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21) Sodbuster
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Sodbusters are about equal to farm animals on the social scale of the ranching community of Wyoming in the 1870s. Zach and Carrie Bennett, teenaged children of that wretched class, are determined to escape the scorn. They resolve to trek to Texas on foot. They are babes on the prairie, ignorant of the geography and hostility. This incredible journey through the lawless West reveals human nature at its most base and unveils a capacity for violence...
22) Blood brothers
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c1989
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Ben Pope and Rick Kilbane are as different as day and night. A miner's son, Ben is an awkward, earnest kid with no money and lots of hard luck. Rick is the wild, troublemaking son son of Ulysses Kilbane, a professional gambler and the fastest gun in town. Ulysses kills as easily as he shuffles a deck of cards. It looks as though Rick is a chip off the old block until Ben Pope pins on a sheriff's badge and the blood brothers start down the road to...
24) Graves' retreat
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Just when Les Graves finally earns a chance at a respectable life in Cedar Rapids, his brother T. Z. shows up in town with plans to rob the bank where Les works, and loyalty to his brother lands Les in jail.
28) Walking Hawk
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c1989
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Dan Walker, half-Indian son of a wealthy businessman (and trained from birth to succeed as both an Indian warrior and gunman), finds love and adventure in the Montana Territory, circa 1885.
36) Night of shadows
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In 1895 Cedar Rapids, the only law enforcement position open the Anna Tolan was matron, and she was determined to change that. When the notorious gunslinger Stephen Fuller comes to town, Anna gets the job of shepherding him in - and out - of town without incident. The opportunity to prove her worth has finally come. But by nightfall a man is dead and Fuller is on the run. Everyone in town is certain that Fuller is the killer. Everyone except Anna....
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Cripple Creek, Colorado is the most infamous sinkhole of vice and violence in the Rockies. The town's steamy bordello row and gambling halls beckon to Brad Medford who is set on tasting all the pleasures a young man can find. He sets out across the long miles to reach Cripple Creek and prove himself a man, but misfortune takes a hand when Brad's path crosses that of a renowned gunfighter. It turns out Brad's first meal in Cripple Creek may be his...
38) Rounders 3
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1990
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Legendary Western writer Max Evans takes you into the heart of Hi Lo Country to spend a little time with cowboys who work hard, play hard, live hard- and have a great time being cowboys in this collection of all three of Evans' classic novels.
The Rounders: Two stove-up cowboys, Dusty Jones and Wrangler Lewis, set out to break a wild roan named Old Fooler- part horse, part devil- if he doesn't break them first!...