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(0)Frank Bonham
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"In 'Sergeant Forson's Dirty-Shirt Army' a seasoned sergeant tries to turn undisciplined recruits into true soldiers despite his commanding officer's indifference, but things change when Major King learns his daughter's stagecoach will likely be attacked by Indians. 'Furnace Flat' tells of Grady Ryan's attempt to get rich mining borax in Death Valley"--
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English
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Two short novels by Frank Bonham in book form for the first time. The first tells the story of two entrepreneurial mustangers in Los Angeles after the Mexican-American War and the second involves a greedy rancher in Arizona who is trying to make a fortune in logging through devious means.
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In 1900, Henry Logan, a gunsmith from Kansas City, is asked by a lawyer friend to search for a fellow named Rip Parrish. Parrish's trust fund checks are being cashed, but letters sent to him in Nogales, Arizona, go unanswered. Thinking that the air in Arizona might be good for his recurrent malaria (picked up during the Spanish-American War), Logan goes to Nogales, and promptly falls for Parrish's fetching wife, although she's suspected of being involved...
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A double dose of Western action from one of the genre's acknowledged masters
The first story, "The Rodeo Killer," is a smoldering tale of the violent intersecting conflict between New Mexico cattle ranchers, cattle buyers, and men breeding horses for the rodeo circuit. Greed, deceit, trickery, and murder mix with romance and gripping examples of human and animal courage in this thrilling and dramatic tale.
The title story, "Mission Creek," references...
5) Furnace Flat
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English
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Something tan and cylindrical struck the roof and rolled off. The men inside didn't wait for the dynamite to blow; they lurched into the sunlight, firing as they ran. A brutal war began when two bold men left Kane's mine to work their own strike. This was the final battle.
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Five Star
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Here, for the first time in book form, are three of Bonham's best Western short novels. 'The Sin of Wiley Brogan' is the good-humored tale of a young horse-breaker fed up with his lot in life, whose chance meeting with an entrepreneurial postal official leads him into a riotous new profession involving stagecoach competition for the delivery of mail in eastern Oregon. 'Texicans Die Hard' has a south of the border locale and an intricate plot in which...
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Five Star
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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"'The Texan Buys a Gun-Bride' is a powerful historical tale set in the Republic of Texas in 1841. Rich in the lore and language of the period, it features a fiddle-playing, bullwhip-wielding hero caught up in land squabbles and land fraud among ranches, cavalrymen, and a group of feisty Scottish emigrants. Oregon's rough-and-tumble Rogue River mining country is the scene of 'Whiskey Creek Stampeders,' the chronicle of one man's struggles to compete...
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Five Star
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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"Here for the first time in book form is a new quartet of Frank Bonham's finest Western stories. Bill Devlin of 'Butcherknife Ridge' is a man fighting to earn respect for himself while trying to clear the name of his grandfather. 'Border Man' is remarkable for the ease and skill with which Bonham combines a number of disparate elements and characters into a colorful, suspenseful narrative set in the Arizona-Mexico border country. Fast and furious...
15) The vagabundos
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Dutton
Pub. Date
[1969]
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English
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When his father leaves home without explanation, Eric tracks him by boat for one thousand miles along the Baja coast. By the time the two finally confront one another, they both know what they want.
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Five Star
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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"'Brand of the Bear Flag Mutineers' chronicles a bitter and bloody confrontation between U.S. soldiers and Secessionist troops in California's rugged San Bernardino Mountains during the Civil War. In 'The Dark Border' a pair of adventurous cowmen win a hardscrabble ranch in a dice game in the south Texas badlands, and their subsequent involvement in the illegal running of cattle across the Mexican border leads to hard lessons learned for both.......