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The Long Trail North

By: Wayne D. Overholser

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He crossed the high country with his gun loose and ready Birth of a Killer Eighteen-year-old Lane Garth was still little more than a boy the morning Jake Rawlings and his gang rode up to the Garth ranch. Four hours later Lane's father lay in a bloody heap in the ranch yard, one of Rawlings’ slugs in his back. Lane's mother huddled sobbing in the bedroom, clutching the shredded remains of her dress around her to cover her shame. And Lane Garth had suddenly become a man... ...a man sworn to track and gun down every son-of-a-bitch who had taken part in the outrage, no matter how long it might take, and how many men he had to kill.... Three-time Winner of the Spur Award Wayne D. Overholser Author of "Law Man" and "The Violent Land." With millions of his books sold, he is acclaimed coast-to-coast and around the world as one of the greatest Western writers.

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Speaking Volumes

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1628154438

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9781628154436

Ten Feet Tall

Collected Stories

By: Wayne D. Overholser

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Ten Feet Tall

Collected Stories

By: Wayne D. Overholser

Stories included: “The Woman from Cougar Creek”“The Price of Pride”“The Devil and Old Man Gillis”“Shooting for a Fall”“It’s Hell to Be a Hero”“The Tongue-Tied Cowboy”“From Hell to Leadville”“The Deputy with a Past”“Judge Peterson’s Colt Law”“The Breaking of Sam McKay”“Fugitive from the Boothill Brigade”“The Man Ten Feet Tall”

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1982594853

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A Gun for Johnny Deere

By: Wayne D. Overholser

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A Gun for Johnny Deere

By: Wayne D. Overholser

All over the West the call went out to hired guns to claim the bounty on Johnny Deere's head, but he swore that no man living would collect it.

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1585471003

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The Trouble Kid

By: Wayne D. Overholser

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The Trouble Kid

By: Wayne D. Overholser

Three-time Spur Award Winning Author Wayne D. Overholser Curt Curran was a reporter for the Rocky Mountain News. His boss sent him out to investigate the case of Gordy Morgan, a kid who had disappeared after killing the son of a powerful and unscrupulous man. Now Gordy was wanted by both sides of the law. In a desperate race against time and hired guns, Curt is determined to get to Gordy first and see that he gets justice—whatever that might be!

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Speaking Volumes

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1645409724

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Gateway House

By: Wayne D. Overholser

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Gateway House

By: Wayne D. Overholser

When his dying brother implores him to find the fifty thousand dollars that he had buried before he was sent to prison, Ed Morgan sets out on a dangerous journey to recover the money before it ends up in the wrong hands.

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0843950196

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The Law at Miles City

By: Wayne D. Overholser

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The Law at Miles City

By: Wayne D. Overholser

Marshal Dave Harmon must take on a ruthless businessman and his gang of hard cases if he's to uphold the law in Miles City.

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0843955562

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Day of Judgment

By: Wayne D. Overholser

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Day of Judgment

By: Wayne D. Overholser

The blazing story of Colorado Territory—when secret societies ruled a lawless land Kirby Grant was sent to Denver by a secret society on a mission vital to the future of the Union. He knew he had to stay alert. There were dangerous men who knew why Kirby was there and hated him for it. Then he fell in love with a fiery, red-headed spy, and as Colorado's day of judgment approached, Kirby found sudden death closing in ... A POWERFUL NOVEL PACKED WITH GUN-BLAZING ACTION ... "EXCITING ...ENGROSSING."—ALBUQUERQUE TRIBUNE Three-time Winner of the Spur Award Wayne D. Overholser

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Speaking Volumes

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1628154381

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Proud Journey

By: Wayne D. Overholser

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Proud Journey

By: Wayne D. Overholser

In a land of broken promises, one man stands between white greed and red fury! COLORADO, INDIAN COUNTRY, 1879 The Milk Creek Massacre left a legacy of hatred that lies like tinder around the Territory. Any spark will set off a firestorm of vengeance. Government agent David Rand knows it will be impossible to put out the fire once it gets started. Caught between land-hungry settlers and war-hungry Utes, Rand's only hope is to tell the truth—even if the truth saves the life of the one man he'd like to see dancing at the end of a rope! When it comes to tales so vivid they seem to carry the scent of the campfire, the echo of gunfire, and the untamed spirit of the West, one storyteller stands out: Three-time Winner of the Spur Award Wayne D. Overholser Author of "West of the Rimrock" and "Draw or Drag.

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West of the Rimrock and Draw Or Drag

By: Wayne D. Overholser

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West of the Rimrock and Draw Or Drag

By: Wayne D. Overholser

Two complete Westerns for one low price--a $7.98 value for only $4.99. Here is a double dose of classic Western adventure by Wayne D. Overholser, winner of the Western Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award and two-time winner of the Spur Award.

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0843936355

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The Man from Yesterday

A Western Story

By: Wayne D. Overholser

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The Man from Yesterday

A Western Story

By: Wayne D. Overholser

It was while Neal Clark was in the gunsmith's shop that the Shelly gang attempted to hold up the bank. Neal rushed out of the shop with his rifle, took aim, and fired, repeatedly, killing Buck Shelly and his son Luke Shelly. He may also have wounded Ed Shelly, a teenage boy, who was holding the horses. Ed Shelly made good his escape, but was believed to be mortally wounded. That's what Neal thought until he received a letter from Ed Shelly, declaring that he would be back someday to settle the score. Eight years later, Neal is married with a young daughter and has taken over the town bank. Cascade City is in the midst of a crisis brought about by Ben Darley and Tuck Shelton, promoters of an irrigation project that is an obvious scam, though it isn’t obvious to most people in town or the surrounding ranching community. There is even talk of lynching Neal for his adamant rejection of investment in the project. It is at this point that the letters from Ed Shelly start coming again, this time vowing revenge not on Neal himself, but on his wife and daughter. There seems to be nothing Sheriff Joe Rolfe can do about it because there are no strangers in town except for the two promoters, both too old to be Ed Shelly… The Man from Yesterday is a gripping tale and a modern Western classic written by a Spur Award winning author. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction that takes place in the old West. Westerns—books about outlaws, sheriffs, chiefs and warriors, cowboys and Indians—are a genre in which we publish regularly. Our list includes international bestselling authors like Zane Gray and Louis L’Amour, and many more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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Simon and Schuster

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1632200392

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Sunset Trail

By: Wayne D. Overholser

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Sunset Trail

By: Wayne D. Overholser

A U.S. agent must stop a shipment of rifles from reaching the Comanche in New Mexico; and, the people of Amity, Colorado, become pawns in an assassination plot against the governor.

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0843960337

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The Bad Man

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The Bad Man

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They had grown up together -- the gunslinger and the banker's wife. Now they were at a crossroads. An innocent man was going to hang for something that had happened long ago in a dusty barn on the edge of the prairie. Al Cobb never claimed to be an honorable man, but he chose to go to the gallows keeping a secret that could have saved his life, all to protect a woman he couldn't have. The law had done its duty, so why would the most influential man on the frontier want to rush Cobb's execution?

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Center Point Pub

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1585472956

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Tough Hand

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Tough Hand

By: Wayne D. Overholser

Never expecting his love for Troy Manders to land him in the middle of a range war, Jim Sullivan is determined to destroy the swindlers who have stolen her father's land. Original.

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0843932791

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Nugget City

By: Wayne D. Overholser

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Nugget City

By: Wayne D. Overholser

When a gunfighter comes to Nugget City, its residents become edgy for many of them had come there to escape their pasts and would rather not be "discovered.

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0786207566

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Summer Warpath

By: Wayne D. Overholser

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Summer Warpath

By: Wayne D. Overholser

The summer warpath began in late spring 1876 and was one laid out under the command of General George Crook, perhaps the most experienced Indian fighter in the United States Army at that time. Among other officers under Crook’s command was the daring and resourceful Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and the 7th Cavalry. The purpose of the campaign was to round up the wild tribes of the Cheyennes and Sioux and place them on reservations. Walt Staley is a drifter, a man who works only long enough so he can get enough money to be traveling again. He rides for Fort Laramie, where he successfully enlists as an Army scout under General Crook. Before Staley arrives at the fort, he is forced by roving Indians to stop at an Army hay camp, where he meets Dave Allison. The two become friends, especially after Allison is transferred to active service under General Crook. Finally, there is Patrick O’Hara, who considers himself the ace reporter at the Chicago Herald. He wants most of all to be attached to Custer’s regiment, believing that Custer alone will be able to subdue the wild Indian tribes. He is disappointed when his editor instead sends him to be attached to General Crook’s expeditionary force. The events that follow will change the lives of these three men forever.

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1504786890

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Gateway House

A Western Story

By: Wayne D. Overholser

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Gateway House

A Western Story

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Ed Morgan attempts to fulfill the wish of his dead brother to recover a large cache of gold hidden in Diablo Canyon.

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0754049795

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Ride into Danger

By: Wayne D. Overholser

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Ride into Danger

By: Wayne D. Overholser

They were all out to get Lee Starbuck. If the Indians didn't kill him, his best friend would shoot him in the back... STARBUCK WAS FED UP WITH KILLING. He had promised Melissa that his days of courting danger were over. But there was a troop of soldiers trapped by the marauding Utes and someone had to light out for help. It was going to be one hell of a ride...through territory crawling with scalp-hungry Indians and murdering whites...where every blazing bullet had Lee Starbuck's name written on it! RIDE INTO DANGER A slam-bang novel of the Old West Three-time Winner of the Spur Award Wayne D. Overholser Author of "West of the Rimrock" and "Draw or Drag.

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Speaking Volumes

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162815439X

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Gunlock

By: Wayne D. Overholser

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Gunlock

By: Wayne D. Overholser

Ther'd never be another man like Joe Pardee. Will Beeson tells of the people Joe knew and loved who were left behind after his untimely death, and as he lay dying. Joe's last thought was for a woman called Kathy Morgan. Now his disabled widow Sarah has to manage the cattlehands and keep the Box P ranch in business, trying to make a living from the ranch and protecting it from new settlers coming to Easter Valley and threatening their livelihood.

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0754082652

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By Gun and Spur

By: Wayne D. Overholser

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By Gun and Spur

By: Wayne D. Overholser

Ben Sarboe was tired of risking his life to protect other people. So he gave it up. But now trouble was stirring once more, and Ben didn't know if he was ready to take up a gun again. But he was also tired of drifting aimlessly through every dusty town and outlaw village in the West. It was time for him to make a decision: put himself out to pasture for good, or grab the reins, and spit in the face of danger. For Ben Sarboe, the decision wouldn't take long.

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0754041263

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High Desert

A Western Duo

By: Wayne D. Overholser

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High Desert

A Western Duo

By: Wayne D. Overholser

In the title story, Murdo Morgan left Paradise Valley sixteen years ago, after his brothers had been killed at the hand of the Turkey Track outfit. One year later, his father died a broken and defeated man. Broad Clancy, owner of the Turkey Track, has remained the controlling force in this area of high desert in Oregon, considering all the land to be open range, including the six-mile strip on both sides of the old wagon road which belongs to Cascade and Paradise Land Company. He fears that Morgan will return to exact his revenge for the death of his brothers. But Morgan is not driven by revenge but by a desire to carry out the dream of his father—to settle a thousand farming families in Paradise Valley. To that end, as the owner of the Cascade and Paradise Land Company, Morgan arrives with a plan for the sale of the land already under way and he is willing to risk his life and every cent of money he has to do it, despite the backlash he will receive from the Clancy dynasty. In “The Fence,” an Oregon sheriff must race against time to capture the men responsible for brutally murdering the father and grandfather of his former fiancée—before she becomes the next victim.

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1538474425

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Draw or Drag

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Draw or Drag

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There are some men who play life as safe as it can be played, satisfied with their thirty a month and beans, satisfied to take orders, to have each twenty-four hours planned for them by someone else and to wind up their days riding the grub line and swamping out a saloon. But there are other men who risk everything from their daily sweat to their lives for a chance to own their outfits, to live as free as the wind that daily blows across the Plains. Such a man was Dan Reardon. This book is the story of how this man worked for his land and of how he fought a ruthless and powerful neighbor to keep it in a time when the only law was what each man made for himself.

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Speaking Volumes

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1628154241

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Wheels Roll West

By: Wayne D. Overholser

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Wheels Roll West

By: Wayne D. Overholser

From the three-time winner of the Spur Award comes this compilation of two short novels, available in paperback for the first time. Includes the title novel "Wheels Roll West" and "Swampland Empire.

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0843952458

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Ten Mile Valley

A Western Story

By: Wayne D. Overholser

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Ten Mile Valley

A Western Story

By: Wayne D. Overholser

From a three-time Spur Award–winner comes the tale of an orphaned boy who is forced to become a man. Mark Kelton is eighteen years old—part boy, part man. On the trail to set up a ranch in eastern Oregon, his parents are killed by an unknown assailant and their strongbox containing $8,000 is stolen. Mark heads out onto the empty plain where he encounters Bronco Curtis, a man who knows what he wants, and Curtis befriends the young orphan. When Curtis was Mark’s age, an older man had done the same for him. Under Curtis’s tutelage, Mark becomes a hardened rider and an experienced cowboy, capable in the use of firearms. In Ten Mile Valley, Curtis purchases a small cattle ranch and appoints Mark as his partner, even though Mark is destitute. Even so, always at the back of Mark’s mind is the knowledge that, somewhere on the plains, the murderer of his parents still rides free. Mark is convinced that he cannot truly become a man until he finds that murdering thief. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction that takes place in the old West. Westerns—books about outlaws, sheriffs, chiefs and warriors, cowboys and Indians—are a genre in which we publish regularly. Our list includes international bestselling authors like Zane Gray and Louis L’Amour, and many more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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1634507487

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Bitter Wind

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Bitter Wind

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A hired gun decides to change his ways and settles down at a Wyoming ranch, but soon learns that the choices he made in his past cannot be escaped and will continue to impact his future.

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1477806946

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War Party

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War Party

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The Indians were determined to get the double-crosser--whatever the cost--and Ben Holt had the choice of either giving them what they wanted or signing a death warrant for eight innocent people.

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Chivers North Amer

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0745188834

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Oregon Trunk

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Oregon Trunk

By: Wayne D. Overholser

Moving across the country like two great claws, rails of shining steel carved their way into the heart of Oregon's vast frontier. And there the rail lines could go no further, for the land did not belong to the giant empire builders, but to a woman named Hanna Racine. She was a beautiful woman, easy to love, but impossible to buy. Her hands held the fate of an empire of brawling, brutish men. While the giants of a new nation fought for the prize of Hanna's sweet love and the land they needed to continue the rail line, Hanna chose to give her love to the brawny and handsome Lee Dawes - another woman's man.

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Ulverscroft

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0753158841

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Shadow on the Land

A Western Story

By: Wayne D. Overholser

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Shadow on the Land

A Western Story

By: Wayne D. Overholser

Central Oregon—the last frontier. Transportation is still by stagecoach and freight wagon. There is a movement afoot for a people’s railroad, paid for by the state, to bring the benefits of rails to the area, to make it easier to ship livestock and produce, and to encourage settlement. For years the competing railroad barons, James J. Hill and Edward H. Harriman, have done nothing toward building a line in central Oregon, but now, under the impetus of the people’s railroad bill, they both set out to do just that. Lee Dawes, a front man buying rights-of-way for the Hill interests, is charged with besting Mike Quinn, who is acquiring rights-of-way for the Harriman line. Dawes and Quinn have competed in this kind of work for years, as they have competed for women. An essential property on the way to Bend is owned by Hanna Racine, and both Dawes and Quinn want the right-of-way across her land. The two vie to come up with a strategy to seduce her into committing to the interest they represent, while an unknown third party is intent on frustrating them both through brutal violence.

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1628738464

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Steel to the South

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Steel to the South

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Determined to gun down the dry-gulcher who murdered his father, Clay Bond returns to Oregon. But before he can exact his revenge, he has to decide whose side to take in a war brewing between local farmers and a cattle baron over which railroad company should have the right of way through the vast territory.

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