Wayne D. Overholser
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"When Marshal Clay Roland receives a letter from a lawyer in Painted Rock, a distant town in the shadow of Skull Mesa, informing him that his father has died, leaving him the Bar C Ranch, he resigns and heads home. He quickly learns his father's death was no accident and will have to fight for the Bar C"--
6) Nugget City
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"Nugget City was a Colorado mining town that made the transition to a ranching community. But the transition wasn't easy and it left a lot of bad blood. A range war had been brewing for a while, and greed, gossip, and rage were threatening to blow the town apart. The last thing the town needed was a spark to set off the tinderbox. Everyone was afraid that was just what they got when a mysterious stranger stepped off the stage - a stranger who wore...
7) Gunlock
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2013.
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Joe Pardee was hardheaded, trigger-quick, and the closest thing to a father Will Beeson ever had. When Joe was gunned down defending the Box P Ranch against land-hungry settlers, Will stepped in and tried to fill Joe's shoes. But Will hadn't bargained on the women in Joe's life. Sarah, Joe's widow, had lost the use of her legs in a riding accident, but she was ready to take back control of her life, starting with making Will the new foreman. But with...
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[2011]
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"In Beyond the Law Sherman Rawls owns the largest spread in the Red Rock Mesa country. Rawls is also the only law in the area' and he hangs Billy Combs' accusing him of horse stealing' but the real reason is more likely that Combs had been paying undue attention to Rawlss teenage wife."--Publisher's website.
"Shadow of a Lobo is the story of Cliff Jenson' a mercantile store-owner in Palisade who's having some trouble."--Publisher's website.
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In "Trouble at Gold Plume," Jim Harrigan is a former lawman who is hunting down his brother-in-law, Rush Kane, believing that Rush's dishonesty caused Jim's sister's death. In his pursuit, he finds himself in the middle of a deadly war for gold. "Twin Rocks" is the ranching community Morgan Dill abandoned three years ago following the death of his father. His fiancée had broken their engagement after learning Morgan's sister would control the ranch...
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2019.
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"Denver Daily Chronicle reporter Bob Norberg is sent to Smith's Cove, Colorado, to write a story about Susie Bowman, a woman who had been tried for rustling and because of a hung jury was to be tried again in late summer. His editor thought Susie was being framed and wanted Norberg to clear her name, but Bob didn't expect what he found..."--Back cover.
13) Gut shot
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[2019], c1962.
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Dan Quaid had a chance to buy prime cattle range in Central Oregon at $2.00 an acre. And he wanted to get his boy out to the country where a man could breathe without knocking down his neighbour.So the Quaids pulled stakes and moved. Dan didn't know that the company selling him the land was at war with the squatters already on it, and that the squatters were led by a vicious, violent man who thought nothing of murder when it came to keeping people...
14) Proud journey
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2015.
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"Caught between land-hungry settlers and war-hungry Utes, government agent Dave Rand tries to avert an Indian war without compromising what he knows to be right"--
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""When you live the sort of life I do -- the life of a hired gun -- you start to figure you can handle any tough hand who comes along. But the tough hand I had to drill right between the eyes just happened to be a Flynn. And even though it was self-defense, there's no way his pa and the rest of the clan wouldn't come after me. In a wild race across the frozen prairie, their first bullet killed my horse and their second caught me right in the thigh....
16) The dry gulcher
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2010
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When Justin Albright and his ruthless gang begin attacking the peaceful settlers in the valley beyond Marcon Canyon, Dan Matson joins the settlers to fight back.
17) Beyond the pass
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2021.
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"Dirken's Hole never bothered the outlaws who wintered there if the outlaws didn't bother them. Then one young man broke this rule. Robert Buel was a bounty hunter - a man appointed by the law to hunt down criminals for reward money. Now he was coming home. In the little town of Dirken's Hole, high in the Colorado Rockies, Buel returned to see his father - and to pick up his last assignment"--
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[2014]
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"In Land Rush white families have lined up, waiting for the U.S. Army's signal to move in on the land vacated by the Ute Indians and make their homestead claims. Steve Regan knows the newly opened land well enough and wants to head for the mesa land because he knows the soil to be superior. His brother Al appears to have allied himself with Bronc Vedder and his group who want to set up a vigilance committee to punish claim-jumpers, and behind this...