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1) Rivers west
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Jean Talon leaves his home in French Canada and embarks on a dangerous journey to the American West.
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Fast-shooting cowpuncher Hopalong Cassidy must think fast to save lives and see justice served when he arrives at the Circle J to deliver a fortune in bank notes to his friend, rancher Dick Jordan, and finds Jordan and his daughter Pam being held hostage by a desperate band of outlaws.
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"Ross Hardy had made his decision. He sat in the middle of all he owned, a splendid Appaloosa gelding, a fine California saddle, a .44 Winchester rifle, and two walnut-stocked Colt .44 pistols. These were his all. It was a life that had left him rich in experience but poor in goods of the world. The experience was the hard-fisted experience of cold winters, dry ranges, and the dusty bitterness of cattle drives. He had fought Comanches and rustlers,...
5) Buckskin run
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Presents eight stories of survival on the Western frontier based on actual events. Includes historical notes for each story.
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This is the first half of the story of Barnabus, the patriarch of the Sackett clan, and his migration to North America in 1600. His saga begins when he discovers a purse of gold coins in the mud of Devil's Dyke in Finland. On the run from English authorities, he meets and marries Abigail Tempany, the daughter of a sea captain. Nick Bardle, the master of a merchant vessel, the Jolly Jack, is half pirate, ready to take any advantage of any activity...
8) Matagorda
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After serving in the Civil War and fighting Indians on the frontier, Tap Duvarney finds he has bought a partnership in a feud as well as in a cattle outfit.
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Queen Elizabeth believes that Barnabas Sackett is in possession of a great treasure lost by King John and puts a warrant out for his arrest, but Barnabas flees to the New World and the West with a few fighting friends and his courageous wife, Abigail, where they are destined to face unyielding terrain and fierce Native Americans.
14) Fallon
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Macon Fallon had never needed more than a deck of cards, a fast horse, and a ready gun; he was counting on those things now as he led an unsuspecting group of settlers to an abandoned mining town. But while Fallon prepared to pass the ghost town off as a gold mine in the making, a funny thing happened: a real-life community started to take shape in the town he'd christened Red Horse. So when a band of vicious outlaws and a kid who fancied himself...
16) Passin' through
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"It seemed the perfect place to lie low. The owner of the ranch was an attractive, gray-haired lady who had once been an actress. The other woman was a beautiful, fragile-seeming blonde. They needed repairs done, and he needed to disappear for a while. The first sign that things were not as they should be was when a Pinkerton man questioned him about a missing woman. Then he accidentally found a will belonging to the previous owner of the ranch. After...
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After the massacre Hardy and Betty Sue were left with only a horse and a knife with which to face the long battle against the wilderness. A seven-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl, stranded on the limitless prairie. They were up against starvation, marauding Indians, savage outlaws, and wild animals. They were mighty stubborn, but the odds were against them-and their luck was about to run out.
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