Jory Sherman
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A MURDERER IN NAME ONLY
Young Jed Brand is on the run. He's wanted for cattle rustling and three killings -- and the harder he rides, the more mayhem and murder he has to his name. The problem is, he's not the one doing it.
Silas Colter is as cold and cunning as any other lifelong lawbreaker. After he suckered in Dan and Jed Brand to help drive stolen cattle to Abilene, the scheme went bad, with Colter killing Dan and two lawmen -- and leaving Jed...
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Young Anson Baron has always known cattle-ranching was dangerous, that he could be trampled or gored by the Barons' mighty longhorns. With his father, Martin, nowhere to be found, Anson comes of age as he confronts new dangers: revenge, betrayal, and treachery.
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Fresh from a war with rival rancher Miguel Aguilar, and still licking family wounds, Martin Baron and his son, Anson, go their separate ways as Jory Sherman continues the epic saga of the Barons.
Martin heeds the call of the Texas Rangers, hoping to restore honor to his native Texas as the storm of war quickly approaches. News from the east speaks of a long and drawn out conflict between the Union and the Confederacy. Though Martin never believed...
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Driven equally by his duty to his nation's leader and by his need to avenge his father's murder, Zak Cody is on the trail of the gold-hungry killer who made him an orphan. But while he's taking down his adversary's hired guns every step of the way, their leader, Ben Trask, continues to elude him. And Trask is brewing up a poisonous stew of betrayal, death, and lies with the powerful help of someone at Fort Bowie-a plan that will bring about the terrible...
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In an eerie preview to the Civil War, the Rio Grande Valley girds itself for battle as Martin Baron, head of the Baron family empire, struggles against greedy Matteo Aguilar, who threatens everything that Martin has built for himself.
When Aguilar sends his vaqueros and assassins to take the Barons down, he starts a bloody war that won't stop until one of them is dead. As the treachery continues to escalate, the Barons find themselves in a life-or-death-struggle...
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From Spur Award-winning author Jory Sherman comes the final novel in his acclaimed
Shadow Rider series
A rebellion is brewing in the New Mexico territories. Ghost Warrior-a Navajo renegade using the name of a legendary fallen warrior-is stirring up fear and bloodlust. Under orders from President Ulysses S. Grant, Zak Cody-the elusive enforcer they call "Shadow Rider"-heads into the unknown to confront the killer. When he reaches his destination...
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It is the eve of the Civil War, but the ranchers of the Rio Grande Valley are already fighting--amongst themselves and with the fierce Apaches. Martin Baron finds himself in battle against his own neighbor, Matteo Aguilar, and must fight daily to keep his family safe.
Martin's proud and heart-sick son Anson, must leave leave all he knows and loves to head off an attack by an Apache chief against the ranch's settlers. But without his son at home to...
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Those who inhabit the harsh, beautiful, blood-red land between Tucson and Fort Bowie have never seen the like of the Shadow Rider-who appears out of nowhere and vanishes just as suddenly in the desert heat. Now death and lies surround him again. The Apache are under siege for murders they didn't commit-and Cody's riding hell-for-leather into a war where nothing's what it seems. But his mission is to get to the truth . . . and to kill the cause of...
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Haunting, majestic, powerful, the Columbia River flowed down from the rugged Rockies, through the deep, forbidden forests, and across the open plain. Along its banks, bold, strong men of ambition and enterprise sought their fortune. It was a time and a place where the fur trade could make you wealthy...or get you killed. The race to riches along the Columbia rapids was cutthroat, and for every trader and trapper, there was a hired gun or assassin....
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Eastward, as far as the eye could see, stretched the Great Plains. Westward rose the Rockies, snow-capped peaks of grandeur. In the middle flowed a mighty river - silent, glistening, and turbulent - the bloodline of a wide and wild land. Three hard, tough men staked their claims on its potent shores; Jake Stonecipher, pioneer merchant, seeking his fortune, yet finding a war. Will Burke, a mountain man as savage as the wilderness itself. And Francisco...
11) The Rio Grande
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From the distant mountains, through the vast deserts to the Gulf of Mexico flows the Rio Grande River, giving life, promising adventure, shaping empires. And across its banks fought the Americans, the Mexican Army, the Shoshone, the Utes and the Arapaho Indians. Matthew Caine, an American agent working against the Mexican Army, also known as "El Gigante", attempts to make allies of the plains Indians. Lieutenant Melgares, of the Mexican Army is sworn...
12) The South Platte
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At the far western edge of the Great Plains, where the prairie meets the mountains, flows the South Platte, drawing farmers, traders and trappers to land long held sacred by two proud tribes. As the pioneers stake claims beside the pure waters of the rive
13) The Brazos
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Through a harsh land of mesquite and prickly pear, scattered oaks and carpets of stubborn grass, the Brazos River wound its way south to the Gulf of Mexico. To its banks came settlers from across America, daring men and women who dreamed of owning ranches and farms, building homes for their families, and one day establishing a United States republic in Mexican-held Texas. Among them were Jon Tallman, a wanderer and adventurer with hidden motives and...
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"Dane Kramer looks forward to the day when his sprawling Oklahoma cattle ranch will truly be his. With only one more bank payment to make, and a buyer in Omaha ready to pay top dollar for a herd of Herefords, he should finally have banker Earl Throckmorton off his back. But Earl has a plan to keep the ranch for himself. If he has his way, Dane's herd will never make it across the Omaha Trail -- and Dane won't make it home alive." --
16) The sundown man
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When his parents were slaughtered by Arapahos, Jared Sunnedon and his sister Kate made it out alive, only to be taken prisoner. Then and there, they vow that if they are ever separated, they'll never give up the search for each other. After Kate is captured by Utes and sold off, Jared makes good on his promise and escapes. And there's no man alive and no stretch of wasted desert that's going to come between Jared and the only family he's got left....
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Spur Award winner Jory Sherman takes the reins for the next installment of Ralph Compton's long-running Trail Drive series. Doc Blaine has agreed to drive 3,000 head of cattle from Texas to Kansas, and the only help around are his sons Jared and Miles. But the boys are in love with the same woman, and their vow to kill each other on sight threatens to derail Doc's cattle drive faster than a speeding locomotive.
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OLD FRIENDS Chip Chippendale met Ransom Barnes after the War Between the States, when the two cowboys drove a herd up from Texas together. But when Chip first laid eyes on Wyoming, he knew he was home, and the two friends split off on different trails. NEW ENEMIES Each man went on to own his own ranch, but when Ransom's home is attacked and burned by a marauding band of Cheyenne warriors, he is faced with ruin-and makes matters worse by gunning down...
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BLOOD AND BANKERS Dane Kramer looks forward to the day when his sprawling Oklahoma cattle ranch will truly be his-- no strings attached. With only one more bank payment to make, and a buyer in Omaha ready to pay top dollar for a herd of Herefords, he should finally have the banker Earl Throckmorton off his back. But Earl has a plan to keep the ranch for himself, and if he has his way, Dane's herd will never make it across the Omaha Trail-- and Dane...
20) Law of the gun
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This brand-new Western anthology focuses on an American icon: the shootist, living by skill, courage, and a willingness to spit in death's eye. This collection features never-before-published stories by Elmer Kelton, John Jakes, and others. Original.