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The Santa Fe Trail passes through the West's most savage lands. That's why a wealthy trader hires the mountain man called Preacher to keep his goods safe - and deliver a flock of pilgrims to a Promised Land. A young prostitute and the spoiled son of the wagon train owner are among the souls Preacher must protect. But then a rifle goes off at the wrong moment. A towering grizzly bear attacks. And both outlaws and Comanches ambush the wagon train ....
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Large print ed.
Language
English
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Idaho, 1879. When the McCandles gang shoots up a small town, seventeen-year-old Joseph Roper decides to bring them to justice, alone. Decades later in 1938, he tells his story to an interviewer with the Federal Writers Project.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Large print ed.
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English
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Horse trader Will Summers was not looking to be anybody's hero, let alone stop a bank robbery led by the son of Gunn Point's most powerful man, but when the sheriff is gravely injured and his deputy sorely outmatched, Will knows that things are only going to get worse.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012, c2010
Edition
Large print ed.
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English
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Outlaw Lawrence Grey has been captured in El Paso, but Marshal Neilan will set him free if he can locate John Ray, now in Mexico, and during the search, Lawrence finds himself surrounded by intrigue, with his lifethreatened from all sides.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012, c2003
Edition
Large print ed.
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English
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Photographer Sidra Givens has been hired by Lawrence Haslett, a wealthy archaeologist, to record an expedition to the site of an ancient tribe in the Lost River Valley, a place of violence and greed that threatens her survival.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Edition
Large print ed.
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English
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Cotton Pickens gets fired from his job as sheriff of Doubtful, Wyoming, a booming mining town and mourns the loss of his murdered horse, Critter, when a flashy stage show arrives in town and stirs up the locals, and after a man is found stabbed to death, a bank safe gets blown up, and the sheriff from another county shows up, Cotton begins to suspect that there is a plot to take over Doubtful.
32) Midnight rider
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Large print ed.
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English
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Offered 50,000 to help rob a U.S. Treasury Department freight car carrying gold bullion, former Pinkerton detective Avrial "Rock" Rochenbach must gain the confidence of some of the West's most notorious outlaws while protecting his true identity as an undercover U.S. secret service agent.
33) Preacher's fury
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Pub. Date
2012
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English
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"Montana Territory and a band of Assiniboine Indians give Preacher shelter for the winter. But across the border Preacher's old enemy, Willie Deaver, plies another tribe with whiskey, guns and bullets - then directs them to tey out their killing tools on the Assiniboine. The raid reaps a harvest of death, bloodshed, and captives, and Deaver is delighted to learn that Preacher is among the fallen. But in the driving snow, with a handful of survivors,...
36) Unbroke horses
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Large print ed.
Language
English
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Large print ed.
Language
English
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A wheat farmer is torn between allegiances while fighting to keep the woman he loves in this epic of the First World War!
It's 1917, and the United States is about to enter the First World War. The wheat farms of rural Washington State have become an important resource in winning the war. Kurt Dorn is a wheat farmer born of a German father and an American mother, and his family's farm contains some of the finest wheat grown anywhere. But a Bolshevik...
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Outlaws, snowstorms, rugged terrain—nothing will stop them from making it to Montana Territory in time for Christmas . . . "A masterful storyteller." —Publishers Weekly
From the masters of frontier fiction comes a holiday tale set in the very heart of America—a Western saga of courageous souls coming together, with a little help from the Jensen family . . .
In the fall of 1873, a wagon train of...
From the masters of frontier fiction comes a holiday tale set in the very heart of America—a Western saga of courageous souls coming together, with a little help from the Jensen family . . .
In the fall of 1873, a wagon train of...
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Pub. Date
2017
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English
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"Born on a Cherokee reservation, John Henry Sixkiller is known as the most cunning lawman in the West. He's in Ringgold, Wyoming, for Bart Skillern, a vicious murderer he's been stalking for weeks. But before he can strike, Skillern goes to work for the town's corrupt mayor. So Sixkiller takes a job as a hired gun to destroy the mayor's gang from inside out. The plan is working--until he discovers that, except for one beautiful, crusading newspaper...
40) The purchase
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
In this provocative and starkly beautiful historical novel, a Quaker family moves from Pennsylvania to the Virginia frontier, where slaves are the only available workers and where the family's values and beliefs are sorely tested. In 1798, Daniel Dickinson, recently widowed and shunned by his fellow Quakers when he marries his young servant girl to help with his five small children, moves his shaken family down the Wilderness Road to the Virginia/Kentucky...
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