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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
288 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
What's a 16-year-old boy to do when he learns that his stepmother and a local judge have murdered his father and now plan to kill him, too? Well, when it's 1906, and you can play pretty good second base, you join a barn-storming baseball team making its way across Kansas. It also helps that the team is the Kansas City National Bloomer Girls. After all, who'd look for a runaway boy disguised as a girl on a women's team that competes against town teams...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
335 pages
Language
English
Description
"Setting up shop in rip-roaring Spanish Fort, Texas, in the early 1870s, Big Eddie Hager outfitted many cowboys in boots as they headed up the Chisholm Trail. Hagers fame and his company grew with the years, turning Hager Boots & Company, Incorporated, into a global legend. But when a Dallas newspaper reporter arrives in whats left of Spanish Fort, an old-timer sets the record straight by telling the true story of the man behind the Hager legend-the...
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Deputy U.S. Marshal Reilly McGivern is hauling criminals to Yuma when his prison wagon is attacked. Three guards die in a hail of gunfire and McGivern is left locked inside to die. When another outlaw gang comes upon the scene, Reilly McGivern thinks he'll live to see another day. What he doesn't realize is that his problems are just beginning. Bloody Jim Pardo wants to avenge the Civil War and needs to steal the kinds of weapons to help him do it....
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Publisher
Thorndike/Chivers
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
333 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jeremiah Cole has been convicted and sentenced to hang for lynching a priest, a crime that shocked all New Mexico Territory. Yet most people believe that Cole, the son of wealthy and powerful Senator Roman Cole, will never be executed. Father Virgilio is so convinced that Jeremiah Cole will escape execution at Chama, where his sentence is to be carried out, that he has raised a reward for anyone who will successfully transport the prisoner there....
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Publisher
CenterPoint
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Micah Bishop doesn't believe in miracles -- until a derringer-packing nun busts him out of jail. But it's not Christian charity that's driving Sister Genevieve -- she wants Micah to take her to a place called the Valley of Fire, deep in the most lawless and perilous part of New Mexico Territory. It was here where an order of nuns met their Maker, and it's Sister Genevieve's mission to see that they are given a proper funeral. Or so she claims. Micah's...
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English
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"When an accident seriously injures his father, fifteen-year-old Evan Kendrick saddles his half broke mustang stallion to take his father's place in a horse race from Texas to New England offering $3,000 to the winner. He will discover what America can offer, both good and bad"--
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The only way to escape the purgatory of the Florence Stockade was to die. So on February 3, 1865, Zebulon Hogan died and was buried in the prisoners' cemetery. It was young Ebenezer Chase, a runaway slave, who saw his hand clawing out of the dirt over the shallow grave. Zeb has a mission far beyond escape: he's sworn an oath to the other prisoners to hunt and kill a traitorous sergeant. Zeb's problem is that he knows nothing of the surrounding country....
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
334 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
It was referred to in the national press and by historians as the Battle at the Little Bighorn or the Custer Massacre. The Indians called it the Greasy Grass Fight. What actually happened in that battle seems chaos and confusion. Custer was an idiot. He was a hero. He did everything right (just everything went wrong). He did everything wrong (and nothing went right).
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English
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"Tom Candy Ponting was no ordinary trail boss. He didn't smoke, chew, cuss, or even carry a gun. Unlike his competitors, he learned how to herd cows on a farm back in England - and how to handle cowboys in bareknuckle prizefights. But his skills and know-how were really put to the test when he accepted a bet he might live to regret: lead a cattle drive from Texas to New York City. Not one to back down on a dare, Ponting assembles the motliest crew...
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Recalling his early life as a young cowboy, sixty-two-year-old Madison Carter remembers his first love: her name was Estrella O'Sullivan, and he met her the summer he turned sixteen back in 1873. The summer of 1873 marked Madison's last drive up what is now called the Chisholm Trail. It was the first time he tasted oysters and the only time he pinned on a badge. It was the summer of longhorns, miserable heat, friendship and betrayal, and murder. In...
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Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"That was the year we had no food." It's the spring of 1864, and times are hard in Washington County, Arkansas, especially for 13-year-old Travis Ford. He hasn't heard from his father, a sergeant in the Second Arkansas Cavalry, in months. His mother is struggling to make ends meet on the family farm and abandoned sawmill near Poison Spring. All Travis really wants to do is to follow his passion -- make up adventure stories in the style of Alexandre...
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English
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In 1913, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Lawrence, Kansas, Massacre, former bushwhacker Cole Younger stands before a preacher at a tent revival. "I was, I remain, and I will always be a wicked man," Younger states, taking a step toward salvation. For a man like Cole Younger, there is much to confess. Born to a well-to-do Missouri family, Cole Younger dreams of being a good Christian, joining the Masons, marrying a good woman -- maybe even following...
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
416 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
Description
Matthew Garth was orphaned in a savage wagon train ambush and adopted by Red River hero Thomas Dunson. Twenty years later Matt has two strapping sons of his own and is undertaking a desperate cattle drive from Texas to Dodge City, the new queen of frontier cattle towns. While the deadly dangers of storms and rustlers gather around them, an act of passion and violence from within the drive -- and from within the Garth family -- leaves Matt fighting...
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