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1) Llano River
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In "Llano River," Dundee works to stop a cattle rustling operation and gets caught in the middle of a deadly feud.
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In the cattle drives of the Old West, pumpkin rollers were green farm boys, almost more trouble than they were worth.
When Trey McLean leaves his family's East Texas cotton farm and sets off on his own to learn the cattleman's trade, he's about as green as they come. But, Trey learns fast. He learns about deceit when a con man cheats him out of his grubstake and about love when he meets the woman he's destined to marry.
And, when luck finally sets...
4) Wagontongue
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A freed slave and an unrepentant Confederate soldier find themselves side by side on a cattle drive north where both will have to decide whether to fight alone or to survive together.
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The Civil War has ended, and Union soldiers and federal officials have taken control of Texas as Rusty Shannon rides to his home on the Colorado River. As a child, he was a captive of the Comanche, as a young man a proud member of a ranging company protecting settlers from Indian raids. Shannon's fate is intertwined with the young man accompanying him: Andy Pickard, himself but recently rescued from Comanche captivity and known by his captors as Badger...
10) Shadow of a star
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Deputy Sheriff Jim-Bob McClain isn't sure he's ready to follow in his father's footsteps as the law in Coolridge County. In fact, he has a hard enough time keeping the peace between the drunks in the local saloon. But with tough Sheriff Mont Naylor to back him up he figures he can handle whatever comes his way. Jim-Bob's first real assignment is no piece of cake. He must escort a ruthless outlaw into the hands of justice. All seems well with the lawless...
12) Jericho's road
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When Texas Ranger private Andy Pickard is assigned to help patrol the Texas-Mexico border country, he finds himself thrown into the middle of a deadly feud between two ranchers.
14) Joe Pepper
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Aging Texas gunfighter Joe Pepper reminisces about his life of adventure throughout the Old Southwest while preparing to face the hangman's noose.
15) Badger boy
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Rusty Shannon, ending his service as ranger assigned to protect settlers, returns to his home on the Texas frontier to face Civil War renegades and hostile Comanches.
17) Many a river
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Relocating to western Texas with their sharecropper parents in the mid-nineteenth century, Jeffrey and Todd Barfield are separated by a Comanche attack that leaves their parents dead, and are reunited years later on opposing sides in the Civil War.
18) Stand proud
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Frank Claymore is not easy to like -- to admire, maybe, but not to like. He is cantankerous, stubborn, and intolerant -- the very qualities that make him a success as an open-range cattleman on the West Texas frontier. In one of his most memorable novels, acclaimed Western writer Elmer Kelton follows Frank Claymore's life from the time of the Civil War to the dawn of the 20th century -- through marriage, births, deaths, and a creeping change in the...
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