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1) Joe Pepper
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Joe Pepper is a Texas badman with quite a past. In fact, there isn't much that Joe hasn't done in his forty years of living on both sides of the Texas law-except face the hangman. Now, convicted of murder, Joe is about to get that privilege. But before he goes, Joe has a few things he wants to say-and a few stories that he wants to set straight. With Joe Pepper, legendary Western writer Elmer Kelton tells a fine and moving tale of the history of his...
2) Shotgun
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English
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Rancher Blair Bishop of Two Forks, Texas, has too many enemies . . . and they are closing in on him. Macy Modock, whom Bishop sent to prison ten years ago, is out of the hoosegow. Modock is returning to Two Forks along with his sidekick, who is known to be a mean gunman. Also arrayed against Bishop is rival cowman Clarence Cass, who is running his animals on Bishop's land. Complicating matters, Cass's daughter, Jessie, and Bishop's son, Allan, are...
3) Many a river
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Forge
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Relocating to western Texas with their sharecropper parents in the mid-nineteenth century, Jeffrey and Todd Barfield are separated by a Comanche attack that leaves their parents dead, and are reunited years later on opposing sides in the Civil War.
5) Texas rifles
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Forge
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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Virginian Sam Houston Cloud had no desire to fight against his own country, so he joins up with the Texas Mounted Rangers in that state's war against the Comanches.
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 8
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Forge
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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aSetting out to arrest a trader accused of killing a horse thief, young Texas Ranger Andy Pickard finds the case complicated by the trader's honor-bound nature, a situation that makes Andy wonder if he is fighting on the right side.
12) Texas vendetta
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 5
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Forge
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 3
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Forge
Pub. Date
2001
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English
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The third installment in the powerful series about the Texas Rangers follows Rusty Shannon, once a Comanche captive, as he tries to resume a normal life after the end of the Civil War, but instead finds himself confronted by racial tension, murderous outlaws, brutal Comanche bands, night-riders, and his nemesis--the deadly Oldham brothers.
15) Six bits a day
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Calloway series volume 3
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Forge
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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16) Manhunters
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Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Working faithfully for a Texas rancher despite his family's warnings, Chacho Fernandez steals his payment when his dishonest employer refuses to compensate him and is falsely accused of murdering a lawman.
17) After the Bugles
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Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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In the aftermath of a bitter and bloody war for independence, Texans have finally claimed their freedom from Mexico—but they don't have much else to brag about. Joshua Buckalew has left behind the deserted battlefields that claimed his brother Thomas. The war has cost him much but it has also given him a strong bond to the land and to the Mexican families who stood with him against the tyrannies of Santa Anna. Josh is travelling with Ramon Hernandez...
18) Wagontongue
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Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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As a slave, Isaac Jefford went to war and saved the life of his master, Major Lytton. As a free man, Isaac became one of the major's top cowhands, respected-but never totally accepted-by fellow cowboys: when they gathered around the fire to eat their dinner, Isaac took his food and sat on the wagontongue alone. When Pete Runyan, a bitter southerner, joins the crew, Isaac has to swallow his rage more than once. But then Pete and Isaac are assigned...
19) Dark Thicket
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Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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Donovan: Donovan was supposed to be dead. The town of Dry Fork, southern Texas, had buried him years before when Uncle Joe Vickers had fired off both barrels of a shotgun into the vicious outlaw's face as he was escaping from jail. Now, Uncle Joe has been shot-in just the same way. And Judge Upshaw had found a noose hanging on his door. It looked as though Donovan was back-gunning for the people who had tracked him down and tried him. Sheriff Webb...
20) Shadow of a Star
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Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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Deputy Sheriff Jim-Bob McClain isn't sure he's ready to follow in his father's footsteps as the law in Coolridge County. In fact, he has a hard enough time keeping the peace between the drunks in the local saloon. But with tough Sheriff Mont Naylor to back him up he figures he can handle whatever comes his way. Jim-Bob's first real assignment is no piece of cake. He must escort a ruthless outlaw into the hands of justice. All seems well with the lawless...
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