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21) Cowgirl trail
Author
Series
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
301 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
425 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Big Jake Motley had owned the Big M spread in Texas for over 25 years. In that time, he had driven thousands of head of cattle to market in Kansas. Now, while both the nineteenth century and the era of the trail drive were coming to an end, Big Jake is determined to make one last drive to Kansas City. The only thing is, he doesn't have the cowhands to move that much beef. He drafts his old friend, Chance McCandless, into service, and the two aging...
23) Die by the gun
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Language
English
Description
"Dewey 'Mac' McKenzie is wanted for a killing he didn't commit. He saved his hide once by signing on as a cattle drive chuckwagon cook and bolting the territories. Turned out Mac was as good at fixing vittles as he was at dodging bullets. But Mac's enemies are hungry for more, and they've hired a gang of ruthless killers to turn up the heat. Mac's only hope is to join another cattle drive on the Goodnight-Loving Trail, deep in New Mexico Territory....
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Language
English
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"After struggling for years to work a raw-patch ranch in the arid flatlands of Texas, young Mitchell Newland learns that his herd of scrubby range cattle will fetch ten times their local price if they're driven to Montana. He strikes a one-sided deal with the devil, neighbouring rancher Corliss Bilks, to back his play with cattle, men, and horses. The trail brims with hellish hardship: prairie fire, stampede, flooded rivers, hailstorms, rattlers,...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Joe Noose knows what fear looks like. He sees it in the eyes of his new friends--a dozen trail-hardened cattle men who don't scare easily. It's not the 500-mile trek across treacherous Montana territory that's got them spooked. It's not the 3,000 heads of cattle they've got to wrangle either. They're afraid that someone on this drive--one of their own team--is a serial killer. Five wranglers are already dead. Every man is a suspect. And the woman...
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 3
Language
English
Description
Armed with only a Colt rifle, a Bowie knife, and courage as big as the West, Ten Chisholm-the bold, illegitimate son of frontier scout and plains ambassador Jesse Chisholm and a Cherokee woman-arrives in the heart of Comanche country with a price on his head. His only crime: loving the beautiful daughter of a powerful New Orleans gambler who has promised her to a wealthy man she hates.
Now that Ten has returned to the harsh Texas brakes with a team...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"A hot meal, a hard drink, and maybe a friendly hand of poker -- that's all Mac Mackenzie wants when he drifts into the small town of Harcourt City, Montana. What he gets is a fistful of trouble. When he defends a saloon girl from the unwanted advances of some local toughs, he earns the wrath of the town's powerful namesake, Oscar Harcourt. Harcourt rules this place with an iron fist -- and a steely eyed gang of thugs. Now he has his eyes on a ranch...
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former Texas Rangers Benton McCaleb, Will Elliot, and Brazos Gifford brave the untamed land and its equally wild inhabitants when they join Charles Goodnight in rounding up thousands of unbranded cattle for a long drive to Colorado.
30) Longhorns east
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tom Candy Ponting was no ordinary trail boss. He didn't smoke, chew, cuss, or even carry a gun. Unlike his competitors, he learned how to herd cows on a farm back in England - and how to handle cowboys in bareknuckle prizefights. But his skills and know-how were really put to the test when he accepted a bet he might live to regret: lead a cattle drive from Texas to New York City. Not one to back down on a dare, Ponting assembles the motliest crew...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
367 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Capturing and breaking wild horses is a tough way to make a living. But Montana ranch owner, Ethan Miller's problems are just getting started. First the buyer he has for his herd falls through. The only other outlet he can find is the US cavalry. That means driving 200 horses all the way from Bozeman, Montana to Fort Davis, Texas. No sooner has he made the dangerous trek than one more obstacle presents itself. The fort's commander needs Ethan's help....
32) Red Trail
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
391 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An outbreak of hostilities with Comanches has disrupted the usual trail routes. But Mase Durst must get his cows from his Texas ranch to the railway up in Wichita, Kansas, or face losing his land, which the bank is fixing to foreclose on. He's forced to take his herd on a little-used route called the Red Trail--little used for good reasons. It's a tough trek: dangerous, narrow, and fraught with banditry. Along the way, Durst and his men face numerous...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen/widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (523 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers...
34) The cowboys
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A tough rancher, deserted by his regular help, hires 11 schoolboys for a 400 mile cattle drive.
Author
Publisher
Make A Hand
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
216 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An infant boy is found by a trail crew on a cattle drive from New Mexico to California in the 1870's. During his first 12 years, the crew teaches the boy how to handle himself the Cowboy Way, with honesty, compassion, and integrity. However, too soon, he is forced to go out on his own again, as orphaned young cowboys often did in those days. He is separated from his outfit in an extraordinary and unexpected way" -- Amazon.com.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (approximately 1973 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The series: "Revolves around the life and times of Newt Call, the young cowhand who started out as a boy in Lonesome Dove and now goes on to make his way in the world"--Container.
The outlaw years: Newt Call returns to Curtis Wells after the killing of his wife and must content with Clay Mosby.
40) Lonesome Dove
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Fullscreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 6 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The tale of two former Texas Rangers who leave the South Texas town of Lonesome Dove on an epic 2500-mile cattle drive to the lush ranch country of Montana. From the re-created towns to the vast plains to the expansive cattle drive and heart-stopping stampede, it is an inspiring and enlighting experience, certain to change your views of our American heritage.
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