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A Century of Great Western Stories

John Jakes - Forge Books
Format: Hardcover

John Jakes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of such acclaimed historical novels as North and South and The Kent Family Chronicles has long been both a fan and a distinguished author of novels and stories of the American West. Now, with the turning of the millennium, he has compiled...
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The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard

Elmore Leonard - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

No one is more evocative of the dusty, gutsy hey-day of the American West than Elmore Leonard. And no story about a young writer struggling to launch his career ever matched its subject matter better than the tale behind Leonard's Western oeuvre.In 1950, fresh out of college -- having...
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Texas Ranger

James Patterson - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Paperback

Instant #1 New York Times bestsellerIn James Patterson's white-hot Western thriller, a Texas Ranger fights for his life, his freedom, and the town he loves as he investigates his ex-wife's murder. Across the ranchlands and cities of his home state, Rory Yates's discipline and law-enforcement...
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Appaloosa

Robert B. Parker - Putnam Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Print book

When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a small, dusty town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg, a man who has so little regard for the law that he has taken supplies, horses, and women for his own and left the city marshal and one of his deputies...
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If you like Appaloosa, be sure to check out other titles in the Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch series.
The Winter Family: A Novel

Clifford Jackman - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

"Sadistic but mesmerizing..."-- The New York Times Book ReviewTracing a group of ruthless outlaws from its genesis during the American Civil War all the way to a final bloody stand in the Oklahoma territories, The Winter Family is a hyperkinetic Western noir that reads like a full-on...
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American Meteor

Norman Lock - Bellevue Literary Press
Format: Paperback

"Sheds brilliant light along the meteoric path of American westward expansion. . . . [A] pithy, compact beautifully conducted version of the American Dream, from its portrait of the young wounded soldier in the beginning to its powerful rendering of Crazy Horse's prophecy for life...
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The Son

Philipp Meyer - Ecco; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Philipp Meyer, the acclaimed author of American Rust, returns with The Son: an epic of the American West and a multigenerational saga of power, blood, land, and oil that follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family, from the Comanche raids of the 1800s to the to the oil booms of the 20th...
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Hard Country

Michael McGarrity - Dutton; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

A richly authentic epic adventure of rough-hewn men and courageous women, set in the hard country of the American Southwest frontier.Hard Country is a rare and extraordinary story of one family's struggle to settle and endure in the vast, untamed territory of New Mexico.In the wake...
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The Book of Murdock

Loren D. Estleman - Forge Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Page Murdock has been many things in his day: a cowhand, a saloonkeeper, a Comanche slave, and, lately, a deputy U.S. marshal. But the one thing the mean-faced, middle-aged gunman never expected to be was a man of the cloth.Funny how things work out sometimes.Posing as Brother Bernard Sebastian...
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The Signal: A Novel

Ron Carlson - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover

A beautifully written and suspenseful tale of love and peril by an award-winning writer Backpacking into the Wind River Mountains on their tenth annual trip, Mack and his wife, Vonnie, find the magnificent woods and stunning mountains of Wyoming full of ghosts and danger. Mack comes from...
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Etta: A Novel

Gerald Kolpan - Ballantine Book
Format: Print book

Beautiful, elusive, and refined, Etta Place captivated the nation at the turn of the last century as she dodged the law with the Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Her true identity and fate have remained a mystery that has tantalized historians for decades. Now, for the first...
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Telegraph Days: A Novel

Larry McMurtry - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

I've come to think that in times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational. The Yazee gang was riding down upon us, six abreast. We all ran outside and confirmed that fact. The sensible thing would have been to run and hide -- but did we? Not at all. The narrator...
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Monument Rock

Louis L'Amour - Bantam Books
Format: Hardcover

Monument Rock features eight Louis L'Amour Western stories that have never been published before: "A Man Called Utah," "Battle at Burnt Camp," "Here Ends the Trail," "Ironwood Station," "Last Day in Town," "Strawhouse Trail,"...
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The following titles are both Westerns and Love Stories

Where Courage Calls

Janette Oke - Bethany House Publishers
Format: Paperback

Her courage and her heart will be tested in ways she never expected...Beth Thatcher has spent her entire life in the safe, comfortable world of her family, her friends, and the social outings her father's wealth provides. But Beth is about to leave it all behind to accept a teaching position...
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The Heart's Pursuit

Robin Lee Hatcher - Zondervan
Format: Book

A jilted bride desperate to save her family from ruin. A bounty hunter seeking vengeance for a ravaged past. An arduous trek toward justice--or redemption. Silver Matlock and Jared Newman know traveling together is a bad idea. Bad for Silver's already tarnished reputation in her small...
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Reckless Love

Elizabeth Lowell - Severn House Publishers; First World Hardcover edition
Format: Hardcover

No one who roamed the steep green mountains and red-rock canyons of Utah Territory was safe from El Cascabel and his renegade warriors -- not Janna Wayland, not the wild stallion Lucifer -- not even Ty MacKenzie, the stranger who had come for the stallion, and stayed to capture Janna's...
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One Heart to Win

Johanna Lindsey - Gallery Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In her fiftieth novel, New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey takes her readers on a sensual, romantic adventure through the American West.Some young ladies marry for money and social standing, a few lucky ones marry for love - but Tiffany Warren is marrying to end a feud. Honoring...
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Texas! Lucky

Sandra Brown - Bantam Books
Format: Hardcover

The first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown's belovedTexas! trilogy introduced readers worldwide to a captivating family struggling to go on without its patriarch - and to a man in pursuit of an elusive woman who may hold his future in her hands. Here is a saga...
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If you like Texas! Lucky, be sure to check other the other titles in Sandra Brown's Texas! trilogy
Cassidy

Lori Wick - Thorndike Press
Format:  Large print book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats

Cassidy Norton, a seamstress, makes her living sewing for the folks of Token Creek in Montana Territory, 1880; Cassidy, struggling with a nagging unsettledness in her heart, must decide whether to share her past with the people who have become dear to her.
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If you like Cassidy, be sure to check out the other titles in Lori Wick's Big Sky Dreams series!
Something More

Janet Dailey - Kensington
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Janet Dailey comes a captivating story of a man who's given up, a woman who won't let go, and a race to find a treasure that could bring them wealth and so much more... Something More Life in Glory, Wyoming, population fifty-one, isn't...
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