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Trust was rare and precious in the wide-open towns that sprung up like weeds on America's frontier - with hustlers and hucksters arriving in droves by horse, coach, wagon, and rail, and gunmen working both sides of the law, all too eager to end a man's life with a well-placed bullet.
The New York Times best-selling grand master of suspense deftly displays the other side of his genius, with seven classic Western tales of destiny and fatal
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The Sacketts volume 1
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English
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An adventure set in 17th century England and America. Barnabas Sackett, a young English yeoman with a thirst for adventure, sets out on a trading voyage to the New World and returns triumphant to England, after many perils and hardships, determined to go back to America and make his life there.
5) Appaloosa
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Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 1
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English
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Arriving in a small nineteenth-century western town where the sheriff has been killed and the residents are at the mercy of a renegade rancher, lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch face an adversary who works by playing psychological games.
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick-- a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins-- encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance.
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Mike Raglan is summoned to No Man's Mesa located in Southwestern Utah near the San Juan River by a long time friend, Erik Horkart. Mike doesn't know for sure what it's all about but thinks it may have something to do with a map given him by a prospector a year before. Raglan's investigation of the mesa turns up a gate to a parallel universe. Crossing to the other side, he finds the river boat, Iron Duke, which disappeared after the Civil War. There...
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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A Texas cowboy falls in love with a Mexican prostitute, only to discover he has a rival, her pimp. The pimp refuses to let her go because he will lose money and the stage is set for a violent confrontation.
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Lonesome Dove saga volume 1
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English
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Set in the late-nineteenth century, this novel chronicles a cattle drive from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive, Gus's woman, Lorena, and Blue Duck, a sinister Indian renegade.
17) Monument Rock
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Bantam Books
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1998
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English
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A newly discovered collection of unpublished short fiction. The stories include The Man from Utah, a marshall's investigation of a series of murders, the work of an apparently respectable individual.
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