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1) The way west
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Second in the epic adventure Big Sky series. The wise and paternal mountain man Dick Summers agrees to pilot a wagon train full of 'greenhorns' on a journey from Missouri to Oregon. The passengers confront not only the wild grandeur of the untamed west, but also their own reasons for leavign everything behind. They struggle with the imperfect reality of their long held dreams. Resolve is tested, nature is conquered, and men are made or unmade in this...
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ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND TRAVELERS had crossed the Oregon Trail during the gold rush of 1849. Even the most backwoods warrior understood what that meant: disease, death, and conflict with the whites. As a result of the Treaty of 1851, some Indians were convinced that the country to the north—called Absaraka—might be a better option for a home range. At the very least, it held the promise of less trouble from the whites. The danger from
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Patience Cavanaugh has lost hope for romance. When the man she yearned for died, her dreams went with him. Now she's restoring a boardinghouse in order to support herself. It seems like a perfect arrangement: Patience needs the help of someone with a strong back, and Sheriff Jedediah Jones needs a source of food for himself and his prisoners. But Patience gets more than she bargained for as she explores the depths of the "hanging lawman."
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"A young woman torn between duty and her own happiness defies her father to become the wife of a man with few prospects. Based on a true story"--
Mollie Sheehan has spent much of her life striving to be a dutiful daughter and honor her father's wishes, even when doing so has led to one heartbreak after another. After all, what options does she truly have in 1860s Montana? But providing for her stepfamily during her father's long absences doesn't...
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Merlin Fanshaw western volume 1
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It is the end of the year 1882 in Progress County in the Montana Territory, when young Merlin Fanshaw finds himself caught between the competing agendas of a ruthless outlaw, two very different lawmen, and one pretty girl.
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Virtues and vices of the old West volume 3
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All of her life, Grace Bidwell has longed for a loving husband and children, but now the chances of her dreams coming true are looking slim. Widowed and caring for her elderly father, she struggles to maintain her late husband's ranch, until she places an ad for a hired hand. Robert Frasier arrives in town with three pitiful, bedraggled children who have nothing but the tattered clothes on their backs and a load of hurt, pride, and anger. Believing...
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A handsome cowboy with laughing eyes. Gus McQueen sweeps like a Western wind through Boston's staid stifled by fear of her stern father. When Gus proposes marriage, Clementine impulsively accepts. Montana is all Clementine has dreamed it could be...and far, far more. The harsh realities of frontier life are a shock, but it is Gus's ne'er-do-well brother Rafferty whose raw masculinity steals her breath away. Gus is the man she married, though, and...
9) The big sky
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The first in an epic western saga that spans over a hundred years in the course of six novels. Boone Caudill travels west to the Rockies, leaving his abusive father to find a life of freedom in the wild. He wins the love of a beautiful Blackfoot princess, a woman willing to love him despite his wild ways. Their lives become forever entwined through adventure, travel, and eventually betrayal. He finds that freedom comes at a price, higher than he ever...
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Rachel Matthews isn't one to rely on others to take care of her. Destitute and alone, she still wants to make her own way and her own money -- even if she's forced into the life of a dance hall girl. Horrified by her circumstances, Rachel's brother sends a friend -- the widely admired cattle baron John McIntyre -- to rescue her, then sets off to earn enough money to buy back the family ranch. But when months pass without her brother's return, Rachel...
14) The high divide
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Abandoned by her husband and her two sons who went out to search for him, Gretta Pope must follow her family across the rugged badlands of 1880s Montana.
16) Lodestar
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Set in the 1880s, Lodestar tells the tale of Persis MacKinney, whose adventures are played out during the historically rich and heady days of mining, railroads, and Copper Kings.
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Barnabus Pike is no gunfighter and not much of a street fighter. Eddie Holt is a black boxer in a white man's world. They've both taken their share of hard knocks. Now they're looking to survive a brutal winter in a remote Montana line shack, collect their pay, and settle down for good. Then they cross paths with a hardworking Irish immigrant and his beautiful, spirited sister, who've been burned off their land. It's a fight Pike and Holt don't want,...
19) The big dark sky
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Drawn to a Montana homestead and to a strange childhood companion she'd long forgotten, Joanna Chase and others converge on this remote ranch where a madman lurks with a vision to save the future through murder, forcing them all to come together to save themselves--and humanity.
As a girl, Joanna Chase thrived on Rustling Willows Ranch in Montana until tragedy upended her life. Now thirty-four and living in Santa Fe with only misty memories of the...
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A son sets out to make things right and avenge his father's death in this dark Western noir. Ethan Wilder has been off in the mountains hunting for the last several months. Upon his return to the family Bar Five Ranch, Wilder finds his life in chaos. His brother, Ben, after taking his father's rifle without permission, has locked his father in the outhouse to avoid punishment. Another brother, Vic, is in jail, accused of beating up a girl in town,...