Thomas D Clagett
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Territory of New Mexico, 1875. Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy needs money to complete the new cathedral he's building in Santa Fe. He asks for help from Father Clement Grantaire, a pastor of a small parish near the Texas border. Father Grantaire is a man with a checkered past and he has a plan to use his less-than-priestly skills to obtain money for the Archbishop by spending the night gambling. After winning over a thousand dollars, Grantaire is ambushed...
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2019.
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"The final 13 hours at the Alamo began around 5 o'clock on the afternoon of March 5, 1836. Colonel William Barrett Travis drew a line in the dirt and asked all those who would stay and fight to cross it. Destinies played out that night for four people. Susannah Dickinson, a woman of surprising gumption. Young James Taylor who came to the Alamo to free Texas from the tyrannical rule of General Santa Anna. "Moses" Rose who refused to cross Travis's...
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2014.
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It's 1853. The notorious bandit Joaquin Murieta and his gang have ravaged the infant state of California for three years. Now, he wants to return to his wife in Mexico. He has no idea that California Rangers led by Ambrose Quick are after a murder suspect they believe is Murieta. Wounded after an exhausting chase, he denies killing the deputy sheriff. Not all the Rangers believe him. And there's plenty at stake.