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1) BorderLords
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They had settled a bloody score and put the turncoat McAfferty to rest in the snowbound Rockies. Slowly, painfully, the wounded Paddock and Scratch found their way back to the Crow village, where they were welcomed as brother and son. The people of Chief Arapooesh offered rest, healing, and home to the mountain men. Then a misunderstanding over a beautiful Crow woman drove the friends apart, propelling Scratch into the unforgiving wilderness on a...
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Plainsmen volume 16
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Turn the Stars Upside Down is the compelling and little-known story of Crazy Horse's surrender in 1877 only months after his last fight with the U.S. Army at Battle Butte, his futile attempts to find peace for his warrior heart among the reservation Indians, and his eventual undoing at the hands of his own Oglala people.
For all his life, this warrior has been a defender of the weak and helpless. But surrounded now on a tiny red island
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Titus Bass volume Book 6
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High in the Rockies lay the Bayou Salade, a lush beaver-rich valley so untouched that the few white men who had seen it called it paradise. But for Scratch Bass, his young partner Josiah Paddock, and the two Indian women they loved, this paradise would open up a hell of violence. Pursued by a vengeful Arapaho raiding party, Scratch will lead his small band through a flurry of arrows all the way to Taos itself. Yet the trail of blood will not end there....
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Plainsmen volume 4
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Book four of the author's series which recounts little known, but historically important battles between the Indians and the whites who intrude on their territories. It is 1869, and the Kansas Pacific Railway is pushing its way west. Hit-and-run raids by Cheyenne are slowing its progress. In midsummer, the 5th Cavalry mounts a brutal, surprise attack on the encamped Cheyenne. As a result, a new Cheyenne leader emerges. Called White Horse, he leads...
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Plainsmen volume 5
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Book four of the author's series based on the Indian Wars. The novel is set in 1872-1873 near the Oregon Territory. The Modoc Indians and the American officials are on the brink of war. A Modoc chief, Kientpoos, murders a Civil War hero during negotiations, and triggers a U.S. Army offensive against the Modocs. Besieged in Lava Beds near Tule Lake, the Modocs fight for seven months before being defeated when Modoc defectors help turn the tide against...
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Plainsmen volume 6
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Chief White Bear and his Kiowa tribe would accept no more broken promises from the white man, so they left the Indian Territory reservations and crossed the Red River to the south. But, heir last desperate attempt to regain the land of their ancestors meant dead white settlers, embattled soldiers, and shaken supply routes. General Sheridan's seasoned forced were now on the move to stem the Indian tide. And, crack Army Sergeant Seamus Donegan would...
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Plainsmen volume 3
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Entrenched on a poorly shelted island, many of Seamus Donegan's crack squad of Army scouts lie dead...and many more are dying. Led by Major George Forsyth, fifty seasoned plainsmen had combed the Colorado Territory in search of Cheyenne. Along a fork of the Republican River, these brave men suddenly found themselves outnumbered twenty to one. Now Donegan, his fellow scouts, and his long-lost uncle are under attack. As the battle rages, Donegan is...
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Plainsmen volume 14
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By mid-1877, trouble in the Northwest is brewing like a foul broth. Ill will is growing between white settlers and NON-Treaty bands of the Nez Perce. The American government is forcing the Indians from their homelands onto the reservation. Many go quietly, thinking more about their families than of the pride of the warriors. But for a few holdouts, there's no room for compromise. Their history, their heritage and their ancestors are buried beneath...
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Plainsmen volume 13
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The U.S. Army's goal: to wipe out the remnants of scattered, starving people on the frontier's Northern Plain. But, before Colonel Nelson A. Miles, the Bear Coat, launched his spring campaign into the heart of Indian country, the commander took one last stab at negotiations-and called on a Cheyenne woman and the famous half-breed pony scout named Johnny Bruguier. Together, they traveled to the valley of the upper Rosebud River to urge the Sioux to...
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Dying Thunder
Terry Johnston
Newly freed from service with the 10th Cavalry, Seamus Donegan joins a party of buffalo hunters as they follow the shrinking herds into the ancient hunting grounds of the Kiowa and Comanche. The presence of the white men ignites a storm of Indian fury and the group is besieged. Donegan and some 27 men and one woman take shelter in a few sod shanties. They hold off over 700 braves for five days in
11) Carry the wind
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Young Josiah Paddock flees his past in St. Louis, but his present in the Teton Mountains during winter doesn't look promising until he hooks up with Ol' Scratch, a solitary mountain man who teaches Josiah how to survive in the land of Blackfeet and Crow, pioneers and sensual women.
12) Wind walker
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Titus Bass volume 6
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This work brings an end to the eight-book epic adventures of frontier mountain man Titus Bass. In this final installment, Titus and his family rejoin his old friend, Shadrach Sweete, while fleeing the Taos Rebellion in the 1840s. Together, they decide to head to the north, to Crow territory, where Titus' wife has family. Along the way they face dangers from the land, the weather, and, most of all, their fellow man. Perhaps the greatest dangers are...
14) Winter rain
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Jonah Hook was a man who had lost everthing a man could lose--but the iron will to reclaim what had been taken from him. Now he must confront the fiery religious heretic who has enslaved his wife and the fierce Comanche tribe who has raised his long-lost sons. From Fort Laramie, land of Sioux and Cheyenne, to the empire of the Mormons in the shadow of tall mountains, and on to the Texas Panhandle, where we will join the ranks of the Texas Rangers,...
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Titus Bass volume 4
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The continuing adventures of Titus Bass, a 19th century fur trapper married to an Indian woman as he tries to survive despite over-trapping by such giants as the Hudson Bay Company. In this seventh installment Bass fights wolves.
