Joseph A West
21) The reckless gun
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Series
Gunsmoke series (Joseph West) volume 4
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
Gunfire explodes in Dodge City after a one-armed hardware clerk opens fire on a local rancher--revenge for his father's death, and $30,000 in stolen loot. Now, with the rancher's boys out for blood, Marshall Matt Dillon has to stop a lynch mob from their own revenge...
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Pub. Date
2009
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Former big-city detective John McBride is an easygoing man -- until people rub him the wrong way. So he's less than pleased when he sees three hanged men outside the town of Rest and Be Thankful, and the local lawman warns him to behave if he doesn't want to end up swinging right beside them. Driven by the plight of the terrified citizenry McBride vows to take on the fast-gun marshal, an evil mayor and his cruel son, and a small army of hired gunmen....
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Pub. Date
p2014
Description
The only folk left behind in Apache Creek are ghosts, including Marshal Sam Pace. Three years of solitude have turned Sam into a phantom, but when a woman on the run stumbles into town, the former lawman must protect her and make use of gunslinger skills long out of practice.
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When Victorio's Apaches surrounded the settlement of Alma, New Mexico, food and supplies became scarce. So the "respectable" townsfolk began hanging those they didn't feel were worth feeding. Town drunk Eddie Oates escaped the noose, but, along with three prostitutes and a simpleton, he was banished from the town, left for the Apaches to kill.
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Pub. Date
2011
Description
For a gambler locked in a claims war, the stakes are life or death. A plague of killings has descended on Green Meadow, Oklahoma. A villain called the Fat Man wants the town--and the black gold beneath it. And the Fat Man is willing to wipe out every man, woman, and child to get it. Only two underdogs stand in his way: seedy gambler Chauncey Drake and scrappy Pinkerton agent Reuben Withers. The pair will have to work hard and work together to force-feed...
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Pub. Date
2009
Description
Rawhide Flat is bursting at the seams with hard men and their hard-earned cash from working the nearby Comstock Lode. So when the bank is robbed and two civilians cut down, a posse delivers its own justice, leaving only Judah Walsh alive. Walsh offers to tell where the gang hid the money in return for a horse, a hundred bucks, and a free ride out of the state. But the people of Rawhide Flat would rather torture the information out of him. Lucky for...
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Pub. Date
2012
Description
Keeping the peace is no trouble at all in a town of one. The only folks left behind in Requiem are ghosts--and after three years of solitude, Marshal Sam Pace has turned into a phantom of sorts. Sam is sure that actual people--rather than the ghosts he sees in his mind--will return and bring the town to life again. But when a woman on the run stumbles into town, Sam turns his attention to what he must do as caretaker of the town and dons the mantle...
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Pub. Date
2014
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Rancher Cage Clayton has been hired to track down a man who years ago left a destructive path in his wake. Though he doesn't know what Lissome Terry looks like, Clayton knows his target is in Bighorn Point, so finding him shouldn't be too hard. But when the town marshal only gives Clayton a week to find his man, catching him will be anything but easy.