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"Thunder in the Wind" is an historical novel about the deculturization of reservation Indians in the late eighteen hundreds. The story shows how the Assiniboine, and one family in particular, dealt with being subjected to an Indian Bureau that subscribed to the ethic popular at the time of "white man's burden." The main character's response was as confused and counterproductive as everyone else's. For quite a while he was lost. Those today who are...
42) The Bar-20 Three
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A HARD-RIDING, QUICK-SHOOTING ADVENTURE, FEATURING HOPALONG CASSIDY Hopalong Cassidy, Red Connors and Johnny nelson rode across the searing inferno of the Staked Plains and challenged Kane-who dominated the country like a colossus.They rode with vengeance in their hearts and with an implacable resolve to wipe Kane and his cohorts out."Kane," Johnny said, "you've been too big for too long. We're cutting you down to size-with guns."Johnny Nelson, Hopalong...
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Cutthroat Comancheros, wandering banditos, the Mexican Army, the Fourth Cavalry-and Miss Vanessa Fontaine-all want Duane Braddock, who has the fastest gun in the West and much more than a price on his head. But it is the Apaches who leave him for dead in the Coahuilian Desert. Found by a ragtag outlaw band led by an ex-Confederate soldier, Braddock is brought back to the land of the living. By the time he is well enough to run, a greedy plan to seize...
44) War Eagles
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In the North, a lanky lawyer named Abraham Lincoln was recovering from a brutal political setback. In the South, eloquent US Senator Jefferson Davis was risking all in a race for governor of his native Mississippi. And far to the Southwest, the future of the frontier was being decided as the US Army, under Colonel Bull Moose Sumner, faced the growing alliance of Native Americans led by the great Mangas Coloradas and determined to defend their ancestral...
45) The spoilers
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It takes a man with guts
A rare breed of bullbog and bloodhound, private detective Luke Starbuck has been hired to ferret out the Judas working for the Central Pacific-a mastermind behind a string of train robberies. The target: gold shipments from the Frisco mint. All Starbuck has to do is pass himself off as an outlaw and infiltrate the pack...
To take on the Barbary Coast
But chumming up to a gang leader like Denny O'Brien means that Starbuck...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Indian wars, lynch mobs, desert crossings, mining camps, stagecoach robberies-all are brought vividly to life in Owen Wister's Red Men and White, the first book of western stories written by the author of the classic cowboy novel, The Virginian. Published in 1895, most of the stories in Red Men and White are based on actual events as told to Wister during his extensive...
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John Ermine of the Yellowstone (1902) is Frederic Remington's greatest literary achievement. A tragic and realistic story about race, identity, love, and the frontier is still a favorite of American readers today. John Ermine, known to his Crow tribe as White Weasel, must choose between the tribe that became his family and his white heritage. Although John sees himself as Native American at heart, he chooses to side with his white forbears and serve...
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Trail drive series volume 6
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Stampedes, rustlers, and hostile Indians wouldn't slow them down. They were bound for Kansas, and a Texas-sized fight!
The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maerick longhorns and the brains, brown and boldness to drive them north where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-blazing trail drives.
The Shawnee Trail
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50) Outlaw Hell
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Everyone tells Duane Braddock to stay out of Escondido. But a month alone in the desert, even with his keen Apache-trained survival skills, is a month too long. He's just partial to trouble-and when he's hired to bring order to the outlaw town, there's plenty for the taking. Before the day is out, four bullies are dead and the cold-blooded killer responsible is just warming up for his real target-Braddock. Duane knows that the truth about his family...
51) The Plunderer
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The Plunderer by Roy Norton is a Western novel about a young cowboy named Frank Lawler, who is framed for a crime he didn't commit. He manages to escape from jail and sets out to clear his name and bring the real culprit to justice. Along the way, he meets a woman named Belle who is also seeking revenge against the same man. Together, they embark on a dangerous journey filled with gunfights, horse chases, and unexpected twists and turns. As they get...
52) Apache Moon
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Everyone in town says Braddock is innocent. Two men are dead at the Bar T Ranch: a clear case of self-defense. But an angry Army officer has personal reasons for pressing charges and Braddock is on the run, headed for Mexico with marriage on his mind and high-spirited Phyllis at his side. Between Mexico and freedom lays treacherous Apache land. It could spell cruel death. For Braddock, it becomes a haven-a place to discover a priceless piece of his...
53) Desert Hawks
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The year was 1846, and the great American Southwest was the prize in an epic conflict. The US Army and the army of Mexico met in a battle that would shape the course of history, while the legendary Apache warrior chief Mangas Coloradas looked on, determined to defend his ancestral lands and age-old tribal traditions against either of the invaders or both.
On this bloody battlefield young Lieutenant Nathanial Barrington faced his first great test of...
54) Summer Warpath
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The summer warpath began in late spring 1876 and was one laid out under the command of General George Crook, perhaps the most experienced Indian fighter in the United States Army at that time. Among other officers under Crook's command was the daring and resourceful Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and the 7th Cavalry. The purpose of the campaign was to round up the wild tribes of the Cheyennes and Sioux and place them on reservations.
Walt...
55) Beginner's Luck
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He killed before he could shoot, kissed before he could love, won before he could lose. He was too green to live, too lucky to die. He was a natural, born to be a legend. Beginner's Luck. Bastard son of an outlaw and a whore, handsome Duane Braddock, seventeen, stumbles off the stage into lawless Titusville and gets his first look at the real world just before he's robbed. Two weeks out of the monastery that raised him, Duane can't ride a horse, shoot...
56) Wagon Train West
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Kit Butler and Lige Turner are weathered trackers-trappers who once lived among the Dakota people as brothers, learning their language, their land, and their way of life. Now, with the fur trade dwindling, they find themselves guides for a wagon train-a group of emigrants leaving behind the comforts of the world they know for the Wild West. The problem is, they have to pass through hostile Dakota Indian territory to reach their destination.The members...
57) Devil Dance
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The year 1858 dawns blood red in the untamed Southwest, even as in the East the country moves towards civil war. Leadership of the most warlike Apache tribe has passed to the great warrior chief Cochise, who burns to avenge the poisoning of an Indian child. Meanwhile, the U.S. Army is out to end Apache power with terror instead of treaties. As these two great fighting forces circle for the kill on a map stained by massacre and ambush, former dragoon...
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The master of Western pulp fiction really did hunt mountain lions in the Grand Canyon. In this 1911 sequel to The Young Forester, he writes from his own experience. The book follows the adventures of Ken Ward and his younger brother as they spend a summer trailing dangerous game through the treacherous winding passages of one of the most beautiful landscapes on Earth.
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John Henry Cole, working as a deputy US marshal out of Judge Isaac Parker's court in Fort Smith, Arkansas, was on assignment in the Indian Nations when he was shot and seriously injured. Now, fifteen years later, employed as a deputy for Judge Roy Bean in Texas, Cole receives a personal summons from Judge Parker to appear in his court within thirty days. Cole isn't inclined to go, but he knows whatever's on Judge Parker's mind is serious and decides...
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