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221) Imperfect promise
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Pub. Date
2022.
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""Former gunfighter Cortland Enders is about to go to prison when the woman he works for invents a scheme to save him. Sienna Harris, widowed owner of the Circle H, makes a deal with the judge-Cort will serve his three-year sentence running the ranch, bound to it as her new husband. The marriage is in name only, enabling Sienna to leave the ranch to Cort after she dies of the cancer thats consuming her. Getting Cort to accept the deal proves more...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Elmer Kelton's Hewey Calloway returns in this novel of his middling years as he looks for work--but not too much work--in 1904 West Texas. Hewey Calloway is heading north to Colorado on a horse drive for an old friend, Alvin Lawdermilk, when he gets word that one of his hired hands is planning to rob him. After the plot is foiled, the fugitive horsehand is on the run and leaving bodies in his wake. Deputized to help bring the criminal to justice,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"An American saga of danger, daring, passion and betrayal. A wet-behind-the-ears youngster when he came west with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, Zach Hannah will become a legend of courage, skill and honesty among other mountain men. To the Crow Indians he is a trusted friend and ally. To the Blackfoot he is their most hated foe. And to former friend Sean Devlin, who lusts after Zach's beloved wife Morning Sky, he is a rival to be destroyed. The...
224) Cotton's Devil
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
When Sheriff Cotton Burke finds Thorn McCann nearly dead from a gunshot wound, he has no choice but to become entangled in the affairs of the nefarious bounty hunter. While McCann is one of the last people Cotton wants to hang around with, someone else from his past is about to burst into his life... Cotton isn't proud of the men he's killed, but he sleeps well at night knowing that he did what was necessary to preserve justice. Judge Arthur Sanborn,...