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1) Cow country
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Personalities and events of the Western range cattle industry from 1870 to 1890, seen as largely financed by scions of wealthy Boston, New York and Philadelphia families.
In the latter part of the nineteenth century the Eastern financier, attracted by the propaganda of individual promoters, the blandishments of public relations men and business acquaintances, invested heavily in the Western range cattle industry. This book is the story of these men...
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USA Today bestselling author: A Colorado cattleman wages all-out war on a gang of ruthless rustlers . . .
The kind of man for whom God created the gun, Smoke Jensen stands as a force of will in the brutal, lawless west . . .
Nothing will stand in his way
Smoke Jensen has a good woman by his side. Now all he needs to make Sugarloaf the best cattle ranch in Colorado is John Chisum's prime steer.
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The kind of man for whom God created the gun, Smoke Jensen stands as a force of will in the brutal, lawless west . . .
Nothing will stand in his way
Smoke Jensen has a good woman by his side. Now all he needs to make Sugarloaf the best cattle ranch in Colorado is John Chisum's prime steer.
But...
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Curvy cowgirl Harper gets under Bran's skin at every turn, but she's the only applicant when he's left shorthanded during busy calving season. When sexual sparks ignite, Harper doesn't mind getting down and dirty ... she discovers that hotbodied Bran isn't all work and no horseplay ... and he's got more than a few tricks up his sleeve
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A classic fictional chronicle of life on the open trail, long considered the best and most reliable account of real cowboy life ever written. In the years following the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Andy Adams left his home in San Antonio Valley and took to the range. Here he charts his first journey as a bona fide cowboy, from south Texas to Montana along the western trail.
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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"--
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Action packed and authentic, Charley Sunday's Texas Outfit is a vivid portrait of the men whose true grit left its mark on the American West.
Charley Sunday. Bloody Sunday.
In the lawless frontier town of Brownsville, Texas, a boy and his parents ride a carriage down a crowded street—when a kill crazy band of kidnappers strike suddenly. Now, to rescue his family, veteran rancher Charley Sunday cobbles together a ragtag posse...
Charley Sunday. Bloody Sunday.
In the lawless frontier town of Brownsville, Texas, a boy and his parents ride a carriage down a crowded street—when a kill crazy band of kidnappers strike suddenly. Now, to rescue his family, veteran rancher Charley Sunday cobbles together a ragtag posse...
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Chuckwagon trail western volume 4
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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...