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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Experienced a short two-season run - from late January 1965 through early September 1966, but earned its place in the hearts of many a western fan. The program took place in the American West of the 1880s, around fifteen years after the Civil War wrapped. Its hero, Jason McCord had graduated from West Point and enjoyed a successful military career (eventually ascending to the rank of captain) but suffered from unjust accusations of cowardice and received...
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In the 1870s, Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. One of these men regales Will with tales of the immense buffalo herds hidden away in the Colorado Rockies and convinces him to join an expedition to track them down. At the end of a grueling journey,...
7) The spoilers
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This is one of 9 books featuring Matt Starbuck, Western detective. Starbuck ferrets out who is behind the inside jobs on the Central Pacific. There's plenty of undercover work, women & action. As with many of Braun's books the plot is based in fact.
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Passport Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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In this fast-paced comedy-Western Roy persuades an eccentric steamboat owner to transport ranchers cattle to market. The surrounding ranchers would otherwise be forced to ship their cattle with crooked trucking company operator Ross Lambert.
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The high chaparral volume season 3
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English
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Deep in the Arizona Territory, circa 1870s, lies the High Chaparral Ranch, run by 'Big John' Cannon along with his brother Buck and son Billy Blue. After a tragic attack leaves him a widower, 'Big John' enters into a marriage with Victoria, the daughter of a powerful neighboring rancher. With Victoria's brother Manolito in tow, together the Cannons must manage the ranch, their new family dynamic, and the perils of the West.
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Trail drive series volume 6
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English
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Driving two thousand head of cattle north from Texas, Cajun cowboy Long John Coons must brave stampedes, cattle rustlers, renegade Indians, and the love of a beautiful woman with a sordid past to get his longhorns to the Kansas railroad.
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Val Darrant was just four years old the snowy night his mother abandoned him. But instead of meeting a lonely death, he met Will Reilly—a gentleman, a gambler, and a worldly, self-taught scholar. For ten years they each were all the family the other had, traveling from dusty American boomtowns to the cities of Europe—until the day Reilly’s luck ran out in a roar of gunfire. --Amazon
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Learn to read and understand western water and what to expect in each season on different types of streams How to select the best, most effective patterns for western trout Western hatch chart Author Jim McLennan takes readers out on the water to show in detail how best to fish trout streams in the West from Canada to Mexico. The lessons come directly from McLennan's experiences on the water. Covers tactics for dry fly fishing as well as fishing from...
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Signet/New American Library
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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Bluff City is a prosperous silver-mining town--and a place of opportunity for those willing to exploit its hard-working citizens. Harve Barker is the wealthiest man in the territory, offering irresistible vices to anyone willing and able to afford them. Outlaw Jesse Stark has grown fond of the town's surrounding mining camps, leading a gang of desperadoes on a violent spree of robberies--and staying one step ahead of the law at all times. Between...
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Trail of the gunfighter volume 2
Pub. Date
1996
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English
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Nathan Stone, having developed a taste for vengeance while seeking out and killing the men who murdered his family, goes on to fight for survival against some of the most feared outlaws of the wild West.
18) The villain
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Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1992]
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English
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A funny screwball gunslinger comedy with Kirk Douglas as the ne'er-do-well highwayman, Arnold Schwarzenegger as Handsome Stranger and Ann-Margret as the lusty Miss Charming Jones.
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When Trace Riley finds the smoldering ruins of a small wagon train, he recognizes the hand behind the attack as the same group who left him as sole survivor years ago. Living off the wilderness since then, he'd finally carved out a home and started a herd--while serving as a self-appointed guardian of the trail, driving off dangerous men. He'd hoped those days were over, but the latest attack shows he was wrong. Deborah Harkness saved her younger...
20) The Removes
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As the first wave of pioneers travel westward to settle the American frontier, two women discover their inner strength when their lives are irrevocably changed by the hardship of the wild west in The Removes, a historical novel from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Tatjana Soli.
Spanning the years of the first great settlement of the West, The Removes tells the intertwining stories of fifteen-year-old Anne Cummins, frontierswoman...
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