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1) Hot iron
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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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After the sudden death of his best friend, Steven Creed becomes the adoptive father of his friend's five-year-old boy, and this development is a deal-breaker for his long-term girlfriend. Steven and his new son pack up and move to Stone Creek, Arizona, looking for a fresh start. What he absolutely isn't looking for is someone like fiery prosecutor Melissa O'Ballivan, a woman with plenty of demons of her own, to fall for.
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A descendant of the legendary McKettricks, Connor Creed knows exactly who he is: a hard working rancher carrying on his uncle's legacy in Lonesome Bend, Colorado. Small-town life isn't exactly his dream, but he owes a huge debt of gratitude to the man who took him in as a kid. When his identical twin, bad boy Brody Creed from whom Connor has been estranged for years, identity issues loom. Then Connor meets Tricia McCall, who knows a thing or two about...
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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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"After thirty hard years of chasing stampedes into storms and pushing herds of half-crazy cows across the plains, longtime buddies and cattle drivers Casey Tubbs and Eli Doolin are ready to hang up their spurs. But when they get to Abilene with their final delivery of two thousand cows, the company lawyer has skipped town with their crew's entire wages. That means there's just one last job Eli and Casey will have to do... Steal it back. Sure, pulling...
10) Real cowboys
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Real cowboys are gentle, patient, and creative as they move hundreds of cattle, make camp, and dream under the stars.
12) Paradise sky
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Young Willie is on the run, having fled his small Texas farm when an infamous local landowner murdered his father. A man named Loving takes him in and trains him in the fine arts of shooting, riding, reading, and gardening. When Loving dies, Willie re-christens himself Nat Love in tribute to his mentor, and heads west. In Deadwood, South Dakota territory, Nat becomes a Buffalo Soldier and is befriended by Wild Bill Hickok. After winning a famous shooting...
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Lonesome Dove saga volume 1
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Chronicles a cattle drive in the nineteenth century 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.
16) Rodeo Red
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Peachtree
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[2021]
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English
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Rodeo Red and her hound dog, Rusty, are happy as can be until Side Swiping Slim comes to town and starts stirring up trouble for them, but when Slim steals Rusty, Red will do anything to get him back--even give up the birthday gift her Aunt Sal, a city slicker, sent.
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Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2009
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The Cuchillo Plains: "Jim Ryan pays a visit to Tom Strickland, wanting to buy out his S-Bar ranch, but Strickland turns him away. While Ryan's still on S-Bar land, he hears a shot and turns to see Strickland collapse. Though he can't see the murderer, Ryan goes after him, and when he gets to town, he's shocked to learn that he's the one being charged with Strickland's murder."--back cover.
The lawless strip: "Sam Kyler and three ranch hands are...
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Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the Keyhole."
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