Bill Brooks
1) Winter Kill
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The winter around Cheyenne Wyoming that year was devastating killing both people and livestock. John Henry Cole was three miles out of town on his small ranch waiting out the storm that was quickly killing his cattle and horses and starting to feel a little crazy himself. Everything he owned was dying before his eyes and there wasn't anything that he could do about it. His dreams of a settled life were as dead as everything else. He knew it was time...
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John Henry Cole's life has quieted down from what it had always been, and he can now settle down and make improvements on his small ranch. But everything changes when an old rancher named Wilson rides in with his two sons. Wilson is willing to pay Cole $5,000 to help get back his wife, Lenora, who has been taken hostage by Lucky Jack Dancer, an outlaw who had robbed the train on which she was a passenger. She is being held prisoner in Gun Town, a...
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John Henry Cole worked for years in Cheyanne, Wyoming. First as a policeman, and later a detective. He enjoyed the work, despite its dangers, but it was time for a change. So he decided to open his own agency, one staffed former lawmen like himself. In practice they might be bounty hunters, but he hired men he had worked with before that he knew and trusted to be honorable and professional-and then they got to work. And work it was. Cole's agency...
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John Henry Cole, working as a deputy US marshal out of Judge Isaac Parker's court in Fort Smith, Arkansas, was on assignment in the Indian Nations when he was shot and seriously injured. Now, fifteen years later, employed as a deputy for Judge Roy Bean in Texas, Cole receives a personal summons from Judge Parker to appear in his court within thirty days. Cole isn't inclined to go, but he knows whatever's on Judge Parker's mind is serious and decides...
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John Henry Cole is an operative of Ike Kelly's Detective Agency, based out of Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory. Returning to Cheyenne from what had been a deadly assignment in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, Cole has decided that he has no alternative but to resign from the agency and pursue a different line of work. However, in Cheyenne, Cole learns that Ike Kelly has been murdered and his body burned in a fire that destroyed both the agency office and the...
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John Henry Cole novels volume 1
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When three young escorts turn up dead in the mining town of Deadwood, John Henry Cole is called in to investigate the murders.
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2019.
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329 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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"Teenagers Albert Sand and Ivory Cade learn of an old friends murder and decide to earn the money for his burial when fate intervenes in the form of a wealthy banker whose wife was kidnapped by the outlaw killer One Eye Texas Jack Crowfoot and his gang. The boys see their opportunity to get the banker's reward, return his wife, and earn enough money to bury their old pal, Gus Monroe. To accomplish their goals, they must prove wile and wit while dealing...
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2015.
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413 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Rising out of the Oklahoma dustbowl, Charles Arthur Floyd became the most wanted man in America. While Bonnie and Clyde were robbing and shooting their way across the Southwest, Charley was robbing banks from Kansas City to Ohio. The news was full of stories about Dillinger and Capone, but no one had what "Pretty Boy" Floyd had: a taste for fancy clothes, fancy cars, and beautiful dames -- and uncommon good luck.
11) The badmen
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2014.
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198 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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"Able Guthrie rides out to rescue his former wife after she is abducted by a bank robber and taken into the Badlands"--
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2017.
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507 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Tom Dooley returned from the Civil War to a tumultuous affair with Ann Foster Melton, a married woman, and later became involved with her cousins Pauline and Laura. Tom is about to elope with Laura, who is found murdered, and he and Ann are arrested. After exonerating Ann, Tom is tried and found guilty. But why would he kill the girl he was going to run away with?
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2017.
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351 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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"Leader of the last of the great outlaw bands--the Oklahombres, Bill Doolin outfoxed the law while trying to walk the line between being a good man and bad. He was a family man and a bank and train and stagecoach robber. By the end of his reign, almost every one of his gang had been gunned down, and now the law was out to finish him as well. But it would not be easy, not even for the likes of the famed U.S. Marshals led by Heck Thomas. A fictional...
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2015.
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395 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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When Lucy Moon learns of her mama's murder, she cuts short her honeymoon and returns to the Pistol Barrel of Oklahoma with her new husband in tow. It's a wild and raucous land full of the kind of gunfighters, backshooters, gamblers and pimps who could have shot Belle out of the saddle. Determined to get revenge by whatever means necessary, Lucy never counted on being seduced by the mysterious half-breed Red Dog -- who just might have been the assassin....
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2013.
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231 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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Royce Blood was living his dream. He and his wife, Ophelia, had a cabin at the foot of the mountains near a river with their ten-year-old son, Nicholas. Life was good until the fateful Sunday afternoon when a bear came out of the woods while Nicholas was playing by the river. Too far away from Nicholas to help, Ophelia and Royce could only watch as the bear caught up to Nicholas and mauled him. Nicholas's death changed everything. Despite Ophelia's...
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Journey of Jim Glass volume 2
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2013.
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223 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
19) Stolen horses
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2016.
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409 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Outlaws are made, not born, and such is the case of the aged Joe Brown, aka Einer, and his young cohort, horse thief and possible murderer John Paul. After meeting in odd circumstances the two pair up to steal a herd of Mexican horses to sell across the border.
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This is a fast paced fiction, in Historical Classic Western Fiction.
Marshal One-Eyed Jack Black is urgently called to Apache Pass, Arizona, between Dos Cabezas and the Chiricahua Mountains to turn back a wagon train facing an impending attack. Will the marshal get there in time? Jack's best friend is named U. S. deputy marshal, but things go wrong on the first day, and a serious crime is committed. Will the new deputy solve the mystery without the...