Dusty Richards
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Trail drive series volume 17
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There's no such thing as safe passage in this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series.
Ben McCullough was once an officer in the Confederate Army. Now, he’s a rancher in the Texas hill country, hoping to earn enough money to settle down and marry. With eight hundred head of cattle to drive north, Ben is relying on his ex-sergeant, Hap, to watch over the bunch of greenhorns he’s recruited to help.
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Ben McCullough was once an officer in the Confederate Army. Now, he’s a rancher in the Texas hill country, hoping to earn enough money to settle down and marry. With eight hundred head of cattle to drive north, Ben is relying on his ex-sergeant, Hap, to watch over the bunch of greenhorns he’s recruited to help.
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Byrnes family ranch westerns volume 2
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With blood and tears, Chet Byrnes built a life in Texas, only to have it shattered by an ill-fated cattle drive and a deadly family feud. Realizing he and his family need to start over in a new territory, Chet and his young nephew set out for Arizona, hoping to find a new home. Chet and Heck cross over New Mexico and ride into Arizona. Encountering killers, bandits, a punishing climate, and a harsh daunting land, they search for the perfect place...
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2014.
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Ex-Ranger Phil Guthrey swore he'd never stop roaming the West, bringing justice to the lawless whenever the situation called. But after cleaning up the criminals of Crook County, Arizona, he finds himself not only elected to be the county sheriff, but settling down with a pretty, young girl for a wife, except keeping the peace in Crook County is less relaxing than Guthrey would have imagined. Border bandits are accustomed to raiding the territory...
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Byrnes family ranch westerns volume 1
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"To read a Dusty Richards novel is to journey back into the Old West with a writer who knows the territory." --Jory Sherman
The Byrnes family came to Texas and carved out a place on the land. Three generations who paid in blood and treasure. Children carried off by Comanche. A brother lost to war. Lives shattered. Chet Byrnes was trying to hold the ranch together through one more winter for one
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Chet Byrnes is building a new life in Arizona Territory as he expands his ranching operation, but trouble just keeps coming. First, there's a brutal Apache attack on his cattle drive. Then a friend's young daughter is abducted, and the search leads Chet and his men to the wild town of Tombstone and then south of the border, where life is cheap. As much as he longs to stay close to home, Chet's friends and family continue to need his brand of help....
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"Whip Station, a critical stop on the Butterfield stagecoach line, is dead smack in the middle of no-man’s land. The lawless call it an easy target. Joe O’Malley calls it home. If anybody can tame a wild, violent territory, it’s the seasoned frontiersman. So can his family, who have the same pride and honor coursing through their veins. Helping to plant roots is his son Jackson, a former wrangler married to a steadying force of...
7) Westbound
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Battling Harrigans of the Frontier volume 1
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English
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"Mackworth "Mack" Harrigan's family legacy burned to the ground in the spring of 1849. The Ohio mill that brought them prosperity was now cinder and ash, and his ruthless father perished in the flames along with their fortune. If the Harrigans have a future, it lies out west in open country where they can build whatever lives they choose. Mack knows his wife Ell, and their children Kane, Meghan, and Fitch are more than capable of overcoming the challenges...
8) Dead aim
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2018.
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"The oldest and boldest O'Malley brother, Long John takes on the challenge of riding shotgun on a wagon train across the hostile Nebraska Territory. But the real test lies in the journey ahead-- to the Rocky Mountains, Sante Fe, and home to Texas-- with perils that will either make him a living legend . . . or a dead one"--
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"During the Civil War, Texas Rangers Harp and Long John O'Malley patrol a vast, unguarded range, protecting the families of soldiers off fighting at the front. At war's end, the Rangers are disbanded, and the O'Malleys sign on with a cattle drive across the most treacherous and deadly stretch of the American frontier from Texas to Sedalia"--
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Battling Harrigans of the Frontier volume 2
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English
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Spring, 1850. After a brutally long winter in the Rockies, Mack Harrigan and his growing family have learned to manage the harsh realities of frontier life. Their new friends, the Shoshone, have taught them the skills they need to survive in this rugged land, from tracking and hunting to fishing and foraging. But the skills they need most are those of the Shoshone warrior ... when their camp is attacked by an enemy tribe. Sometimes there is a need...
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"For Chet Byrnes, building a ranching empire means adding new land, hiring good men, finding water and trying new breeds of cattle. But outlaws and Tuscon's idle rich want to take it all away--and Arizona just may be too lawless to stop it. So while the Byrnes family expands its reach, Chet must do his job hunting down outlaws on either side of the border. Chet's cowboys prove to be tireless fighters, going up against former Mexican military men,...
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"Chet Byrnes has built a ranching empire from the ground up. And he's defended it with his sweat, blood and a ragtag band of ranch-hand fighters. Now a beautiful young Spanish widow comes into Chet's life, just as he starts off in search of a lost cattle drive that heads straight into the eye of a sprawling, violent storm. Chet, and his men--and his seductive new woman--end up on a wild ride through Nebraska, Colorado and Kansas, where authorities...
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Herschel Baker westerns volume 1
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When a brutal cattle baron lays siege to Horse Creek, Montana, controlling both the law and the land, Herschel Baker, after his friend is murdered, decides that enough is enough and takes a stand against greed and injustice.
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O'Malleys of Texas volume 4
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"It begins with a spectacular train robbery--a brilliantly planned, brutally executed heist masterminded by a shadowy gang of conspirators with far deadlier motives than money or gold. Their mission: to steal the train's shipment of powerful explosives. Their goal: to assassinate Mexico's legendary resistance leader Benito Juarez--at a small stagecoach station owned and operated by the O'Malley family ... As a lifelong patriot himself, Joe O'Malley...
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"U.S. Marshal Chet Byrnes is turning the savage and lawless Arizona desert into a homeland, spearheading a stage line from Gallup to the Colorado River. It will lay out the territory for new settlements, and, be a boon to Navajo trading posts. Unfortunately, it's not Gerald Hall's idea of progress. The mysterious Texas gambler has hired three -- and counting -- kill-crazy assassins to bury Chet under a storm of bullets. To turn the tables on him,...
18) Rancher's law
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"In a hot Arizona river basin, three bodies sway from ropes-- executed by their fellow ranchers. Hundreds of miles away, in the muddy streets of Forth Smith, Arkansas, a deputy marshal hunts down a killer, the first of eight outlaws on his list. Now, the manhunter is about to be chosen for a mission to Arizona Territory. Major Gerald Bowen wants Luther Haskell to go undercover and find the truth about what happened. Bowen is on a campaign to bring...
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In his latest Byrnes family novel, Dusty Richards tells of the blood that was spilled trying to make Arizona Territory a good place to live. Building a ranching empire is one thing, keeping it out of the hands of the no good opportunists crawling through the Arizona desert is a daily grind for Chet Byrnes. But nothing will stop Chet from bringing his ranch into a bold new era.