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"In Texas at the close of the Civil War wagon boss Adam Rait inherits a wagon train of rifles and ammunition when the owner is murdered. He must protect the cargo from several parties who would just as soon take it by force as pay for it while dealing with Angela de Acera (the Steel Angel)"--
7) Top soldier
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2016.
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288 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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"Pierce Braden was six when his father left Texas to fight for the Confederacy. When his father returns after the war refusing to talk about it, Pierce thinks he must be a coward until he learns the truth during an Indian raid"--
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2016.
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336 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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On a cold, gusty night in Circle City, Alaska, Sammy Day walks into Nagle's Bar. He is down to his last 50 cents, but he is sure he can make that grow in Nagle's back room. He's already made $50 at craps when Rush Mahan, known as the finest musher in Alaska, arrives with his lead dog, Klondike. They are impressive, but it is Rush's kid sister, Goldie, that catches Sammy's eye. When Rush starts a poker game in the back room, Sammy manages to get a...
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"Two western stories: 'The Trail to Peach Meadow Canon' finds Mike Bastian in a struggle for leadership of an outlaw gang but he's not even sure he wants to be an outlaw. 'The Trail to Crazy Man' finds Rafe Caradec fighting to fulfill his promise to a dying shanghaied rancher despite strong opposition"--
10) Wagon train west
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2016.
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256 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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"In 1864 two former mountain men are hired to guide a wagon train to Fort Carson. When a large Dakota war party attacks, the guides will have to use every skill they possess if anyone is to survive"--
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Retired U.S. Army sergeant Thaddeus McCallum joins the Pinkerton Detective Agency, where he makes enough money to purchase the ranch he's always wanted. But just as McCallum begins to settle in to his new life, he receives an urgent letter from a former comrade in arms whose son Jeff has gone missing. Despite his age and the aches and pains that go with it, Thad decides that he owes it to the man to help. Pedro Peralta, who ordinarily would be left...
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"Captain Dan Gentry was court-martialed after his men were massacred by the Apache. His plans to start a new life elsewhere change when he finds a young woman still alive at the site of another Apache attack. He determines to help her and catch the man he feels is responsible for these attacks"--
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2017.
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334 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Sam Houston is a living legend in 1861. The hero of the Battle of San Jacinto, he had defeated Santa Anna to win independence for Texas back in 1836. He had twice served as president of the Republic of Texas, helped Texas join the Union, and served as senator and governor of Texas. Before settling in Texas, he had been a hero of the Creek War and governor of Tennessee. He had been friends with Andrew Jackson and Davy Crockett, and had been adopted...
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It was spring on the Llano Estacado, the Staked Plains of Texas, the time for the cattle drives to push north to the rail heads in Kansas. The "Lost Cause" of the South was still fresh in the mind of Southerners, including fifty-five-year-old Ben Albright, a pioneer of the Texas cattle drives, who was well familiar with the trail and its dangers -- he had made the drive successfully five times in the past. This spring he was in charge of two thousand...
16) Showdown
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2017.
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176 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Rock Bannon, wounded in an Indian attack, is rescued by a wagon train heading to Oregon. He has fully recovered when the train pulls into a fort to stock up on supplies. It is there that the leaders of the train meet Morton Harper, a smooth-talking man who persuades them to take an easier trail that will allow them to escape an attack by Indians. Bannon knows that there will be no escape from attack on that route and that it will lead the train directly...
17) Summer warpath
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2017.
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232 pages ; 23 cm.
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"Three men--a scout, a soldier, and a reporter--will have their lives changed forever after they join General Crook's expeditionary force in the 1876 campaign against the Cheyenne and Sioux"--
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2017.
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334 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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When Samuel Cross was growing up, he was rarely found without a book in his hands and that was the way his mother, a widow, wanted him raised. His uncle, Stephen Larkin, a frontiersman like Sam's father, wanted him to be strong and able to fend for himself, so he would take him into the mountains every summer to teach him how to fight and use a weapon. He proved to be as adept at these subjects as he had been at book learning, but when he was eighteen...
20) Canadian red
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2018.
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256 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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"Mountie Lucas Donovan chases a ruthless serial killer whose victims include Lucas' twin brother. Taking an administrative leave and accompanied by his malamute sled dog, Lucas crosses the border into the U.S. and faces a struggle for survival in the unfamiliar, unfriendly country. But a greater struggle is between his code of honor and his desire for revenge"--
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