Bill Brooks
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Pub. Date
c2012
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The town of Sweet Sorrow in the Dakota territories is the kind of place that draws all manner of misfits- a perfect town for Jake Horn, falsely accused of murder, to get lost in. But a strange plague of madness, brutality and murder seems to run rampant here, and a Texan named Roy Bean pressures Jake to bring much-needed sanity to the lawless outpost.
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Pub. Date
2016
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243 PAGES. $25.95. 2016003813. BILL DOOLIN WAS PERHAPS THE LAST GREAT AMERICAN OUTLAW OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. HE WAS CONSIDERED SOMETHING OF A ROBIN HOOD TO THE LOCALS- EVERYBODY BUT THOSE HE ROBBED AND KILLED. IN THE NEW CENTURY OUTLAWS LIKE DOOLIN NO LONGER HAVE A PLACE IN THE WEST.
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Pub. Date
2017
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Tom Dooley returned from the Civil War to a tumultuous affair with Ann Foster Melton, a married woman, and later became involved with her cousins Pauline and Laura. Tom is about to elope with Laura, who is found murdered, and he and Ann are arrested. After exonerating Ann, Tom is tried and found guilty. But why would he kill the girl he was going to run away with?
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Journey of Jim Glass volume 2
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Jim Glass is a drifter who soldiered for a losing cause, upheld the law as a Texas Ranger, and often has been mistaken for legendary gunman John Wesley Hardin. He's a lost man on a trail to nowhere and where he rides, death usually follows.
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The winter around Cheyenne, Wyoming that year was devastating killing both people and livestock. John Henry Cole was three miles out of town on his small ranch waiting out the storm that was quickly killing his cattle and horses and starting to feel a little crazy himself. Everything he owned was dying before his eyes and there wasn't anything that he could do about it. His dreams of a settled life were as dead as everything else. He knew it was time...
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"John Henry Cole had worked for years as a lawman and then as a detective for an agency out of Cheyenne, Wyoming. It was this work that he enjoyed, despite its dangers, that had inspired him to establish his own agency. He gathered ex-lawmen like himself, men he knew and trusted, most of whom he had worked with at one time or another. Cole's agency was located in just about the most dangerous place one could find -- in Red Pony, in the Cherokee Strip,...
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John Henry Cole, working as a deputy U.S. marshal out of Judge Isaac Parker's court in Arkansas, was on assignment in the Indian Nations, in pursuit of a group of white renegades who were in hiding there above all a particularly vicious renegade named Caddo Pierce. He had a wagon of captive renegades when he was shot and seriously injured. He managed to come out of the Nations with his prisoners, but decided that he had enough of that job and so resigned....
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John Henry Cole novels volume 1
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John Henry Cole is a hardcase frontier detective with the Ike Kelly Agency whose conscience and firearms hamper his attempts to solve the murders of three young prostitutes in the employ of Ike Kelly's former sweetheart, now a high-class bordello owner, who wanted Ike for the job but got John Henry instead.
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John Henry Cole novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
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This western has humor, suspense, twists, and a puzzling mystery for John Henry to pursue as he's shot up by robbers, bounty hunters, a vengeful Mexican family, and a cold-blooded killer. Well-crafted side plots add depth to the story and to the protagonist particularly as he steadies a consumptive and deadly Doc Holliday and shares a cell with a drunken, foul-mouthed Calamity Jane.--Publisher's Weekly.
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When Lucy Moon learns of her mama's murder, she cuts short her honeymoon and returns to the Pistol Barrel of Oklahoma with her new husband in tow. It's a wild and raucous land full of the kind of gunfighters, backshooters, gamblers and pimps who could have shot Belle out of the saddle. Determined to get revenge by whatever means necessary, Lucy never counted on being seduced by the mysterious half-breed Red Dog -- who just might have been the assassin....
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Journey of Jim Glass volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Jim Glass is a drifter who soldiered for a losing cause, upheld the law as a Texas Ranger, and who often has been mistaken for legendary gunman John Wesley Hardin. He's a lost man on a trail to nowhere and where he rides, death follows. Coffin Flats, New Mexico, is a nothing town in the middle of nowhere, which suits Jim Glass just fine. Jim is looking for work. He's as good with his hands as he is with a gun, which makes him a very attractive prospect...
19) The horses
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Journey of Jim Glass volume 3
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Jim Glass's long-sought peace is shattered when the ex-soldier and ex-Ranger discovers six of his corralled horses dead, their throats slit. Though he dreads doing so, he'll strap on his weapons and go hunting for the culprit because someone capable of such a foul, thoughtless killing is capable of anything.
20) The messenger
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2013.
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Royce Blood was living his dream. He and his wife, Ophelia, had a cabin at the foot of the mountains near a river with their ten-year-old son Nicholas. One Sunday Ophelia and Royce could only watch from far away when a bear mauled and killed Nicholas. Royce, determined to find the bear, was trapped in winter snow for months, and when he returned, Ophelia had left. When he finally found her, she died in his arms from a fever. Royce started drifting...