he's among the victims. But Caldwell is on the run, pursued by bitter enemies from the Civil War.
Caldwell finds refuge in the arms of the sultry madam of Last Chance Gulch. But his bloody past catches up with him. A murderous ex-soldier is on his trail, and his wife has tracked him down as well...
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management...
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Spur Award-winning author, Dale L. Walker continues what he started in Legends and Lies, by uncovering the truth around some of the American West's most famous and infamous figures. Leaving no figure sacred and no stone unturned, Walker dives deep into some of the most enduring myths and legends of the Old West:
*What was the real story behind the death of Meriwether Lewis-suicicide or homicide?
*Did Pat Garrett really kill Billy the Kid, or did...
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