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2) Bitter trail
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Wagon train leader Frio Wheeler is hired to haul cotton from Texas into Mexico, but soon he becomes caught up in the turmoil of the Civil War.
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2017.
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391 pages ; 19 cm
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After the Bugles : Joshua Buckalew has left behind the deserted battlefields that claimed his brother Thomas. The war with Mexico has cost him much, but it has also given him a strong bond to the land and to the Mexican families who stood with him against the tyrannies of Santa Ana. Josh is traveling with Ramon Hernandez, his best friend and the man who had fought with him. Where they are going, he isn't quite sure. His home is in ashes--burned by...
4) Badger boy
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The Civil War is over and Texas is reluctantly yielding to the Union soldiers spreading across the state, even into the dangerous Comanche country. David "Rusty" Shannon, proud member of a "ranging company" attempting to protect Texas settlers from Indian depredations, finds that the rangers are being disbanded. He makes his way home to his land on the Red River, hoping to take up the life of a farmer and the hand of the beloved girl he left behind,...
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2018.
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Bitter Trail: Tough teamster Frio Wheeler hauls cotton from Texas to Mexico. But as the Civil War rages through the South, Wheeler must contend with the most difficult challenges he's ever faced, including imprisonment with the bandidos in league with Union sympathizers and the betrayal of his best friend-- his former partner and brother of the woman he loves
Barbed Wire: Irishman Doug Monahan runs a fencing crew outside the Texas town of Twin Wells,...
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 1
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English
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On the Texas frontier in the 1840s, a red-haired child whose family has been massacred is captured by a Comanche war party led by a great warrior named Buffalo Caller. The boy is rescued by Mike Shannon, a Mexican War veteran riding with a "ranging company" of Texans dedicated to protecting settlers against Indian raids, and is adopted by the Shannon family. In 1861 his adoptive father is bushwhacked and murdered and the boy—now known as Rusty Shannon—follows...
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When Texas-born Josh Buckalew met Teresa, a young and beautiful Mexican woman, it was love at first sight. But with the Alamo recently sieged and destroyed, Josh knew this rosebud love would be unobtainable on account of the war thorns harrowing the country. In the events that follow, Josh has to make a choice: will he listen to his brother and become a war hero? Or will he follow his heart and take Teresa far away from all the bloodshed?
12) Buffalo wagons
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By the summer of 1873, the great Arkansas River herd was gone, as was the Republican herd before it. The only one left, claimed the old hide hunters in Dodge City, was a vast herd south of the Cimarron in Comanche territory. But only a fool with no wish to go on living--and a buffalo hunter named Gage Jameson--would head down that way.
15) Eyes of the hawk
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Thomas Canfield, nicknamed the Hawk, seeks revenge on the Texas town of Stonehill for the death of his son.
16) Dark thicket
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1985.
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182 pages ; 22 cm
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When Owen Danforth returns to Texas, the war between the states is nearly, but he finds himself in the middle of another civil war--between the murderous Home Guards and the supporters of Sam Houston, who opposed secession.
18) The raiders
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Sons of Texas (Elmer Kelton) volume 2
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2007.
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282 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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In 1816, Mordecai Lewis, a veteran of Andrew Jackson's Indian campaigns and battles against the British, moves his family into the western Tennessee canebrakes. But Mordecai, a born wanderer, is not satisfied with farming, and with his sons Michael and Andrew and some other backwoodsmen, he leads a foray into Spanish-held Texas to hunt wild horses and return the mustang herd to sell in Tennessee. Crossing the Sabine River, Mordecai's party encounters...
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Calloway series volume 1
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"It is 1910 and cowboy-hero Hewey Calloway, of Kelton's The Good Old Boys is facing a great crisis: forces he can't control are interrupting his freewheeling life"--
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