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Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
From a three-time Spur Award-winner comes the tale of an orphaned boy who is forced to become a man.
Mark Kelton is eighteen years old-part boy, part man. On the trail to set up a ranch in eastern Oregon, his parents are killed by an unknown assailant and their strongbox containing $8,000 is stolen.
Mark heads out onto the empty plain where he encounters Bronco Curtis, a man who knows what he wants, and Curtis befriends the young orphan. When Curtis...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Old Mike Varney is a callous, bad-tempered ranch owner of the Pitchfork Ranch, located near the Nevada Mesa during the second half of the 19th century. Bill Varney, his 23-year-old son, is often mistreated by his father; he is thinking about leaving the ranch and starting over somewhere else.
His sister, Vida, and his girlfriend, Marian Tracy, try to keep him from leaving. Several of the local citizens and ranchers, tired of Mike Varney's ruthless...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In two Western stories, 'The Courage Builder' and 'Valley of the 99', small time ranchers that the wealthy are trying to force them off their land. Violence erupts when they allow others to use that fear to manipulate them"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Five Star, Five Star A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In Land Rush white families have lined up, waiting for the U.S. Army's signal to move in on the land vacated by the Ute Indians and make their homestead claims. Steve Regan knows the newly opened land well enough and wants to head for the mesa land because he knows the soil to be superior. His brother Al appears to have allied himself with Bronc Vedder and his group who want to set up a vigilance committee to punish claim-jumpers, and behind this...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Murdo Morgan returns to Paradise Valley to fulfill his father's dream of settling a thousand farming families there despite opposition from the rancher responsible for the deaths of Monroe's father and brothers. In 'The Fence' Sheriff Jim Hallet has a murder to solve while removing the barrier between him and the woman he loves"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eight years after breaking up a bank robbery during which one of the robbers escaped, Neal Clark is forced to confront a couple of shady characters seeking investors for a bogus irrigation project at the same time the robbery suspect returns threatening revenge.
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A gold rush threatens to break the peace of a quiet Colorado town.
Angel's Landing was the mining town that grew up around a gold strike in the hills of Colorado. But the boom was long ago, and now the town is a whisper of what it once was. Mark Girard was a young boy when he witnessed firsthand what happened to a town when all of its residents vanished. It was a simple, quiet life that Mark had chosen to lead, and he and his closest friends much...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Central Oregon-the last frontier. Transportation is still by stagecoach and freight wagon. There is a movement afoot for a people's railroad, paid for by the state, to bring the benefits of rails to the area, to make it easier to ship livestock and produce, and to encourage settlement. For years, the competing railroad barons, James J. Hill and Edward H. Harriman, have done nothing toward building a line in central Oregon, but now, under the impetus...