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Glendon Swarthout
1) The homesman
Author
Language
English
Description
Four women in the isolated frontier territory go mad, and it is up to the unlikely combination of homesteader Mary Bee Cuddy and ne'er-do-well Briggs to escort them east to safety.
2) The homesman
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs to join her.
3) The shootist
Author
Series
Shootist volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Bernard Brooks, the last gunfighter in the American West, told by an El Paso doctor he hasn't long to live, decides to select his executioner from the pack of hopefuls who gather for his final shootout.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Young Gillom Rogers has just given the coup de grace to a famous gunfighter involved in a bloody saloon shootout in 1901 El Paso, Texas. After swiping J.B. Books's matched Remington pistols off his body, Gillom thinks he may be able to ride this spectacle to fame and glory as the last shootist. But Gillom is an eighteen-year-old with lots of growing up to do, and showing off his new pistols quickly gets him into a gunfight he didn't bargain for....
6) The shootist
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A terminally ill gunfighter seeks to retire quietly but is embroiled in one last battle.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
9 videodiscs : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cavalry dispatch rider protects a widow and her young son from an Apache attack; two men share the task of ridding a town of a gunman; a girl hires the drunken, one-eyed, overweight marshal to find and kill the man who murdered her father and stole the family's money; a dying gunman becomes involved with a widow and her son; a wealthy cattle baron has trouble controlling his wife and daughter; the four sons of Katie Elder set out to avenge both...
