Dane Coolidge
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Then his words of gladness at sight of her, his chagrin at not being at the train to welcome her, were not so memorable of him as the way he clasped her, for he had held her that way the day he left home, and she had not forgotten. But now he was so much taller and bigger, so dusty and strange and different and forceful, that she could scarcely think him the same man.
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Horse-Ketchum was Johnny Lightfoot's nickname, a fighting name given to him by his Indian companion, Captain Jack. His adventures and triumphs in cowtown "civilization" make stirring reading -- and his love story is one of the strangest romances of those bold frontier days. Horse-Ketchum of Death Valley is the perfect tale for those who like a rattling good yarn of the Old West when bullets flew freely, and cowboys and settlers both were hard-riding,...
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c1937, renewed 1965,c2004
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The story of Ware, a young prospector, and Elaine, a young Indian girl. It's also a story woven amid desert stampedes and the vicious struggle for the precious gold that could make a grizzled prospector an overnight millionaire - and flat broke the next day.
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2005
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Prospector and mine owner California Watson is mad at the world. Nearly everyone he has known has taken advantage of him. Rancher Sol Barksdale warns Cal to stay away from his daughter. Bill Beagle, the town marshal, tries to arrest Cal on a false charge of holding up a stagecoach. And when Cal's trail leads him into Death Valley where he finds Barksdale's stolen cattle, before he can do anything about it he is framed and charged by Barksdale with...
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2023.
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"When Bud Hooker offered to buy a sandwich for a shabby little man whom he assumed was the town bum, he had no idea the man was Henry Kruger, who had just sold a mine for fifty thousand dollars cash and had more besides. Thinking he may have offended the wealthy man, Hooker decided to find Kruger and apologize. Amazingly, Kruger was not offended, but impressed. The country was full of greedy men, but few generous men. Kruger invited Bud to join him...
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2023.
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"The town of Hackamore, Arizona, needed someone who could stop the G Bar outfit from terrorizing the town. After much debate, they settled on Lum Martin, express messenger, border deputy, and gunfighter. He agreed to take the job if they would let him hire Syc Brown as his deputy. The wires summoned Sycamore Brown from his peaceful Papaguería home and he came to be the outfightingest fool in Arizona. Lum and Syc, along with another deputy, Jack Haines,...
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2007
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They were two men driven by desperation--and the promise of a $10,000 payday. All they had to do was burn a few bridges and take out railroad communications along the Mexican border. General Montąo had promised his army would be able to hold off any Federal pursuit. But the general was wrong. And now the chase is on as two men try to outfox, outmaneuver and outrun the U.S. Cavalry forces hot on their trail.
13) Comanche chaser
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c1938, renewed 1966,c2004
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Espejo, a fierce Comanche chief, is bound and determined to take Charles Perrault de Hautcoeur's beautiful daughter, Luz, as his wife. Hautcoeur is a powerful man, but he knows when he's in over his head, so he implores Boon helms, an experienced Indian fighter, to help him save Luz.
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2024.
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"In the early 1880s, the Texas Rangers were beginning to bring law and order to that wild country. When a particularly pesky gang of bad Indians had to be cleaned up, Jess Roundtree was the man who undertook the job. He set out to get them and a clever stratagem soon had their leader, Mysterious Dave, in jail. That, however, was only the beginning of his troubles. It soon became apparent that he was not after a band of Indians, but a group of whites...