Adventure fiction: Westerns
Random House USA Inc Utah Blaine Silver Canyon
Book SynopsisUtah BlaineHeld captive south of the border, Colonel Utah Blaine escaped with nothing but the clothes on his back. Then he found new trouble by saving the life of a Texas rancher. The would-be executioners were the rancher’s own men, looking to steal his land. Now Utah has a unique proposition: Have the wealthy Texan play dead, introduce himself as the spread’s new foreman, and take care of the outlaws one by one. The wage to fight another man’s war? Generous. The cost of falling in love while earning that wage? Utah will soon find out—unless the bad guys get him first. Silver Canyon“You’re not wanted in Hattan’s Point,” Matt Brennan was told moments after arriving in town. “There’s trouble here and men are picking sides.” But Matt wasn’t going anywhere until he found out what the dispute was about—and got to know Moira Maclaren. She considered him nothing more than a dri
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Hodder & Stoughton Edge of Dark Water
Book SynopsisMay Lynn dreamed of being a movie star. But her future was short, and it wasn''t on the silver screen. It was down in the dark depths of the Sabine River with a sewing machine wired to her feet. In Depression-era Texas, a better life is hard to come by. May Lynn''s friends Sue Ellen, Terry and Jinx know they need to leave, and now they have a reason - they''re going to take May''s ashes all the way to Hollywood. But silent obstacles stand in their way: a family''s worth of betrayal, a fortune''s worth of stolen gold, and a legendary killer who''ll stop at nothing...Joe R. Lansdale is one of the great American crime writers and Edge of Dark Water shows him at his finest. If you haven''t read him yet, you''re missing out.Trade ReviewThe pace never slackens, the writing is elegance personified, and the story tugs at the heartstrings * Daily Mail *Joe Lansdale is one of the dark kings of modern mystery fiction, a master of the genre. His name deserves to be whispered with the greats. * John Connolly *Lansdale has the delight in language of the best raconteur; he also delivers some wince-inducing violence and can crank up the tension to screaming point. * Metro *A terrific and memorable novel that sticks in the mind long after it is finished * Canberra Times *A charming Gothic tale...an adventure as funny and frightening as anything that could have been dreamed up by the Brothers Grimm - or Mark Twain * New York Times Book Review *EDGE OF DARK WATER describes a trip downriver that is one-half Huck Finn, one-half Deliverance, and entirely Joe Lansdale. * Joe Hill *The strongest, truest, and most pitch-perfect narration since Huck Finn's. Marvelous and terrifying, EDGE OF DARK WATER is the result of real genius at work. A masterpiece. * Dan Simmons *Alternately scary, funny as hell, disturbing, but always (and most importantly) memorable. * Bruce Campbell *Joe Lansdale has long been one of our finest and most difficult to classify writers... In EDGE OF DARK WATER he offers a beautifully spun tale of life in the sticks, friendship and mortality, and tells it with the wit, humor and pure-deep power we've come to expect of him. * Daniel Woodrell *Dark and comic, bleak and terrifying, romantic and endearing...This, I kid you not, is the Great American Novel of the year. * CrimeTime *
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Overlook Press True Grit
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Random House USA Inc Where The Long Grass Blows
Book SynopsisBill Canavan rode into the valley with a dream to start his own ranch. But when he managed to stake claims on the three best water holes, the other ranchers turned against him.No one is more determined to see Canavan dead than Star Levitt. Levitt is an unscrupulous businessman who has been accumulating cattle at an alarming rate. Suspicious after witnessing a secret meeting between the riders of warring ranches, Bill begins noticing other dubious behavior: Why is Levitt’s fiancée, Dixie Venable, acting more like a hostage than a willing bride-to-be?Canavan doesn’t have much time to figure out what’s going on. The entire valley is against him, and everyone is ready to shoot on sight.
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Random House USA Inc Jubal Sackett 4 Sacketts
Book SynopsisIn Jubal Sackett, the second generation of Louis L’Amour’s great American family pursues a destiny in the wilderness of a sprawling new land. Jubal Sackett’s urge to explore drove him westward, and when a Natchez priest asks him to undertake a nearly impossible quest, Sackett ventures into the endless grassy plains the Indians call the Far Seeing Lands. He seeks a Natchez exploration party and its leader, Itchakomi. It is she who will rule her people when their aging chief dies, but first she must vanquish her rival, the arrogant warrior Kapata. Sackett’s quest will bring him danger from an implacable enemy . . . and show him a life—and a woman—worth dying for.
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Random House Publishing Group Ride the River Sacketts Book 5
Book SynopsisAlone in the big city, a fierce young frontierswoman must outsmart a dangerous con man before she can stake her claim to the family fortune. Sixteen-year-old Echo Sackett has never been far from her Tennessee home—until she makes the long trek to Philadelphia to collect her inheritance. In the wilderness Echo can take care of herself as well as any man, but she never imagined the challenge that awaits: a crooked city lawyer who intends to take advantage of her by any means necessary. Echo will need all of her wits to best this scoundrel and make it back home in one piece.
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Last Stand At Papago Wells Bantam Books
Book SynopsisIt was the only water for miles in a vast, sun-blasted desert where water meant survival. So Logan Cates naturally headed for Papago Wells. But he wasn’t the only one. Fleeing the fierce Churupati and his Apache warriors, other travelers had come there too. And when the Apaches found them, they began a siege as relentless and unforgiving as the barren land…and just as inescapable. The last thing Cates wanted was to be responsible for the lives of thirteen desperate strangers and a shipment of gold. But he knew that if they were to survive, he was their last chance. He also knew that some in the party were willing to die—or kill—to get their hands on the money. If he couldn’t get them to work together, it wouldn’t be the desert or even the Apaches that would do them in—it would be the greed of the very people he was trying to save.
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Under Sweetwater Rim
Book SynopsisDeep in Indian country, Major Mark Devereaux and his men find a grisly scene: a wagon train savagely attacked, with no survivors. One of the wagons originally with the group is missing; in it is a fortune in gold and Devereaux’s daughter, Mary. The slaughter, Devereaux learns, was not the work of Indians but of a murderous outlaw band. With the stakes rising in a deadly game, the only wild card is Lieutenant Tenadore Brian, who is riding with the missing wagon—against orders. Devereaux knows Brian is a good soldier, but is he good enough to protect a saddlebag full of gold . . . and the life of his daughter?
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc The First Fast Draw
Book SynopsisEast Texas wasn’t much of a home for Cullen Baker. Few liked him, and some even tried to kill him. Yet after three hard years of wandering, he’s come back to farm the land that’s rightfully his. Only Cullen’s in for an unwelcome homecoming: his neighbors have long memories, the Reconstructionists have greedy hearts, and his worst enemy has teamed up with a vicious outlaw. But Cullen isn’t about to back down. Instead, he’s intent on perfecting a new way of gunfighting: the fast draw. And now, with enemies closing in on three sides and threatening the woman he loves, he’ll have to be faster than lightning—and twice as deadly—just to survive.
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e-artnow Man in the Saddle: Western Novel
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Graphic Arts Books The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta
Book SynopsisThe Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta (1854) is a novel by John Rollin Ridge. Published under his birth name Yellow Bird, from Cheesquatalawny in Cherokee, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta was the first novel from a Native American author. Despite its popular success worldwide—the novel was translated into French and Spanish—Ridge’s work was a financial failure due to bootleg copies and widespread plagiarism. Recognized today as a groundbreaking work of nineteenth century fiction, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta is a powerful novel that investigates American racism, illustrates the struggle for financial independence among marginalized communities, and dramatizes the lives of outlaws seeking fame, fortune, and vigilante justice. Born in Mexico, Joaquin Murieta came to California in search of gold. Despite his belief in the American Dream, he soon faces violence and racism from white settlers who see his success as a miner as a personal affront. When his wife is raped by a mob of white men and after Joaquin is beaten by a group of horse thieves, he loses all hope of living alongside Americans and turns to a life of vigilantism. Joined by a posse of similarly enraged Mexican-American men, Joaquin becomes a fearsome bandit with a reputation for brutality and stealth. Based on the life of Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo, also known as The Robin Hood of the West, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta would serve as inspiration for Johnston McCulley’s beloved pulp novel hero Zorro. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta is a classic work of Native American literature reimagined for modern readers.
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Hqn Wyoming Homecoming
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St. Martin's Griffin Westering Women
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, Sandra Dallas''s Westering Women is an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous Overland Trail Exciting novel ... difficult to put down. Booklist If you are an adventuresome young woman of high moral character and fine health, are you willing to travel to California in search of a good husband?It''s February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees postings soliciting eligible women to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter, she has nothing to lose. She joins forty-three other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2,000-mile journey west. None are prepared for the hardships they face on the trek or for the strengths they didn''t know they possessed. Maggie discovers she's not the only one looking to leave dark secrets behind. And when
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Galaxy Press The Tramp
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Random House USA Inc The Man Called Noon Louis LAmours Lost Treasures
Book SynopsisAs part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials!In one swift moment a fall wiped away his memory. Now all he knew for certain was that someone wanted him dead—and that he had better learn why. But everywhere he turned there seemed to be more questions—or people too willing to hide the truth behind a smoke screen of lies. He had only the name he had been told was his own, his mysterious skill with a gun, and a link to a half million dollars’ worth of buried gold as evidence of his past life. Was the treasure his? Was he a thief? A killer? He didn’t have the answers, but he needed them soon. Because what he still didn’t know about himself, others did—and if he didn’t unlock the secret of his past, he wasn’t going to have much of a future.Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures is a project created to release some of the author’s more unconve
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Baker Publishing Group A Model of Devotion
Book SynopsisShe''s finally claimed her independence . . . how far will she go to keep it?A brilliant engineer, Jilly Stiles has been educated since childhood to help run her father''s lumber dynasty. With the company safe from her stepfather after the marriages of her two sisters, Jilly can now focus on her dream of building a mountaintop railroad--and never marry.Nick Ryder came into Jilly''s life when he saved her mother from her no-good stepfather, and he''s prepared to protect Jilly from anything that threatens to harm her--as long as he keeps his heart from getting involved.But when a cruel and powerful man goes to dangerous lengths to make Jilly his own, she must make a decision between her safety and her hard-won independence.
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Sourcebooks The Front Runner
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Canary Street Press Wyoming Proud
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Penguin Publishing Group In the Distance
Book SynopsisFINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARDWINNER OF THE WHITING AWARDWINNER OF THE SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITINGWINNTER OF THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARDWINNER OF THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARDA PUBLISHERS WEEKLY TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEARThe first novel by the Pulitzer Prize?winning author of Trust, an exquisite and blisteringly intelligent story of a young Swedish boy, separated from his brother, who becomes a legend and an outlawA young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels east in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing west. Driven back again and again, he meets criminals, naturalists, religious fanatics, swindlers, American Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. Diaz defies the conventions of historical fiction and genre, offering a probing look at the stereotypes that populate our past and a portrait of radical foreignness.
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Death's Head Press Sing Me a Death Song
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Penguin Putnam Inc Range War in Whiskey Hill
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Random House USA Inc The SkyLiners
Book SynopsisIn The Sky-Liners, Louis L’Amour introduces Flagan and Galloway Sackett, heading west from Tennessee to seek their fortunes. That’s when they came across an old Irish trader who offered them two fine horses if they would agree to escort his granddaughter, Judith, to her father in Colorado. Flagan saw nothing but trouble in the fiery young woman, but they needed the horses. Unfortunately, Flagan was right, for Judith had fallen for James Black Fetchen, a charismatic gunman whose courtship hid the darkest of intentions.Now Fetchen and his gang are racing the Sackett brothers to Colorado—leaving behind a trail of betrayal, robbery, and murder. Flagan and Galloway can only guess why Judith is so important to Fetchen and what awaits them at her father’s ranch. One thing Flagan knows for sure: The tough and spirited woman has won his heart. But can he trust her with his life?
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc The Warriors Path The Sacketts
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Random House USA Inc Riding for the Brand by LAmour Louis Author ON
Book SynopsisThe open West was a land where wanderers could find themselves a home—one to fight for, be changed by, sometimes to die for. Jed Asbury was one such journeyman, taking on the identity of a dead person. Allen Ring was another: He’d won his plot of land in a card game only to find he had to win again with a gun. From a has-been boxer to a ranch hand taking on his bosses’ troubles, the characters in these classic Louis L’Amour short stories are all “riding for the brand”—staying loyal to what matters, staking the West with their courage and their blood.
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Kensington Publishing Saving the Rain
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Sourcebooks Wild Side Standard Edition
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Faber & Faber A Thousand Moons
Book SynopsisOld God''s Time (March 2023), Sebastian Barry''s stunning new novel, available to pre-order nowFrom the Costa Book of the Year-winning author of Days Without EndEven when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to liveWinona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole.Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educated and loved, forging a life for herself beyond the violence and dispossession of her past. But the fragile harmony of her unlikely family unit, in the aftermath of the Civil War, is soon threatened by a further traumatic event, one which Winona struggles to confront, let alone understand. Told in Sebastian Barry's rare and masterly prose, A Thousand Moons is a powerful, moving study of one woman's journey, of her determination to write her own future, and of the enTrade Review'A violent, superbly lyrical Western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making [and] the most fascinating line-by-line first person narration I've come across in years.' - Kazuo Ishiguro on DAYS WITHOUT END'Nobody writes like, nobody takes lyrical risks like, nobody pushes the language, and the heart, and the two together, quite like Sebastian Barry does, so that you come out of whatever he writes like you've been away, in another climate.' - Ali Smith
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Kensington Publishing Cold Dead Cash
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Oni Press,US The Sixth Gun Omnibus Vol. 2
Book SynopsisThe ultimate collection for fans and new readers alike—Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt’s iconic weird western, The Sixth Gun, is available for the first time in beautiful softcover omnibus editions!On a night of blood and gunfire, Drake Sinclair vanished without a trace. Now, using the prophetic powers of the Sixth Gun, Becky Moncrief sets out to find him. Becky’s enemies have often seen her as the helpless damsel, but no more! Once she’s finished with them, they’ll know she is the deserving wielder of the deadliest weapon ever created. But the Sixth Gun is a temperamental ally, and it reveals only enough to serve its own desires. Little does Becky know that the sinister organization that has captured Drake is preparing to spring a deadly trap. Mutants, sentient guns, terrifying secrets, and an underground fortress filled with ancient relics—The Sixth Gun continues its wild exploration of the Old West! This volume co
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Little, Brown & Company The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu
Book SynopsisA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceAn astounding debut that reimagines the classic Western through the eyes of a Chinese American assassin on a quest to rescue his kidnapped wife and exact his revenge on her abductors, and "declares the arrival of an astonishing new voice" (Jonathan Lethem).
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Kensington Publishing The Bloody Spur
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Kensington Publishing Rage for Vengeance
Book SynopsisA blazing new chapter in the epic Byrnes family saga from Western Heritage and Western Writers of America Spur Award-winning author Dusty Richards . . . Born out of the grit, sweat, and drive of a cattle ranching empire, U.S. Marshal Chet Byrnes is turning the savage and lawless Arizona desert into a homeland. To some he’s the hero that the West needs. To others, he’s a moving target. Chet is spearheading a stage line from Gallup to the Colorado River. It’ll be a boon to Navajo trading posts, and lay out the territory for new settlements. Unfortunately, it’s not Gerald Hall’s idea of progress—killing Chet is. The mysterious Texas gambler has hired three kill-crazy assassins—and counting—to bury Chet under a storm of bullets. To turn the tables on a game of revenge, Chet has to match the deranged Texan play by play, body by body, and bullet for bullet. Come hell or high water, that stage line is going
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Kensington Publishing Preachers Carnage 27 PreacherFirst Mountain Man
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Providence
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Kensington Publishing Last Stage to Hell Junction
Book SynopsisNew York Times bestselling author Max Allan Collins again brings to life the legacy of crime-writing legend Mickey Spillane in another explosive chapter in this now-classic western saga. Caleb York has a tin star, a blazing gun, and plenty of courage. All he needs is a little luck to deliver big justice . . .On a lively night at the Victory saloon in Trinidad, New Mexico, Sheriff Caleb York interrupts his poker game to settle a minor dust-up that raises the stakes into major trouble. The wounded miscreant he ushers to the hoosegow spills the secret behind the mysterious disappearance of a certain stage coach.Bound for Denver, the stage carried three important passengers—beautiful ranch owner Willa Cullen, lovely temptress Rita Filley, and wealthy banker Raymond L. Parker. The two women are rivals for the lawman’s love, while Parker is a key investor in Trinidad’s future. But all are gone, with only the corpses of fellow passengers as
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Lone Pine Publishing,Canada Rodeo West
Book SynopsisRodeo combines the excitement of riding and roping events with the fun of the rodeo clown and wild cow milking in a tradition that had its start on the ranches of the early west. Rodeo West tells the story of these events, of rodeo's beginnings, rodeo's heroes, the Calgary Stampede and the nature of rodeo today.
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Lone Pine Publishing,Canada Fireside Stories: A Heartwarming Collection of
Book SynopsisThis collection of delicately crafted short stories captures the joys and sorrows of homesteaders working to create a community on the frontier. Throw another log on the fire and curl up with this heart-warming book.
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Galaxy Press Branded Outlaw: A Tale of Wild Hearts in the Wild
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Galaxy Press Under the Diehard Brand
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Galaxy Press Devil's Manhunt
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Galaxy Press The Slickers
Book SynopsisTex Larimee is a grizzled Arizona sheriff who's leaving the deserts of Cactus County behind, blazing a trail east to mix it up with The Slickers in the canyons of Manhattan. Years later Clint Eastwood would follow the exact same trail in Coogan's Bluffa western lawman on the loose in New York City.Tex's welcome to New York is a rude one. Robbed of his cash, gun and badge, he's locked in a room in back of a run-down bar. Breaking out of the bar, he goes looking for his best friend only to find him dead, his throat cut. And the cops accuse Tex of committing the murder.But none of that's going to keep a good Arizona lawman down. Discovering he's been the subject of an elaborate frame-up job, Tex has got a few tricks of his own up his sleeveand in his recovered Colt .45to make even the toughest of city birds sing a different tune.Much like Tex, L. Ron Hubbard was born and bred on the western frontier and made his way east to explore and experience life in New York City. But unlike the sheriff, Hubbard enjoyed his time in the city, where his writing career took off as he became a leading figure in its literary world. He came to know the streets and haunts of Manhattan as well as he knew the arroyos and canyons of the west, giving him the kind of insights he needed to write stories like The Slickers.Also includes the mysteries Killer Ape, in which a man frees a mistreated orangutan, only to end up with a monkey on his back, as he's accused of aiding and abetting the ape in a case of murder, and Murder Afloat, the story of a top narcotics cop in the U.S. Secret Service who's pursuit of a million-dollar score could land him in some hotand deadlywater.
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Galaxy Press Six-Gun Caballero
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Galaxy Press The No-Gun Man: A Frontier Tale of Outlaws,
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Galaxy Press Six-Gun Caballero
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Galaxy Press Tinhorn's Daughter
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Galaxy Press Shadows from Boot Hill
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Galaxy Press King of the Gunmen
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Galaxy Press Branded Outlaw
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