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It doesn't take Boston physician Julia Garth long to experience the genuine west after she arrives in dusty Santa Fe to set up practice. Her first patient is brought in by a youth folks call Billy the kid. How Julia wins acceptance in what most people then considered man's work shapes the in-color sagebrush tale Strange lady in town.
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Out on the Texas frontier, Jim Garry rides into town, quickly getting caught in a simmering confrontation between homesteaders and cattle ranchers. After accepting a job from an old friend, Tate Riling, Garry comes to realize that Riling has been manipulating the tensions between rancher John Lufton and the local settlers in a bid to swindle the Lufton's out of their livestock. Garry becomes torn between his conscience and his greed until he finds...
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In 1850 Oregon, Adam, a backwoodsman and the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does Milly discover that Adam has six other brothers all living with him in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading a story, Adam develops an idea that will create the solution to...
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Jim Bowie is learning the courtly ways of 1825 Southern society and he's wearing only the finest suits and cravats, proving himself in business and at the gaming table. Yet despite his prowess in a world of dandies and ruffians, he may be overmatched in the ways of the heart because he's fallen for the lovely Jubalon, the magnolia belle fancied by men of means from Natchez to New Orleans.
7) Honky tonk
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"Con artist Candy Johnson has been run out of town after town. Then he got wise. He went out and got a town of his own: Yellow Creek, Nevada. The title honkey tonk is the Square Deal Saloon, where Candy and poker-playing sidekick Sniper cut cards -- but not the liquor. The colorful townfolk include a Justice of the Peace who's good pals with John Barleycorn, a fiery do-gooder, a long-suffering dance hall girl and a law-unto-himself sheriff"--Container....
8) Westbound
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"As the Civil War spills our nation's blood, Capt. John Hays (Randolph Scott) fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to Union banks through a small Colorado town, defying Southern sympathizers who aim to stop him."--Container insert.
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"Quinto is a sack full of rattlesnakes, an Oklahoma Territory-panhandle town outside U.S. jurisdiction. Here, the James Gang, the Daltons, Belle Starr and other desperados take refuge from the law. Then along comes the last person any criminal wants to see: Sheriff Mark Rowley, who's searching for his missing brother."--Container.
10) Skin game
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In this comedy, meet Quincy and Jason, two likable swindlers who've come up with a way to make a bundle by bamboozling slave owners. Posing as master and slave, Quincy and Jason ride into backwater prairie towns where, after Quincy intones and Jason moans, Jason is sold to the highest bidder. Then Quincy springs him loose and they split town, split the cash and head down the road looking for the next sucker.
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Jeremy Rodock makes his living by raising horses in the Rocky Mountain valley that bears his name. Anyone foolish enough to steal those horses makes his own dyin'. But that's not the way of his companion Jo, a former honky-tonk queen. She wants him to change, and there's a greener valley somewhere for her if he won't. He will. Swayed by Jo and a recently arrived tenderfoot from the east, Rodock will finally realize that justice requires mercy. There's...
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In 1865, just after the end of the Civil War, Josiah Gray arrives in the small town of Walesville. Establishing himself as a preacher, he delivers the word of God with a bible in one hand and a six-shooter in the other- and he will use either one to properly civilize this lawless town!
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A loose remake of the 1941 film noir High Sierra. Veteran outlaw Wes McQueen escapes from jail and hopes to pull off one last big train robbery. McQueen doesn't care for his new partners -- except perhaps Colorado Carson, a dance-hall girl who may be the only person who genuinely cares about his well-being. McQueen, meanwhile, also has eyes for Julie Ann, who is newly arrived from the east and setting up a new farm with her father. With a $10,000...
14) The rounders
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Ben Jones and Howdy Lewis are bronc riders. The pair of cowboys who will do any job, except for the one at hand. That job: Saddle a clever, ornery, blaze-faced roan named Old Fooler and make him as gentle as a milk-pen calf. They don't think it can be done, so they start thinking. Maybe they can make a dollar or two by wagering that no one at the rodeo can stay atop him either.
15) Wild rovers
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Every man has his dream, and for aging cowboy Ross Bodine, paradise lies south of the border where a good spread, people to work it, and women to love await anyone with enough money. Young Frank Post has no trouble convincing Ross that robbing a bank can make his dream come true.
17) The Oklahoma kid
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The range-riding rascal of the Cherokee Strip, the Oklahoma Kid is the territory's most hunted outlaw, wanted dead or alive. So when the Kid's black-clad enemy Whip McCord turns Tulsa into a den of corruption, leading citizen John Kincaid announces plans to clean up the town. Framing the old man for murder, McCord has him sentenced to hang, while the Kid, who's secretly Kincaid's son, risks his own neck as he races to Tulsa to see that justice is...
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They are rugged pioneers, Indian fighters and brave trailblazers who tame the wild west. These are the women of the great frontier. Buck Wyatt is a tough, experienced scout who leads a wagon train comprised of two ex-show girls, a hearty widow and fifteen men who act as guides. When one of the men disobeys Buck's orders not to fraternize with the ladies, Buck shoots him, causing the others to desert. The determined women insist on going on, learning...
19) Wichita
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"He wanted to open a business, not pin on a star. Yet newly arrived Wyatt Earp knows the town's violence must be looked dead in the eye. So he accepts that star and sets out to clean up the rowdy cowtown whose welcome sign proclaims: 'Everything goes in Wichita.' The action takes place just before Earp's famed exploits in Dodge City, a period often unvisited but rich in heroics"--Container.
20) The lusty men
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'Never was a bronc that couldn't be rode. Never was a cowboy that couldn't be throwed.' Spinning tales of big money made as a bronco buster, an ex-rodeo star wanders nto the life of ranch hand Wes Merritt. Wes is won over, despite the protests of his wife, who, against her judgment, feels drawn to the stranger, too.