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Cripple Creek, Colorado is the most infamous sinkhole of vice and violence in the Rockies. The town's steamy bordello row and gambling halls beckon to Brad Medford who is set on tasting all the pleasures a young man can find. He sets out across the long miles to reach Cripple Creek and prove himself a man, but misfortune takes a hand when Brad's path crosses that of a renowned gunfighter. It turns out Brad's first meal in Cripple Creek may be his...
5) Sodbuster
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Sodbusters are about equal to farm animals on the social scale of the ranching community of Wyoming in the 1870's. Zach and Carrie Bennett, teen-aged children of that wretched class, are determined to escape the scorn. They resolve to trek to Texas on foot. They are babes on the prairie, ignorant of the geography and hostility. This incredible journey through the lawless West reveals human nature at its most base, and unveils a capacity for violence
...7) McKendree
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A WORLD GONE BAD…The West had been good to Josh McKendree. He had built a new life for himself with a loving wife and a fine young son. Then half-breed trapper Jacques Ribalt took it all away from him when he slaughtered McKendree's family over a simple land dispute. From that day on, McKendree had only one thing left – a need to make Ribalt pay for what he did. And the West became just a place where his family's killer was hiding. But no matter...
10) Gunsight range
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"When an unpopular rancher is murdered, even the sheriff didn't work too hard to solve the case. A year later, a hardboiled detective is hired to reopen the case. Everyone wanting him to leave town and keep the case closed gives Greg Quist the incentive he needs to complete the job"--
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"Clint Morgan was a giant of a man, but his love for his foreman's wife had produced a son while his foreman was away with the Confederate Army. When Kehoe Lamb returned, the boy was sent to his mother's relatives. Eighteen years later, Morgan Lamb returns and the violence that has been building finally erupts"--
14) Devil's wind
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Matt Kendal believed vengeance belonged to the Lord--even after four savage bandits swept through the tiny village of San Pablo, leaving nothing but a smoking corpse-strewn ruin. Before escaping into the parched desert of the Arizona Territory, the killer
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"$10,000: Dead or Alive. That was the price on Jack Rodiker's head. But after seven years on the run, the tough-muscled young cowpuncher had only one thing on his mind--vengeance. A woman's word had branded him an outlaw, and he'd come back to his home range to clear his name. "When I take her by the throat," he said, "she'll tell me what I want to know!" But the Santsander Valley was rumbling with a lot more than a worn-out murder charge. A bloody...
16) The gringo amigo
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Irish immigrant Michael Callahan gets the gold fever and stakes a claim in California. Just when persistence and ingenuity finally payoff, he is jumped by thieves intent upon taking his gold and his life.