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"The Civil War is over. The future of the American West is up for grabs. Any man crazy enough to lead a herd of Texas longhorns to the north stands to make a fortune--and make history. That man would be Nelson Story. A bold entrepreneur and miner, he knows a golden opportunity when he sees one. But it won't be easy. Cowboys and bandits got guns, farmers got sick livestock, and the Army's got their own reasons to stop the drive. Even worse, Story's...
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It's December 1890. A Texas Ranger named Big Ben Conyers has a deal with a Scottish-born, Wyoming cattleman named Duff MacCallister. Along with Smoke and Matt Jensen, the party bears down on Dodge, Kansas, to make a cattle drive back to Fort Worth. But before they can get out of Dodge, guns go off and a rich man's son is killed. Soon the drive turns into a deadly pursuit, then a staggering series of clashes with Indians and rustlers and a blizzard....
131) Die by the gun
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With one successful cattle drive under his belt, Dewey 'Mac' McKenzie is on a first-name basis with danger. Marked for death for a crime he didn't commit and eager to get as far away from the territory, he signed on as cattle drive chuckwagon cook, to save his own skin, and learned how to serve up a tasty hot stew. Turns out Mac has a talent for fixing good vittles. He's also pretty handy with a gun. But Mac's enemies enemy are hungry for more, and...
132) The Dodge City Trail
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Trail drive series volume 8
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For a brave band of Texas pioneers, new enemies awaited on the thundering trail. But old enemies were the deadliest of all.
The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million
maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them
north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-making trail drives.
The Dodge City...
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[1925?]
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This preliminary report is a continuation of the studies on sheep and cattle feeding previously issued for the 1922-23 and 1923-24 seasons. In 1924-25 there were eleven men feeding sheep and eight men feeding cattle, who were cooperating ... in making a detailed study of the farm business.
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2009
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The lawless strip: "Sam Kyler and three ranch hands are off to purchase cattle, but on the way, the hired hands rob Kyler of the money entrusted to him. Kyler sets off in pursuit of them, but is foiled when his employer charges him with the theft. Now a wanted man, Kyler flees and follows the trail to a territory known as the 'Strip'--an area in the panhandle west of the Indian Territory, which has no law enforcement."--back cover.
The Cuchillo...
140) Evil Never Sleeps
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2018.
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"He's the most notorious cattle rustler in all of Texas. His name--Jebediah Cotton--strikes fear into the hearts of every rancher in the territory. So it's more than a little strange that someone would shoot Cotton's youngest son in the back. Whoever did it is either a coward, a fool, or a crazy man. Whoever did it must die. Even if he's a U.S. deputy marshal named Will Tanner...So begins not one, but two of the deadliest manhunts in frontier history....