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"Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before long, Dodge City's streets were lined with saloons and brothels and its populace was thick with gunmen, horse thieves, and desperadoes of every sort. By the 1870s, Dodge City was known as the most...
2) Doc: a novel
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Born to the life of an educated Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday is given a choice at the age of twenty-two: die within months in Atlanta or leave everyone he loves in hopes of finding health in the West. Young, scared, lonely and sick, he arrives on the rawest edge of the Texas frontier in time for an economic crash. Soon he's gambling professionally and living with a high-strung, classically educated Hungarian whore who insists that they...
6) Dodge City
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"Dodge City is a YA sports comedy about making sense of a chaotic world and growing up against the insane backdrop of competitive dodgeball, told through the eyes of oddball Tomás and his teammates. Life comes at you fast, but dodgeballs come way faster! Tomás is a teenage misfit, but when he joins the Jazz Pandas dodgeball team, he's thrown into a family of oddballs and outcasts who are willing to do whatever it takes to win the summer regional...
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Trail drive series volume 8
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For a brave band of Texas pioneers, new enemies awaited on the thundering trail. But old enemies were the deadliest of all.
The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million
maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them
north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-making trail drives.
The Dodge City...
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The Taste Of Blood...And Fear
It's a simple job for Smoke Jensen: drive a herd of longhorns to the backwater railhead of Dodge City. When he arrives there, Smoke finds a town in the grip of terror, its only lawman, Wyatt Earp, outgunned by a cutthroat gang forty strong. The rampage of bank robberies, looting, and cold-blooded murder stirs Smoke's instinct for survival, and his desire for justice. But to take the law's side means braving the West's...
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Marshal Matt Dillon is in charge of Dodge City, a town in the wild west where people often have no respect for the law. He deals on a daily basis with the problems associated with frontier life: cattle rustling, gunfights, brawls, standover tactics, and land fraud. Such situations call for sound judgement and brave actions: of which Marshal Dillon has plenty.
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Recapture the spirit of the American frontier with plain-talking Marshal Matt Dillon, kindly saloon-keeper Miss Kitty, irascible Doc Adams and tender-hearted but gullible Deputy Chester Goode as they uphold the law and bring respectability to the rough and tough town of Dodge City, Kansas.
11) Gunsmoke
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Contains 29 episodes from 1955-1964 of the television series Gunsmoke which features James Arness as Marshall Matt Dillon of Dodge City.
13) To tame a Texan
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BAD BOYS AREN'T HER STYLE
Schoolteacher Lynnie McBride has only one reason for attending the Valentine Ball at the state capital, and it's not romance. The suffragette protest she's planned is sure to get the attention of the governor and the legislators present. But her escort, roguish Ace Durango, is nothing but an irritation-until her "Votes for Woman" banner causes a riot that lands them both in jail, and costs Lynnie her teaching position. Spending...
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Recapture the spirit of the American frontier with plain-talking Marshal Matt Dillon, kindly saloon-keeper Miss Kitty, irascible Doc Adams and tender-hearted but gullible Deputy Chester Goode as they uphold the law and bring respectability to the rough and tough town of Dodge City, Kansas.
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"The Marshal is back in town! Matt Dillon returns for more straight-shooting action and adventure. Join sawbones Doc Adams, saloonkeeper Kitty Russell and deputy Chester B. Goode as they help Matt keep the peace in the roughest, toughest town of the American West: Dodge City, Kansas.
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"It's never a dull day in Dodge City, Kansas. Luckily, the era's best frontier lawman is on duty, Marshal Matt Dillon, a steadfast hero determined to keep the peace as only he knows how. Alongside is Dillon's dedicated deputy, Chester, town saloon gal Miss Kitty and ornery Doc Adams"--Container.
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This season Matt has reason to believe that the new female owner of Lady Gay saloon may have killed the previous owner; Chester finds himself in the uncomfortable position of trying to extract a bullet in order to save Doc's life after the two are ambushed; Belle Ainesly rides into town after a three year absence; and much more.
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Matt Dillon is in charge of Dodge City, a town in the Wild West where people often have no respect for the law. He deals on a daily basis with the problems associated with frontier life: cattle rustling, gunfights, brawls, stand over tactics, and land fraud. Such situations call for sound judgment and brave actions, of which Marshal Dillon has plenty.
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United States Marshal Matt Dillon and the good citizens of Dodge City breathe new life into the Old West. From train-robbing outlaws and claim jumpers to cattle rustlers and bounty hunters, disorder was the order of the day. But it was business as usual for the Marshal and his loyal crew, including Doc Adams, saloon keeper Miss Kitty and steadfast deputy Festus Haggen. Together, they showed American audiences how the West was run, and how justice...