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  • Mariposa by R.O. Lane

    Mariposa by R.O. Lane

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Nash 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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    western  adult  book  fiction  historical  industrial-era
  • Wilbur by R. O. Lane

    Wilbur by R. O. Lane

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Wilbur 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...
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    western  adult  book  fiction  historical  industrial-era
  • The Poker Chip by R. O. Lane

    The Poker Chip by R. O. Lane

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The 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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    western  adult  book  fiction  historical  industrial-era
  • Retribution by C.J. Petit

    Retribution by C.J. Petit

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Joey 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...
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    western  adult  book  fiction  historical  industrial-era
  • Three Poems: Host and Guest / Aluda Ketelauri / The Snake-Eater by Vazha-Pshavela

    Three Poems: Host and Guest / Aluda Ketelauri / The Snake-Eater by Vazha-Pshavela

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Vazha Pshavela (1861-1915) is considered one of the great poets in the fifteen-centuried Georgian literature. The three poems represented in the book are the most distinguished works of the poet...
  • Waylon Nance by R. O. Lane

    Waylon Nance by R. O. Lane

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A 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...
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    western  adult  book  fiction  historical  industrial-era
  • War Adams by C J. Petit

    War Adams by C J. Petit

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    United States Marshal War Adams stared at the telegram in disbelief...
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    western  adult  book  fiction  historical  industrial-era
  • Virgil's Herd by C.J. Petit

    Virgil's Herd by C.J. Petit

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Virgil 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...
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    western  adult  book  fiction  historical  industrial-era
  • Navarro by R. O. Lane

    Navarro by R. O. Lane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Navarro 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...
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    western  adult  book  fiction  historical  industrial-era
  • Texas Paladin Rides Again by R. O. Lane

    Texas Paladin Rides Again by R. O. Lane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Texas 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...
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    western  adult  book  fiction  historical  industrial-era
  • Sam's County by C.J. Petit

    Sam's County by C.J. Petit

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Yavapai 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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    western  adult  book  fiction  historical  industrial-era
  • Tate by C.J. Petit

    Tate by C.J. Petit

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Laramie 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...
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    western  adult  book  fiction  historical  industrial-era
  • Old Enough To Know Better by Duane Boehm

    Old Enough To Know Better by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When the infamous retired gunman, Gabriel Wolff, took the job of city marshal in Crystal City, Kansas, he succeeded in taming the wild cattle town in short order. The trouble was that he took to the notion that taming the town would end all the evil that lurked there...
  • Hellados by Nodar Dumbadze

    Hellados by Nodar Dumbadze

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hellados von Nodar Dumbadze erzählt über die Geschichte von zwei Teenagern aus Abchasien – Djemal und Ianguli. Als Djemal von Tiflis nach Suchumi zur Verwandtschaft umzieht, wird er mit dem Häuptling des Stadtviertels, dem griechischen Jungen Ianguli, konfrontiert. Ihre Beziehung, die am Anfang voll von Brüskierungen war, entwickelt sich langsam zur starken Freundschaft...
  • Unwanted by C.J. Petit

    Unwanted by C.J. Petit

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Fifteen-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...
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    western  adult  book  fiction  historical  industrial-era
  • Captive Justice: A Classic Western by Sam Scott

    Captive Justice: A Classic Western by Sam Scott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    TEXAS 1872: Falsely accused of murder, orphan Jed Whittier’s on the run with one of the most feared renegades of all. And they’re heading to a canyon where the outlaws who killed his family are hiding out. To Jed, it feels like destiny. But if he rides into the canyon to face the evil, he’ll come out with blood on his hands...
  • Mountain Massacre: Rocky Mountain Saint Book 4 by B.N. Rundell

    Mountain Massacre: Rocky Mountain Saint Book 4 by B.N. Rundell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When a grief-stricken young mountain man goes to Fort William to re-supply, he runs smack into a bully and a drunkard. That meeting leads Tate Saint to take on the responsibility of guiding a bunch of dirt-farmers across the beginnings of the Oregon Trail and to the distant Wind River mountains and South Pass...
  • The Redemption of Grady Ussher: A Western Frontier Saga by Sam Scott

    The Redemption of Grady Ussher: A Western Frontier Saga by Sam Scott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    1870s Texas: Grady and Eli Ussher are reunited ten years after their family was split asunder in a hellish Indian attack. The brothers yearn for a fresh start together. They plan to settle a ranch on the Texas plains and raise horses.Hiding a dark and painful past, Grady is blackmailed by Blanche Riggs, a vicious old woman who runs a gang of ruthless killers, a woman he once called “Ma”...
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    classics  western  19th-century  adult  book  epic  female-mc  fiction
  • Brand Justice by Sam Scott

    Brand Justice by Sam Scott

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A brother shot in cold blood | A settlement on the brink of a range war | A woman in hiding... and everybody’s armed Territory of Arizona, 1882: Luther Ames returns to the settlement of Trinity Meadows to discover his brother’s fresh grave. It lies beside the charred remains of his cabin. Billy was shot point-blank and burned with a branding iron.He’s the third such victim in as many weeks...
  • Hand Of Justice by Duane Boehm

    Hand Of Justice by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    As Boone Youngblood anxiously awaits the arrival of his first child, he wants nothing more than to live the quiet life of a rancher. His wild days of serving as a Texas Ranger are now nothing more than a memory...
  • Grass Valley Brides by Shanna Hatfield

    Grass Valley Brides by Shanna Hatfield

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What’s a matchmaker to do when the husband-to-be rejects the bride? Again...Widowed as a young wife, Cara Cargill turned her head for business and love of romance into a successful mail-order bride enterprise. She’s never had a problem matching couples until one mule-headed man continues to refuse to wed the women she sends to meet him in Grass Valley, Oregon...
  • Blizzard by Ron Schwab

    Blizzard by Ron Schwab

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Old Dogs and Coldsmith comes the gripping Western adventure, Blizzard!In the heart of the Nebraska Sandhills, as 1887 draws to a close, Gage Kraft and his grandson, Sam, find themselves grappling with the challenges and unpredictability of life on the frontier...
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    western  disaster  historical  fiction
  • The Hardest Ride by Gordon L. Rottman

    The Hardest Ride by Gordon L. Rottman

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Book 1 in the bestselling “Ride” series, which won the Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for Best Western Novel 2014 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award Finalist for Best First Western Novel 2014 Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist for Best Traditional Western Novel for 2013. The Texas-Mexico border, the winter of 1886—The Great Die Up. A raw rift separates Mexicans and Anglos...
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy

    Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years from The Remains of the Day to White Teeth...
  • Escape From The Devil: The Crocketts' Western Saga by Robert Vaughan

    Escape From The Devil: The Crocketts' Western Saga by Robert Vaughan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    WITH THE CROCKETTS' IN TOWN, EVERY TWO-BIT GUNSLINGER’S CHANCES OF SURVIVING ARE JUST ABOUT ZERO…After brothers Will and Gid Crockett deliver several horses to Colonel John Abernathy – a man they knew during the civil war – he hires them to accompany his sixteen-year-old daughter, Julia, on a stagecoach trip for fear she may be kidnapped and held for ransom...
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    classics  western  adult  book  epic  female-mc  fiction  historical
  • Renegade Rampage by B.N. Rundell

    Renegade Rampage by B.N. Rundell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It was just supposed to be a family journey to see the wonders and waters of that strange land to the north, but the land of the north had become a battle ground with a recently freed slave and some mountain men...
  • Vengeance Valley by B.N. Rundell

    Vengeance Valley by B.N. Rundell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tate Saint, man of the mountains and now a family man, has had more than his share of Indian uprisings and battles, but has always maintained a friendship with many of the native peoples...
  • თეთრი ბაირაღები by Nodar Dumbadze

    თეთრი ბაირაღები by Nodar Dumbadze

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    სტუდენტ ზაზა ნაკაშიძეს, ჩხუბში მონაწილეობისთვის დააპატიმრებენ, უდანაშაულობის დამტკიცების იმედი არა აქვს. ციხის საკანში სხვადასხვა ეროვნებისა და მრწამსის დამნაშავეები შეყრილან. დროს განვლილ ცხოვრებაზე და დანაშაულის ჩადენის მიზეზებზე კამათში კლავენ. ქურდის, მკვლელის, სახელმწიფო ქონების გამფლანგველის, ყველაზე საშიში ბოროტმოქმედის სულშიც კი შეიძლება სათუთი გრძნობები იმალებოდეს...
  • The Woman Who Built a Bridge by C.K. Crigger

    The Woman Who Built a Bridge by C.K. Crigger

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Shay Billings is pleasantly surprised at discovering a new bridge over the river, as it cuts several miles from his trip into town. Ambushed and left for dead, he has even more cause to be grateful when the bridge-builder saves his life. Shay’s savior turns out to be a mysterious young woman with extraordinary skills...
  • Two Thousand Grueling Miles by L.J. Martin

    Two Thousand Grueling Miles by L.J. Martin

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A QUEST – STAY ALIVE, KEEP FAMILY SAFE, AND ABOVE ALL ELSE, KEEP MOVING WEST.  Young but determined, the man of the family too soon, Jake Zane comes of age with the help of a massive mute escaped slave. It’s conquer the wilderness, protect your mother and sisters, or die trying...
  • Last Breath by Duane Boehm

    Last Breath by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Last 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...
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    western  adult  book  fiction  historical  industrial-era
  • First Rites by Wyatt Cochrane

    First Rites by Wyatt Cochrane

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Gus 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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    western  adult  book  fiction  historical  industrial-era
  • Bounty Justice by Sam Scott

    Bounty Justice by Sam Scott

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Sheriff Hale Buckland hears that Tad Willsby has held up a stagecoach and stolen the mine payroll, the lawman is convinced it’s a case of mistaken identity.Willsby was buried eight years ago … the sheriff dug the grave himself.But with new evidence suggesting the outlaw is still alive, the sheriff is forced to question what he believes to be true...
  • The Long Way Home by Sam Scott

    The Long Way Home by Sam Scott

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In 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...
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    western  adult  book  fiction  historical  industrial-era
  • Broken Dog Ranch by Mike Mackessy

    Broken Dog Ranch by Mike Mackessy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A 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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    western  adult  book  fiction  historical  industrial-era
  • Gunning For Glory by Sam Scott

    Gunning For Glory by Sam Scott

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Resolution, Territory of Arizona, 1882: Glory Fletcher was last seen with a notorious orphan trader, a man profiting from selling young, innocent women to men of questionable character.Harlan Quaid has vowed to find her.His search leads him to the territory of Arizona and the prosperous town of Resolution...
  • Brides Finding Love Collection by Emma Ashwood

    Brides Finding Love Collection by Emma Ashwood

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    western  adult  book  fiction  historical  industrial-era
  • Front Range Cowboys by Evie Nichole

    Front Range Cowboys by Evie Nichole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Enjoy 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...
    Categorized as:
    western  adult  book  fiction  historical  industrial-era
  • A Loving Bride to Pay his Debt by Lydia Olson

    A Loving Bride to Pay his Debt by Lydia Olson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    western  historical
  • Escape to Love by Emma Ashwood

    Escape to Love by Emma Ashwood

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    western  adult  book  fiction  historical  industrial-era
  • Last Hope by Duane Boehm

    Last Hope by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Last Hope is the highly anticipated third book in the Gideon Johann Western series. It joins #1 bestseller novels on Amazon.com in Western Classics, Last Stand and Last Chance. Love, second chances, new beginnings, and dispensing justice – all set in the town of Last Stand, Colorado in 1880...
  • Last Stand by Duane Boehm

    Last Stand by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Gideon Johann had been gone from Last Stand, Colorado for eighteen years, seeming to have vanished after the Civil War. He is a man running from his conscience and keeping on the move seems to be the only thing preventing it from destroying him...
  • Song of Years by Bess Streeter Aldrich

    Song of Years by Bess Streeter Aldrich

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The state of Iowa was still young and wild when Wayne Lockwood came to it from New England in 1851. He claimed a quarter-section about a hundred miles west of Dubuque and quickly came to appreciate widely scattered neighbors like Jeremiah Martin, whose seven daughters would have chased the gloom from any bachelor's heart...
  • Smiling Country by Elmer Kelton

    Smiling Country by Elmer Kelton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hewey Calloway, the footloose cowboy of The Good Old Boys, is trying to adjust to the trappings of modern life springing up around him in the Smiling Country of West Texas in 1910--all the while regretting his decision for years earlier to run away from the only woman he ever loved...
  • Deputy's Righteous Trail  (Western Frontier Justice) by Jesse Storm

    Deputy's Righteous Trail (Western Frontier Justice) by Jesse Storm

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A town under the rule of outlaws. A woman in danger. A deputy turns hero.“Colbert, I can fight. I won’t be in your way. And you’ll watch my back,” Thelma O’Malley was serious.“Fine,” Deputy Colbert said. “I think Randell Caricker has your sister. And it seems like Caricker was keeping another woman captive...
  • Sheer Will of a Lawman by William Black

    Sheer Will of a Lawman by William Black

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    No lawman has ever been tested under fire as Sheriff Clay Granger. The lawman must respond to a large murderous Vortman family intent on leaving behind a trail of blood and fear in 1874 Empire, Texas. The Vortmans, led by evil patriarch Asa Vortman, don't mind burning, shooting, bludgeoning or blowing up anyone who gets in their way...
  • A Fine Day for Revenge by Ethan Westfield

    A Fine Day for Revenge by Ethan Westfield

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Shaun Hickman's deepest desire has always been to become a horse trainer. The day his stepfather dies, however, his world will suddenly turn upside down. Even though Shaun grows increasingly suspicious of his stepfather's death, believing that something treacherous has happened to him, no one wants to listen to his fears...
  • Moon Over Laramie by Vivian Sinclair

    Moon Over Laramie by Vivian Sinclair

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Veterinarian 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...
    Categorized as:
    western  adult  book  fiction  historical  industrial-era
  • Christmas In Cheyenne by Vivian Sinclair

    Christmas In Cheyenne by Vivian Sinclair

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A western contemporary romance, Book 3 of The Maitland Legacy, A Family Saga.Two years ago, Raul Maitland changed overnight from a poor cowboy into a respected, wealthy rancher. This change brought him satisfaction and happiness, but also he felt profound grief and disappointment when the woman he loved left him for another man...
    Categorized as:
    western  adult  book  fiction  historical  industrial-era
  • Sundog Comanche by Ash Lingam, Dave Walton

    Sundog Comanche by Ash Lingam, Dave Walton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After the smallpox plague killed off half the inhabitants of the small town Ragged Ridge Creek, Texas the young Creek boy was orphaned. His father, Maxwell Creek provided him with his namesake of the town, Ridge. At thirteen taken on to work in the general store of a retired western gunfighter and lawman, Ridge Creek learned the tricks of his future trade...
    Categorized as:
    western  adult  book  fiction  historical  industrial-era
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