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"Noah Benton, a teenager with a great memory and a head for arithmetic, is hired along with his older brother to help drive a herd of Texas longhorns to Abilene, Kansas. Noah's dreams of excitement quickly turn into nightmares as he chronicles Abilene's last year as a cattle town, encountering John Wesley Hardin and Wild Bill Kickok"--
2) MacKinnon
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"In southern New Mexico, Sam MacKinnon is double-crossed by his partners after robbing a saloon and left with busted ribs, a banged-up head, no gun, and no horse. Overlooked by a posse, he finds his horse and starts out on the vengeance trail. Stopping to help Katie Callahan and her siblings alters his plans"--
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Former lawman, Lin Garrett, is now in his seventies and has ended up at the Coconino County Hospital for the Indigent. His former deputy, Randolph Corbett, visits him there regularly. However, when an outlaw they captured years ago is released from prison, and subsequently robs a train, the two old-timers decide to form a posse and go after the train robber.
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"The Civil War is over. The future of the American West is up for grabs. Any man crazy enough to lead a herd of Texas longhorns to the north stands to make a fortune -- and make history. That man would be Nelson Story. A bold entrepreneur and miner, he knows a golden opportunity when he sees one. But it won't be easy. Cowboys and bandits have got guns, farmers have got sick livestock, and the Army's got their own reasons to stop the drive. Even worse,...
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From nine-time Spur Award–winning Western author Johnny D. Boggs comes the incredible story of the biggest, longest, wildest cattle drive in America's history-from the heart of Texas to New York City. . . .
LONGHORNS EAST
Tom Candy Ponting was no ordinary trail boss. He didn't smoke, chew, cuss, or even carry a gun. Unlike his competitors, he learned how to herd cows on a farm back in England-and how to handle cowboys in bareknuckle prizefights....
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Matthew Garth was orphaned in a savage wagon train ambush and adopted by Red River hero Thomas Dunson. Twenty years later Matt has two strapping sons of his own and is undertaking a desperate cattle drive from Texas to Dodge City, the new queen of frontier cattle towns. While the deadly dangers of storms and rustlers gather around them, an act of passion and violence from within the drive -- and from within the Garth family -- leaves Matt fighting...
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