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1) Many a river
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Relocating to western Texas with their sharecropper parents in the mid-nineteenth century, Jeffrey and Todd Barfield are separated by a Comanche attack that leaves their parents dead, a situation that culminates in their reunion years later on opposing sides in the Civil War.
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Calloway series volume 3
Thorndike Press large print Western
Hewey Calloway novels volume 3
Movie in your mind volume 3
Thorndike Press large print Western
Hewey Calloway novels volume 3
Movie in your mind volume 3
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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...
3) Shotgun
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Dr. John Bishop thought he'd seen his share of death on the Civil War battlefields. Then his quiet life was shattered when outlaws invaded his home, killed his family, and tortured him within an inch of his life. Bishop's soul died that day, but his mangled body lived on. A beautiful Cheyenne women named White Fox nursed him back to health, and a gunsmith outfitted him with a special shotgun rig where his left arm used to be. A strap across one shoulder...
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"After the Civil War, bickering brothers Jamey and Jake Galloway set out from Serenity Falls, Texas to seek their fortune at poker tables across the west. Cautious Jamey prefers being a live coward to a dead hero, but brash big brother Jake rarely backs down from a fight. Cheated out of a fortune, they return to Texas to find their hometown threatened by a land-grabbing cattle king and a shady banker. Can Jamey and Jake cook up a scheme to outfox...
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"It's late 1860 and out at Soldier's Farewell, a relay station in the middle of nowhere, the Munros are far removed from everything - including the smoldering conflict between the Northern and Southern states. There's nothing to worry about, Smith Munro keeps hearing from his father. But Smith can see the way tempers between passengers flare, the way more soldiers are coming through. One of these soldiers is his own brother, Julien. What Smith can't...
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"SIX-GUN LAW: A Western Duo, Wind River Series Book Seven by Award-winning authors James Reasoner & L.J. Washburn. Ransom Valley: The Wyoming Territory town of Wind River has gotten so peaceful that some people think it's downright civilized. But they don't know that a gang of outlaws is planning a raid that will clean out the bank. Anyone who gets in their way will be cut down in a hail of bullets. A beautiful young woman finds herself taken prisoner...
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John "Shotgun" Bishop has tangled with plenty of lowlifes in his time--and he's got the missing limb to prove it. But few sink as low as his own brother Devlin, a crazy-mean cuss who'd steal the horns off the devil himself. This time, Dev's got his cold black heart set on taking over John Chisum's land, destroying the cattle king's dream of building a new town and laying down tracks for the railroad. So Chisum hires Shotgun and his Cheyenne partner,...
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"Two Hawks, a once proud Comanche warrior defeated in battle is now living a quiet life of desperation on the reservation at Fort Smith, Arkansas. Beneath his calm, collected demeanor beats the heart of a warrior and he dreams and longs for the days when he was young and free to roam and live in his native land. When his wife Yellow Sky becomes ill and dies of cancer, Two Hawks takes it upon himself to leave the reservation and go out on his own....
10) The reckoning
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"The Youngblood brothers, Jack and Emmet, are called back into service by Judge Isaac Parker in an all new historical western adventure. Sally Chisum, niece of the late John Chisum of New Mexico, sells one thousand head of cattle to the Indian reservation in Fort Smith. Nine drovers off the reservation agree to drive the herd from New Mexico to Arkansas. At the midpoint, just south of the Red River, the nine drovers are attacked and killed and the...