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"After surviving a brutal stagecoach robbery, Mariah Stover attempts to rebuild her life as she takes over her father's blacksmith business, but the townspeople meet her work with disdain. She is drawn to the new diner owner as he faces similar trials in the town. When danger descends upon them, will they survive to build a life forged in love?" -- Provided by publisher.
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2017.
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English
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"It's that time of year when families gather together to celebrate the holidays, and the Jensens are no exception. This year, since half the clan is scattered across the American West, they've decided to split the difference and meet up in Tucson. Matt and Luke will be there, for sure, and maybe Ace and Chance, too. That leaves Sally, Preacher, and Smoke Jensen, who've reserved three seats on a westbound stage to make sure they don't miss out on the...
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Between July 1875 and November 1883, a single outlaw robbed the stagecoaches of Wells Fargo in California's Mother Lode country a record of twenty-eight times. Armed with an unloaded shotgun, walking to and from the scenes of the robberies, often for hundreds of miles, and leaving poems behind, the infamous Black Bart was fiercely hunted. Between robberies, Black Bart was known as Charles E. Bolton, a distinguished, middle-aged man who enjoyed San...
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"Black Bart is widely regarded today as not only the most notorious stage robber of the Old West but also the best behaved. Over his lifetime, Black Bart held up at least twenty-nine stagecoaches in California and Oregon with mild, polite commands, stealing from Wells Fargo and the US mail but never robbing a passenger. Such behavior earned him the title of a true 'gentleman bandit.' His real name was Charles E. Boles, and in the public eye, Charles...
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Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
329 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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On May 30, 1899, history was made when Pearl Hart, disguised as a man, held up a stagecoach in Arizona and robbed the passengers at gunpoint. A manhunt ensued as word of her heist spread, and Pearl Hart went on to become a media sensation and the most notorious female outlaw on the Western frontier. Her early life, family and fate after her later release from prison have long remained a mystery to scholars and historians, until now.
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"Vulture City is home to a prosperous gold mine and every bad man in the Arizona Territory knows it. Nearly every stagecoach attempting to deliver the gold to the railroad at Maricopa has been ambushed on the trail--a trail known as the Gunpowder Express for the bullet-riddled bodies along the way. With gold piling up and a lack of volunteers to transport it, the mine owner hires Newt 'Widowmaker' Jones to ride shotgun on the next stage. Foolhardy...
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Lucy Watson leaves home when she finishes her schooling and joins a pioneer community in the Old West. She is appointed welfare instructor of isolated backwoods folk. She quickly overcomes their fears, and achieves popularity by the practical results of her work. She is especially successful with a strong, uncouth bee-hunter.
8) Charlie Red
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2016.
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English
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"Tom Slade is riding shotgun for the Colorado and Prescott Stagecoach Company, in charge of delivering $45,000 in cash to the mines in central Arizona, when the stage is robbed at an isolated way station. Most men would have gone on to Prescott for help, but Slade knows he doesn't have that kind of time if he hopes to catch up with the thieves before they disappear into the desert. Alone and riding a worn-out harness mule, Slade grimly sets off in...
9) Hombre
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Pub. Date
2005
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213 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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Grand Master Elmore Leonard is justifiably acknowledged as one of the very best crime writers ever, alongside other all-time greats like John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Robert Parker. But he has also many acclaimed masterworks of American western fiction to his credit-including Hombre, the basis for the classic Hollywood motion picture starring Paul Newman. Set in Arizona mining country, Hombre is the tale of a white man raised...
10) Red moon
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Series
Ranger volume 30
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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In the dark of night during a raging storm, a criminal is on the loose in the Arizona badlands. His name is Wilson Orez. Half-Apache and a former cavalry scout, Orez is skilled with weapons, seasoned in the desert, and trained to keep a cool head while death lurks all around him. Or when it springs from his own hands. Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack knows the only way to stop Orez is to kill him. But the madman has robbed a stagecoach, driven away its...
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Pub. Date
1999
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Full screen version.
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1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Trinity is a no-good amateur outlaw looking to build a nasty reputation by committing as many crimes as he possibly can. While being chased by a bloodthirsty lynch mob, he runs into his older brother and the two decide to work as a team -- hijacking stage coaches. After a string of bad luck, the brothers resort to card sharking in a local saloon. When the mob rides into town there's a violent showdown and only one man will be left standing.
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Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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xix, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Collects the true tales of the employees who guarded Wells Fargo stagecoaches and trains in the ninteenth century West, detailing stories of thieves, highwaymen, and robbers armed with explosives.
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Longarm volume 370
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Jove ed.
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183 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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"Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long has had plenty of impossible missions. But his new undercover assignment riding shotgun for a robbery-plagued stagecoach line started out bad and quickly got worse. The gang he's after has four stolen stashes and four dead guards notched on its belt...and is gunning to make him number five. And the beautiful blond heiress he has to protect and the prissy city lady looking for excitement are only making Longarm's job...
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Longarm volume 433
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Jove mass-market edition.
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187 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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"They say actions speak louder than words. So when two masked men with sawed-off shotguns stop the South Park stagecoach, they don't need to announce their intentions. Since the silent thieves are helping themselves to the United States mail, Deputy Marshal Custis Long is charged with reining in the robbers. When he's not driving the stagecoach to smoke out the highwaymen, Longarm is driven to distraction by the gorgeous and insatiable widow who owns...
16) Texas
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A comedy/action-adventure western about two Confederate veterans aimlessly wandering around Texas after the Civil War. They go their separate ways, then eventually both end up falling in love with the rancher's daughter.
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
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Center Point Large Print edition.
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288 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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In "Stage to Death," Bill Mason is a stagecoach guard, but he had once been a wild young hellion back in the Colorado mining camps. He had even once been involved in a bank robbery when he was known as Billy Bock, but that was in the past. For three years now he has had a perfect record in his present job in Oregon. Then he is quietly approached in a saloon in Opal City just before the stage run to Tamarack. The Domino Kid will rob the stage today....
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Pub. Date
2005
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244 pages ; 17 cm
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English
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Two of L'Amour's most exciting works are paired together in this one volume. Includes the title story, about a stagecoach robbery and frontier justice, and an original version of the short story "The Rider of Ruby Hills," one of L'Amour's greatest tales of range wars.