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Louis L'Amour's Western stories are beloved worldwide. Now, collected together for the first time in a single volume, are three of his finest tales of the West. The texts have been restored to their original appearances in magazines.
In The Lion Hunter and the Lady," Cat Morgan is plying his trade—trying to bag a mountain lion alive in order to sell it to a circus or zoo. As he and Long John William try to lure the cat from a tree,...
In The Lion Hunter and the Lady," Cat Morgan is plying his trade—trying to bag a mountain lion alive in order to sell it to a circus or zoo. As he and Long John William try to lure the cat from a tree,...
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The saga of the Sackett family continues with Logan Sackett, a cynical and rootless drifter, meeting a fiery old widow, Emily Talon-who is even wilder than him. Tall and plucky, she is determined to defend herself against the locals who are trying to take her land. And even though Logan initially intends on not getting himself involved, he can't help it when he discovers that Emily had been born a Sackett.
23) Hondo: a novel
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The story of lonely, harsh Hondo Lane, yet beneath the harshness and the necessary violence, he was a kind and just man who had come to terms with the land in which he lived.
25) The key-lock man
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Set against the backdrop of the wild frontier, an unlikely couple--Matt Keelock who is wanted for murder and Kristina who committed the ultimate crime of revenge--attempts to start a new life together, but dark forces from the past threaten to tear them apart.
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The Navajo called them the Anasazi, the "ancient enemy," and their abandoned cities haunt the canyons and plateaus of the Southwest. For centuries the sudden disappearance of these people baffled historians. Summoned to a dark desert plateau by a desperate letter from an old friend, renowned investigator Mike Raglan is drawn into a world of mystery, violence, and explosive revelations. Crossing a border beyond the laws of man and nature, he will learn...
27) High lonesome
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"Considine and Pete Runyon had once been friends, back in the days when both were cowhands. But when Runyon married the woman Considine loved, the two parted ways. Runyon settled down and became a sheriff. Considine took up robbing banks. Now Considine is planning a raid on the bank at Obaro, a plan that will pit him against Runyon . . . and lead to riches or suicide. The one thing he never counted on was meeting a strong, beautiful woman and her...
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The Sacketts volume 12
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Van Allen was a strong, arrogant man who rode roughshod over anything that got in his way. Brutal and uncaring with women, he suddenly found himself guilty of an ugly murder and in a panic, tried to cover it up and destroy the evidence. Tell Sackett was a part of that evidence, but he was not going to be easy to get rid of. Allen murdered Tell's wife, Angie, while he was away. When he returned, one of Allen's men shot him and left him for dead. Despite...
29) Bowdrie's law
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Chick Bowdrie, Texas Ranger. Lawman, manhunter, peacemaker. The rough trails are his home, from the Big Thicket to the Pecos to the border. He's dried by the desert sun and wind, scarred and toughened by uncounted gun battles, and when you look into his black eyes it's like looking down the barrels of two .44s with their hammers drawn back. He rides in the name of justice, but he lives by his own law -- Bowdrie's Law. And if you're thinking about...
30) The lonely men
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When Tell Sackett rode into Mexico, he believed he was riding to rescue young Orry Sackett from Apache Indians, risking his life and the lives of three companions in the effort. He knew his brother, Orrin, had married, but he did not know he had a son until Orrin's wife, Laura Pritt Sackett, told him so. But Orrin was back in Washington, D.C., so it was up to Tell and his friends to save the boy. Little did Tell know that Orrin and Laura's marriage...
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Val Darrant was just four years old the snowy night his mother abandoned him. But instead of meeting a lonely death, he met Will Reilly-a gentleman, a gambler, and a worldly, self-taught scholar. For ten years the each were all the family the other had, traveling from dusty American boomtowns to the cities of Europe-until the day Reilly's luck ran out in a roar of gunfire. But it wasn't a gambling brawl or a pack of thieves that sealed Will's fate....
33) The daybreakers
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Tyrel Sackett was born to trouble, but vowed to justice. After having to kill a man in Tennessee, he hit the trail west with his brother Orrin. Those were the years when decent men and women lived in fear of Indians, rustlers, and killers, but the Sackett brothers worked to make the West a place where people could raise their children in peace. Orrin brought law and order from Santa Fe to Montana, and his brother Tye backed him up every step of the...
34) Lonigan
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Lonigan's eyes went to the rifles, then to the riflemen. "You're tryin' to get yourself killed, Hoey. Now take your boys and light a shuck." Ives chuckled. "Oh, no! We've got our herd. When your boys hear us call, they'll come in. They'll never know what hit 'em." "you mean," Danny Lonigan's voice was casual, "like this?" His hands flashed for his guns, and for one startled instant, every man froze. Then as one person Ives, Calkins, and Lee grabbed...
35) Mojave crossing
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Tell Sackett meets the beautiful Dorinda Robiseau, traveling lady of wit and nerve. Tell is carrying thirty pounds of gold. The young man raised in the mountains begins to wonder if their meeting is a coincidence, especially when the woman convinces him to guide her across the desert to Los Angeles. Tell knows a lot about the desert, but a woman can make him forget what he knows. The trail is strewn with bad men and natural obstacles. One of the men...
36) Lando
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The Sacketts volume 8
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This installment in the Sackett Family saga follows the adventures of Lando Sackett who, after six years in jail, has revenge etched on his brain--and he will not stop until the men who set up his fall get what is coming to them.
37) Jubal Sackett
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In Jubal Sackett, the second generation of this great American family pursues a destiny in the wilderness of a sprawling new land. Kindred spirits on a restless quest ... Jubal Sackett's urge to explore drove him westward, and when a Natchez priest asks him to undertake a nearly impossible quest, Sackett ventures into the endless grassy plains the Indians call the Far Seeing Lands. He seeks a Natchez exploration party and its leader, Itchakomi. It...
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"It began with gold that had once belonged to Montezuma. Stolen and cached in a church in Mexico, it was recovered by two army officers who fled north for the French settlements. Along the way one stabbed the other to death. The remaining officer was eventually killed by Plains Indians, but he buried the treasure just before he died. Now Ronan Chantry, a handful of trappers, and an Irish girl whose father was killed after telling her a few vague landmarks...
40) Borden Chantry
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The marshal's name was Borden Chantry. Young, lean, rugged, he's buried a few men in this two-bit cow town every single one killed in a fair fight. Then, one dark, grim day a mysterious gunman shot a man in cold blood. Five grisly murders later, Chantey was faced with the roughest assignment of his life find that savage, trigger-happy hard case before he blasts apart every man in town one by bloody one.
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