Alan Le May
4) Winter range
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Times were tough in Wolf Bench...and they were about to get tougher. Low beef prices had all the cattlemen going hungry, and rumbling bellies led to itchy trigger fingers. Only one man had been able to keep things under rein, and that was John Mason, not only the most powerful cattleman in the area, but the head of the bank to boot. But then Mason was killed.
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Movie: A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter. Breathtaking scenery gives a picture of frontier families separated by miles of emptiness.
Book: From the moment they left their homestead unguarded on that scorching Texas day, Martin Pauley and Amos Henry became searchers. First they had to return to the decimated ranch, bury the bodies of their family, and confront...
11) The Searchers
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Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater who believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family.
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The shootist: A dying gunman returns to his friend for medical care in his last days, but becomes involved with a window and her son.
El Dorado: An alcoholic sheriff and his gunfighter friend battle cattle barons and businessmen in the Old West.
The searchers: When Ethan Edwards returns from the Civil War to find that Comanches have taken his niece and killed her parents, he sets out after them.
The sons of Katie Elder: The four sons of Katie Elder...