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Both were men who knew the frontier code and each other. At a time of action, speech, beyond the curtest of monosyllables, was surplusage.' Readers who like Max Brand and Zane Grey will enjoy this western novel from William Macleod Raine. Bucky O'Connor: A Tale of the Unfenced Border is about Lieutenant Bucky O'Connor, who works with Sheriff 'Bear Trap' Collins to catch train robbers.
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After the main character is beaten and humiliated in front of his new wife and townsfolk, he sets out to cure himself of cowardice. Along the way he learns his worth and this makes a very good story. Set in the Wild West, this story does a good job of describing some of the tensions with the Indian tribe "Utes" as well as some of the other challenges facing small cattle towns in the West. (Goodreads)
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A study in contradictions, prolific writer of Western novels William MacLeod Raine was born in England but relocated to a remote cattle ranch on the Texas border ten years later. Pairing his academic studies in literature and journalism with his real-world experience on the range, MacLeod produced a series of beloved novels chronicling the bravery and courage of Western heroes from every walk of life, including the intrepid lawman referred to in the...
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The Pirate of Panama' by William MacLeod Raine is a novel that begins with a man, our narrator, feeling that he is a misfit and is stuck in a humdrum job at a law firm. One day, fate intervenes and he finds a torn, yellowed piece of paper that could change his life forever. As he reads the paper, he realizes it's a treasure map, and he sets out on a hunt for buried treasure. This book is an action-packed adventure that will keep you on the edge of...
5) Ironheart
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Excerpt: "A thin wisp of smoke drifted up from the camp at the edge of the wash. It rose languidly, as though affected by the fact that the day was going to be a scorcher. Already, though the morning was young, a fiery sun beat down on the sand so that heat waves shimmered in the air. Occasionally a spark from the crackling cottonwood limbs was caught by a dust whirl and carried toward the field of ripe wheat bordering the creek. Of the campers there...
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The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine is a political drama that shows how, just because you share blood with someone, it doesn't mean you'll always see eye to eye and land on the same side of things. The book follows two cousins who fail to see the same side of societal arguments. The political savvy in this book, though reflecting of a time decades ago, mirrors the politics of recent years.
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Two thrilling Western stories set in Arizona, in which strong and silent cowboys use their wits to overcome bullies while avoiding gunplay as much as possible
The first story, "Scalisi Claws Leather," is set in Arizona during the Prohibition era. The notorious Chicago gangster Pete Scalisi has come to the Bar BQ dude ranch to hide out for a while. He has only contempt for the hicks he encounters at the Bar BQ, but waitress Rose Dunn and top cowhand...
9) Arizona Guns
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"You're on your way to HELL!"
The outlaw Roush brothers whirled from the bar at the sound of the harsh voice. What they saw was a kid not yet eighteen - but what a kid! He was Jimmy Clanton, a tough rawhider who had notched his first killing two years before. "What do you want with us?" growled Dave Roush. His brother Hugh moved slowly along the bar.
The kid, hands propped on his hips, watched quietly. "I'm here to settle for what you two did to...
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In front of the long one-story adobe station a man waited, eyes turned to the West. His hand rested on the flat straight back of a spirited chestnut horse. Byers was small and wiry, hard as nails. His high heeled boots, buckskin breeches, flannel shirt, and skull cap had all been chosen for utility and not for looks. He wasted no energy in useless protest, but the fat station keeper who leaned against the door jamb and chewed tobacco knew he was seething...
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Compiled in one book, the essential collection of western booksBrand Blotters by William MacLeod RaineThe Watchers of the Plains by Ridgwell CullumThe Free Range by Elwell LawrenceThat Girl Montana by Marah Ellis RyanShoe-bar Stratton by Joseph B. AmesDesert Dust by Edwin L. SabinColorado Jim by George GoodchildCattle Brands , by Andy AdamsThe Log of a Cowboy , by Andy AdamsThe Outlet , by Andy AdamsReed Anthony, Cowman , by Andy AdamsA Texas Matchmaker...
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This in-depth collection, unchanged since the 1940s, tells of the most legendary heroes and villains of the Old West. Get swept back to a time when sheriffs did their best to keep order in a lawless land. Read about the likes of Tom Horn, the "Apache Kid," "Bucky" O'Neill, Tom Nickson, and many more! Famous Sheriffs and Western Outlaws is a classic for everyone interested in history and what is was like in the Old West. The detail of every story grabs...
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William MacLeod Raine was a small boy when he came to this country in 1881 from London, England, with his father and brothers. They settled in the Southwest, then a land lawless at times and places. Jesse James and Billy the Kid still terrorized the districts in which they lived. Most of the characters mentioned in this book were alive, and vigorously fighting for or against the law, while Raine was growing up.
After his graduation from Oberlin College,...
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In this first novel by one of the western's most published writers, mistaken identities bring together a schoolmarm from the East with a sheep man believed to be an outlaw. While menace endangers its central characters on the plains of Wyoming, love overtakes the hearts of not one but two young couples. (Goodreads)
16) Clattering Hoofs
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The fugitive was Cape Sloan (or so he called himself), late of Yuma Penitentiary. He was young, but tough as rawhide, reckless as a plains-bred mustang. And he'd sworn a bloody revenge on the ruthless killers who shot down his father, robbed his mother, and sent him to jail on a framed-up murder charge.
The law was after him, and a pair of gun-toting rattlesnakes tried to get him by every means from lynching to ambush. But Sloan hung on like grim...
17) Troubled Waters
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Ruth moves from the city to her Aunt's home in the wilds of cattle country. Two cowboys vie for her hand, and she marries. Looming up out of troubled sheep and cattleman relations, a few quick seconds of anger one night leave ramifications to be felt for years....
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Another barnstorming Western adventure from the prolific pen of William MacLeod Raine. Bob Lee, Youthful cowboy, on the JAB ranch in the Indian Territory before Oklahoma became a state, arouses the enmity of a territory bootlegger by pouring out his stock at a nations barn dance at Cale Station. He gets deeper into a death-threatening situation by protecting his boss' daughter, Willie May Broderick, from dancing with a bleary-eyed member of the Hickory...