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The old Apache renegade Soldado Viejo is hiding out in Mexico, and the Arizona Department Adjutant has selected two men to hunt him down. One -- Dave Flynn -- knows war, the land, and the nature of his prey. The other is a kid lieutenant named Bowers. But there's a different kind of war happening in Soyopa. And if Flynn and his young associate choose the wrong allies -- and the wrong enemy -- they won't be getting out alive.
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The Bounty Hunters
- By Jean on 12-27-10
By: Elmore Leonard
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Left at the Altar
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In the wild and untamed West, time is set by the local jeweler but Two-Time Texas has two: two feuding jewelers and two wildly conflicting time zones. Meg Lockwood's marriage was supposed to unite the families and finally bring peace. But when she's left at the altar by her no-good fiancé, Meg's dreams of dragging her quarrelsome neighbors into a ceasefire are dashed.
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Great Book
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The Curse of Jacob Tracy
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St. Louis in 1880 is full of ghosts - mangled soldiers, tortured slaves, the innocent victims of war - and Jacob Tracy can see them all. Ever since Antietam, when he lay delirious among the dead and dying, Trace has been haunted by the country's restless spirits. The curse cost him his family, his calling to the church, and damn near his sanity. He stays out of ghost-populated cities as much as possible these days, guiding wagon trains west with his pragmatic and skeptical partner, Boz.
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Supernatural meets old West.
- By Mbeasley on 01-16-16
By: Holly Messinger
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In 1897, an aspiring politician is mysteriously murdered in the rural area of Alabama known as Mitcham Beat. His outraged friends - mostly poor cotton farmers - form a secret society, Hell-at-the-Breech, to punish the townspeople they believe responsible. The hooded members wage a bloody year-long campaign of terror that culminates in a massacre where the innocent suffer alongside the guilty.
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Pull up them breeches, son
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Stars for Light
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I don't like "Christian" fiction.
- By Connie on 11-24-11
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Epitaph
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A deeply divided nation. Vicious politics. A shamelessly partisan media. A president loathed by half the populace. Smuggling and gang warfare along the Mexican border. Armed citizens willing to stand their ground and take law into their own hands.... That was America in 1881. All those forces came to bear on the afternoon of October 26, when Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers faced off against the Clantons and the McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona. It should have been a simple misdemeanor arrest.
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SO GOOD!
- By Cait on 06-30-15
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The Shootist is John Bernard Books, a man of principle and the only surviving gunfighter in a vanishing American West. He rides into El Paso in the year 1901, on the day of Queen Victoria's demise, there to be told by a doctor that he must soon confront the greatest Shootist of all: Death himself. In such a showdown against such an antagonist, J. B. Books cannot win. Most men may end their days in bed or take their own lives, but a mankiller has a third option, one which Books decides to exercise. He may choose his own executioner.
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Loved the story, disliked the narration
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Comanche Moon
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Can a rough Texas Ranger overcome a woman’s hardened heart? Amanda Ross returns from her Boston finishing school to claim the Texas ranch her parents died fighting to protect. Determined to protect the sprawling ranch that has been in her family for generations, Amanda hates the Comanche people for taking away her only family. Clay McAlester may be a Texas Ranger, but he identifies most strongly with the Comanche people that raised him.
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They Don't Write them Like this Anymore...
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- Mountain Guide
- 04-24-20
Journey down main street in the old west.
If you are a lover of the old west this book is a must-read. Oakley Hall develops characters with great depth. Although the towns are fictitious you will recognize the characters. As he borrowed heavily from actual history to create them. It’s a rip roaring rip snorting adventure where you can taste the dust by the great narration. A treasure that should be preserved, for it was written only 60 years after the events unfolded.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-21-21
Mixed feelings about audio performance
Thought the voice actor was ok, but perhaps not a good fit for this story. I expected a more gravelly, deeper voice to accompany a western, though like Warlock itself, maybe those expectations should be more nuanced. Given that the book was from the 1950’s I’m thankful someone performed it at all.
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- Tolstoy Fan
- 08-06-18
A great story, well-told
A classic western, but much more than a western. An excellent reading of this rediscovered classic.
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- Nathan Bitgood
- 02-10-24
A rare perfect novel
Finished this a month ago, and I think it’s a masterpiece, a rare perfect book.
Occasionally, I run into these: The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg, and Possession by A.S Byatt to name a few of the novels that God has let us forget about so that they won’t tarnish over the years in the hands of the mob (canons are so messy), but also because He wants to reveal them to His special favorites in the fullness of time. It me. I’m God’s special favorite because he let me know that Warlock exists and now, since you’ve read this far, so are you.
True, the narration leaves something to be desired, but the power of the text soon eclipses these narratorial deficiencies.
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- Andre
- 09-27-23
A Classic
I usually don't read Westerns, but based on recommendations, I read this one. I was not disappointed. This is a classic Western in sweep, characters, and dialogue. The landscape and the quality of light in a desert throughout the day star in this Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel. The characters in the silver mine town of Warlock captivated me. If the book sounds like a movie I have watched, it is because it was made into a film in 1959, a year after it was published. I may have seen that, but I enjoy the book better for the richness of prose and description like poetry. I found this a thrilling read. I highly recommend it.
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- Jerry
- 11-04-22
Holy characters Batman
The story is ok, there is a whole Lotta nothing happening for a long time. I kept waiting for something exciting to happen and it never came. I guess that's part of the old west, not everything is gripping. pew pew
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