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(0)Frank Bonham
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A double dose of Western action from one of the genre's acknowledged masters
The first story, "The Rodeo Killer," is a smoldering tale of the violent intersecting conflict between New Mexico cattle ranchers, cattle buyers, and men breeding horses for the rodeo circuit. Greed, deceit, trickery, and murder mix with romance and gripping examples of human and animal courage in this thrilling and dramatic tale.
The title story, "Mission Creek," references...
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"In 'Sergeant Forson's Dirty-Shirt Army' a seasoned sergeant tries to turn undisciplined recruits into true soldiers despite his commanding officer's indifference, but things change when Major King learns his daughter's stagecoach will likely be attackedby Indians. 'Furnace Flat' tells of Grady Ryan's attempt to get rich mining borax in Death Valley"--
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"Two short western novels: 'Trouble at Temescal' tells the story of two entrepreneurial mustangers in Los Angeles after the Mexican-American War and 'King of the Defiances' involves a greedy rancher in Arizona who is trying to make a fortune in logging through devious means and the man determined to stop him"--
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"Searching for a missing man in the Arizona territories was a job Henry Logan was eager to take. His lungs, damaged from malaria during the Spanish-American War, could use a rest. But when the people of Nogales got the mistaken impression that he was a gunman instead of a gunsmith, Logan suddenly found himself the target of jeers -- and bullets. All of which made it harder to uncover the truth about the missing Rip Parrish, especially when the evidence...
5) Furnace Flat
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Something tan and cylindrical struck the roof and rolled off. The men inside didn't wait for the dynamite to blow; they lurched into the sunlight, firing as they ran. A brutal war began when two bold men left Kane's mine to work their own strike. This was the final battle.
6) Dakota man
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2014
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335 pages ; 22 cm
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"Five western stories about men who stood their ground"--
9) Rawhide guns
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2023.
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276 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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"Jim Harlan had to rawhide a railroad across some of the wildest country of New Mexico, but the cattlemen of the Magdalena Basin had an even tougher job. They had to try to stop him! What Harlan knew about railroading was slung from his belt, but it was more than enough. Jim was sure this railroad project would be easier than ones he had worked on in Mexico, where his partner had ended up in front of a firing squad for choosing the wrong side to build...
10) Trago
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2012
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239 p. ; 23 cm.
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September, 1893. Trago remembered when he could ride all day and not cross a fence. But now the "boomers" were coming. In 24 hours the land rush would begin and the last of the open range would be settled and fenced - unless he and a renegade Congressman could turn back history with their guns!