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"Officer Ren Hopper is an enforcement ranger with the National Park Service, tasked with duties both mundane and thrilling: Breaking up fights at campgrounds, saving clueless tourists from moose attacks, and attempting to broker an uneasy peace between the wealthy vacationers who tromp through the park with cameras, and the residents of hardscrabble Cooke City who want to carve out a meaningful living. When Ren, hiking through the backcountry on...
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Ordered to head west when a New York gangster puts a price on his head for killing his son, Detective Sergeant John McBride ends up in High Hopes, Colorado--a lawless boomtown where McBride quickly runs afoul of corrupt saloon owner Gamble Trask and his vicious hired guns. When beautiful card dealer Shannon Roark asks for his protection, it's high time for one of New York's finest to dole out some frontier justice of his own.
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"Lies Across America looks at more than one hundred sites where history is told on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, outdoor museums, historic houses, forts, and ships. Loewen uses his investigation of these public versions of history, often literally written in stone, to correct historical interpretations that are profoundly wrong, to tell neglected but important stories about the American past, and, most importantly, to raise...
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The Luke Taylor and Trevor Lane volume Book 6
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c2014
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In Colorado,Trevor gets married and claims land under the Homestead Act. Luke and Dancing Flower want to continue west but stay and help Trevor build their new home.
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"John Sedgwick recounts the decade-long fight between General William J. Palmer, the Civil War hero leading the 'little family' of his Rio Grande, coming down from Denver, hoping to showcase the majesty of the Rockies, and William Barstow Strong, the hard-nosed manager of the corporate-minded Santa Fe, venturing west from Kansas. What begins as an accidental rivalry when the two lines cross in Colorado soon evolves into an all-out battle as each man...
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2020.
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"Pueblo, Colorado, 1932. Billy, a retired dentist, is a local celebrity owing to his rumored past as Billy the Kid. Billy lives in a corrupt town where Stokes, the owner of a speakeasy, has the sheriff in his pocket and can kill a man with impunity. Billy spends his spare time writing a book about his purported past as Billy the Kid, but whether the stories are true or not remains a mystery. Billy tries to romance Grace, the town's beautiful widow,...
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