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A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, this is the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass -- a remarkable tale of obsession, the human will stretched to its limits, and the lengths a man will go to for vengeance.
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"Once every year, Perley Gates and his brothers lead the Triple-G crew on its annual cattle drive. It's a treacherous journey along the Great Western Trail, with a herd of two-thousand cows on one side and many opportunities for trouble on the other. This year, trouble shows up in the form of a beautiful young woman, her little baby, and her bizarre traveling companion-a colorful old cuss who goes by the name of Possom Smith. They're heading to a...
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The McCloud brothers know the Bitterroot Mountains better than anyone, but they rarely have time for sightseeing. That is, until lovely Roberta Morris asks them to help find her uncle, who went missing while mining for gold. The brothers are happy to oblige. A pretty little lady can't face the Indians all by her lonesome. But she's not alone. Frank Burdette and his gang are hot on her trail ... and they know what lies in those mountains.
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Even at seventeen, Carson Ryan knows enough about cow herding to realize the crew he's with is about the worst ever. Then gunshots ring across the range. Suspecting an Indian attack, Ryan gallops straight into a U.S. Army raid. The outfit he's with is nothing but a bunch of murdering cattle rustlers, and the law thinks he's one of them. Tied up, thrown in jail, and tried by a hanging court, he has only two options: escape or die trying.
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Offered 50,000 to help rob a U.S. Treasury Department freight car carrying gold bullion, former Pinkerton detective Avrial "Rock" Rochenbach must gain the confidence of some of the West's most notorious outlaws while protecting his true identity as an undercover U.S. secret service agent.
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2016
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In the hearth and home of the Sugarloaf Ranch, Smoke and Sally Jensen prepare to welcome Preacher home for the holidays -- unaware that their friend is trailed by a storm full of trouble. On a mission of jealousy and vengeance, an old trapper is rescued by Ace and Chance Jensen from ruthless outlaws -- and wanted by a driven bounty hunter named Luke Jensen, their long-lost uncle. On a westbound train from the east, a determined charity worker risks...
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Half-frozen and nearly dead, Gil Ryan rode into the little mountain town of Larkspur just ahead of a raging late-winter blizzard. He'd lost everything he owned except for his mount and the clothes on his back when his pack horse fell through the ice on the Big Sandy River. Racked with fever, early-stage pneumonia, and a barely healed gunshot wound, all he wanted was a little medicine and a warm place to wait out the storm. But Gil had no way of knowing...
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Ten years after the Seventh Cavalry massacred more than two hundred Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, J.B. Bennett, a white rancher, and Star, a young Native American woman, are murdered in a remote meadow on J.B.'s land. The deaths bring together the scattered members of the Bennett family: J.B.'s cunning and hard father, Drum; his estranged wife, Dulcinea; and his teenage sons, Cullen and Hayward. As the mystery of these twin deaths...
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Roy Blanton has raised his four boys in the family business since they were half-pints - and they've gotten away with murder. That is, until U .S. Deputy Marshal Casey Dixon had hot-headed Billy, the youngest, hanged for shooting a policeman. Now the Blantons have vengeance on their minds. Old Buck Avery, Dixon's partner, had been thinking of turning in his badge. And taking down the Blanton name sounds like a fine way to leave the law on a high note....
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Jason Storm has had a career any lawman could be proud of, and now he's ready for a peaceful life as a modest cattle rancher in Paradise Valley. Then six hardcases raid the ranch of Storm's backer, killing him, bushwhacking his men, and moving on to take the town. With a cowardly sheriff, an inexperienced deputy, and a rising body count, Paradise is in desperate need of rescue. It's time for Jason Storm to load up, mount up, and clean up the town....
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After a corrupt deputy killed his family, burned his home, and left him with nothing but a sword scar across his face, Ben Cutler came back to settle the score. The townsfolk called it justice, but a judge called it murder--so now Cutler is a wanted man. Trailed by an obsessed federal marshal, ambushed by a vengeful Sioux warrior, and running afoul of a low-down scoundrel in Deadwood, Cutler is in for a long, hard ride before he can find any peace....
15) Axle Bust Creek
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Gold fever. Blood Fever. From the battlefield of Shiloh to the prisoner camp at Slocum, former Union soldier Cleveland Trewe has seen more than enough carnage for one lifetime. Now that the war is over he's found work as a peacekeeper and prospector--the perfect set of survival skills for a town like Axle Bust, Nevada, a place seething with danger. Cleve's uncle staked a claim in Axle Bust only to lose it to a murderous con-man partnered with Duncan...
16) Bad hombres
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Reformed outlaws Slash and Pecos come to the rescue as a mysterious stranger wreaks havoc on their small town.
"He blew into town like a tornado--a mysterious stranger with money to burn and a sadistic streak as wide as the Rio Grande. He says his name is Benson and he's come to invest in the town's future. First, he showers the banks and local businesses with cash. Then, he hires a pair of drunks to fight and get arrested so he can check out the...
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"When a band of merciless, murdering thieves raise hell across the territory, three men committed to justice descend upon them like angels of death. And when the guns fall silent and the smoke clears, the Jackals are always the last men standing. Comanchero Cullen Brice has escaped from a Huntsville, Alabama, prison, where he was sentenced to hang. And he has sworn revenge against the man who killed his brother and put him behind bars, Texas Ranger...
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He was born in the Going Snake District of the Cherokee Nation and forged a destiny as bold as his name. John Henry Sixkiller was fearless. He fought in the 2nd Cherokee Mounted Rifles, his father's regiment during the Civil War, and served with the Longhorse Police in Indian territory in a time of violence and change. Now, Sixkiller faces his greatest challenge yet. As a U.S. Marshal, he must take on the most notorious outlaws the west has ever seen....
19) Ride to valor
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James Doyle is just another Irish boy in the Five Points slum of New York City until his father dies. In the struggle for survival, James is schooled in violence as a member of a street gang. And like many a boy, he makes some wrong choices and ends up on the run from the law. But no one can flee forever. When James lands in more trouble, the judge gives him a choice: Go to prison or serve in the army. Soon James is sent west as a recruit in the cavalry,...
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"As sleepy as Buffalo Peak's been, legendary marshal, Elwood "Firestick" McQueen, and his deputies "Beartooth" Skinner and "Moosejaw" Hendricks never expected a couple of drifters to wake it up -- by kidnapping two lovely ladies in town. Hardly the sharpest quills on a cactus, these dim drifters call it courtin'. Firestick doesn't see it that way. Now the woman snatchers are heading for West Texas with their reluctant brides-to-be -- and unwittingly...
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