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  by Pete Hamill

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  Murders at Moon Dance/Large Print (Curley Large Print Books)

  by A. B. Guthrie

  At a difficult and sad time in his family life, future Pulitzer Prize-winner Guthrie turned to reading western and whodunit novels. It was then that he realized that he could write as well as current plot-spinners. He decided to combine the two genres, and the result was his first novel, Murders at Moon Dance, which appeared in 1943.
• ColdironF. M. Parker

  

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  Coldiron

  by F M Parker

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  Paint Your Wagon

  10 selections from Lerner and Loewe's musical tale of the California gold fields. Includes: Best Things * The First Thing You Know * Gold Fever * Gospel of No Name City * I Still See Elisa * I Talk to the Trees * I'm on My Way * Million Mi.Away Behind the Door * They Call the Wind Maria * Wand'rin' Star.
• Manifest DestinyBrian Garfield

  

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  Manifest Destiny

  by Brian Garfield

  Continuing the resurgence of the literary western, this engaging historical novel opens in 1884. Theodore Roosevelt, with wife and mother dead, and a promising political career in ruins, arrives in the Badlands determined to become a rancher. Fighting an assortment of physical ailments and the scorn of ranchers and cowboys, he eventually earns the Dakotans' respect. The town of Medora is threatened by Marquis De... (more)
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  Season of Yellow Leaf

  by Douglas C. Jones

  The story of Chosen, a ten-year-old girl captured in the 1930s in the South Plains and raised by the Comanche, is an epic saga of hardship and courage as harsh and uncompromising as the Comanche themselves. Reprint.
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  Sam Chance (Southwest Life and Letters)

  by Benjamin Capps

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  Wild Times

  by Brian Garfield

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  The Deer Stalker

  by Zane Grey

• THE SEVEN MEN AT MIMBRES SPRINGS The Story of a Young Woman Spy and seven Valiant Men Who Planned a Heroic Plot to Save California and Its Gold for the Union at the Outset of the Civil War.Will Henry

  

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  THE SEVEN MEN AT MIMBRES SPRINGS The Story of a Young Woman Spy and seven Valiant Men Who Planned a Heroic Plot to Save California and Its Gold for the Union at the Outset of the Civil War.

  by Will Henry

• The HomesmanGlendon Swarthout

  

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  The Homesman

  by Glendon Swarthout

  "Utilizing a classic western plot--a journey across rough land under perilous conditions--and a mismatched pair of protagonists who'll remind many readers of those in The African Queen , Swarthout tells a sturdy if by now familiar tale," commented PW on this "melancholy " novel by the author of The Shootist. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Rage in Chupadera

  by Norman Zollinger

  Although his father, a legendary sheriff turned bloody renegade, has been dead for twenty years, young Corey Lane discovers that old hatreds die hard and that he must become involved if he is to prevent a genocidal conflict with the Apache. Reprint.