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Brand Justice: A Classic Western
Sam Scott - 2018
and everybody’s armed
Territory of Arizona, 1882: Luther Ames returns to the settlement of Trinity Meadows to discover his brother’s fresh grave. It lies beside the charred remains of his cabin. Billy was shot point-blank and burned with a branding iron.He’s the third such victim in as many weeks.Rumors swirl that Billy was part of a band of cattle rustlers, but Luther knows that’s a lie.Scores of cattle are going missing and the town is on the brink of a shooting war between the homesteaders and the wealthy ranchers.With the killers out for blood, Luther comes across a lone woman hiding in an abandoned shack right in the path of the rustlers. She’s hauntingly beautiful, she’s in danger, and she’s one of the rancher’s daughters.Suddenly the lines that have been drawn are no longer clear.
Allies might be enemies, friendships are not what they seem, and everybody’s armed…
Dead Man's Town (Jake Moran 2)
Robert Broomall - 1988
Railroad terminus and jumping-off point for emigrants headed west, Union City is filled with gamblers, soldiers, settlers, and bad men of all description. It's run by Ned Burr, the notorious Jayhawker, whose name was synonymous with death and desruction during the war. The town council wants to hire a marshal to tame Union City -- and kill Ned Burr. They offer the job to the famous lawman and soldier Jake Moran. Jake doesn't want the job, but he's forced to take it. He has no intention of confronting Burr, though, and makes peace with him. Then Jake falls for Burr's girl . . .
The Lawmen
Robert Vaughan - 2003
In Risco, Texas, John Carmack and Charley Dawson had both held the office of sheriff and built two competing basis of support. But the rivals shared a granddaughter, Lucy, born to Charley's son and John's daughter. Now, Lucy Goodnight has come back to Risco with a desperate Plea: Her banker husband has disappeared. And while most people think he was in on the bank heist, Lucy is sure he was forced to help rob the bank and is now a prisoner of a vicious outlaw gang. For Lucy, the two former lawmen will put aside their differences and strap on their guns one more. In a town where they have nothing but enemies, they must use their wits, their courage, and their skill to free an innocent man, and against a hail of hate and lead, live or die side by side...
The Rifleman (The M. Allen Western Gunfighter Collection #1)
M. Allen - 2017
The United States Bounty Hunter Western Adventures
Blood on the Lance: Crow Killer Series - Book 5
Alfred Dennis - 2020
Hammershield (Clay Brentwood Book 3)
Jared McVay - 2016
Tyrone Brewster walked out of the station; confident this was going to be an easy job. At five foot eight inches, average build, brown eyes, brown hair, brown suit and brown derby hat, with no scars or distinguishing marks, he looked just like any other drummer riding the train. Only, he was no drummer. He was a bringer of death, an assassin, and Hammershield had met his price. Mister Clay Brentwood, Texas Ranger, would be dead long before he reached Dallas.
Seven Fingers a' Brazos
Eric H. Heisner - 2018
When a wagon train of homesteaders is massacred by outlaws, a young male survivor is determined to rescue his stolen siblings. Dragged from his now peaceful existence, former military scout, Holton Lang invests himself in the search for the stolen captives as well as the difficult task of keeping the young man alive. As the search continues across three states, Holton meets old friends and finds new meaning in life as his job of survival embraces a newfound kinship.
The Gunfighter: A Novel
Steven Hardesty - 2017
A classic Wild West novel, tough and true.
"The key to being a live gunfighter instead of a dead one is not to gun fight," said Wyatt Earp."How the hell do I do that?" Ronas said."Get up close and pistol-whip the son of a bitch. Buffalo him to his knees. Shove the barrel in his mouth and make him weep for mercy. Then arrest and shackle him. He won't want to trouble you again."
Hell Or High Water In The Indian Territory: The Adventures of the Dodson Brothers, Deputy U.S. Marshals
Terry Grosz - 2017
Ride with the three Dodson Brothers who experienced the almost total loss of their family members to cattle rustling, raping and murdering ex-confederate soldiers. Soldiers who then fled into the lawless Indian Territory to avoid prosecution in a land where only a few federal lawmen were available to enforce the laws of the land. Follow the tribulations of the three Dodson Brothers who cold track the murderers of their family members throughout the Indian Territory and, without lawful authority other than the rights of man, bring the killers before Federal Judge Isaac “The Hanging Judge” Parker for prosecution. Experience their conversion into Deputy U.S. Marshals at the behest of Judge Parker and then follow their law enforcement adventures as they pursue murderers, bootleggers, horse thieves, cattle rustlers and rapists throughout the Indian Territory wanted by Judge Parker's Court. Warning, be prepared for a surprising ending to the adventures of the three Dodson brothers, Deputy U.S. Marshals… Terry Grosz was a Conservation Officer for more than 32 years initially for the State of California as a fish and game warden and then with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a special agent. His fourteen previous wildlife law enforcement true life adventure books include Wildlife Wars, winner of the National Outdoor book award for nature and environment. He has a two hour movie credit titled “Wildlife Wars” with the Animal Planet T.V. series and is the author of six historical mountain man and western novels. He lives in Colorado.
Saddle Mountain
Paul L. Thompson - 2013
From 1873 until his death in 1896, Judge Isaac Charles Parker policed seventy-four thousand square miles, with two hundred or so lawmen. The area was called by several names; Last of the Western Frontier, Hell’s Fringe, The Nations and Indian Territory just to name a few. Several more names were used, but should not appear in print at this time.
High Plains Ambush
John D. Fie Jr. - 2017
Thomas, WL Cox, and Duane Boehm filled with action, adventure and plot twists such as C. K. Crigger, Robert Vaughan, and C.M. Curtis! This is a book that is filled with the bodies of those who stand again law, order and patriotism! Matt Hutchins, the lone survivor of a wagon train massacre takes on the world to do what is right, and must use guts, guns and glory to bring peace to his people. Found and raised by the Sioux, Matt not only learns the ways of the Sioux, but his survival skills are keenly honed with his tracking abilities used by both the Army and later by the sheriff of a town named Buffalo Flats Matt lives alone on the open plains with his trusted friend and horse ‘Ole Friend, a gift given to him by the Chief Buffalo Robes, the one who taught him how to survive. If you love great Western writing—and you love classic Western movies—you will LOVE “High Plains Ambush.”
The Revenger: Omnibus
Peter Brandvold - 2019
He was taught how to love by some of the most beautiful women in the world.After the War Between the States, the former Confederate came west and joined the frontier cavalry. Wounded by Apaches in Arizona, he was nursed back to health by an old desert rat and his beautiful granddaughter, Jewel.When the prospector and Jewel were viciously murdered by marauding Yankee bluecoats, Sartain hunted the soldiers down and killed them one by one in his own fierce Cajun style, for Jewel had been carrying Sartain’s unborn child. That’s how Mike Sartain’s lust for revenge got started. That’s how he became a wanted man, with a dead-or-alive price on his head.Now, with no choice but to keep on riding, The Revenger rides for anyone who has an ax to grind…
The Revenger: Omnibus includes: A Bullet for Sartain, Death and the Saloon Girl, The Bittersweet War, Gold Dust Woman, Savage Barranca, San Juan Bushwackers, Silver City Wolf Pack, No Mercy, Wild Night at the Sundance and Fatal Woman.
Broken Dog Ranch: Clint Hunter Mountain Man
Mike Mackessy - 2019
The bad dreams and fear of thunderstorms are a result of five years as a Blackfoot, Sioux, Comanche, and Comanchero slave. Now the successful rancher and part time Texas Ranger is expanding his holdings to include a ranch in Kansas and pioneering the breeding and raising of Longhorn-Hereford cattle. But not everything goes his way. After the Civil War, crippling taxes become an arm of the Carpet Baggers and Reconstruction in the southern states.In spite of the adversity, Clint and a collection of colorful characters now call the Broken Dog Ranch, home. Ex-slaves, ex-rustlers, and ex-gunmen and outlaws all celebrate new lives, working together to develop and fine tune the recovery of Texas, the Longhorn, the Cowboy, and the Trail Drive.Overcoming high taxes, rustlers, and cheating businessmen, Clint, his family, and crew exemplify the Spirit of the West.
West of the Dead Line: Tales of an Indian Territory Lawman
Phil Truman - 2017
It ran straight south from Caldwell, Kansas to Fort Reno, I.T., then down through the Cheyenne and Comanche and Kiowa lands, crossing the Red River into Bowie, Texas. It was a line on the map, a demarcation. West of it no law existed, only outlaws. On trails out there, outlaws put notes on trees and posts to let lawmen know they'd be killed if they continued their pursuits west of the Dead Line.In the storied times of the American West, in what was called Indian Territory, no place came close to matching the dangers and mortality U.S.marshals faced doing their jobs. Those who survived became titans in the legends of the West, particularly one man called Bass Reeves. These stories are fiction; the encounters this lawman faced, and The Dead Line, were not.
The Outlaw Hunter
Kathy E. Fisher - 2014
He hunted outlaws like some men hunted wolves or mountain lions. The bounties he collected were simply payments rendered to a workman, and he was a man good at his work. Under Eli’s flint-hard exterior, that was merciless to outlaws, ran a wide streak of kindness that showed itself the day he picked up a starving orphan in Dodge City and took him along. He soon learned that the twelve-year-old Rob Slater harbored a common intent with him – to run down the elusive Parson gang. He for the $10,000 reward, and Rob, because Jude Parson had murdered his folks. Rob asked Eli to teach him the trade so one day he could look Jude Parson in the eye and square things with the killer. Under Eli’s tutorage the two came to turn the outlaw world on its ear until the day Eli honored his brother’s dying request and took his young daughter into his care touching off a series of unexpected changes that would forever mold their futures.