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Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
100 ways to embrace the simple life, with step-by-step instructions for keeping chickens, growing vegetables, making beer and wine, arranging flowers, soap making, and more! This is a home-management book for the twenty-first century. Alva Herdevall and Anders Rydell combine traditional methods with modern ideas to show that a higher degree of self-sufficiency is possible for everyone. You will learn the secrets of beekeeping, how to grow your own...
4) Bad hombres
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"He blew into town like a tornado--a mysterious stranger with money to burn and a sadistic streak as wide as the Rio Grande. He says his name is Benson and he's come to invest in the town's future. First, he showers the banks and local businesses with cash. Then, he hires a pair of drunks to fight and get arrested so he can check out the local lawmen. After that, he warms up to a lady of the evening--with deadly results. That's just the beginning....
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Invited by a friend to help establish the newly formed town of Cheyenne, Edward Vogel is prepared to leave the haunting memories of his wife and son's deaths behind him. The only problem is the corrupt new railroad town wants family men who can establish law and order, and desperation leads Edward to his friend Marybeth with a proposition of marriage. After her father's death leaves her with no means of support, Marybeth Kruger has no choice but...
Author
Series
McCabes volume 6
Publisher
Pine Bookshelf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When town marshal Vic Falcone takes a bullet, he calls on the local preacher Tom McCabe to strap on a gun and wear the badge. The man who shot the marshal is in the town jail and awaiting trial, and the man's outlaw brother is out there somewhere, intending to free him. A lot for McCabe to handle, but even though he's a preacher, he's also the nephew of the gunfighter Johnny McCabe." -- Back cover.
11) The night riders
Series
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The Three Mesquiteers was the umbrella title for a series of 51 B-westerns released between 1936 and 1943. In The Night Riders, the fifth of eight John Wayne Mesquiteers films, a crooked gambler impersonating Don Luis de Serrano establishes himself as a dictator within the United States with a phony land grant dating back to Phillip of Spain. Evicted heroes Stony Brooke, Tucson Smith, and Lullaby Joslin become the masked avengers nicknamed The Night...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Inside, youll find the lynching-inspired Spur Award finalist title story, Half a Pig; the bone-cold, eye-for-an-eye drama of Will Rogers Medallion Award-winning Peaches; the clanking, clockwork gundown of Peacemaker Award finalist Scourge of the Spoils; and numerous other critically acclaimed short stories, including the noir-tinged pages of Snows of Montana and Snake Farm. Theres the classic Western barroom showdown in Just Once, the time-travel...
14) Arbor Day square
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Language
English
Description
In the mid-nineteenth century, as young Katie and her father help plant and tend trees in their booming frontier town, she doubts that the spindly saplings will ever grow big. Includes facts about Arbor Day.
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"In this new book, Ferenc Morton Szasz outlines the many contributions Scots have made to the development of the region."
"Scots trappers dominated the fur trade, often proving more loyal to clan than to trading company or nation. Relying on centuries of experience raising livestock for British markets, Scottish investors and managers became highly visible in the post-Civil War western cattle industry with thriving outfits such as the Swan Land and...
Author
Series
Saga of the Mountain Sage volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Having made the decision to leave Richard and the whites, Willow packs, only to discover that all of the expedition's horses, including her own, have been stolen--a fact the scarred hunter, Travis Hartman can't abide! For Richard, the pursuit of the thieves and recovery of the animals will leave him forever changed. Meanwhile, the Arikara make their move on Maria, ending in a bloody battle where Willow crosses a line she never anticipated. Reunited...
Author
Series
Western adventures of Cade McCall volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
Ã2017
Language
English
Description
"Trying to recover from the grief over the death of his wife, Cade McCall settles in Dodge City, "Hell on the Plains". While drunk, Cade loses the saloon that he owns in partnership with Jeter Willis, rupturing a friendship that had stood for years. Caught up in the infamy of lawlessness and gun slinging that is Dodge City, Cade fights the battle against his own despair, and against the Slater Brothers who are trying to take over the town. He is aided...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Cap Lennox was mysteriously murdered, it meant two things to hard-bitten Joe Condon. Joe was now town marshal, and he didn't have a friend left in the world. He would never get along with the respectable townspeople who paid his wages. And his kind of men -- the men who rode the trail and came into town looking for drink, women, and poker -- were now his enemies. But Joe had to stay. First it was just to find Cap's murderer and clear his name....
20) Cashdown's folly
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In the midst of Reconstruction, pioneering homesteader, livestock breeder, and would-be innkeeper Hamish "Cashdown" Musgrave brings his sprawling family into the Palouse Prairie. Before they succeed, they face claim-jumpers and bandits; floods, fires, and blizzards; and diseases, locusts, and crop losses. But soon Hamish's brother Callum goes missing and remains mysteriously elusive. The railroad refuses to build a line past the Musgrave stagecoach...