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2016.
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"With the end of the Civil War, the nation recommenced its expansion onto traditional Indian tribal lands, setting off a wide-ranging conflict that would last more than three decades. In an exploration of the wars and negotiations that destroyed tribal ways of life even as they made possible the emergence of the modern United States, Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail. He illuminates the encroachment...
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When the Missouri farm boy named Jensen came west, he started fighting, surviving and learning every brutal step of the way. He learned from a mountain man named Preacher, he learned from Indians and from outlaws. And he learned that nothing burns the souls of men faster than the lure of glimmering gold. Smoke Jensen has learned that in a vast, savage land, you don't back down, don't give up and don't stop shooting until the last bad man goes to his...
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Shout! Factory
Publication Date
[2018]
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The citizens of Hope Valley find the true meaning of the season with a Wishing Tree that, through the magic of the holiday, helps everyone's wishes come true. And for Elizabeth, this means having Jack back. Together they help Robert with a family problem, while Abigail, Bill and the other people from Hope Valley work together to create a special Christmas parade that warms the hearts and brings everyone together.
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Provident Distribution
Publication Date
[2019]
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Sam 'Shooter' Green is a legendary outlaw, whose notorious reputation far exceeds his actual deeds. He never set out to be an outlaw but is caught up in a stagecoach heist that ends in a fatal shooting. Framed for murder, Sam sees no other choice but to take off with the stolen money, but Virgil Earp tracks him, shoots him and brings him to justice. Thirty years later, he has one thing on his mind: To break out and meet the daughter he never knew....
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"Two western stories: In 'Ryker' Jake returns home after his brother is injured and ends up journeying across New Mexico and Texas to bring back a herd to stock their failing ranch. In 'Law Comes to Lawless' John Glyde becomes the town's marshal for $100 a month but he may not live long enough to be paid"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Joe Noose is back--in the blistering Western series from Eric Red, the acclaimed author of The Guns of Santa Sangre and The Wolves of El Diablo. THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN In all his days as a bounty hunter, Joe Noose never met an outlaw like Bonny Kate Valence. The notorious female gunslinger has the kind of beauty that drives men wild--and a criminal record longer than the Snake River. She also has a date with the gallows. But before anyone can put a...
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Never give a saga an even break! Blazing Saddles is an iconoclastic, not-politically-correct parody; one of the 1970s most successful and popular films. Every clichéd element from every Western ever made is turned upside down and inside out, while retaining all the familiar caricatures--eh, characters--of the genre: a dance-hall girl, a gunslinger, a sheriff, and a town full of pure folk. Mel Brooks redefined film comedy and proved that even sophomoric,...
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Publisher
Recorded Books
Publication Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Parker Stanley's family had a dream: to start a new life in the Far West. But en route, a Cheyenne band slaughters his parents and abducts his sister, leaving him for dead. Then a cowboy named Clay Springer rides to the rescue-and comes up with an idea. He's got a team ready to deliver goods to the Mormons in Utah, but he's short on funds for supplies. He knows that Parker managed to hold on to his family's savings, so he suggests a fifty-fifty partnership....
9) Unbranded
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Gravitas Ventures
Publication Date
[2015]
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Sixteen wild horses, five states, four men and 3000 miles. The journey of a lifetime riding from Mexico to Canada through the deepest backcountry in the American West to see the remaining open spaces and prove the worth of 50,000 wild horses and burros currently in holding pens.
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"Teenagers Albert Sand and Ivory Cade learn of an old friend's murder and decide to earn the money for his burial when fate intervenes in the form of a wealthy banker whose wife was kidnapped by the outlaw killer One-Eye Texas Jack Crowfoot and his gang. The boys see their opportunity to get the banker's reward, return his wife, and earn enough money to bury their old pal, Gus Monroe. To accomplish their goals, they must prove wile and wit while dealing...
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In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her family's homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation and predatory neighbors, she cuts off her hair, binds her chest, saddles her beloved mare, and sets off across the mountains to find her outlaw brother Noah and bring him home. A talented sharpshooter herself, Jess's quest lands her in the employ of the territory's violent, capricious Governor, whose...
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"Sammy Gregg heads west where fortunes are made with the goal of raising $15,000 in six months and returning to marry his childhood sweetheart. With frail physique and knowing nothing of fighting, guns, or horses, he sees an opportunity in the tough town of Munson, but it means going up against the toughest man in town"-- Provided by publisher.
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Thomas Nelson
Publication Date
2015
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English
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"On the brink of war with the Sioux, a young woman risks everything to expose the betrayal threatening the man she loves. Christmas is coming, and the air at Fort Laramie has turned cold...but relations with the Sioux have turned colder. As tensions between soldiers and natives approach a tipping point, Ben Croftnerand Jessica DuBois prepare a trap for Rand Campbell. Bitter from rejection and backfired plans, Croftner has enlisted the help of Rand's...
15) Damsel
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Publication Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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It's the Wild West, circa 1870. Samuel Alabaster, an affluent pioneer, ventures across the American frontier to marry the love of his life, Penelope. As his group traverses the west, the once-simple journey grows treacherous, blurring the lines between hero, villain, and damsel.
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Framed for murder, Dewey "Mac" McKenzie is running for his life. Though Mac's never even made a pot of coffee, he talks his way onto a cattle drive heading west--as a chuckwagon cook. Turns out he has a natural talent for turning salt pork and dried beans into culinary gold. He's as good with a pot and pan as he is with a gun--which comes in handy on a dangerous trail drive beset with rustlers, hostile Indians, ornery weather, and deadly stampedes....
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Picador
Publication Date
2015.
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262 pages : map ; 22 cm
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English
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In this story of survival, Hugh Glass is an expert trapper and frontiersman. After being viciously mauled by a massive grizzly bear and abandoned and left for dead by his fellow trappers, Hugh is pushed to survive by one thing --revenge.
Publication Date
2019.
Language
English
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"For twenty-four years, Five Star Publishing, an imprint of Gale/Cengage, has offered readers the best in new voices, as well as many beloved authors, in the traditional Western and American frontier fiction genres. Contention and Other Frontier Stories, edited by Hazel Rumney, features seventeen brand-new stories that will delight historical fiction fans. These stories capture the spirit of freedom and individualism in the evolving American frontier...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Learning
Publication Date
2018.
Physical Desc
553 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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Fourteen orignial stories that capture the spirt of freedom and individualism on the evolving American frontier through the early 1900's, and feature exciting new characters who face life-changing challenges in settings that are in stark contrast to civilized society.
20) Texas bluff: #3
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Thorndike Press
Publication Date
2018.
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271 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Professional gambler Ty Butler knows he should keep moving to stay ahead of the killers who wiped out his family and are now gunning for him. But when a serious card player finds a challenging game in an honest house, he wants to stay awhile. For Butler it's the emporium owned by Little Luke Short, who can't seem to steer clear of Hell's Half Acre, a corrupt and festering boil in the middle of Fort Worth. Short's been waging an ongoing war with a...









