Jason Manning
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"Legendary mountain man Hugh Falconer loved the high country, where he lived in splendid isolation. But when he has to save a wagon train of pioneers from slaughter at the hands of a half-breed killer and a marauding Pawnee war party, everything changes. The first blizzards of winter are sweeping down from the north as Falconer leads the people he has promised to protect-and a woman he can't help but want-into a secluded mountain valley to survive...
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"It was the worst nightmare come true for the fledgling Republic of Texas. The scattered Comanche bands have united into a mighty fighting force under a single great warrior chief and are sweeping over the vast Texas plains, avenging a massacre at the hands of the whites with a campaign of pure carnage. Sam Houston led Texans in the fight for independence from Mexico. Now he needs the assistance of the one man who has a chance of turning back the...
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"The year is 1837. The fur trade that bred a generation of daring mountain men is in decline. A trapper by the name of Hugh Falconer knows it's time to look for new horizons, and he looks westward. Organizing a brigade of fiercely independent mountain men is no easy task but Falconer pulls it off, and he keeps them together as he leads them on a trail of constant danger, across the worst desert in the West, over savage mountains, through hostile Indian...
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2016.
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263 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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Texas Ranger Bill Sayles rode scout for Sam Houston when he was no more than fifteen. These days the lawman on the wrong side of three score years, and the glory days of the Rangers are on the wane. But Sayles still hits what he aims at and is not a man to cross. Ten days before Christmas in the harsh winter of 1876, Sayles arrives at the state prison in Huntsville to escort prisoner Jake Eddings on a furlough to his hometown, where his ten-year-old...
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Gordon Hawkes westerns volume 4
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2001.
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316 pages ; 18 cm
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English
7) Flintlock
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Flintlock volume 1
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2021.
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403 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
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"In 1806 Aaron Burr is plotting to carve out his own empire by detaching the western states from the Union. President Thomas Jefferson suspects Burr but needs evidence. he turns to Flintlock Jones, a young Kentucky frontiersman. Enlisting a young naval officer, Lieutenant Jonathan Groves, Flintlock embarks on a mission of epic proportions as he pursues Burr and the man's army of ruffians across the bloody ground of Kentucky and down the deadly Natchez...
8) High country
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High country volume 1
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2021.
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485 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
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English
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A young man in a virgin land, a sweeping saga alive with the courage, challenge, danger and adventure that was the American frontier. In 1825 the distant Rockies offered all the adventure and wealth a young man could want. The mad demand for beaver pelts spawned a booming fur trade that sent men to battle against the fury of nature, hostile Indian tribes, and even each other in an ordeal that only the strongest could survive. Zach Hannah was a mere...
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2016.
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379 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
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Texas Ranger Bill Sayles is on the wrong side of three score years, but he still hits what he aims at and is not a man to cross. Ten days before Christmas, 1876, he arrives at the state prison to escort Jake Eddings on a furlough to lay his ten-year-old son to rest. But when Sayles gets wind that the murderous Litchfield brothers are headed for Eddings' farm, the Ranger and his prisoner join forces to grab a last shot at redemption.
12) Mountain courage
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Gordon Hawkes westerns volume 2
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[1999]
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310 pages ; 18 cm
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English
15) Mountain passage
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Gordon Hawkes westerns volume 1
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[1998]
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318 pages ; 18 cm
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English
16) Elizabeth's gift
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[2012]
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1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When a precious little girl dies tragically of a rare heart condition, her loving parents are left to pick up the pieces of their once perfect life. In a sequence of miracles, an angel guides their way to another little homeless girl on the streets and the fight to get her away from the clutches of the film's villian, Paulie will prove to reunite a family once again and heal their broken hearts.