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Mose Cabot by R.O. Lane
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMose Cabot leaves Virginia as a young man, gets jobs on steamboats and works his way to Fort Benton, Montana. Along the way, he runs into a lost little boy named Gabriel Allsop. Together they strike out and file a mining claim in Montana Gulch. They work for three years at their mining claim before settling on a homestead in the Bitterroot Valley, where they build a horse ranch... -
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Mariposa by R.O. Lane
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNash Powell and Ewell Roberts take jobs Mariposa, Texas, to tame the town and bring law and order. It's a tough assignment, and both men escape with their lives repeatedly. Along the way, the men find love and romance. It's a story of two men who grow to respect one another because they always do their duty as their consciences dictate. Another exciting novel from the pen of R. O... -
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Wilbur by R. O. Lane
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWilbur dreams of being a U.S. Deputy Marshal, and when he's old enough, he's sworn in and has a taste of the life. He's shot, recovers and goes after the outlaws with an Osage tracker to help him. Eventually, he captures the head of the outlaw gang and transports him back to Fort Smith to face Judge Isaac C. Parker, the hanging judge... -
![The Poker Chip by R. O. Lane]()
The Poker Chip by R. O. Lane
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Poker Chip is another classic western with a bit of romance. Vance Brennan falls in love with Lexie Moody, but she marries someone else, who turns out to be a scoundrel. Jeff Warren bets his wife, Lexie, on a game of poker. The winner insists that Warren pay up, and he devises a scheme to have his wife kidnapped and taken to Mexico to pay off his gambling debt... -
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![Retribution by C.J. Petit]()
Retribution by C.J. Petit
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJoey couldn’t imagine a better thirteenth birthday. He’d been given his first pistol and now was going to join his six older brothers on tomorrow’s job. They were going to trust him with covering their escape after robbing the bank and he was determined to do it right. He was immensely proud to be a Hogan, and his tough brothers were his heroes... -
![Waylon Nance by R. O. Lane]()
Waylon Nance by R. O. Lane
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA young vaquero leaves a cattle drive to look for a woman stolen by Comanches. He spends months in Comanche country only the find that the Army will offer no help whatever. So he hires his own Lipan scout, and travels over much of Indian Territory and Texas to find the woman he loves... -
![War Adams by C J. Petit]()
War Adams by C J. Petit
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsUnited States Marshal War Adams stared at the telegram in disbelief... -
![Virgil's Herd by C.J. Petit]()
Virgil's Herd by C.J. Petit
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsVirgil Scott and his best friend Roy Sheffield left their horse ranch and were making one of their routine runs to Denver to deliver thirty-two horses... -
![Hank by R.O. Lane]()
Hank by R.O. Lane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHenry Hankins of the Tennessee Hankins rides west to find his elder brother, Seth, who has disappeared into the gold fields of Montana. Henry's search takes him to Virginia City and all over the mining centers of southwest Montana. Eventually it leads him to Nevada. On the trip he finds love and romance and adopts a little boy that he learns to love... -
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When The Ties Bind by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of the Gideon Johann Western Series , the Wild Horse Westerns Series , and the Hand Of Western Series comes When The Ties Bind , a story of loss, love, acceptance, and revenge! With the death of his pa, Wyatt Roundtree not only lost the last of his family, but he also lost their ranch at the hands of an unscrupulous banker and a vengeful rancher... -
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Navarro by R. O. Lane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNavarro is a bounty hunter who stumbles upon a woman who has been kidnapped in the wilds of Colorado in 1877. He rescues her and befriends her, but she has enemies, lots of enemies. She talks Navarro into being her bodyguard, and he takes off after her enemies and the result is another exciting novel from the pen of R. O. Lane... -
![Texas Paladin Rides Again by R. O. Lane]()
Texas Paladin Rides Again by R. O. Lane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTexas Ranger Jubal Coe returns to the Texas Rangers and tackles one assignment after another. He goes after three escapees from Huntsville Prison and kills all three after they riddle him with bullets. He's assigned to Eagle Pass to stop the cattle rustling and murders of gangs on both sides of the border... -
![The Scalawags by C.J. Petit]()
The Scalawags by C.J. Petit
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsUnion Army sergeant Sam Walker returns home to Iowa after leaving a prisoner of war camp, only to discover that his sweetheart has married his brother. He heads down to Mulberry, Texas, to keep a promise to his fallen Union army brother-in-arms, Joe Farrell, to make sure that his family is safe... -
![Sam's County by C.J. Petit]()
Sam's County by C.J. Petit
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsYavapai County in Arizona Territory was bigger than Pennsylvania, and Sheriff Sam Hicks and his three deputies were the only law that most of its residents knew. When China Joe's gang knocked off the huge cash shipment heading for Prescott, Sheriff Hicks left his office unsure if this would be his last job one way or the other... -
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![Tate by C.J. Petit]()
Tate by C.J. Petit
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLaramie had just been hit by the Clayton gang, leaving Sheriff Joe Tate without any deputies to serve the entire county. But, as bad as the gunfight had been, the visitor to his office to file a complaint for something that wasn’t even a crime turned out to be much more significant and life-changing... -
![Unwanted by C.J. Petit]()
Unwanted by C.J. Petit
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFifteen-year-old Joe Beck wasn’t listening as the minister eulogized his uncle but was already planning on what he would have to do as soon as they returned to the Quimby farm. He wasn’t welcome there even before his uncle had died and knew that his cousin John would soon order him to leave... -
![Sun Over The Mountains by Duane Boehm]()
Sun Over The Mountains by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSun Over The Mountains is the latest novel by bestselling Western author Duane Boehm.When Sammy Landon is called home by his dying mother, he returns to his hometown to find that the things he ran from all those years ago are still as much a part of him as they ever were. Central City still holds the same old heartbreak, temptations, and problems that it always had for his troubled life...Categorized as:
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![Love's New Beginning by Dorothy Wiley]()
Love's New Beginning by Dorothy Wiley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLoss took everything, love gave him even more. It's 1800 Philadelphia, and the city cowers before a mysterious killer—Yellow Fever. Daniel Armitage and his family are respected members of Philadelphia society. But their status cannot save Daniel’s loved ones. His entire family succumbs to the horrifying disease. His mother’s startling deathbed confession, shakes Daniel to his soul... -
![Horse Hunt by Wyatt Cochrane]()
Horse Hunt by Wyatt Cochrane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMost never get their heart’s desire…, But for a moment, Gus has his. On his own and chasing adventure, he is finally free. Be careful what you wish for. Raised to hate injustice and trained to use guns and fists, he can’t look away and ride on... -
![Last Breath by Duane Boehm]()
Last Breath by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLast Breath is the highly anticipated fifth book in the Gideon Johann Western series. It joins #1 bestseller novels on Amazon.com in Western Classics, Last Stand, Last Chance, Last Hope, & Last Ride. Cattle are being rustled from ranches around Last Stand and seem to vanish into the night by the time they are discovered missing... -
![First Rites by Wyatt Cochrane]()
First Rites by Wyatt Cochrane
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGus craves adventure… A real-life challenge… Not a made-up obstacle course of ropes and tin cans. Bred and trained to be a warrior–up to now–boredom and hard work have been his fiercest enemies. The winter’s hay safely in the barn, he finally gets a few days of leisure with his best friends. They discover one of his father’s cows butchered and only the best cuts taken... -
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Dreams of Eagles by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the greatest western writers of the 21st century, the classic second adventure in The Eagles, one of the most iconic and beloved sagas of the American frontier, is back in print as legendary Scottish frontiersman Jamie MacCallister blazes through the Wild West.In peace and war, he was the soul of a nation—and the flesh and blood of the American Frontier . .Categorized as:
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![The Long Way Home by Sam Scott]()
The Long Way Home by Sam Scott
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the arid lands of Arizona, a guilt-ridden rancher protects a vulnerable young woman from a vicious outlaw. A year after burying the last of his family, Texan rancher, Newton Tanner, sets out for Arizona to buy horses from the legendary horseman, Joey Thunder. The trip offers Newt a respite, both from the past and from the lonesomeness of the Tanner homestead... -
![Broken Dog Ranch by Mike Mackessy]()
Broken Dog Ranch by Mike Mackessy
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA brand new Mountain Man series--- this is “Broken Dog Ranch” from Mike Mackessy! Ride with Clint Hunter, one of the most exciting Mountain Men of today!Clint Hunter the Mountain Man, army scout, soldier, Texas Ranger, and the friend to the Crow Indians is shedding the horrors of his past... -
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![Tanner by Cheryl St. John]()
Tanner by Cheryl St. John
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe's focused on the future...The past is all she knows.Together they're forced to face today. His months in Salisbury prison taught Union Captain Tanner Bell to detest a southern drawl, and Widow Cranford's exaggerated Dixie twang has him gritting his teeth. His plans for a ranch are threatened when his orphaned newborn niece is delivered to him, and he desperately needs her help...Categorized as:
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![The Dawn Wakers by Angela Castillo]()
The Dawn Wakers by Angela Castillo
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEighteen-year-old Ellie's been on the Oregon trail for almost four months, with her mother and four siblings to care for. Though scarlet fever left her with a weakened heart, she's pushed ahead with resolve and determination. Thaddeus dreams of becoming a pastor, though his affluent family expects him to follow in his banker father's footsteps... -
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![A Clean Slate by Amelia C. Adams]()
A Clean Slate by Amelia C. Adams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOlivia Markham is a socialite from New York City who came to Topeka with one goal—to marry Adam Brody. But Adam has married someone else, and Olivia has nowhere to go. Taking a job at the Brody Hotel requires her to swallow her pride, but she has no choice in the matter. Now she must learn to adjust to simple living and wearing cotton dresses—cotton, when she should be wearing silk... -
![Front Range Cowboys by Evie Nichole]()
Front Range Cowboys by Evie Nichole
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEnjoy with KINDLE UNLIMITED... FIVE full-length books. Guaranteed NO CLIFFHANGERS. Cowboy’s Last Down Football is the only thing I’ve ever cared about. Then I twisted my knee. My career is over. There’s no place to go but home. Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys. My mama raised five of them. But I’m no good at ranching and I’m no good at business. I’m no good for anything... -
![Eleanor by Rachel Wesson]()
Eleanor by Rachel Wesson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEleanor Templeton, recently arrived in Clover Springs, is looking for a place to hide and nurse her invisible wounds. Gary Barrett, the saloon owner, tries to break down the barriers she has erected, convinced he has found the woman of his dreams. Wilma, usually the first to help new arrivals, doesn’t want to meet the new school teacher... -
![Tudor Court Series 6 books The Boleyn Inheritance / The Other Boleyn Girl / The Other Queen / The Constant Princess / The Virgins Lover / The Queens Fool by Philippa Gregory]()
Tudor Court Series 6 books The Boleyn Inheritance / The Other Boleyn Girl / The Other Queen / The Constant Princess / The Virgins Lover / The Queens Fool by Philippa Gregory
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPhilippa Gregory Tudor Court Novels 6 Books Collection Set Titles in the Set are The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl ,The Boleyn Inheritance, The Virgin's Lover, The Other Queen and The Queen's Fool... -
![Falling Pomegranate Seeds: The Duty of Daughters by Wendy J. Dunn]()
Falling Pomegranate Seeds: The Duty of Daughters by Wendy J. Dunn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDońa Beatriz Galindo. Respected scholar. Tutor to royalty. Friend and advisor to Queen Isabel of Castile. Beatriz is an uneasy witness to the Holy War of Queen Isabel and her husband, Ferdinand, King of Aragon. A Holy War seeing the Moors pushed out of territories ruled by them for centuries. The road for women is a hard one...Categorized as:
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![Vera's Virtues by Cissie Patterson]()
Vera's Virtues by Cissie Patterson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVera Mae Wigg is ready for an adventure, and her fellow teachers at The Wigg Foundling Home and School have been given the opportunity for just that. They are all heading west to start their own schools... -
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Yetta's Yearning by Michele Lindsey
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNow that his mine has paid out, Nathaniel can finally hang up his pickaxe and fulfill his dream of owning a cattle farm. He's also looking forward to settling down and starting a family. But he'll need a wife first.Yetta has spent her whole life at the Wigg Foundling Home and School in New York City. First as a foundling herself, now as teacher, living in the dorms... -
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![A Timid Heart: A Kansas Crossroads Story by Jo Noelle]()
A Timid Heart: A Kansas Crossroads Story by Jo Noelle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSweet & Clean Western RomanceCan a tender man whose passion is to take pictures reach the heart of a woman who hides from him and all others?Bridget Hall takes a much-needed job at the Brody Hotel as a laundress after being rejected as a mail-order bride. She loves the people she works with, but because of a deformity, she hides from society. . -
![Scars of the Heart by Kristene Holloway]()
Scars of the Heart by Kristene Holloway
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWill their pasts keep them apart? Or can love heal their scars?Adelaide Harris is seeking a new future. Jilted by an unrequited love, she heads West, beginning a new chapter of her life as a mail-order bride in a marriage of convenience, determined to never fall in love again. However, she is about to discover that fate has other plans in store for her.Jackson Preston is haunted by his past... -
![Jake by Leigh Greenwood]()
Jake by Leigh Greenwood
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe freedom of the range, the bawling of the longhorns, the lonesome night watch beneath a vast, starry sky--they got into a man's blood until he knew there was nothing better than the life of a cowboy...except the love of a good woman. Isabelle Born and bred in Savannah, Georgia, she was the kind of woman Jake Maxwell avoided at all cost... -
![Escape to Love by Emma Ashwood]()
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![Family Feud: A Marshall Family Western - Book 2 by Wyatt Cochrane]()
Family Feud: A Marshall Family Western - Book 2 by Wyatt Cochrane
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMinding your own business is easy. Just look down and leave. But Thorn hates bullies. Without knowing who the men are, or why they want to hurt the boy, he jumps in. To get this far, he’s survived the Civil War, fought nature to a draw, and triumphed over evil men... -
![Hanta Yo: An American Saga by Ruth Beebe Hill]()
Hanta Yo: An American Saga by Ruth Beebe Hill
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA multigenerational saga that depicts the lives of two families of Teton Sioux from the late 1700s to the 1830s, before the arrival of the white man...Categorized as:
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![Painted Montana Sky by Debra Holland]()
Painted Montana Sky by Debra Holland
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn Painted Montana Sky, a NOVELLA from the acclaimed Montana Sky Series, USA Today bestselling author Debra Holland brings together two people who have turned their backs on love and relationships. In 1894, Lily Maxwell, aspiring painter, travels to Sweetwater Springs, Montana, with her precious cocker spaniel to work on an artistic project that could launch her career... -
![Last Ride by Duane Boehm]()
Last Ride by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLast Ride is the highly anticipated fourth book in the Gideon Johann Western series. It joins #1 bestseller novels on Amazon.com in Western Classics, Last Stand, Last Chance, and Last Hope.Somebody is hanging innocent people in Last Stand, Colorado. Sheriff Gideon Johann has his hands full trying to solve the murders as well as all the other shenanigans that go on in a town of the Old West... -
![Pillsbury Crossing by Donna Foley Mabry]()
Pillsbury Crossing by Donna Foley Mabry
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the second of The Manhattan Stories, Emma is nine on the day they meet, hot-headed and wild-haired. Akecheta is twelve, already the man of his house. He saves her life and tells her she belongs to him... -
![Tante le Desiree by J.P. Reedman]()
Tante le Desiree by J.P. Reedman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI, RICHARD PLANTAGENET, PART ONE : TANT LE DESIREE (I have desired it so much.) 1471 : THE BATTLE OF BARNET.He is eighteen.It is his first battle. He is wounded…he is Richard of Gloucester, the King’s youngest brother. With the Kingmaker slain, Richard and his brother Edward IV go on to ultimate victory at Tewkesbury... -
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![Blood Bond by William W. Johnstone]()
Blood Bond by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThorndike Press Western Series titles are selected with the classic Western fan in mind, drawn from the work of the acknowledged masters of Western fiction and some contemporary authors writing in the traditional Western style. Also included are anthologies and collections of short works by favorite authors.Actual Large Print covers may be different from those shown...Categorized as:
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![Mail Order Magic by Kirsten Osbourne]()
Mail Order Magic by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen widow Ruth Arbuckle discovers her ranch foreman is stealing from her, she decides to do something completely unorthodox—she sends for a mail-order husband. She refuses to continue losing money, and she wants someone competent to run all aspects of her ranch, including the financial side. It’s purely business, but when the man arrives to marry her, she’s stunned to find him so compelling... -
![The Mavericks by Leigh Greenwood]()
The Mavericks by Leigh Greenwood
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHawk and Zeke have been inseparable ever since boyhoodâ��two loners, outsiders, as free as the wild horses they chase across the Arizona desert. So when they join up with two misplaced dancehall girls on the trail, they react about the same way as unbroken mustangs to the saddle... -
![Brides of Beckham: The First Four Books by Kirsten Osbourne]()
Brides of Beckham: The First Four Books by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis box set includes the first four books in the bestselling Brides of Beckham Series by Kirsten Osbourne. Included are: Mail Order Mayhem, Mail Order Mama, Mail Order Madness and Mail Order Mix-up. Harriett Long, a widow in Beckham, Massachusetts, begins her journey as a matchmaker by matching up four brides with grooms in the West... -
![A Free Heart by Amelia C. Adams]()
A Free Heart by Amelia C. Adams
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHarriet Martin left her plantation home in Atlanta and came to Kansas with one thought on her mind—finding the mother of the man she was supposed to marry. She will never find peace or be able to move on until she knows that Jane, a former slave, is safe and happy... -
![Moon Over Laramie by Vivian Sinclair]()
Moon Over Laramie by Vivian Sinclair
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVeterinarian Tristan Maitland lives a quiet life with his son Zach in Laramie, Wyoming, close to his family ranch. He made peace with his two brothers and the father that had adopted him when he was four years old, and moved into a great house together with his son Zach and their household of assorted animals...
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