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Frederick Schiller Faust was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. His love for mythology was a constant source of inspiration for his fiction, and it has been speculated that these classical influences accounted in some part for his success as a popular writer. Many of his stories would later inspire films. He rivaled Edgar Wallace and Isaac Asimov as one of the most prolific authors...
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The Third Western Megapack collects 21 more great tales of the Old West, with cowboys and conmen, outlaws and gunslingers, as well as lawmen and saloon gals! Included are:
ADVERTISED IN ADVANCE, by Johnston McCulley
THERE AIN'T NO MEN IN HEAVEN, by Gary Lovisi
MUSTANG BREED, by Alan LeMay
DESERT VENUS, by Lonni Lees
BAD BLOOD AT DRY ROCK, by Arlette Lees
LADY SHERIFF SEES RED! by Barbara L. Bonham
THE SECRET CACHE, by E. C. Brill
BOOTHILL...
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All Star Western volume 22
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Jonah Hex is the baddest bounty hunter in the Old West...but Hex isn't in the Old West anymore. Now he's found himself transported to modern-day Gotham City, and this brave new world and the tough old gunslinger do not agree with each other. Mistaken for a lunatic and locked up in Arkham Asylum, Hex will do anything to escape, including kidnapping Dr. Arkham, stealing a car and hitting the open road. Soon, Hex's odyssey finds him crossing paths with...
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The most backward and repressive nation in Europe, terribly overmatched in the war, experiences the overthrow of both its czar and the republican government that succeeds him before suing for peace with Germany and establishing the world's first Communist government.
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The Sdkfz 251 halftrack was one of the most versatile armored vehicles produced by either side in the Second World War. Designed by the firm of Hannoversche Maschinenbau AG, or Hanomag, production ran to over 15,000 vehicles and it was eventually built as twenty-three separate variants serving as not only a personnel carrier, but also a command vehicle, mobile rocket launcher, armored ambulance and bridge-layer.
In his first book in the LandCraft...
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A ripsnorting Western, as brashly entertaining as they come. Slambang! —The New York Times on John Ford's The Searchers
John Ford's The Searchers defined the spirit of America, influenced a generation of film makers, and was named the Greatest Western Movie of All Time by the American Film Institute in 2008. Now, the novel that gave birth to the film returns to print—a timeless work of vivid, raw western fiction and a...
John Ford's The Searchers defined the spirit of America, influenced a generation of film makers, and was named the Greatest Western Movie of All Time by the American Film Institute in 2008. Now, the novel that gave birth to the film returns to print—a timeless work of vivid, raw western fiction and a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
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A Spur Award-winning novelist of the American West tells the story of a farmboy from Texas who joins a cattle drive to Kansas, during which he becomes an apprentice to a veteran cowboy and clashes with a notorious outlaw.
10) Sons of thunder
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Slash and Pecos volume 5
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2022.
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JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. DANGEROUS CURVES AHEAD.
Slash and Pecos match wits with the wiliest opponent they've ever had—a wickedly smart woman who can't be caught—in their wildest western adventure yet. . . .
It sounds like an easy job: track down the lady friend of notorious outlaw Duke Winter and bring her in for questioning. There's just one problem: Slash and Pecos have never met a woman...
Slash and Pecos match wits with the wiliest opponent they've ever had—a wickedly smart woman who can't be caught—in their wildest western adventure yet. . . .
It sounds like an easy job: track down the lady friend of notorious outlaw Duke Winter and bring her in for questioning. There's just one problem: Slash and Pecos have never met a woman...
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He Chose The World's Deadliest Land: To Die, Or To Live Again. . .
Adam Laret, big, young and headstrong, ran from Ehrenberg to the banks of the Rio Colorado. He was blindly fleeing his scheming, gambling brother and the woman Guerd stole from him. But Adam's escape wasn't complete until Guerd, in the company of a sheriff, hunted him down. Then Adam committed the ultimate crime. With the mark of Cain upon him--he traveled into the desert to atone...
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Smoke Jensen novels volume 4
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2022.
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Johnstone Country. Where Legends Are Born.
Before he became known as "The Last Mountain Man," Smoke Jensen and his bride Sally were hardworking ranchers on the Colorado frontier. This is a story of the early years. When times were hard, tensions were high, and guns were the law. . . .
WHEN THE SHOOTING STARTS
For Smoke and Sally Jensen, the Sugarloaf Ranch is the American Dream come true. A glorious stretch...
Before he became known as "The Last Mountain Man," Smoke Jensen and his bride Sally were hardworking ranchers on the Colorado frontier. This is a story of the early years. When times were hard, tensions were high, and guns were the law. . . .
WHEN THE SHOOTING STARTS
For Smoke and Sally Jensen, the Sugarloaf Ranch is the American Dream come true. A glorious stretch...
13) My Antonia
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
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First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land (not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made) comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make...
14) An untamed land
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Red River of the North volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
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Proud of Their Heritage and Sustained by Their Faith, They Came to Tame a New Land She had promised herself that once they left the fjords of Norway, she would not look back. After three long years of scrimping and saving to buy tickets for their passage to America, Roald and Ingeborg Bjorklund, along with their son, Thorliff, finally arrive at the docks of New York City. It was the promise of free land that fed their dream and lured them from their...
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Dewey 'Mac' Mackenzie is a marked man on the run who works as a chuckwagon cook on cattle drives to stay one step ahead of his enemies. When he defends a saloon girl from the unwanted advances of some local toughs, he earns the wrath of Oscar Harcourt, who rules the town of Harcourt City with an iron fist and a gang of thugs.
16) Ruby
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Managing her "inheritance" is going to require far more than she bargained for . . . .
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Westward chronicles volume 3
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When her twin sister wants to get married right away, Judith agrees to travel west to Arizona and fulfill her one-year contract with the Harvey Company.
18) Outlaw's bride
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Western sky novels volume 2
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Harvest House Publishers
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2009.
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Bestselling author Lori Copeland weaves together elements of a wonderful, classic Western romance with themes of forgiveness and grace.
Falsely convicted of bank robbery, drifter Johnny McAllister is sent to a rehabilitation program in the home of a California judge. When he goes to Judge McMann's home, his aim is to be a model prisoner, hoping to be released early and return to his life's mission: to kill the man who wiped out his family 15 years...
19) Remington, 1894
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Remington novels volume 1
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After the Butcher gang invades his ranch in Arizona Territory and kills his family, aging ex-Civil War sniper John McMasters sets out to take revenge on them in the only way he knows how--with his trusty Remington shotgun.
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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This is a story of the early days when...
An intense, red-haired young man named Rusty Shannon rides into Fort Belknap on the Brazos River and joins the Texas Rangers. Years before, Mike Shannon rescued Rusty from a Comanche war party and became his adoptive father. Not long ago, Mike Shannon, was bushwhacked and killed, and his death still haunts Rusty. Rusty thinks he knows the identity of Mike's killers. But with Texas now in the throes of seceding...
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