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For over thirty years, from the time of Lewis and Clark into the 1840s, the mountain men explored the Great American West. As trappers in a hostile, trackless land, their exploits opened the gates of the mountains for the wagon trains of pioneers who followed them. In Give Your Heart to the Hawks, Win Blevins presents a poetic tribute to these dauntless "first Westerners" and their incredible adventures. Here, among many, are the stories of:* John...
2) The homesman
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The Homesman is a devastating story of early pioneers in 1850s American West. It celebrates the ones we hear nothing of: the brave women whose hearts and minds were broken by a life of bitter hardship. A homesman must be found to escort a handful of them back East to a sanitarium. When none of the countys men steps up, the job falls to Mary Bee Cuddyex-teacher, spinster, indomitable and resourceful. Brave as she is, Mary Bee knows she cannot succeed...
3) 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...
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"Clay Spain was as tough as all the trails he had ridden and as ruthless as the frontier he had roamed. He had looked death in the eyes more than onec. When he rode into the Apache Basin, he found a torn and bloody range straddled by violence and trampled by a cattle king hungry for power. So Clay rode out armed with his gun and his careless courage to bring justice to a land the law had never reached" -- Cover verso.
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"Killing time in his garden outside Fort Smith, Arkansas retired US Marshal Doyle Hardy has softened up some. The brutal double murder in Shacktown shapes him up fast. Suddenly, redeputized, he follows a trail that snakes from owlhoot whorehouses to moonshine shacks, dogged by vicious outlaws with old scores to settle. Riding the treacherous Choctaw Trail he is sworn to ferret out the heartless killer, the hell-reaiser who will force him to face the...
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"When Indians massacre an army troop, Ross Caldwell's wife fears he's among the victims. But Caldwell is on the run, pursued by bitter enemies from the Civil War. Caldwell finds refuge in the arms of the sultry madam of Last Chance Gulch. But his bloody past catches up with him. A murderous ex-soldier is on his trail, and his wife has tracked him down as well..."--Amazon.com.
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After a botched confidence scam, swindler Dee Hassard begins a killing spree that covers half of the Colorado Territory. His first victim is the brother of rustler-turned-preacher Carrol Moncrief. Now Carrol must fall back on his former bullaw savvy to track the murderer down.
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Up on the Hi-Line, ranchers are being rustled out of their livelihoods...and their lives. The son of an old friend suspects that these rustlers have murdered his father, and the law is too crooked to get any straight answers. But can the worn-out old marshall live up to the legendary lawman the boy has grown to admire?
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It is now 1910 and Hewey Calloway is old enough and smart enough to know that his freewheeling cowboy life is coming to an end, that the fences, trucks, and automobiles he hates are creeping in even to remote Alpine, where he works for Morgan Jenkins's J Bar outfit. He has never sought or wanted responsibility. He is wary of having to look after his nephew Tommy, a boy intent on following the cowboy life. Hewey even turns down an opportunity to become...
11) Texas vigilante
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"Ellie Taine was a newlywed working the dry land in 1880s Texas when the desperados came. They killed her husband, raped her and left her for dead. But she hunted them down and, along the way, found an inner strength that no man can match. Now ruthless killer Angel Ware has engineered a bold escape from a prison wagon. Blaming his sister Sue for his arrest, Angel and his gang track her down to Ellie's ranch, mount a bloody attack, and take Sue's child....
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Call him man-hunter, tracker, or bounty hunter. As long as the cash was cold and the trail was hot, Lou Prophet would run his quarry into the ground before giving up the chase. He loved his work it kept him in wine and women, and was never, ever dull. And his newest job sounds particularly attractive Her name is Lola Diamond. She's a showgirl, a chanteuse, and a prime witness in a murder trial that's going on without her. Prophet is supposed to find...
16) Cruel rider
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When mountain man Jordan Gray is hired to guide beautiful Polly Pike to the Black Hills, Gray discovers that she is on the run from her husband--a savage killer who is not about to let her go without a fight.
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With his Winchester blazing, Frank Morgan races to rescue Cecil and Ben Tolliver from twenty thundering banditos. When his rifle runs dry, Morgan draws his trusty Colt and drops enough desperados to scatter the rest. Does Don Felipe Almanzar lead these marauding vaqueros, as rancher Tolliver believes? Or do they follow the terrifying Black Scorpion?
19) Restitution
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To make amends for his criminal past, Bruin Henry promises to deliver his granddaughter to the father she has never known-his former partner in crime...
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Former hired gun Larry Shaw tries to help a prostitute determine the father of her unborn child. Of the three candidates, one stands out--the notorious William H. Bonney. And as a cattle war brews, Bonney has a proposal for Shaw--lend your iron to our side and help us blast our way to victory.