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Jonathan Zane seeks revenge against the man who abducted his sweetheart and controls a gang of marauding outlaws and Indians.

A horse who had been bred to race escapes his masters home and gets used to freedom, but at a terrible price. Can he survive those who are trying to hunt him down? Nothing proves straightforward as the hunt closes in.

Henry "The Rimrock" Jones is a local drunk and scoundrel who believes that someday his dream will come true and he will make a lot of money from copper mine. After one terrible day of drinking, gambling and fighting, Rimrock Jones leaves the town with loads of powder and tools, and soon after that returns with loads of money. Rimrock can now pay his debts and settle the score with many people who weren't by his side in the past, but there are many...

Excerpt: "It all commenced that bright November day of the Indian rabbit drive and hunt. The motley army of the piute tribe was sweeping tremendously across a sage-brush valley of Nevada, their force two hundred braves in number. They marched abrest, some thirty yards apart, and formed a line that was more than two miles long.

The only friend of a little girl born on a lonely settlement is a grouchy old lady who lives nearby with her shiftless husband. They share a hard life until she goes away for a better education, returning home after the death of her father to run their little ranch. A couple of strangers arrive, and adventure ensues.

Saul Chadron's plan to hire Mark Thorn to kill the rustler, Alan MacDonald, goes awry with his own daughter falling for his enemy. On the top of it, he couldn't have anticipated the huge backlash the rustlers would put up against him and his mighty band of settlers. Who will have the last word or say the last bullet? Excerpt: "When a man came down out of the mountains looking dusty and gaunt as the stranger did, there was no marvel in the matter...

"Mary V flipped the rough paper over with so little tenderness that a corner tore in her fingers, but the next page was blank. She made a sound suspiciously like a snort, and threw the tablet down on the littered table of the bunk house. After all, what did she care where they floated-Venus and Johnny Jewel? Riding the sky with Venus when he knew very well that his place was out in the big corral, riding some of those broom-tail bronks that he was...

From a master storyteller of Old West adventures comes this novel of romance and redemption. Zane Grey, author of Riders of the Purple Sage, introduces Hell-Bent Wade, a gunfighter with a shadowy past. Wade arrives at a Colorado homestead where a young woman is being pressured into matrimony. Rancher Bill believes that marriage to Columbine, his foster daughter, will steady his wild and unruly son, Jack. Columbine is torn between her feelings of duty...

It was high hot noon on the Casket Ridge. Its very scant shade was restricted to a few dwarf Scotch firs, and was so perpendicularly cast that Leonidas Boone, seeking shelter from the heat, was obliged to draw himself up under one of them, as if it were an umbrella. Occasionally, with a boy's perversity, he permitted one bared foot to protrude beyond the sharply marked shadow until the burning sun forced him to draw it in again with a thrill of satisfaction....

Sometimes your last nerve is the strongest link to forever.

Amy Dover's dream to become a professional horse trainer hasn't come without a price. Career pressure, combined with a difficult marriage to an oppressive husband, has sucked away every last bit of joy the horses used to bring her.

At her husband's untimely death, she packs her truck, heads over the Cascade Mountains, and takes a job as a farmhand. Yet even in the presence of

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