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1) Denver
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"A lusty historical novel that vividly portrays Denver journalism, politics, and the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s."-- from website "101 Best Books on Colorado", accessed 6-22-12.
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[2020]
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This novel is the compelling fictional story based on a compilation of the many legends of the beautiful, tantalizing, kind, and extraordinary woman who lived and performed in Park County, Colorado, specifically around the year of 1861. The now ghost town it is centered in was once very much the gun-toting, overwhelmingly exciting, overnight sensation of Buckskin Joe's, where a gold strike was discovered in 1859 by Joseph Higginbotham. While much...
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The year is 1883, and the mining town of Goetia is booming as prospectors from near and far come to mine the powerful new element Divinity from the high mountains of Colorado with the help of the pariahs of society known as the Fallen. The Fallen are the descendants of demonkind living among the Virtues, the winners in an ancient war, with the descendants of both sides choosing to live alongside Abaddon's mountain in this tale of the mythological...
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2020
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After three years of brutal fighting in the American Civil War, Bill Barton and his best friend head west, hoping to strike it rich in the gold fields of Colorado. But an attack on the road to Central City leaves his friend dead and Bill badly injured. Barely recovered and no longer having the heart for prospecting, Bill moves to Denver, where he finds a steady job with the city marshal's office. But as his prospects improve and he begins dreaming...
5) Widow Boy
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The bullet that ended Edwina Sinclair’s life went into her husband’s chest. Their dream of a new life together in the gold rush town of Cripple Creek died with him. She escapes the ruthless gang that killed him, only to discover the local law is on the take. She must find justice on her own. Disguising herself as a boy and using skills she isn’t supposed to have, she makes her way in the gold-crazy town, intent on killing the gang leader to...
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2019
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In search of a life filled with freedom and adventure, Whitney Voss traveled to the Indian territories of the West in 1851. There, he found the perfect life, and the love of a Cheyenne maiden. This ideal existence soon became threatened by the changing relationship between the Plains Tribes and the ever-increasing tide of immigrants and gold seekers. For generations, the Natives of the Great Plains had warred with each other over the territory, giving...