Will Cook
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"Blood Sky" deals with the effects of nature's predictability on a small group of ranchers when a protracted drought followed by an extended period of rain leads to frayed nerves and sudden violence. "The Contest" pits a determined hunter against a vengeful buck he once wounded in a powerful clash of wills. "The Far-Travelin' Man" is an off-trail character study of revenge and redemption set in the Tennessee hill country. Stage coach passengers...
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"Following a rash of holdups on the Liberty-to-Houston Express, a telegram sent to Texas Ranger Finley Burkhauser makes it clear that he is the bandit's target. When fellow Ranger Jim McClintock and railroad detective Will Beech are kidnapped, Burkhauser will ride into Mexico for a showdown with the bandit"--
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"In the early days of the Texas Territory, only those with courage and strength could survive. . . There was a cattle crossing at Mustang Creek. It was miles from anywhere, and no one had ever lived there -- until Elizabeth Rettig came. Since she knew the Texans would be driving their great herds of longhorns by on the way to Dodge, she set up a trading post. The territory was plagued by deadly tornadoes, burning summers, and freezing winters. Indians...
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[1995], c1955
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Apaches on the warpath! Raping and pillaging, torturing and killing! Ever since he had been their prisoner, Lt. Tim O'Hagen had been driven by his hatred for these savages. And now they had taken his woman! O'Hagen swore to get them - even if it meant battling them all the way to hell and back again.
7) Easy money
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2022.
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"Meade Bigelow had sweated blood to build a mining empire in Wyoming. But he'd be damned if he'd let thieves crush honest people just to fatten their pokes. Overnight the town of Silver City exploded with gunfire. Men took sides: Conover's side when their loyalty was bought and paid for; Bigelow's side when they were fed up with the gang that had made the town rotten. Bigelow swore he would blast the company to bits. He deliberately cocked his guns...
10) Fort Starke
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2013.
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The fort was cut off and surrounded by Apaches. Two patrols had been wiped out, a third was missing, and the telegraph was down. Inside Fort Starke, men and women waited for inevitable death.
12) The Breakthrough
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2020.
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"Charlie Two-Moon is a twentieth century Indian fighting the same enemy that plagued his ancestors - the greedy white man. Through his own inner drive and force of character, and equipped with a far better education than the usual reservation Indian, Charlie determines to escape from the prison of his color. He has always dreamed of being a farmer in the community where he grew up. He enlists in the Army, saves several thousand dollars from his pay...