Zane Grey
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New Englander Wayne Cameron was at the end of his rope. To satisfy the hopes of his parents, the 24-year-old idealist had tried a year of law at Harvard and a year of medicine. Unfortunately, the search for a profession had left him frustrated and uninspired. Wayne Cameron wanted to be out in open country, part of an event. So on a summer day in 1861, he boarded a westbound stagecoach for Omaha. In his pocket was a newspaper clipping announcing the...
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"The Rustlers of Pecos County" is another fantastic example of Western fiction by the master of the genre, American Author Zane Grey. This book is highly recommended for all lovers of Western fiction and constitutes a must-read for fans of Grey's seminal work. Contents include: "Vaughn Steele And Russ Sittell", "A Kiss And An Arrest", "Sounding The Timber", "Steele Breaks Up The Part", "Cleaning Out Linrock", "Enter Jack Blome", "Diane And Vaughn",...
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Linc Bradway comes to Wyoming to avenge his pardner's murder. He meets the passionate Kit Brandon whose beauty brings her rustled maverick cattle from local range-riders. Though he plans to steer clear of her, Linc finds himself fighting past crooked gamblers, gunslingers, lynchings, and a range war on a trail that leads him closer and closer to the Maverick Queen.
6) Wyoming
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With cattle rustling on the rise in the cattle town of Randall, Wyoming, newcomers Martha Ann Dixon and Andrew Bonning join the ranchers in their fight to protect their livestock.
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Logan Huett thought he knew the West. Once a scout with the Army, he was familiar with both the hardships and rewards of pioneer life. But not even Logan could foresee the challenges that lay ahead for him and his young wife Lucinda--raising a brood of headstrong children, struggling to achieve financial security in the wilderness, concealing a long-buried family secret, and, finally, surviving the tragedy dealt them by a devastating war.
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Lucy Watson leaves home when she finishes her schooling and joins a pioneer community in the Old West. She is appointed welfare instructor of isolated backwoods folk. She quickly overcomes their fears, and achieves popularity by the practical results of her work. She is especially successful with a strong, uncouth bee-hunter.
10) Forlorn River
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Ben Ide has been driven from his home ranch and sweetheart, and is suspected of cattle rustling. In order to clear his name, he must find the real thieves.
11) Majesty's rancho
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After Lance Sidway comes to beautiful Madge Stewart's defense and ends up on the wrong side of the law, he escapes to Arizona and finds work on her father's ranch. Madge is kidnapped by a gang of cattle rustlers, and Sidway must intervene once again to save her life--even at the cost of his own.
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Great Western Edition volume 58
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Lark Burrell loves wild horses and, with the help of a handsome man, she finds the courage to confront someone who traps and sells wild horses to chickenfeed manufacturers.
15) Lost pueblo
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Rich easterner Janey Endicott comes to Arizona with her father, where she is bored until she meets archeologist Phillip Randolph, who is investigating ancient Indian pueblos in the midst of the West's wild culture.
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He was a solitary prospector in the vast Sonoran Desert, but on a shelf of rock he left a little tin for his daughter. Richard Gale's idle sojourn in the West came to a screeching halt when he arrived in an Arizona border town and plunged into the life of a border ranger. Yet when he met Nell Burton, he realized for the first time why the West had beckoned him. But Nell's background wasn't very impressive--she had no family, no dowry. Then one day...