Lauran Paine
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"Ben Albright has successfully made five cattle drives from Texas to Kansas, but this spring will be his most difficult. With the death of Ewell Lansing, Northerners have taken over his trading post and ferry and refused provisions or passage to Texas cattle drives, but Albright will not turn back or change his traditional course"--
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"Samuel Parker is traveling through the mountains hoping to find a place to settle his two children before lung fever kills him when they help an injured man whom Samuel fears may be an outlaw. As the man heals, he directs Samuel to Absaroka Valley where they are drawn into the center of a land fight"--
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"A feud between the biggest and richest cattleman, Richard DeFore, and the local stage line couldn't have come at a worse time to Winchester, Colorado. The town's new sheriff, John Klinger, young, inexperienced, and hot-headed, hasn't been in the job for a month yet when DeFore, who has never sold or donated the right of way for the pass which is on his land, demands the stage line pay a toll for passage, which the company is refusing to do..."--Back...
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Deadwood, Dakota Territory, was filled with luckless miners and diggers, as well as more than its share of lawlessness, and more often than not, there was nothing Marshal Fred Nolan and his two deputy marshals, Wentworth and Grubb, could do. So when a teen hustler, known as Gitalong because of his crippled leg, was hoorawed by a trio of Texas drovers, the law wasn't called in. Besides, two strangers had come to Gitalong's aid, confronting the drovers
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Jackson Miggs was a loner who wintered under the Ute Peak in his log cabin. He liked people well enough, but didn't care much for crowds. He even tolerated the cowmen like Hyatt Tolman who used the high meadows around Ute Peak to graze his herd--even when the animals cropped the forage too closely and drove the elk and deer into the higher mountains.Miggs once told his friend Frank McCoy that if he looked out a window and saw a building less than...
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A bushwhacking killer is on the loose and Sheriff Claude Rainey is in the thick of it in this tale of treachery and greed from Lauren Pain, the most prolific pen in the West. The trouble began for Sheriff Claude Rainey when the Hightower Ranch cowboys discovered a mummified man and his horse in a desert canyon near Springville, Arizona, both shot in the head. Ordinarily that should have been the end of it, since many a man riding the outlaw trail...
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In Lost Valley, Douglas Hyland, the third-generation owner of a family ranching empire, is faced with the possible destruction of the empire by settlers who arrive on the land, claiming they have legal titles to it. Iron Marshall tells the story of Jim Collins, a marshal who should, according to some, move on and let someone else take over. But when a stranger comes to town, Collins enemies look to him to take action.
9) Winter Moon
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Five days ago, the blowing up of the express office safe in Burnt Timbers, Montana, had gone off without a hitch for the four members of the Buck Streeter gang, netting them $28,000. Since then they have taken refuge in an abandoned shack on a plateau above the town of Brigham in northern Wyoming. With its bank and express office across the street from each other and lacking any telegraph for communication, Brigham seems like the perfect place to...
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"Walt Hodge had delivered eighty horses to Whipple Barracks for the Army and he wasn't in a big hurry to get home. He traveled down the Saginaw Mountains and into the upland cow country of Sunflower, Arizona, seeking only a cold glass of beer, food, and a bed for himself, along with feed for his horse. He should have listened and turned around when he asked the hostler what was going on and was told: "Trouble, mister. Bad trouble." After Walt had...
11) Dead Man's Canon
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"The discovery of a man and his horse, both shot dead through the head, with $10,000 buried nearby in a desert canon near Springville, Arizona, lead Sheriff Claude Rainey to believe this is something bigger than a simple bushwhacking"--
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In "The killing at Pipestone," small rancher Jack Cole saves the life of a young woman who calls herself Julie Krohn. He takes her back to his ranch house to recover, and the very next day he's arrested in Pipestone--for the murder of Julie Krohn! Jess Howard is an experienced trail boss whose job is to take a herd of longhorns to Kansas in "Longhorn Trail." He's hired a veteran crew, as well as Wayne Levitt and Jeb Brown. Wayne Levitt is an odd man...
13) Guns in Wyoming
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"The cattlemen believed in free graze for their herds and that meant that others must be forced to leave the territory. When the sheep ranchers refused, night riders shot and killed a sheep rancher and a shepherd as proof that the edict to leave was serious.Uriah Gorman -- an old confederate soldier-- refuses to be intimidated. With a goal of justice for the sheep ranchers, Gorman becomes their leader. His strategy is to hit the cattle ranchers harder...
16) Beyond Fort Mims
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The massacre at Fort Mims is what spurred young Davy Crockett to leave his family and become a volunteer scout in the military campaign between American militias and the Creek Indians. It was while serving in this capacity that Crockett earned his reputation as a first-rate scout, which added to his already established reputation as a crack shot.Like many volunteers serving in militias, Crockett also had to concern himself with protecting his wife,...
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"U.S. Deputy Marshal Ben Knight takes off his badge and rides into Gunsight seeking vengeance for his kid brother's hanging. But the town marshal was killed during the lynching and the townspeople want Ben to take his place. Ben must choose between his trail of vengeance or protecting the town against the Diamond H Ranch"--