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61) By the neck
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2021.
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Rollie Finnegan is a man of few words. As a Pinkerton agent with two decades of experience under his belt, he uses his stony silence to break down suspects and squeeze out confessions. Hence the nickname Stoneface. Over the years, he's locked up plenty of killers. Now he's ready to make a killing--for himself... There's gold in the mountains of Idaho Territory. And the town of Boar Gulch is a golden opportunity for a tough guy like Finnegan. But when...
62) The King's fifth
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In this deeply affecting novel Scott O'Dell envelops the reader in the heroic world of the conquistadors - a world that is at once somber and many-colored. Though they may have been ruthless, these steel-helmeted young men of Spain lived their lives on the very edge of eternity with style and uncommon courage.
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Maggie Stevens's husband, Carter, has provided her with all the unexpected revelations she can handle. He told her that he didn't love her anymore, and as if that wasn't enough, that he had a new love. So when an envelope from an attorney arrives, Maggie is not looking forward to another surprise. Jacob Charles Murphy has died and has left his daughter, Maggie, a gold mine. Maggie has never really known her father, but this seems to be some unexpected...
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2021.
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The discovery of gold in California launched a stampede of fortune-seekers across the continent in search of wealth. Willing to face any hardship -- outlaws, hostile Indians, bad weather, thirst, starvation, and the horrors of disease -- they battled fiercely to overcome these challenges and seize their destiny. But sometimes the treasures they found were not the ones they were expecting . . .
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Sisters of Mercy Flats volume 2
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2015.
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"The three wily and beautiful McDougal sisters can swindle a man faster than it takes to lasso a calf. But their luck is running out, and they're about to be hauled off to jail. When the wagon carrying them falls under attack, each sister is picked up by a different man. Anne-Marie, the middle sister, is saved by Creed Walker, a Crow warrior. It's loathing at first sight, but with bandits on their tail and a cache of gold to hide, Creed and Anne-Marie...
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Jake Paynter novels volume 2
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2022.
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"Jake Paynter is in deep trouble. With a $1000 bounty on his head, every law man, bounty hunter, and desperado west of the Mississippi is gunning for him. Jake's plan to lay low with the Shoshone quickly falls apart, but before he can leave for far Yellowstone, his two best friends, Gus Rivers and Stacy Blue, show up with a dilemma. Miners at South Pass City are getting murdered by a man or beast - no one is certain - and his immigrant friends from...
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Campground kids volume 3
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2022.
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So...Much...Gold... When Isaiah's dad is hired to print 3D dinosaur bones, his family is invited to join him. On this trip, the kids are glamping--enjoying the luxury of an RV instead of camping in tents. Attending a park-sponsored stargazing event, Isaiah, Sadie, and Ethan overhear a ranger tell his favorite legend of a gold mine hidden in Zion. While exploring the park, they venture off to investigate an intriguing narrow path. Unexpectedly, they...
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Gold seer trilogy volume 3
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Leah Westfall has traveled thousands of miles, from Georgia to the gold fields of California. It has been a journey of ever-present danger, hidden magic, harsh realities, loss, life, determination, and love. Yet through it all, Lee has found people to trust, true friends and fellow misfits who have been by her side no matter what. In the rich land of California, Lee is poised to have everything she ever dreamed of - a place to belong, a place to call...
71) Milo Talon
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Although content with drifting through the Western wilderness, Milo Talon falls on hard times and agrees to help in a search for a buried fortune that leads him into a confrontation with a deadly band of liars and killers.
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2022
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of West of Here, a novel that chronicles a hundred-and-seventy years of American nation-building from numerous points-of-view across place and time, and explores the Great American Experiment from its formative days to the present moment and asks whether or not our nation has made good on its promises"--
Jonathan Evison’s Small World is an epic novel for now. Set against such iconic backdrops as the California...
73) Down the Yukon
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In the wake of Dawson City's Great Fire of 1899, sixteen-year-old Jason and his girlfriend Jamie canoe the Yukon River across Alaska in an epic race from Canada's Klondike to the new gold fields at Cape Nome.
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The last thirty years Maynard has lived in Colorado and hunted in the San Juan region of the Southern Rocky Mountains. Having heard many stories of early trappers and gold miners, he began extensive esearch on Treasure Mountain and the Frenchmen who explored the area. Over the last twelve years he has obtained information from France, Spain, Cananda, Louisiana, Texas and New Mexico. Mr. Adams is presently working on another sequel to Citadel Mountain...
77) California!
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Violence ignoted by the gliitter of gold. Men desperate to strike it rich. Families and farms forsaken in a wild rush West to stake a claim. String men and courageous women struggle across an untamed continent to gamble their last dollar in overnight boom towns or die bushwacked by outlaws. Some become valiant fighters in places where six-shooters keep the peace. No risk is too great, no depravity too low--when men catch gold fever and dream of quick...
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American diaries volume 3
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1996
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The small piece of gold which Anisett carries in her pocket causes grave danger for her family living in the rough world of the California gold camps.
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