L. P Holmes
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Disputed land pits two Indian tribes against each other in a life-or-death battle!
Reece Canby spent years as a youngster on the nearby Mescalero Apache reservation. By treaty, the Mescalero tribe owns the Sentinel Basin. But the Mescaleros' grazing land is desired by members of the Teepee tribe, who are looking to expand their cattle herd.
The Teepees stir up trouble with the Mescaleros so that the federal government will have to intervene. Dobe...
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"Two western stories--'Black Rock Desert' and 'The Desert Rider'--find two young men returning to the towns where their hopes were shattered. Each one finds that past experiences have prepared him to face the challenges waiting for him as he helps expose and stop shady characters"--
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"When word of the Pony Express being formed reached Clay Roswell in Texas, he decided to get a job as a rider. He was told his best chance for such a job was along the desert stretch in Nevada Territory, so that was where he headed. Along the trail, he met two brothers, Jess and Hoke Pickard, and agreed to team up with them, at least as far as Salt Lake. They made camp one night in Weber Can, east of Salt Lake, but as Roswell lay in his blankets,...
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2016
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256 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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"Dave Kerchival inherits the Lazy Y when its owner, Bill Yeager, is dry-gulched and decides to continue Yeager's practice of allowing the plains ranchers access to summer graze on the Mount Cherokee plateau--a decision that puts him at war with Abel Hendron of the War Hatchett spread who wants that access closed"--
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2017.
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238 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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It was a long journey that no one had tried before. Jeff Kennett and his drovers have brought a herd of 2,000 longhorns from Texas to California through a northern route that has taken them two years to complete. The Gold Rush is on and there is a tremendous demand for beef and no way to get it. Kennett believes he can make a fortune by transporting the cattle by riverboat from Lassen Meadows down the Sacramento River for sale in San Francisco. He...
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2018.
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319 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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"Two Western stories--In 'Wolf brand' rancher Vike Gunnison is targeted when he sides with the farmers against the railroad's attempt to cheat them out of their land. In 'Doom Patrol' rancher Buck Comstock is wrongfully convicted of murder, but escapes and leads the fight against the men who are trying to take over Twin Buttes"--