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Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, and Alan Rickman star in this stylish take on the venerable Western genre from the director of "Lonesome Dove." Arriving in Australia with nothing more than a saddle and his Sharps rifle, American sharpshooter Matthew Quigley (Selleck) thinks he's been hired to kill off wild dogs. But when he realizes that his mission is to eradicate the Aborigines from the property of a wealthy cattle baron (Rickman) — Quigley refuses...and...
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Long riders: A sympathetic portrayal of the members of the Jesse James gang in which four pairs of actor brothers portray real-life siblings.
Stagecoach: A determined driver and his passengers -- including a pregnant women, a drunken dentist, a bank manager with a case of stolen money, a gambler, and the infamous Ringo Kid -- travel through Apache territory despite warnings from the Cavalry.
Way west: Senator William Tadlock leads a wagon train...
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Five Star, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
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2013.
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Taken from surviving transcripts from the American Legends Collection (ALC) created in 1936 as part of the Federal Writers Project of the WPA, Zimmer weaves the story of J.T. Latham, incarcerated in Yuma Territory Penitentiary, and Sheriff Del Buchman who frees him in exchange for Latham being his guide through the Sonora Desert to make a prisoner exchange with some seriously dangerous banditos.
5) Charlie Red
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American legends collection volume 5
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2016.
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Tom Slade is riding shotgun for a Colorado and Prescott Stagecoach Company delivery of mine payrolls in Arizona when the stage is robbed. With no time to get help, Slade sets off in pursuit on a worn-out harness mule. But he hadn't counted on a woman showing up in the desert with her own reason for tracking down the outlaws, or her mysterious friend, Charlie Red.
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"When a decades-old feud between a wealthy plantation owner named Watson and a mixed-blood Chickasaw family explodes in violence, Elijah Two-Buck finds himself homeless and on the run. Locating his brother, the infamous Kid Jace, and his gang of cattle rustlers, Lige reluctantly joins the band of thieves. But when a Watson-led raid on the Two-Buck family farm results in the loss of innocent lives and the law refuses to intervene, the brothers realize...
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