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Broken Moon
(Hardcover)
John L. Lansdale
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R586
R541
Discovery Miles 5 410
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Using real historical events and places adventures are woven into
the life of Luke, a fictional young boy that carries him through
tragedies and successes in the 1880s. Orphaned at the age of 13, he
rides west on his one eyed pony, a Sharps Rifle, and encounters
Indians and cattle drovers. At a buffalo wallow his pony is killed
and he obtains a large black horse. Luke continues west in search
of the horse's true owner. At the Rio Grande River, assistance is
provided by a Padre who sends Luke on west to the Bar-C ranch to
return the black horse. With successful encounters at Socorro and
Magdalena, NM, Luke becomes a ranch hand, where his Sharps is used
on rustlers, mountain lions, and Indians.
The book you are about to read is a story about four men and a
woman. They terrorist people every where they go, they rape, kill,
and rob. The men are Harold the English Man, he is a tall thin
blond man he was very good with explosives. Then there is Anton a
dirty little Mexican that most likely did not know what soap and
water was all about. Sammy, well, he was the strong man with arms
like tree trunks he could snap a man's spine like a twig. Ah
Phillip a lady's man, love them, and then kill them.
The second book in the Lonesome Dove quartet, Comanche Moon, which
follows on from Dead Man's Walk, follows ranchers Gus and Call in
their bitter struggle to protect the advancing West frontier
against the defiant Comanches, courageously determined to defend
their territory and their way of life. It showcases Larry
McMurtry's strong affinity for the landscape and its inhabitants
with a deeply felt lyrical intensity. On the wild Texas frontier
where barbarism and civilization come in many forms, Rangers Gus
McCrae and Woodrow Call are pitched into the long, bitter, bloody
fighting under the command of Captain Inish Scull. When Scull's
favourite horse is stolen by the Comanches, he decides to track him
down, leaving Gus and Call in charge. However, on their return to
Austin, Gus is greeted by the news that his sweetheart is to marry
another man and Call finds that the town's most notorious woman is
desperate to settle down with him and become respectable. When
Scull's wealthy wife demands that her errant husband be brought
home, with feelings akin to relief the two men set off once more
into the vast, untamed plains . . . Continue the series set in the
American West with the Pulitzer Prize winning Lonesome Dove.
The story of Toab and Doc who are traveling back west after
returning to Alabama to pay off Toabs debts. They find a wagon
train going west and join up with them and this is where their
adventure begins. They are hired to find one woman's husband who
has disapeared. In the process Doc has a run in with a member of an
out law gang which causes a collison course with them which turns
even more deadly when it is found Toab has a bounty on him that the
outlaws want to collect. Toab and Doc are faced with defending
themselves and the girls that they met on the wagon train. there is
no backing up for Toab and Doc, and with Toab's since of
responsability they will do all they can to make these out laws pay
for all the evil they have done.
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Warbo
(Hardcover)
Bonita Hunt
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R666
Discovery Miles 6 660
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Buried Confederate treasure, a suspicious death and the fate of
a little girl's birthright conspire to lure a drifting cowhand on
an unwanted journey through post-Civil War Texas. It is a journey
marked by danger, death, and mystery. At the terminus awaits an old
foe, a new love, and unimaginable riches.
Here is the story of young Jeremiah Goldberg, a 10-year-old in the
burg of Stillwater, California in 1880, a boomtown with mystery,
murder, and intrigue at its core. For Jeremiah and his trusty pals,
Rachel Burgoyne and Fong Lee, there's adventure to be mined, and
Red Gold delivers the mother lode with aplomb. Like the dime novels
featuring the setting-the-world-to-rights avenger McAlester, so
beloved of our pint-sized hero, Red Gold tells the tale of a Jewish
boy becoming a man when events threaten to turn Jeremiah's actual
life into a story torn from the pages of pulp fiction.
Hannah Lea Gibson understands it is only a matter of time before
she's discovered and forced to return to her uncle's ranch to
relive a nightmare of blood and terror. Flinching in fear as the
Cafe door opens, she spies the dust stained traveler and realizes
her time has run out..... Texas Ranger Jack Lintell is charged with
the task of delivering Hannah to Texas to stand trial for murder.
But when he and Hannah head out together though the sage cloaked
range of a wild and dangerous west, his skills as a ranger are put
to the test as he too becomes a target. Their nightmare, however,
is only beginning, as Jack and Hannah must race to save their very
lives from men who will stop at nothing to get what they seek. With
time running out, can Jack prove Hannah's innocence and at the same
time uncover a killer's dirty secret without risking his fidelity
to duty which he values more than all else, save the life he has
now sworn to protect...."
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Bar-20 Days
(Hardcover)
Clarence E. Mulford
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R766
R708
Discovery Miles 7 080
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Cry, laugh, and celebrate with Anna Sweeney, as she struggles to
overcome hardships that would destroy other women. With the help of
a Catholic Priest, her husband's former boss, friends from church,
and even total strangers, she endures the murder of her husband,
the death of a son, and other rigors imposed on her by the Civil
War. Live with her as she watches her sons mature and overcome
tueir own adversities and develop into successful adults, and live
their own exciting lives.
The Trail Never Ends, Montana Kid Hammer's third novel in his
series, trails Ornery and Slim into another set of high adventures;
escapades that grow out of the very frontier that holds them fast.
Ornery, a Civil War survivor turned veteran cowhand, and Slim, a
young orphan from Philadelphia and a burgeoning cowman in his own
right, partner up to ride for the brand handled simply as the O U T
(Oh-Ewe-Tee) Spread. Their third season of cow crafting finds this
pair in the company of, or referenced to, such historic old west
personages as, Wyatt Earp, Teddy Blue Abbott, Crazy Horse, and
Teddy Roosevelt. Ornery, Slim, and the other hands of the outfit
experience such calamities as encounters with rustlers, prairie
storms, unsavory saloon types, sheep wars, cantankerous US Army
personnel, and wonderful womanly wiles that up the ante of their
challenges and try both soul and gun hand. Kid's Old West series is
intended to rekindle fond recollections of Old West evenings sat
around campfires to a passel of never before told bone rattling and
hair-raising cowman tales. Offered is a unique opportunity to
'ride' back to those wild and wooly days of America's western
yesteryears.
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