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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Framed for a murder he didn't commit, Zebadiah finds himself in a New Orleans prison cell next to Willie Dan, a cold-blooded killer, who insists they escape together. As Zeb refuses and is sent upriver to the swamps on a chain gang to build a road for the Hydras plantation, he is thrust into a conspiracy of confederates, whose efforts to build a golden circle of slave states from Texas, Louisiana and Georgia to Cuba are just beginning to take hold....
2) The Bootheel
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Virgil Hutt, owner of The Bootheel ranch, realizes he is dying, he knows he needs someone around to show his 16-year-old adopted son, Tyler, all the things a man needs to know. He sends for his missing partner's son, Case Spencer, a grim-faced gunman. Virgil tells Spencer he suspects his father was killed by outlaw Dalton Fox. He will underwrite an expedition to get the truth, as long as Spencer takes Tyler with him. He intends to leave the...
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"Someone is terrorizing the Arizona border. Burning down ranches. Butchering travellers. Blazing a trail of bloodthirsty raids and robbing the railroads blind. His name is Melichus. A ruthless half-breed outlaw with a mile-long record of cruelties and crimes, he's the most wanted man in the territory. And the massive price on his head has attracted the attention of every trigger-happy, would-be bounty hunter this side of the Rio Grande. But Luke Jensen...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Con Men and Carved Birds! Lawmen and artists! Aebelskivers and cabbage. Spur-Award winner Richard Prosch has roped together an exciting new collection of stories with themes as vast as the wide open frontier and as close as the human heart. Waking Face - A sleepless man is tortured by the lost face of his wife's killer-a visage he can't remember, but at the same time, will never forget. Hard Times for the Vanilla Cream Kid - a would-be bank robber...
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"South Texas, 1854. Regis Royle is determined to turn eighteen thousand acres of raw prairie into the greatest cattle ranch in the world. But he can't do it alone. The region is wilder than a herd of mustang, and crawling with rustlers. Teaming up with the Cattlemen?s Justice Consortium, Regis hopes to stop the rustling and start laying tracks for a new railway. Problem is, the cattlemen - including Jarvis 'Bone' McGraw, Regis?s own ranch manager...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After their friends are swindled out of a champion racehorse by ruthless rival Cortland Van Brunt III in a fog-shrouded San Francisco sprint, brothers Jamey and Jake Galloway's lead the gang on a snakebit cross-country quest: Can they reach Baltimore in time for a desperate long-shot bid to win back prized stallion Phoenix in a grudge-match race at Pimlico?"--
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The early 19th-century trappers who traipse through the Rockies in search of beaver pelts are called mountain men-all but one, whose unique tale is told here by her daughter, Bathsheba Hex, in 1901. In 1819, Kentucky-born Bet Hex ventures up the Missouri River with a fur-trading expedition. Captured first by Arapahos and then by Pawnees, she is rescued by a French voyageur. After his death, she sets out alone to make her home in the wilderness. The...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Autry Braden and Ed Talley aim to join George Mason and hunt mustangs in 1804 Spanish Texas. Their mission intersects with Maria Manuel, who is running from Juan Castenada, captain of the Spanish garrison at Nacogdoches. Maria takes refuge with the mustanging trio as they move into mustang country, where they encounter the legendary golden stallion and his brood of mares. They work to acquaint the mustangs with their presence, build a pen to trap...
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"'In the world of criminal lawbreakers in Laramie County, Lucien Clay was king. He terrorized the locals, robbed every business in the territory, and ruled the place with a merciless iron fist. Thankfully he's behind bars now -- along with a load of other lowlife prairie rats -- thanks to Laramie's new sheriff, Buck Trammel. Unfortunately, Trammel can only enforce the law while others specialize in working around it: namely, lawyers. And no lawyer...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Based on an historical event, Trinidad Verdín's story reveals the courage, suffering, and lessons a twelve-year-old girl learns about Apaches and herself during her captivity with the Naiche-Geronimo band hiding, fighting, and raiding in northern Sonora. After breaking their surrender agreement with General George Crook in late March 1886, forty Apaches (eighteen men, fourteen women, and six children) led by Geronimo established a camp at the top...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"When hundreds of empty, unmarked whiskey bottles are found on the reservation known as The Indian Nation in Arkansas and Oklahoma, the reservation police are very concerned. Drinking whiskey is against the Native American's spiritual beliefs and only those who have lost all hope would indulge in. Concerned with how the whiskey is making its way onto reservation land, Judge Parker,who oversees the Indian Nation, assigns U.S. Marshals Emmet and Jack...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"These eight stories range in length from flash fiction to novella. In "Incident at Blue Nose Creek," an investigator pursues a suspect for the serial murders of three saloon girls. In "Visitors in Cantera," the narrator receives a visit from questionable relatives. In "In the Breaks," a girl goes deer hunting with her grandfather and has to fend off unwelcome advances from a young man. In "Man of Trees," a homesteader helps solve the murder of an...
13) The covenant
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The exciting, explosive new series from the bestselling author of The Plainsman western series begins with The Covenant... It was a time of uncertainty in the infancy of the growing nation. The wild west was open and beckoning to displaced men and families, and many chose to travel to the unsettled frontier, dreaming of new homes, land, and even riches. But few reckoned on those that had lived in those lands for centuries, the native peoples, Blackfoot,...
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"As the sun goes down behind the long, low western horizon, imagine a gathering of friends who write stories, share stories, encourage new stories, and visit about the craft of fiction. As a reader, you'll find stories about family, lost and found. Tales of Civil War and reconciliation. Gunfighters. Bounty hunters. Small towns and cemeteries. You'll find ghosts, real and imagined. Adventure and romance. You'll make new friends and rekindle old flames....