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2) The Red Pony
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The moving and beautiful story of a boy, a sorrel colt and the sun-drenched California earth." Junius Maltby: After ten years as a San Francisco accountant, Junius moves to sunny Pastures of Heaven, marries, has a son and becomes poverty stricken through laziness. When he realizes he is hurting his son, he has to make a decision.
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An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a world marred by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy,and callousness. Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lenny dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own - a couple of acres and a few pigs, chickens, and rabbits back in Hill Country where land is cheap. But after they come...
4) The jackals
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With Apaches on the prod, ex-cavalry sergeant Sean Keegan, bounty hunter Jed Breen, and ex-Texas Ranger Matt McCulloch take shelter in a West Texas way station-along with a hot-as-a-pistol female bound for the gallows, a spiteful newspaper editor, and a coward with $50,000 who promises them five grand if they'll deliver his blood-soaked stash to his wife.
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"Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country. The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits--75 cents--a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching...
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[2014]
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Out of work cowpoke Bud Eugen comes across Marta, a mute sixteen-year-old Mexican girl whose family has been killed by Indians. Bud reluctantly takes her along, even though he's never had to accommodate another person in his simple life. He's unable to find anyone willing to take her. In spite of his prejudices, Bud grows to like the spunky girl (and her excellent cooking). Eventually, they both find work on a border ranch. Here, the relationship...
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1968
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When Clay McCord (Cord), the fastest draw in the West, gets the shakes in his shooting arm, he decides to hand up his guns for good. But riding the straight and narrow may be more dangerous than he ever imagined-especially when his only hope for survival lies in the hands of a shady sheriff whose offer of amnesty hides something far more deadly!
11) The Cherokee Kid
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2004
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Isaiah Turner hunts down the man who murdered his mother, the wealthy Cyrus Bloomington, with the help of a few friends he meets along the way.
15) Going South
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1978
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Henry Moon, a third rate outlaw, is saved from hanging by the intervention of a young woman who agrees to marry and take charge of him.
16) Of mice and men
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c2001
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During the Depression, two migrant-worker friends dream of better days until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic consequences.
17) Coyote run
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1994
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Chris Colt, his hot tempered half brother Joshua, and a proud Native American warrior, Man Killer, risk everything in their battle ag
19) Rodeo racketeers
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c1995
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This DVD contains these three Wayne movies: The Man From Utah, Lucky Texan & The Star Packer.
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c2006
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As if the result of some strange mass-media fluke, the popular radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" somehow managed to survive the television age to entertain its audience every Saturday night from the stage of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, MN. Week after week, hangdog host G.K. serves as unflappable emcee to an amiable hodgepodge of radio-friendly acts that include the likes of popular country duo Yolanda and Rhonda Johnson and...
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