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Owen Wister is remembered today almost solely as the author of The Virginian, yet his short stories, dating from the turn of the century, gave us our first real knowledge of the West's "wide, wild farm and ranch community, spotted with remote towns, and veined with infrequent railroads." And this West was not merely that of the cowboy, but of the soldier, the seeker, the Indians, the hunter, even the priest. This volume presents six of Wister's finest...
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The Texas Panhandle was a harsh and unforgiving place, but the Zachary family managed to get by. Until their world was upended by an old enemy who started a vicious rumor about the true identity of beautiful seventeen-year-old Rachel Zachary. Now their neighbors want her dead, and a band of Kiowa warriors are out to claim her for their own. There's only one man who will stand up for her. But in protecting Rachel, he might just be signing his own death...
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A collection of Western stories, one of which is The Wolf Hunter, on a bounty hunter who is tormented by his prey, a coyote. In Delayed Action, a man who forced a sheriff to back down is killed by a bullet from the sheriff's gun, but the lawman claims innocence. By the author of The Searchers.
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A collection of western stories. In The Colonel's Lady, a white woman uses feminine guile to outwit her Apache captor, in Hurrah for Capt. Early, a black cavalryman one-upmanships a white racist, while in the title story a gunman helps a humiliated woman--she was prisoner of Indians--regain her dignity.
13) Shane
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A drifter and retired gunfighter assists a homestead family terrorized by an aging cattleman and his hired gun.
15) Etta: a novel
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Imagines the life of Etta Place, once a Philadelphia debutante whose father's death left her orphaned and backrupt, as she joins Butch Cassidy's notorious gang and begins a romance with the Sundance Kid.
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This book describes the great hunt of buffaloes from 1871-1883 for their hides as a factor in the conquest of the west. Its Introductory chapters oon the habits of the buffalo on what the animal meant to the plains Indians and on the hunting for the sport are included only as a backdrop for the dramatc action of the gatherers of the hides.
19) End of the drive
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A novella and stories. In the novella, Rustler Roundup, the lone hero outwits a gang of cattle rustlers, Desperate Men is on a prison break during an earthquake, and in the title tale a cowboy finds women more of a challenge than a cattle drive.
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