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His background is shadowy, his presence commanding. He brings law and order to a frontier town and wins the love of a pretty schoolteacher from the East. He is the Virginian -- the first fully realized cowboy hero in American literature, a near-mythic figure whose idealized image has profoundly influenced our national consciousness. This enduring work of fiction marks his first appearance in popular culture -- the birth of a legend that lives with...
3) Tempest
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Old west volume 3
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What kind of mail-order bride greets her intended with a bullet instead of a kiss? One like Regan Carmichael - an independent spirit equally at home in denims and dresses. Shooting Dr. Colton Lee in the shoulder is an honest error, but soon Regan wonders if her entire plan to marry a man she's never met is a mistake. Colton, who buried his heart along with his first wife, insists he only wants someone to care for his daughter. Yet Regan is drawn to...
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In the 1880s, Jane Love comes to Timbertown, Wyoming to escape her heritage and begin a new job and an independent new life. But upon her arrival, she discovers that she and 19 other women were recruited, not to work, but to become wives of lumberjacks. Jane is appalled by the arrangement but agrees to a mock marriage with the town's owner.
14) Crossing Wyoming
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"Crossing Wyoming achieves a narrative scope and unity rare in any gathering of stories. A complex, moving book, [it] conveys the colorful, violent sweep of American history, the majesty and vulnerability of its wilderness, and the suffering and patient endurance of its citizens--natives and newcomers alike...it's difficult to imagine any reader coming away unshaken by [Romtvedt's] powerful, compassionate vision."--The Georgia Review
15) Cattle Kate
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Cattle Kate is the only woman ever lynched as a cattle rustler. History called it 'range land justice' when she was strung up in Wyoming Territory on July 20, 1889, tarring her as a dirty thief and a filthy whore. But history was wrong. It was all a lie. Her real name was Ella Watson. She wasn't a rustler. She wasn't a whore. And she'd never been called Cattle Kate until she was dead and they needed an excuse. She was really a 29-year-old immigrant...
17) The Yellowstone
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Ride down the greatest American rivers of the West with Native Americans, mountain men, French trappers, bold women, and mystical wanderers. The Wild Rivers West series is richly told historical fiction of high adventure. Longings and determination are experienced through the characters, events, and luxurious writing. Read it. Live it! Native Americans, the first few white people who dared to explore the West, and the settlers who followed all, braved...
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A bitter struggle is brewing between the big cattlemen and the small nesters in the Buck River country. The hard-bitten Calhoun Terry, who used to be a small-time cowboy, has come to believe that the big ranches are better able to develop the country than the small cattlemen. Joining his small ranch to the larger Diamond Reverse B in exchange for the position as manager of the larger ranch seemed like an excellent move for him, but it has aroused...
19) Hell's Jaw Pass
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Wolf Stockburn railroad detective volume 2
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"The building of the transcontinental railroad is the story of America itself. Full of great dreams - and greater dangers - it required bold vision, back-breaking work, and one brave man to stop the baddest of the bad men every step of the way. His name is Wolf Stockburn, railroad detective... NEXT STOP, HELL. ALL ABOARD! The killers are organized - and ruthless. One by one, they slaughter a railroad crew at Hell's Jaw Pass in Wyoming Territory. No...
20) Willow Creek
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Cheyenne trilogy volume 3
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Now that Willow Spring lay just five miles down the narrow, two-lane highway, Alana wondered if her reason had deserted her when she’d packed her bags and decided to take this journey. Isn’t it often said, you can’t go back? What did she expect to find except old memories better laid to rest? Perhaps that was it. Going back might lay to rest feeling that kept returning. Nothing can change the past. Is that what she wanted to do? Change the past?...