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Rivers West volume 15
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For many bold pioneers headed west, the sweetest sight of all was the Humboldt River, a crooked ribbon of silver snaking through Nevada into California. But to Libby Pike and her family, the Humboldt brought sudden disaster. Stranded with her young daughter, Libby found herself surrounded by hostile renegades and an unforgiving wilderness. Then she stumbled upon a father and his two sons in search of a dream valley where they could settle and prosper....
2) Colorado!
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When the rest of the West was already won...the mountains remained unspoiled and deadly. The men and women who tamed this savage land were tough, lawless and, when necessary, as mean as the traps they carried. They lived by a private code of proud honor and swift justice. Burly, Isaac Beard was the living embodiment of that mountain code. To survive, he fought his way to a safe haven near Spirit Lake in the Colorado upcountry, forged an alliance with...
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Henry Wallace is the son of a prominent physician in late 1800's Boston; it's the last quarter of college before graduation. But Henry never graduates. Forced into a fight for his life, he kills a man who turns out to be the son of Boston's most notorious gangster. Arrested by the police, who are paid off by the gangster, Henry is sentenced to prison for life. He makes a daring escape and becomes a fugitive - not only from the law, but he is constantly...
4) The Russian
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Along the harsh north California coast the otters swam, enough to fill the Russian's trading ships with valuable pelts. So there they raised an outpost. But inland lay another land, a river wilderness where game and grizzly thrived. Into this wild land, stripped of his rank for marrying an Indian girl, Lieutenant Anton Rostov is cast. He is a man without a country, but still he is a man. He can hunt, trap, and conquer. And he discovers a power greater...
5) Silver Winds
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They were on their way to the richest silver strike in human history. Six people who met in a Sierra blizzard enroute to the infamous Comstock Lode. Prim wallflower Holly York, and beautiful Julia Matson with a secret no one could forgive. Clayton James, hopelessly caught between the world of whites and Indians, and brilliant thwarted inventor Glenn Donovan. Fay Taylor, with a singing voice from heaven, and her brother Dade, evil enough to send them...
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Another in the exciting The Horseman Series from America's most true historian who writes fiction more real than fact. Lucas Ballou and his family share a love of wild horses with their Comanche neighbors, but the brutal Kiowa threaten their new start on the Texas frontier. Don't miss this exciting can't put it down action adventure from Gary McCarthy.
8) Blue Bullet
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Ruff Ballou and his sister Dixie journeyed west with trouble at their heels. But luck is on their side in Rum River, New Mexico, where they race one of their champion thoroughbreds to victory. A rich man's greed pits their good fortune against Ruffs life and they must take up a money-making challenge to capture Blue Bullet, the legendary stallion that no man has yet tamed. But their worst enemy is time. A bounty has been placed on Blue Bullet, dead...
11) Wind River
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In a land where justice was found in the barrel of a gun and the line between a decent man and an outlaw was often too thinly drawn, two extraordinary sisters struggled to survive and fought for their freedom. Rebecca, as beautiful and untamable as the mountains of Utah, was forced to marry a brutal polygamist, but she refused to surrender her dream. And Katie risked her life so Rebecca might have a chance for freedom. And she risked everything else...
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Haunted by the blood and bitterness of the Civil War, Houston Ballou escaped from Tennessee on the proud stallion High Fire, followed by his brother Ruff, his sister Dixie, and the last four mares from the Ballou farm, one of them heavy with foal. Threatened with extreme danger from either army, they head west to start a new life. Adding to their peril are deserters that stalk the roads. These men would kill for a few coins, more so for valuable horseflesh....
15) The Horsemen
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THE HORSEMEN, is the story of the Ballou family's brave struggle to fulfill a dream. The Ballous were the finest horsemen in the South, a courageous Tennessee family famous for the training and breeding of glorious thoroughbreds. When the Civil War devastated their home and their lives, they headed west into the heart of Indian territory. As horsemen, they triumphed. As a family, they endured. But as pioneers in a new land, they faced unimaginable...
16) Charlie Coyote
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Half-breed Charlie Coyote takes on the notorious Brahman bull "Buzzard" during an all-Indian Rodeo in Winslow, Arizona. In a twist of fate, Charlie meets up with Elvis Presley and the two begin an unlikely friendship.
17) Transcontinental
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Even while the brewing Civil War threatened to tear the country in half North from South, the race was on to bind the country together East to West by railroad. This was a race by daring men and bold women, partnered in a dream and divided by their unchecked obsessions.
18) Silver Shot
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It's hard-rock mining and rock-hard brawling as the Derby Man takes on a boom town. A man could mine fabulous wealth on the Comstock but Darby Buckingham strikes only a mother lode of trouble. With his sledgehammer fists and sharply honed wits, Darby sets out to expose a spellbinding stock manipulator.
19) North Chase
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He is the most cruelly dangerous opponent the Derby Man has ever challenged, Wesley Bryant, now the crime lord of San Francisco.
20) River Thunder
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On the vast and indescribably beautiful South Rim of the Grand Canyon a young Hualapai boy faces a bleak future in 1902. River Thunder's mother has just passed into the Spirit World and his father has nothing left to give the boy except his hand carved flute and his magical gift for music.
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