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Hank the Cowdog volume 39
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Hank the Cowdog and Deputy Drover investigate a monster that appears just as they are about to arrest Eddy the Rac for ripping one of Sally May's sheets while it hangs on the clothesline.
82) Black Hat Butte
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Braden wasn't looking for trouble. He was just a ranch had looking for stray horses. But trouble found him. Trouble in the form of talk. He heard aabout someone doing something pretty low and getting away with it, and it started to work on his mind.
83) Lone heart pass
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Ransom Canyon volume 3
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With a career and a relationship in ruins, Jubilee Hamilton is left reeling from a fast fall to the bottom. The run-down Texas farm she's inherited is a far cry from the second chance she hoped for, but it and the abrasive foreman she's forced to hire are all she's got. Every time Charley Collins has let a woman get close, he's been burned. So Lone Heart ranch and the contrary woman who owns it are merely a means to an end, until Jubilee tempts him...
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Hank the Cowdog volume 26
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When there is a theft at the ranch and Miss Beulah is kidnapped, Hank the Cowdog uses his sleuthing skills.
85) Breaking clean
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The author describes her life in the contemporary American West and the skills she developed to survive in a man's world as she details her experiences with blizzards, prairie fires, and extreme isolation in the harsh western landscape.
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When out-of-work wedding planner Mariah Callahan learns that her estranged father has left her a rundown ranch in Jubilee, she has no choice but to accept it. Her goal? Redeem her career by planning local weddings. The obstacle? One emotionally wounded, hard-living cowboy who stirs her guilt, her heartstrings, and her long-burned cowgirl roots . . .
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Montana Creeds volume 2
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The town librarian, Kristy Madison, is speechless when Dylan Creed turns up for story time with a toddler in tow. The man who'd left a string of broken hearts is back, and she's determined to tame his wild ways once and for all.
89) The hope within
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In 1886, Montana stands on the brink of statehood, and Dianne Selby finds her world turned upside down. Cole takes her and the children to Kansas to care for his dying father. After the funeral, Cole's mother insists he stay and take over his inheritance. Unable to deal with her mother-in-law's cruel treatment, Dianne takes the children back to Montana alone. There, blizzards devastate the area, trapping a now pregnant Dianne at the ranch.
90) A rush of wings
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Running from terrors both recent and remembered, Noelle flees her New York mansion for the Rocky Mountains, seeking a hiding place from the men who betrayed her. Her sanctuary is a horse ranch, where she discovers solace in the breathtaking scenery she paints. As the attentions of two brothers slowly soften the wall she hides behind, the past she yearns to escape becomes a menacing threat she cannot deny.
91) Rancho alegre
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Down-on-his-luck cowpoke Jimmy Clevis needs some money in a hurry. When he receives a job offer from an old fellow named Tull, Clevis quickly accepts. Soon he's heading south to Paloma Springs on a mission to find the man's missing son but big trouble lays in wait.
92) Six bits a day
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Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country.
The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits-75 cents-a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching...
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Byrnes family ranch volume 7
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""Chet Byrnes has built a ranching empire from the ground up. And he's defended it with his sweat, blood and a ragtag band of ranch-hand fighters. Now a beautiful young Spanish widow comes into Chet's life, just as he starts off in search of a lost cattle drive that heads straight into the eye of a sprawling, violent storm. Chet, and his men--and his seductive new woman--end up on a wild ride through Nebraska, Colorado and Kansas, where authorities...
96) Claiming ground
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In 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating from college, leaves her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming?s Big Horn Basin. Inexorably drawn to this life of solitude and physical toil, a young woman in a man?s world, she is perhaps the strangest member of this beguiling community of drunks and eccentrics. So begins her unabating search for a place to belong and for the raw materials with which...
97) Lonesome land
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Lonesome Land (1912) delicately balances an idealistic, romantic view of the American West with its hard, gritty reality. Although focused on the West's often lonesome and open lifestyle, scenes of true Western-genre suspense appear in this critical yet beautiful imaging of the land and its pioneers. Valeria Peyson has spent her life on the East Coast and, therefore, holds a beautifully serene vision of the West in her mind. But in relocating to Hope,...
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Horseman, Pass By tells the story of Homer Bannon, an old-time cattleman who epitomizes the frontier values of honesty and decency, and Hud, his unscrupulous stepson. Caught in the middle is the narrator, Homer's young grandson Lonnie, who is as much drawn to his grandfather's strength of character as he is to Hud's hedonism and materialism. When first published in 1961, Horseman, Pass By caused a sensation in Texas literary circles for its stark,...