Zane Grey
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English
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When Gloriana Traft came to Arizona to visit her tenderfoot brother Jim, trouble was rampant in Yellow Jacket. The notorious Hash Knife Outfit of rustlers and gunmen were stealing the ranchers' cattle and terrorizing the beautiful valley. But Gloriana, innocent to the brutal ways of the West, wanted to meet a real desperado. And when she did, Gloriana was the frightened captive of the most dangerous killer of the gang, and facing an ordeal that would...
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English
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Ben Ide is a failure in the horse trade because he loves horses more than money. A few bad deals have turned the world against him. His greatest adversary is his father, who thinks Ben good for nothing. Determined to show what he is made of and what he can do, Ben pursues a herd of wild horses. The herd leads him directly into danger: cattle thieves with connections in high places. Distrusted by the woman he loves, menaced by killers, and hounded...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
493 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
On his first trip west, Zane Grey met Buffalo Jones, who had not only been witness to the great herds of buffalo that once roamed the Great Plains, but had participated in their destruction. In 1923, Grey decided to write the epic story of those thundering herds, the great hunt that decimated them, and the battle between the Plains Indians and the buffalo hunters. At last that magnificent, elegiac panorama is being published just as Grey wrote it....
Author
Publisher
Grosset and Dunlap Publishers
Pub. Date
c1914.
Physical Desc
4 pages leaves, 388 [1] pages : color frontispiece ; 19 cm
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English
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From the moment Madeling Hammond steps off the train in New Mexico, she walks straight into trouble. Almost tricked into marriage by a handsome, drunken cowboy, Madeline quickly realizes whe has a lot to learn if she is going to survive life on her brother's ranch in the southwestern territory.
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Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap Publishers
Pub. Date
c1910
Physical Desc
298 p. ; 22 cm
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English
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John Hare lies dying in the desert until he is discovered and saved by the kind and generous rancher, August Naab. As Hare is nursed back to health on Naab's ranch, he finds himself irresistibly attracted to Naab's adopted daughter, Mescal.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Brothers Publishers
Pub. Date
©1927.
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
338 p. : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
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Ben Ide is a failure in the horse trade because he loves horses more than money. A few bad deals have turned the world against him. His greatest adversary is his father, who thinks Ben good for nothing. Determined to show what he is made of and what he can do, Ben pursues a herd of wild horses. The herd leads him directly into danger: cattle thieves with connections in high places. Distrusted by the woman he loves, menaced by killers, and hounded...
Author
Publisher
Harper & Brothers Publishers
Pub. Date
©1920
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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Milt Dale is the Man of the Forest. Living alone on a camp in the wilderness called Paradise Park, he prefers the company of bears, cougars, and wolves to that of the surrounding ranchers and troublemakers. But one day he overhears a conversation that changes his life and convinces him to leave hi wild paradise to save a young woman from certain doom.
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Publisher
Playaway Digital Audio
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (Playaway) (4 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
The wolf tracker: This story takes the listener to the mountains of New Mexico in the pursuit of a giant wolf.
Quaking-Asp cabin: "He looked along the brown barrels of a shotgun, into eyes that blazed murderous hate." Bullet holes and a bloody handprint mark the walls of a lonely cabin -- where gambling turned ugly, men hid from the law, and a terrible ambush sparked years of cruel revenge.
Blue feather: A stirring tale of treachery and courage...
17) The deer stalker
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Publisher
Harper & Brothers Publishers
Pub. Date
c1925
Edition
First Edition
Physical Desc
243 p. ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Because of the unrestrained slaughter of cougars on Buckskin Mountain, the deer population has increased so fast that they begin to starve. But when Thad Eburne, chief forest ranger, hears the government's plan to open a massive deer hunt to hundreds of indiscriminate hunters, he worries that it will only worsen man's dangerous meddling with nature. Then, when Eburne decides to save a deer herd from a cattleman bent on selling illegal deer meat for...
18) Betty Zane
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Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap Publishers
Pub. Date
c1903
Physical Desc
291 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm
Language
English
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During the American Revolution, Betty Zane helps her brothers save their frontier settlement from British troops and Indians.
19) The deer stalker
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Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1925, 1965
Edition
Pocket Book edition
Physical Desc
234 p. ; 18 cm
Language
English
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Because of the unrestrained slaughter of cougars on Buckskin Mountain, the deer population has increased so fast that they begin to starve. But when Thad Eburne, chief forest ranger, hears the government's plan to open a massive deer hunt to hundreds of indiscriminate hunters, he worries that it will only worsen man's dangerous meddling with nature. Then, when Eburne decides to save a deer herd from a cattleman bent on selling illegal deer meat for...
20) Arizona Ames
Author
Publisher
Black
Pub. Date
1960
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
He didn't drink, talk much, or swear--but he was one tough cowboy. No one knew that Arizona Ames was filled with secret hurt. It would take a beautiful and determined woman to heal this tough hombre.