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1) Joe Pepper
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Aging Texas gunfighter Joe Pepper reminisces about his life of adventure throughout the Old Southwest while preparing to face the hangman's noose.
2) Llano River
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In "Llano River," Dundee works to stop a cattle rustling operation and gets caught in the middle of a deadly feud.
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Deputy Sheriff Jim-Bob McClain isn't sure he's ready to follow in his father's footsteps as the law in Coolridge County. In fact, he has a hard enough time keeping the peace between the drunks in the local saloon. But with tough Sheriff Mont Naylor to back him up he figures he can handle whatever comes his way. Jim-Bob's first real assignment is no piece of cake. He must escort a ruthless outlaw into the hands of justice. All seems well with the lawless...
5) Dark thicket
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A wounded Confederate soldier returns home to find the state of Texas bitterly divided by the Civil War.
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When his brother, Walter, decides he wants to settle down with a girl he just met and become a farmer, fun-loving Hewey Calloway saves him from this "fate worse than death" by getting them both hired on a cattle drive, taking them into the exciting world of cattle barons, rival cowboy gangs, and rustling.
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A six-time winner of the Western Writers of America's Spur Award, Elmer Kelton is the premier Western storyteller of his time. Eyes of the Hawk, winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Novel, is an outstanding tale of Texas-filled with authentic characters and history, and telling the story of the outstanding courage and determination of the men and women who challenged an unyielding wilderness to build a frontier legend.
Thomas Canfield descends...
9) Stand proud
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Frank Claymore is not easy to like -- to admire, maybe, but not to like. He is cantankerous, stubborn, and intolerant -- the very qualities that make him a success as an open-range cattleman on the West Texas frontier. In one of his most memorable novels, acclaimed Western writer Elmer Kelton follows Frank Claymore's life from the time of the Civil War to the dawn of the 20th century -- through marriage, births, deaths, and a creeping change in the...
10) Buffalo wagons
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Buffalo hunter Gage Jameson ventures into Comanche territory in search of the last great herd, despite the dangers awaiting him.
11) After the bugles
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With the defeat of Santa Anna, Josh Buckalew, still grieving over the death of his brother, returns home to rebuild his life, only to face dangerous Comanche raiders and outlaw gangs.
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In the cattle drives of the Old West, pumpkin rollers were green farm boys, almost more trouble than they were worth.
When Trey McLean leaves his family's East Texas cotton farm and sets off on his own to learn the cattleman's trade, he's about as green as they come. But, Trey learns fast. He learns about deceit when a con man cheats him out of his grubstake and about love when he meets the woman he's destined to marry.
And, when luck finally sets...
14) Jericho's road
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When Texas Ranger private Andy Pickard is assigned to help patrol the Texas-Mexico border country, he finds himself thrown into the middle of a deadly feud between two ranchers.
15) Wagontongue
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A freed slave and an unrepentant Confederate soldier find themselves side by side on a cattle drive north where both will have to decide whether to fight alone or to survive together.
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"Sixteen stories, where good meets bad, and everything inbetween, from the legendary author of the west, Elmer Kelton. Law of the Land chronicles some of his most exciting and dangerous tales of the old west, collected together for the first time--including the exciting first publication of a never-before published Kelton story, Biscuits for Bandit"--
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Elmer Kelton writes of his beloved home country of West Texas in these two novels of cowmen and cow country. In Pecos Crossing, two young cowboys, Johnny Fristo and Speck Quitman, have been cheated of six months' hard-earned salary by their rancher boss Larramore and intend getting what is due to them. In Shotgun, Texas rancher Blair Bishop has to contend with a rival cowman who is turning his herd loose on Bishop's land, and with a mean customer...
20) Many a river
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Relocating to western Texas with their sharecropper parents in the mid-nineteenth century, Jeffrey and Todd Barfield are separated by a Comanche attack that leaves their parents dead, and are reunited years later on opposing sides in the Civil War.
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