Lauran Paine
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In the middle of a harsh desert where water is the town's most valuable resource, an accused killer runs to escape the man who is trying to kill him.
Troy Warfield is on the run. He is entering hostile New Mexico territory, where the heat sucks moisture from the earth and beats down the weak. Accused of killing a deputy U. S. Marshal, Warfield has been running for six hundred miles, evading the relentless pursuit of U. S. Marshal John Trent.
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Troy Warfield is on the run. He is entering hostile New Mexico territory, where the heat sucks moisture from the earth and beats down the weak. Accused of killing a deputy U. S. Marshal, Warfield has been running for six hundred miles, evading the relentless pursuit of U. S. Marshal John Trent.
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3) Open Range
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Can four cattle herders defeat an evil rancher trying to fence in the open range? Also a major motion picture starring Kevin Costner!
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It was spring on the Llano Estacado, the Staked Plains of Texas, the time for the cattle drives to push north to the rail heads in Kansas. The "Lost Cause" of the South was still fresh in the mind of Southerners, including fifty-five-year-old Ben Albright, a pioneer of the Texas cattle drives, who was well familiar with the trail and its dangers-he had successfully made five cattle drives from Texas to Kansas, but this spring will be his most difficult....
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Jackson Miggs was a loner who wintered under the Ute Peak in his log cabin. He liked people well enough, but didn't care much for crowds. He even tolerated the cowmen like Hyatt Tolman who used the high meadows around Ute Peak to graze his herd-even when the animals cropped the forage too closely and drove the elk and deer into the higher mountains. Miggs once told Frank McCoy that if he looked out a window and saw a building less than two hundred...
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Samuel Patton lost his wife to lung fever two years ago. Now, suffering from lung fever himself and closer to eternity every day, he is traveling south through the mountains with his small son and daughter, hoping somewhere in this savage land he can find a good home for them before time runs out. When the two kids find an unconscious man, the three tend to his wounds, care for his horse, and load him into their wagon. Samuel finds a cache of money...
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Deadwood, Dakota Territory, was filled with luckless miners and diggers, as well as more than its share of lawlessness, and more often than not, there was nothing Marshal Fred Nolan and his two deputy marshals, Wentworth and Grubb, could do. So when a teen hustler, known as Gitalong because of his crippled leg, was hoorawed by a trio of Texas drovers, the law wasn't called in. Besides, two strangers had come to Gitalong's aid, confronting the drovers...
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Walt Hodge had delivered eighty horses to Whipple Barracks for the Army and he wasn't in a big hurry to get home. He traveled down the Saginaw Mountains and into the upland cow country of Sunflower, Arizona, seeking only a cold glass of beer, food, and a bed for himself, along with feed for his horse. He should have listened and turned around when he asked the hostler what was going on and was told: "Trouble, mister. Bad trouble." After he had a drink,...
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Forced to take a precipitous route off the rimrocks and down into an unknown valley to escape certain death by four men pursuing him, Pete Knight, a cowhand seeking a job, sees a town ahead in the distance. If he can just make it to that town, he believes he will be safe. Little does he know that he is heading into Gunsight, Wyoming, where a long-standing feud between the townsmen and the range men has reached the boiling point. Arthur Hobart owner...
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Caleb Doorn is better known by his Blackfoot name, Many Coups. Doorn is scouting for the U.S. Army in the Mexican campaign when a small wagon train passes on its way to California. Their trek will take them into Indian country, and to protect the train from attack, the wagon master has foolishly taken a young Blackfoot woman hostage.
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In "Outlaw's Hide-Out," drifter Hap Thompson has lived in a secluded valley since robbing a bank made him a wanted man. But his tranquil life is interrupted when he discovers a strange horse and tracks it back to an injured young woman. He takes her back to his cabin even though he knows that her presence there means he will soon have to flee his valley. Wesley Potter is the "Sheriff of Hangtown," and friend to Dick Ruffin, an old-timer who has...
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Ladd Buckner, a stranger to the small town of Piñon, Arizona Territory, makes a good impression when he joins a range crew from the Muleshoe Ranch under attack by renegade Apaches. Buckner buys the local saddle shop, but the way he stitches a saddle makes the local doctor suspicious. He tells the marshal, who makes inquiries. When the marshal is killed in a daring bank robbery, a letter in his pocket states that Buckner was just released from prison....
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Prairie Guns: Homesteaders have taken up land on the plains of Colorado that were formerly free range. Cattle baron Colton Miller and his hired gun riders hate the homesteaders, especially Buff Brady and Luther Hart, two former cowboys who hope to eventually throw their quarter-sections together to form a cattle ranch, but are viewed as traitors by the cattlemen. When the two are framed for rustling, they're arrested and jailed and their buildings...