Max Brand
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Max Brand's first novel and one of the first in the genre of Westerns along with Zane Gray. Has everything a Western needs: a unbeatable stallion, other horses, a semi-tamed wolf, a young lady "purtier than any filly", unbounded plains, hills, and mountains, untamed skies and weather, and of course--desperados. (Goodreads)
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"Hugh Collier in "The Danger Lover" feels he is living an empty life as little more than a competent bank employee in the town of Stanton. He decides to leave behind a life that for him was a "caricature and savage cartoon of the beautiful truth that life may be" and heads into the mountains alone, carrying only the essentials on his horse. Two things change course of his adventure: he sees a town from a hill, and a stranger, desperate to file on...
3) Daring Duval
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Newcomer David Duval is secretive about his past and Marian Lane is determined to discover what he is hiding. When she enlists the aid of the famous manhunter, Marshal Richard Kinkaid, a dangerous game of matching wits between Duval and Kinkaid begins.
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"In "The White Streak," twenty-one-year-old Jimmy Babcock, a former football star, but now a worker at the local bank run by William Parker in the town of Dresser, which has changed from cattle country to one made up of oil and alfalfa fields. When Parker fires Jimmy, all Jimmy can think is how he will hurt Muriel Aiken, his fiancée, who wants to marry. When his father signs over the old family homestead to him that is in serious need of repair,...
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"For fifteen years after Andrew Lanning's father died, his Uncle Jasper raised him. Jasper wanted his nephew to be the kind of man who rightly belonged with the Lanning clan: good with horses, even better with guns. But the results proved disappointing. Andrew became the mild-mannered town blacksmith. The one day something happens that changes that. The belligerent Buck Heath confronts Andrew, and Andrew fights back, a single punch knocking...
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The fifty empty freights danced and rolled and rattled on the rough roadbed and filled Jericho Pass with thunder, the big engine was laboring and grunting at the grade, but five cars back the noise of the locomotive was lost. Yet there is a way to talk above the noise of a freight train just as there is a way to whistle into the teeth of a stiff wind. This freight-car talk is pitched just above the ordinary tone-it is an overtone of conversation,...
7) Bull Hunter
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Bull Hunter is a big, strong, gentle man who means no harm to anyone, but there are people who mean to harm him. They find Bull a tough man to beat.
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James Geraldi is one of the most legendary thieves in the West. But he is not an ordinary thief, preying on the unwitting and defenseless. James Geraldi is a very exclusive thief, stealing only from other thieves. From the largest towns to the loneliest outposts of the desert his name is known, but few could identify him—although many an honest rancher or townsman has become a loyal friend when Geraldi rescued their savings, and many a bandit has...
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"Peter Quince was a fighter born and bred. Orphaned at a young age, he remembered an old woman saying that he was a bad one and would cause a lot of trouble in the world. Others claimed he had bad blood and it would show up sooner or later. But Bill Andrews felt a connection with the boy, took him home and raised him as one of his own despite his wife's misgivings. Peter soon learned he could manipulate people by withholding his true feelings--showing...
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An outlaw risks life and limb to return a stolen horse to its rightful owner in this classic Western thriller.
Shannon, a mysterious outsider, arrived some time ago to the town of Lister and settled into a secluded valley far outside of town. During one of his trips to buy supplies, Shannon came across a horse, seemingly dying on his feet, with wounds and a frail body, who was struggling near death. Having a way with animals, and with patience and...
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Young Jim Curry's father is killed unjustly by an enraged mob, and the boy barely escapes the same fate. He shoots two pursuers and assumes they are dead, and in desperation becomes a most unusual outlaw, the Red Devil. He never kills, takes only ill-gained money, secretly returns it to the rightful owners, and escapes every pursuit on his remarkable horse, Meg.
Spoiled Charlie Mark has left home to seek thrills and easy money. He vows to find the...
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Rusty Sabin was born to white parents but brought up by the Cheyenne Indians, who named the redheaded boy Red Hawk. His ability to heal the sick and to make strange magic is widely honored throughout the tribe. But in his twenties, Red Hawk sets out to take his place among white people. When Rusty and his stallion White Horse are nearly at the frontier post of Fort Marston, the river boat he's riding is grounded, and a man called Bill Tenney comes...
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A girl of eighteen named Joan Daniels, grown up in seclusion on a ranch, begins her adult life in a wide world, where secrets will be revealed and love will be found.
When Harry Gloster returns to camp and finds his mining partners murdered, he panics. Unknown in the town of Wickson, Gloster knows he'll be accused of killing them for their share of the gold, so he sets out for Mexico.
On route, he chances upon Joan and begins to fall in love with...
15) The stingaree
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When Alabama Joe drifted into Fort Anxious, he seemed to be a shiftless, easygoing tramp. But he didn't fool Stanley Parker. He'd gunned down the notorious Bob Dillman. He'd known that one day Dillman's outlaw partner would appear to avenge death. The Stingaree was fast on the draw and deadly as a snake. Parker knew he'd have to draw first or die! Here are the perils of hired guns and wilderness traps and a bitter conflict with his own code of honor....
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Don Sebastian Valdivia and his secretary, Juan Carreño, attend a horse auction at the Garrison Ranch, where an outlaw stallion, Twilight, is held back until last. The only man who can ride this magnificent beast is Charles Dupont, known as the Crisco Kid, who has bonded with the horse since he was a colt.
Because gunman Bud Carew despises the Kid, he desperately wants to possess Twilight. Those attending the auction know that no matter who wins,...
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Edward Dugan left his home in Boston with a bequest from his father--mining certificates giving him ownership of the Christabel mine. Although they have a face value of 250,000 dollars, the mine has been declared worthless. However, Henry Christian, the man who originally sold the mining stock to Dugan's father, has offered to buy back the stock certificates for 1,500 dollars. Since he has no money, Dugan decides to walk the 3,000 miles to Potts...
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The exciting tale of a young gambler, a horse, and the bond that will change the both of them forever.
Hoping to make a man out of him, Alfred Larribee's father sends his son to live with his cousin's family out West. Alfred is lazy and listless, and spends his early days there drinking, gambling, and doing everything he can to avoid his share of work.
Everything changes with the appearance of Sky Blue, a magnificent stallion that seemingly can't...
19) Luck
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In an adventurous epic filled with passion and betrayal, a young Jesuit priest forsakes his clerical life to avenge his father's murder.
20) Crossroads
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When he accidentally commits murder and is stalked by a dangerous assassin called El Tigre, Dix teams up with the dangerous and beautiful Jacqueline "Jack" Boone, who is rumored to have bested one of the most notorious gunmen in decades.