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Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
415 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Prairie Pawn tells the story of Paul Torridon, called White Thunder by the Cheyenne Indians holding him hostage. They believe that he cured Whistling Elk's son from a menacing illness and brought rain when others had failed to do so. Though Paul has been rewarded with many riches, he still seems unhappy, and the Cheyenne chief decides to undertake a dangerous mission to kidnap Nancy Brett from Fort Kendry. The Cheyennes believe that will make White...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In Master and Man, Bobbie is a black man who can outride, outfight, and outshoot any white man in the mountain desert. His unwavering moral code serves as a model for his often cruel and dissolute white master. A Lucky Dog is a tale of desperate flight by a jewel thief named Hagger from the man he robbed. In Colorado, facing a battle with winter cold and snow, he comes upon an isolated cabin and its sole occupant, a weakened bull terrier left there...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
351 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The kid they called the Sleeper was a tramp. He was content with a life of drifting from place to place. But all that changed when he heard about a legendary gun with twenty notches -- a gun that never missed. Sleeper felt it -- he had to own that gun! What Sleeper didn't realize is that that the twenty-notch gun was a weapon that could never be owned. A gun like that would own him! The life he cherished would disappear, and Sleeper himself would...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
294 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rusty Sabin, born to white parents, was brought up by the Cheyenne Indians who had given the young red-headed boy the name Red Hawk. His ability to heal the sick and make strange magic were widely honored throughout the tribe. But in his twenties, Red Hawk set out to take his place among white people. When Rusty and his stallion named White Horse were nearly at the frontier post of Fort Marsden, the river boat he was riding in was grounded, and a...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Two connected stories discovered among unpublished works by Frederick Faust are combined to create this western story about a young man whose fascination with tall tales told about a fictional hero causes him to make a decision that sends him down a path outside the law"--
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When he first arrived in the town of Lister, no one knew anything about him except that he didn't speak ... that he was probably a deaf mute. No one knew what to call him, so they called him Shannon. He bought supplies and ventured into a secluded valley and made enough money to take care of himself by selling pelts in town. Then one day Shannon came upon a horse that had been abused and was near death. He had a way with animals, and with patience...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Edward Dugan left his home in Boston with a bequest from his father--mining certificates giving him ownership of the Christabel mine. Although they have a face value of 250,000 dollars, the mine has been declared worthless. However, Henry Christian, the man who originally sold the mining stock to Dugan's father, has offered to buy back the stock certificates for 1,500 dollars. Since he has no money, Dugan decides to walk the 3,000 miles to Potts...
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
256 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In "The White Streak," twenty-one-year-old Jimmy Babcock, a former football star, but now a worker at the local bank run by William Parker in the town of Dresser, which has changed from cattle country to one made up of oil and alfalfa fields. When Parker fires Jimmy, all Jimmy can think is how he will hurt Muriel Aiken, his fiancée, who wants to marry. When his father signs over the old family homestead to him that is in serious need of repair,...
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