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1) Hot iron
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English
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In the early days of the Texas panhandle, starting a new life is hard--but keeping it is even harder.
Espy Norwood is a troubleshooter who's got troubles of his own--and more troubles find him when he lands a job on a ranch on the Texas plains. Bitter landowners plot against him, determined cattle thieves sneak right under his nose, and his own son refuses to trust or even know him. Can he catch the thieves, save the ranch, and win his son's love?...
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English
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Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country.
The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits-75 cents-a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching...
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English
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Hewey dreams of freedom, he wants only to be a footloose horseback cowboy, endlessly wandering the open range. But the open range of his childhood is slowly disappearing: land is being parceled out, and barbed-wire fences are springing up all over. Hewey struggles against the relentless stream of 'progress', he comes to realize that the simple life of his childhood is gone, and that every choice he makes, even those that lead to happiness, require...
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Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Description
Rugged and independent, Hugh Hitchcock loves his cowboy life. But when circumstances, loyalt, and honor drive him from his chosen occupation, he reluctantly assumes a role of great responsibility and risk in the new social order--sheriff. Although Hitch tries to settle disputes through diplomacy, his new charge requires constant vigilance and exceptional courage.
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