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Central Oregon-the last frontier. Transportation is still by stagecoach and freight wagon. There is a movement afoot for a people's railroad, paid for by the state, to bring the benefits of rails to the area, to make it easier to ship livestock and produce, and to encourage settlement. For years, the competing railroad barons, James J. Hill and Edward H. Harriman, have done nothing toward building a line in central Oregon, but now, under the impetus...
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"Once every year, Perley Gates and his brothers lead the Triple-G crew on its annual cattle drive. It's a treacherous journey along the Great Western Trail, with a herd of two-thousand cows on one side and many opportunities for trouble on the other. This year, trouble shows up in the form of a beautiful young woman, her little baby, and her bizarre traveling companion--a colorful old cuss who goes by the name of Possom Smith. They're heading to a...
4) Wild justice
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"In the spring of 1896, after thirty years spent dispensing justice in Montana, Judge Harlan Blackthorne expires, leaving Deputy U.S. Marshal Page Murdock, his most steadfast officer, to escort his remains across the continent by rail. The long journey is interrupted from time to time by station stops for the public to pay its respects, and for various marching bands to serenade the departed with his favorite ballad, "After the Ball." This gives Murdock...
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Thorndike Press
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2011
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377 p. 23 cm.
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Young Jim Moran never had a real family-but his sense of honor and razor-sharp instincts earned him a loyal partner who gave him a second chance, a home with a Montana Indian tribe, and a new name: Rider Twelve Horses. And when his friend is brutalized by a trio of killers, nothing can stop Rider's merciless search for justice.
7) War cry
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Thorndike Press
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2011
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381 p. ; 23 cm.
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Will Carson is the best scout at Fort Dodge. Then he saves the life of Sarah Lawton, a lovely widow with her young daughter, both helpless under Indian fire. And by doing so, he' made mortal enemies with the Cheyenne-who are now out for his blood...
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While searching for Luis and Teto Torres, the notorious leaders of the ruthless Gun Killers Gang, Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack finds himself at the tender mercy of Erin Donovan, who, saving him from a certain death, has a secret that could get them both killed.
10) Outlaw Pass
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Adam Blaine was always content to stay on his family's cattle ranch on the Yellowstone. Unlike his brother, Jake, who could never resist the open road - or the prospect of gold. When Jake doesn't return, Adam sets off to look for him, never expecting to find hell waiting. Because where there's gold, there are thieves. And these thieves don't think twice about putting a bullet in a man. Then a case of mistaken identity turns Adam into a "vigilante"...
11) The Purchase
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2018.
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Large print edition.
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In this provocative and starkly beautiful historical novel, a Quaker family moves from Pennsylvania to the Virginia frontier, where slaves are the only available workers and where the family's values and beliefs are sorely tested. In 1798, Daniel Dickinson, recently widowed and shunned by his fellow Quakers when he marries his young servant girl to help with his five small children, moves his shaken family down the Wilderness Road to the Virginia/Kentucky...
12) Savage hellfire
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Thorndike Press
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2010
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Large print ed.
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305 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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They don't fear killing, dying ... or any man's law. From Illinois to Colorado, they've carved out their own personal hunting ground through terror and bone-cold viciousness. John Savage has destroyed the gang that murdered his family. Now he wants to work the land his kin died for - and find some measure of peace. But his desire for just retribution is now a dark compulsion Savage cannot shake.
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Thorndike Press
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2018.
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Large print edition.
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Former Texas Ranger Andy Pickard is following the plow in West Texas when he learns that his friend, Sheriff Tom Blessing, has been killed during a jailbreak led by a man called Cordell. Reinstated as a Ranger so he can get justice for Tom Blessing, Andy pursues Cordell even as evidence mounts that the escaped man did not kill Blessing. Pickard will see justice done no matter what it takes.
15) The cattle drive
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2019.
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Large print edition.
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345 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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"1880's, runaway orphans, kidnapping, Medicine Bow, Wyoming"--
"Michael and Michele Dunn, twelve-year-old twins, are wealthy orphans living with their socialite businesswoman aunt, Angela Dunn, in Chicago. Angela is too committed to running the family business to raise the twins and she makes arrangements with the Illinois Detective Agency to send them to California to live with distant relatives. The detective agency is run by the son of its founder,...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2019.
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Large print edition.
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385 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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"In the Badlands of the Dakota Territories, Henry Whiteoak crosses paths with a string of bounty hunters out to claim the growing price that had been put on his head."--
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2018.
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Large print edition.
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319 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Mel Carroll, a self-sufficient hill farmer, just wants to plow and harvest, tend to his stock, marry his sweetheart, and live quietly in the rugged Ozark country of southwest Missouri. But with the arrival of a northbound Confederate army, his farm is transformed into a fortified military camp. When the enemy arrives the outmanned Confederates collapse, and Mel is captured. Later, he barely escapes with a single goal in mind: make his way to the farm...
18) The grub rider
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2017.
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Large print edition.
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20) A reckoning
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2018.
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Large print edition.
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A Virginia family must come to terms with their slave-owning past as the Civil War approaches and an abolitionist visits their plantation, throwing it into turmoil before compelling the family to move West.
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