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With blood and tears, Chet Byrnes built a life in Texas, only to have it shattered by an ill-fated cattle drive and a deadly family feud. Realizing he and his family need to start over in a new territory, Chet and his young nephew set out for Arizona, hoping to find a new home. Chet and Heck cross over New Mexico and ride into Arizona. Encountering killers, bandits, a punishing climate, and a harsh daunting land, they search for the perfect place...
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"Dewey 'Mac' McKenzie is wanted for a killing he didn't commit. He saved his hide once by signing on as a cattle drive chuckwagon cook and bolting the territories. Turned out Mac was as good at fixing vittles as he was at dodging bullets. But Mac's enemies are hungry for more--and they've hired a gang of ruthless killers to turn up the heat... Mac's only hope is to join another cattle drive on the Goodnight-Loving Trail, deep in New Mexico Territory....
6) Dead aim
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Series
O'Malleys of Texas volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"The oldest and boldest O'Malley brother, Long John takes on the challenge of riding shotgun on a wagon train across the hostile Nebraska Territory. But the real test lies in the journey ahead--to the Rocky Mountains, Sante Fe, and home to Texas--with perils that will either make him a living legend . . . or a dead one"--
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Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 17 cm.
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English
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Hamp comes to the aid of his hot-tempered friend, Clint, after he is jailed for killing a cheating gambler, bribing the guards to let him go. But no sooner is Clint free than he kills a local rancher with vengeful friends who will do anything to see Clint hanged.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"During the Civil War, Texas Rangers Harp and Long John O'Malley patrol a vast, unguarded range, protecting the families of soldiers off fighting at the front. At war's end, the Rangers are disbanded, and the O'Malleys sign on with a cattle drive across the most treacherous and deadly stretch of the American frontier from Texas to Sedalia" --
11) Six bits a day
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"Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country. The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits--75 cents--a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching...
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Chuckwagon trail western volume 4
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English
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"Dewey 'Mac' Mackenzie is no ordinary chuckwagon cook. He's a marked man on the run who works cattle drives to stay one step ahead of his enemies. If these hired killers catch up to him, he'll be slinging guns instead of hash--with a side order of revenge that's best served cold... A hot meal, a hard drink, and maybe a friendly hand of poker--that's all Mac Mackenzie wants when he drifts into the small town of Harcourt City, Montana. What he gets...
13) Texas rules
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Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Large print ed. ; Unabridged.
Physical Desc
247 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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Pub. Date
1997
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199 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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A cattle drive from Texas to Kansas is lured into an ambush by rustlers who have a spy among the cowboys. The drive is seen through the eyes of Ty Bannon, 18, a rookie cowboy making his first drive. He describes the destruction of the herd and the way his colleagues obtain revenge.
15) Chancy
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880L
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Cattle drive in a deadly country...Poor, orphaned at thirteen, Otis Chancy left the Tennessee mountains with nothing but a will to work, a drive to succeed, and the backbone for a fight. So when a fight comes his way, along with a chance to buy a herd of cattle and start his own spread, nineteen-year-old Chancy doesn't hesitate. He guns down a man who'd been using a sheriff's badge to justify cattle thieving. But when a mysterious woman betrays him,...
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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...
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2016.
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English
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"Matthew Garth undertakes a desperate cattle drive from Texas to Dodge City, dealing with threats from storms, rustlers, and even his own family"--
Matthew Garth was orphaned in a savage wagon train ambush and adopted by Red River hero Thomas Dunson. Twenty years later, Matt has two strapping sons of his own and is undertaking a desperate cattle drive from Texas to Dodge City, the new queen of frontier cattle towns. While the deadly dangers of storms...
19) A hill of beans
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"Mac is back. Framed for a murder he didn't commit, Dewey Mac McKenzie is a wanted man on a cattle drive heading west, as a chuckwagon cook. Though he's never even boiled an egg, McKenzie has a natural gift for cobbling together good trail drive grub. Now, with two trail drives under his belt, McKenzie has proven to be more than a good chuckwagon cook. He's good at serving up justice, too, with a side of hot lead."
Framed for a murder he didn't commit,...
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Series
Colorado cowboys volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publisher Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
359 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Traveling the Santa Fe Trail on a botanical exploration, Linnea Newberry longs to be taken seriously by the other members of the expedition. When she is rescued from an accident by Flynn McQuaid, her grandfather hires him to act as Linnea's bodyguard, and Flynn soon finds himself in the greatest danger of all--falling for a woman he's determined not to love" -- Provided by publisher.