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The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Trapping beaver, they contend daily with the threat of Indian tribes turned warlike over the white men's encroachment on their land, and other prairie foes -- like the unforgiving landscape and its creatures. Hugh Glass is among the Company's finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face...
2) Flintlock
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"Busted out of prison by an outlaw friend, Flintlock joins a hunt for a fortune - a golden bell hanging in a remote monastery. But between the smouldering ruin of his former jail cell and a treasure in the Arizona mountains there will be blood at a U.S. Army fort, a horrifying brush with Apache warriors, and a dozen bloody showdowns with the schemers, shootists, madmen, and lost women who find their way to Flintlock's side. From a vicious, superstitious...
3) Blood bond
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Two friends—one white and one Cheyenne—must choose sides as frontier tensions built to the Battle of Little Bighorn in this historical Western.
Young Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves became blood brothers on the day the rancher's son saved the Native American boy's life. Beneath the Montana sky, Matt learned the ways of the Cheyenne from his friend. And as years passed, a legend grew of the Indian and the white man who...
Young Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves became blood brothers on the day the rancher's son saved the Native American boy's life. Beneath the Montana sky, Matt learned the ways of the Cheyenne from his friend. And as years passed, a legend grew of the Indian and the white man who...
4) Cutthroats
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"Not every Western hero wears a white hat or a tin star. Most of them are just fighting to survive. Some of them can be liars, cheaters, and thieves. And then there's a couple of old-time robbers named Slash and Pecos ... After a lifetime of robbing banks and holding up trains, Jimmy "Slash" Braddock and Melvin "Pecos Kid" Baker are ready to call it quits, settle down--though not completely by choice. The youngest members of their old gang, the Snake...
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The law nailed him with every murder in the Southwest! And every holdup, horse theft and any other unsolved crime in the territory. But Buck Duane was innocent. He was just too busy ducking to prove it. Then he met the Texas Ranger and found the chance to clear his name. He rode out alone to bring in the vicious Cheseldine Gang. Now he'd ride back for his pardon - or die!
6) THE HOMESMAN
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Four women in the isolated frontier territory go mad, and it is up to the unlikely combination of homesteader Mary Bee Cuddy and ne'er-do-well Briggs to escort them east to safety.
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After the war, Union veteran Bobby Hale sets his sights on California, but only makes it to Montana. Stumbling around the West, from the Wyoming Territory to the Black Hills of the Dakotas, he finds meaning in the people he meets. This is the story of life in a place where every minute is an engagement in a kind of war of survival, and how two people -- a white man and a mixed-race woman -- can manage to find a pathway to their own humanity.
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Smoke Jensen has journeyed up to the Colorado Rockies to a sell a prized bull to a local rancher. Instead, the rancher and his wife have been mercilessly slaughtered by outlaws only moments before Smokes arrival. In a hail of bullets, Smoke pulverizes two of the murderers and drags two others to the town of Brown Spur for justice. Come hanging day, the two killers are on the way to the gallows when a thundering gang of raiders crashes into town and...
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"Wyoming holds the promise of a bright future for newlyweds Cole and Ann Bonner. Alongside Ann's sister, her husband, and their children, the young couple have braved the long, hard road across Nebraska in hopes of building a new life for themselves on a tract of land near Crow Creek Crossing. But their dreams of a fresh start are quickly cut short. While Cole is away in town, a gang of outlaws led by the vicious Slade Corbett raids the family homestead,...
10) Riding shotgun
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Red Ryan must protect the passengers, including an army major's beautiful but stubborn wife, on a stage bound from Fort Concho, Texas, to Fort Bliss, as they face bloodthirsty Apaches who are on the warpath.
As a stagecoach guard, Red Ryan has faced holdups, ambushes, and all-out attacks from every kill-crazy outlaw, Indian, and prairie rat. But even he is a bit reluctant to take on his next job: riding shotgun with his driver Buttons Muldoon on...
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Then Silas Atwood, the richest rancher in the county, sends one of his goons to cause trouble and Kate's son Rusty guns him down. Rusty flees to the home of his uncle, Pearlie, who straps on his six-gun intending to go back and clear his nephew's name. But Smoke Jensen, the mountain man, won't let his friend ride into certain death.
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Western stories. Cottonwoods, Utah. 1871. A woman stands accused. A man, sentenced to whipping. Into this travesty of small-town justice rides the one man the town elders fear. His name is Lassiter, a notorious gunman who's come to avenge his sister's death. It doesn't take Lassiter long to see that this once-peaceful Mormon community is controlled by the corrupt Deacon Tull-a powerful elder who's trying to take the woman's land by forcing her to...
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Three days before Christmas, Matt Jensen is traveling the Denver and Pacific railway when an avalanche slams down onto the train, trapping it in desolate Trout Creek Pass. But it wasn't an act of nature that caused the accident; it was a gang of outlaws attempting to rescue their leader, who is being taken to Red Cliff to be hanged. As Smoke Jensen and Duff MacCallister frantically try to make their way to the scene, Matt struggles to save the survivors,...
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A western hero whose adventures embody the spirit of the American frontier, Smoke Jensen is bestselling author William W. Johnstone's most beloved creation. In his powerful new novel, Johnston chronicles Smoke's early years. Before he went off in search of his father, long before he become a legend, Kirby Jensen was a young man trying to make a living with the gifts God gave him--courage, cunning, and lightning with a gun.
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Ranger Andy Pickard and his partner, Logan Daggett, are sent to central Texas to investigate a series of killings and cattle thefts. The two biggest cattlemen in the area blame each other for the violence, but it seems to Andy that neither man may be guilty. The case is complicated by the rise of a gang of "regulators" - masked vigilantes - and the arrival of a notorious hired gunman whose employer is unknown.
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In a remote corner of Utah lies the secret outlaw kingdom of Ben Curry. For fifteen years Curry has ruled supreme, as his men have pulled jobs from Canada to Mexico. But the king is getting old. He wants to turn his legacy over to someone younger, tougher. Mike Bastian is Ben's adopted son -- a young man who can handle a knife, a gun, and his fists, but a man who has never broken the law. Now, Mike must choose...
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Frontier life is hard enough without having kids to worry about -- especially for a widower like Paul Meakes. Still, he's resolved to stay in the small Colorado town his son and daughter call home. So when his daughter is hit by a seemingly poisoned arrow during an Indian raid, Paul is determined to track down the Comanche villains who hurt his little girl -- and bring them to justice with the help of Indian hunter Hank Adley, a hired gun who's got...