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2021., Adults, Berkley Call No: AW COM Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Gunfighter series.Summary Note: When his brother's widow asks for his help in finding his kidnapped niece, Sherman Knowles, once known as a fearsome gunslinger, comes out of retirement to rescue her before it's too late.
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c2006., Signet Call No: AW COM Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Signet historical novel
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-- Ralph Compton.[2022]., Adults, Berkley Call No: AW COM Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The gunfighter series.Summary Note: Augustus Yarrow is a top lawman, noted for going undercover to ferret out criminals: everyone from bank robbers to corrupt officials. He's the best of the best ... until he winds up dead. Isaac Scott is looking for something better than his life of riding the rails when the man he's sharing a car with is shot. There's money and mysterious papers on the man, who attempts to tell Ike something with his dying breat, right before Ike himself is arrested. When he's mysteriously freed, Ike realizes it's because the papers declare that he's Deputy Marshal Yarrow. Ike wants nothing to do with it. But when he stumbles across illegal shipments of enough arms and ammunition to start a war, Ike knows he's the only person who can stop the catastrophe from occurring - even if it means becoming a counterfeit lawman.--
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2012., Adults, Signet Call No: AW COM Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Signet historical novelSummary Note: Brian Middleton left his father's ranch long ago to make his own way. But now, he's returned to claim the land his late father left him--and learns the hard way that if he wants to keep something in the Wild West, he has to fight for it. With local lowlifes and shady con-men after the Driving D ranch, Middleton has no choice but to make a stand.
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-- Ralph Compton, death of a bad man2008., Adults, Signet Call No: AW COM Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: A Signet bookSummary Note: Solomon Brakefield tried to play by the rules—and lost. When the mine Sol worked for was robbed, he went after the robbers himself. After he brought the money back, he was given no more than a handshake and a few dollars. Seems like living life on the straight and narrow just doesn’t pay. So Sol seeks out Nester Quarles, known killer and train robber, to teach him the tricks of the outlaw’s trade. Quarles has plenty to teach, but there’s a price to be paid—and the currency is Sol’s soul.
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c1999., Adult, New American Library Call No: AW COM Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Danielle Strange straps on her father's Colts, saddles up his chestnut mare, and embarks on a mission of revenge when she receives word that he was murdered by outlaws while on his way to Texas to purchase a herd of cattle.
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1998., Adults, Signet Books Call No: AW COM Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: They are four hired guns who haul freight for a price into the treacherous, untamed wilderness. Having already risked their lives for the Confederacy, now they're fighting for themselves--and for a stake in the future--on the great frontier. Led by the poker-playing Faro Duval, these soldiers of fortune are about to take the biggest gamble of all: delivering an explosive cargo from Santa Fe to southwestern Utah. Their destination is Devil's Canyon...and a mountain of gold. But there's a wild card in the crew: a man who is one jump ahead of an unsavory past and one piece of silver away from selling them out. In a land of savage outlaws and hostile Utes, with a rattlesnake named Hal Durham in their midst, Duval and his men are running out of time and out of luck.
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1995., Adult, St Martin's Paperbacks Call No: FIC COM Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Trail drive series Volume: bk. 8Summary Note: Dan Ember, having returned home from the Civil War to find his land sold for back taxes, risks everything he has, including his life, to drive an unbranded herd of thousands of cattle north across Texas to Dodge City.
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-- Ralph Compton The evil men do[2015]., Adults, New American Library Call No: AW COM Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: SignetSummary Note: "If things are quiet in the little town of Sweetwater, Marshal Fred Hitch sees no reason to make waves. But when Tyree Johnson shows up, Fred's relaxed nature is put to the test. At fifteen years old, Tyree is a tough-as-nails bounty hunter with no patience for anyone calling him "boy." He's come to apprehend a killer who escaped from Cheyenne and has been hiding in plain sight in Sweetwater. To save face and his town's good name, Fred must ride with Tyree and his prisoner all the way to Cheyenne. The unlikely pair has a rough trail ahead of them, and as tough as Tyree is, he has some lessons to learn about the evil men do--and how to survive it" --
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-- Ralph Compton Flames of silver.2021., Adults, Berkley Call No: AW COM Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Thanks to the discovery of the Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Nevada has made many a rough-hewn millionaire. It seems like everyone is looking to strike it rich, but to Morgan Mason the real prize is being selected as one of the volunteer firemen who are seen as heroes in the dry, tinder box of a town. Recently inducted into the fire brigade, Mason is called to put out a blaze and stays to investigate its cause. His searing discovery? The fire was no accident--it was deliberately set. As a series of mysterious fires burns through the town, Mason begins to perceive a pattern no one else can. And when the fiery trail leads to the Wells Fargo building--holding what he suspects the arsonists are really after--Mason knows he is the only one who can take the heat and catch the crooks before the wealth of the entire town goes up in smoke.
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-- Frontier medicine.2021., Adults, Berkley Call No: AW COM Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: gunfighter series.Summary Note: "Young doctor Gabriel Kincaid has come west to help an aging colleague who is straining to deal with the demands of a growing town, but Kincaid is looking to do more than just experience the challenges of frontier medicine. He's determined to start a new life. But the trials he faces aren't confined to the doctor's surgery. After an incident in a saloon, Kincaid finds himself with a new nickname: Dr. Death. It's dangerous to have a reputation as a good man with a gun. In this world, there will always be someone who wants to test you. The West has a way of revealing a man's true character, but it can also expose secrets that are best left hidden." -- Page [4] cover.
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c1992., Adult, St. Martin's Paperbacks Call No: AW COM Edition: St. Martin's Paperbacks ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to view Series Title: Trail drive series Volume: [bk. 1]Summary Note: Former Texas Rangers Benton McCaleb, Will Elliot, and Brazos Gifford ride with Charles Goodnight as he rounds up thousands of ornery, unbranded cattle for the long drive to Colorado. From the Trinity River brakes to Denver, they'll battle endless miles of flooded rivers, parched desert, and whiskey-crazed Comanches and come face-to-face with Judge Roy Bean and legendary gunslingers like Clay Allison. For McCaleb and his hard-riding crew, the drive is a fierce struggle against the perils of an untamed land. A fight to the finish where the brave reach glory - or die hard. .
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2009., Adult, Signet Call No: AW WES Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to view Series Title: Signet historical novelSummary Note: "When the Apache surrounded the settlement of Alma, New Mexico, the 'respectable' townsfolk began hanging those who weren't. Town drunk Eddie Oates was lucky to be banished from the town, left for the Apaches to kill. Oates never thought he was a survivor. But now, he's discovered a reason to go on--and he's about to unleash a raging fury upon those who would prey on the helpless, the hopeless, and those who others think aren't worth fighting for" -- from publisher's web site.
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c2010., Adult, Signet Call No: AW COM Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Signet historical novel.Summary Note: "Captain Jack Starr served the Confederate cause with honor for four years. The town of Lost Dog Creek promised an opportunity for the war veteran to rebuild his life--and a woman to share it with. But not everyone is willing to roll out the welcome wagon--"--FantasticFiction website.
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2021., Adults, Berkley Call No: AW COM Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Sundown Riders Volume: #22Summary Note: "Back home in California after a failed attempt to strike it rich in the silver mines of Colorado, the last thing Eugene Castor wants is to be recruited to join a manhunt. But Castor finds it impossible to turn down his father's old friend Marshal Arthur Adams. Besides, the reward is sizable. Not only did a band of outlaws rob Old Man Herbert, the richest man in town, but they kidnapped his new wife, too! The posse is a volatile mix that includes Herbert's hot-tempered son, the family's cold-eyed hired gun, a crack-shot rancher with no time for a loser like Castor, and Geneva Herriot, the town's controversial lady doctor. Out on the trail of the fugitives, the group encounters a traveling medicine show, a band of rowdy prospectors, and a whole passel of bloody trouble. As they race to catch up to the outlaws, Castor starts to realize things may not be what they seem. After his previous failures, will he be able to trust himself enough to get to the bottom of what really happened?" -- Page [4] cover.
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-- Guns of the greenhorn.2021., Adults, Penguin Call No: AW COM Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The gunfighters series.Summary Note: "Young dandy Fletcher Ralston's privileged life of education and ease in the East comes to an abrupt end when he's summoned to the dried-up Wyoming town of Promise to inherit a run-down bordello and a lifetime of debts. The old woman he's known only via correspondence as his "aunt" is in truth the madam of the brothel. After their meeting, she is found with her throat slit, and Fletcher is suspect number one. But the old lady's paramour, crusty Gunnar Tibbs, believes in his innocence and sets about mentoring the tenderfoot. Fletcher is a quick study with the revolver, and the unlikely pair set out to clear Fletcher's name and track down the real killer. What they don't know is that someone is stalking them in return: Skin Varney, the notorious, unsavory brute his father double-crossed years before. Fletcher Ralston has to learn the ways of the West, and fast. Or he'll die with his spats on"--
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-- Shadow of a noose.©2000., Adults, Signet Call No: AW COM Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Signet historical fiction.Summary Note: Former big city detective John McBride is an easygoing man— until a cold-blooded town sheriff warns him to mind his own business, or face a lynching. Driven by his sense of justice, McBride takes on the sheriff, an evil mayor and his cruel psychotic son, and a small army of hired gunmen. Helped by a mysterious white-haired, quick-drawing preacher, McBride shoulders a task most men would flee from. But John McBride isn'’t most men.….
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-- Ralph Compton's Return to Gila Bend2020., Adults, Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC Call No: AW COM Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Gunfighter Volume: #5Summary Note: When twenty-five-year-old Lewis Taylor is released from the Texas State Prison, he receives little attention as he walks into the midday sunlight, free after serving five years for a crime he didn't commit. His only interest is in getting back to his hometown of Gila Bend, Texas, a quiet farming community about which he has only warm, idyllic memories. During his long years in prison, he survived by thinking fondly of the home he'd known since boyhood--and of one special girl, Darla Winslow. What he finds instead is a town dramatically changed. Once a happy and carefree place to live, it is now populated by people who are angry and afraid. One man, Captain Archer Ringewald, has taken control of the town, and now he's turning the townspeople, even Darla, against Taylor. Can one ex-con single-handedly save an entire town?
