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Zane Grey's first historical western is the story of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad across the plains and through the mountains and deserts to meet up with the Southern Pacific in Utah. Brilliant civil engineer Warren Neale, sided by Texas gunfighter and friend Larry Red King, are constantly confronted with construction problems, lawlessness, corruption, and the danger of Indian attacks.
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Five Star
Pub. Date
[2011]
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First edition.
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It's been eight years since Sam Holt brought his family overland from the Willamette Valley to Paradise Valley and began the Rainbow Ranch. Along with his wife Helen, son Bruce, and daughter Mary, Sam brought Morgan Drew, the orphaned son of his banker friend. Since then, Morgan has created his own Big D ranch, the area's second largest, and has got his eye on the largest. Romances blossomed, rivalries formed and feuds erupted. But now the Paiutes...
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Five Star
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2011.
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First edition.
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Here are two short novels by Lewis B. Patten, written at the height of his powers, collected now for the first time in book form. Dance-Hall Gal is the story of young Tom Otis. Since he was old enough to ride herd, he worked on his father's Anchor Ranch. When his father died suddenly, he inherited Anchor. It was then that Will Geier of the Adams City bank informed Tom that there was a lien on the ranch because of a $10,000 note owed to the bank by...
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Five Star
Pub. Date
[2013]
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First Edition.
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It was referred to in the national press and by historians as the Battle at the Little Bighorn or the Custer Massacre. The Indians involved in the conflict termed it in their unwritten languages the Greasy Grass Fight. What actually happened in that battle seems chaos and confusion. Custer was an idiot. He was a hero. He did everything right (just everything went wrong). He did everything wrong (and nothing went right). There were fifteen hundred...
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Unlikely hero Sammy Gregg has never met a challenge he won't face head on, but he hasn't met outlaw Chester Furness!
Born in Brooklyn, Sammy Gregg is small in stature and naive to the ways of the world, yet headstrong and resolute to save enough money to marry Susie Mitchell. Gregg calculates that he needs $15‚000 and figures he can earn enough in six months out west. Although he is a small man who knows nothing of fighting‚ guns‚ or horses‚...
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Five Star, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2014]
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First edition.
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Boone McCallister was interviewed in 1937 for the American Legends Collection, a part of the Federal Writer's Project. Speaking into an Edison Dictaphone, he narrated the events concerning a dangerous cattle drive in Florida back when the state was still largely unsettled. Here is the story of a young man's first cattle drive in 1864 and the legend of David Klee and an encounter with an alligator.
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