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2021.
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"Like many good stories of the old West, this one begins in a saloon. In 1914 in El Paso, Texas, two strangers strike up a conversation at the bar--Bill Roberts, a real-life figure who died in Hico, Texas, in 1950, and a former US Army scout whose brother knew Roberts by another name: Billy the Kid. So begins The Gospel According to Billy the Kid, a tale of the old New Mexico territory, corrupt lawmen, honest ranchers, murder, betrayal, and the explosive...
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Pub. Date
c2000
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Frank Morgan rides with a brace of six guns, a reputation for knowing how to use them, and a private score hés vowed to settle. Known on the frontier as The Drifter, Morgan has come to Colorado in pursuit of the hombres who killed the only woman he ever loved. But two vicious outlaw gangs are running roughshod over the territory in a stampede of murder, robbery, and rape. And now they've made an enemy of Frank Morgan--taking his own son hostage....
45) The last gamble
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Pub. Date
c1998
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Betting on the future in four Rocky Mountain mining towns.
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Pub. Date
19uu
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Richens Lacy "Uncle Dick" Wootton* (1816-1893) - American frontiersman, mountain man, trapper, and guide, Wootton was born in Mecklenberg County, Virginia on May 6, 1816. At the age of 7, the family moved to Kentucky, where Richens stayed until he was 17. He then moved to Mississippi where he worked on his uncles cotton plantation for two years before making his way to Independence, Missouri in 1836. He soon took a job working on a wagon train run...
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2020.
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"Jim Bannister rides into Cabra Springs with no money, no friends, and a price on his head--$12,000. Unable to prove his innocence, he's been running for a long time, knowing that bounty hunters were on his trail. But a man can't change who he is and when he sees someone in trouble, he steps in to help. He makes a few new friends, but even more enemies"--Provided by publisher.
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Long considered an underground classic, The Journey Home stands beside Desert Solitude as one of Abbey's most important works. In a voice edged with chagrin, Abbey offers a portrait of the American West that readers will not soon forget, presenting the reflections and observations of a man who left the urban world behind in pursuit of the natural one and the myths buried therein.
59) The old West
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Pub. Date
c1984
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Memorial for Jim Springer - From Ray and Mary Yoast
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