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Set in the desert country of Arizona and New Mexico, The Desert Valley is the story of Professor James Longstreet and his daughter Helen. They have come west to prospect for gold, when they encounter a mysterious campfire, with bacon cooking and coffee boiling, but no camper to be found. Later, they meet Alan Howard of the old Diaz Rancho, who tells them the camper left in a hurry, as though pursued, and mentions an Indian legend of the god Pookhonghoya, who hunts the souls of enemies with a strange wolflike companion …

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Yahoya is an Indian girl who gets caught up in a strange treasure hunt involving the members of her own clan and an outsider with whom she has fallen in love! Excerpt: "In all of the universe there was now only this one thing which mattered; all else was forgotten. And what was it? To the man the desert in which he lay, helpless and hopeless, had ceased to exist. He no longer saw the hot sky, the molten sun, the limitless stretch of sand, cactus and blistering rock. He saw only the eyes which watched him. They seemed staring at him terribly, two eyes which were steady, unwinking, immeasurable, inscrutable twin pools of ink. At one instant they became to his fevered fancy the fierce eyes of a savage, desert born and bred, observing his death with a curiosity at once unmoved and strangely childlike."

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Steve Packard comes from a long line of rough and tumble men, who make decisions at the drop of a hat. As soon as he hears the news of his father's death and his inheritance of Ranch Number Ten, he rushes to claim his inheritance. It might turn out to be the worst mistake of his life! Excerpt: "Steve Packard's pulses quickened and a bright eagerness came into his eyes as he rode deeper into the pine-timbered mountains. To-day he was on the last lap of a delectable journey. Three days ago he had ridden out of the sun-baked town of San Juan; three months had passed since he had sailed out of a South Sea port.Far down there, foregathering with sailor men in a dirty water-front boarding-house, he had grown suddenly and even tenderly reminiscent of a cleaner land which he had roamed as a boy. He stared back across the departed years as many a man has looked from just some such resort as Black Jack's boarding-house, a little wistfully withal."

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In the midst of cattle-thieves, the new owner of Up and Down Ranch, James Shannon, has his hands full. He is clearly distracted by his attractive neighbour, Dawn Madden. However, his commitment to get to the bottom of the mystery has dangerous ramifications! The novel was also the basis of a Hollywood film named The Man from Painted Post.

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The Morgan faction fiercely controlled Dark Valleyand were dreaded everywhere. Nothing survived their fancy or ruthlessness. However, Bolt Haverilends up rescuing a former member of the clan and agrees to help him in saving his sister as well. But does Haveril know what kind of danger lurk behind iron-barred gates and heavily guarded fortresses of the dreadful Morgan faction? What is in store for him?

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Helen and her father were a content lot—traveling and supporting each other through their various travels. But Mexico is a different case altogether. While pitching their tent for the night, they come face to face with a mysterious stranger and things alter dramatically from that point onwards. Who is this stranger? What terrible secrets are waiting to be unfolded? Excerpt: "In the dusk a pack-horse crested a low-lying sand-ridge, put up its head and sniffed, pushed forward eagerly, its nostrils twitching as it turned a little more toward the north, going straight toward the water-hole. The pack was slipping as far to one side as it had listed to the other half an hour ago; in the restraining rope there were a dozen intricate knots where one would have amply sufficed. The horse broke into a trot, blazing its own trail through the mesquite; a parcel slipped; the slack rope grew slacker because of the subsequent readjustment; half a dozen bundles dropped after the first. A voice, thin and irritable, shouted 'Whoa!' and the man in turn was briefly outlined against the pale sky as he scrambled up the ridge. He was a little man and plainly weary; he walked as though his boots hurt him; he carried a wide, new hat in one hand; the skin was peeling from his blistered face. From his other hand trailed a big handkerchief. He was perhaps fifty or sixty. He called 'Whoa!' again, and made what haste he could after his horse."

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An ambitious criminal and an uncertain sheriff collide in this story of greed, revenge, and unsuspected love in a small California town. With the impending threat of revolution in Mexico, many lives are going to change, for better or for worse! Excerpt: "Ignacio Chavez, Mexican that he styled himself, Indian that the community deemed him, or «breed» of badly mixed blood that he probably was, made his loitering way along the street toward the Mission. A thin, yellowish-brown cigarita dangling from his lips, his wide, dilapidated conical hat tilted to the left side of his head in a listless sort of concession to the westering sun, he was, as was customary with him, utterly at peace. Ten minutes ago he had had twenty cents; two minutes after the acquisition of his elusive wealth he had exchanged the two dimes for whiskey at the Casa Blanca; the remaining eight minutes of the ten he required to make his way, as he naively put it, «between hell and heaven.»

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"Daughter of the Sun" is a Western novel written by Jackson Gregory. It packs unforeseen conflicts, budding romance, and rip-roaring adventure all together. Gregory was one of the America's successful and prolific authors in the first half of the 20th century. His writing style was usually a combination of an abundance of action, adventure and suspense coupled with a dependable story line about areas and the life he was familiar with in the American Southwest. Excerpt: "Jim Kendric had arrived and the border town knew it well. All who knew the man foresaw that he would come with a rush, tarry briefly for a bit of wild joy and leave with a rush for the Lord knew where and the Lord knew why. For such was ever the way of Jim Kendric. A letter at the postoffice had been the means of advising the entire community of the coming of Kendric. The letter was from Bruce West, down in Lower California, and scrawled across the flap were instructions to the postmaster to hold it for Jim Kendric who would arrive within a couple of weeks. Furthermore the word URGENT was not to be overlooked."

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In this classic Western set in California, intrepid explorer Mark King is hot on the trail of a legendary cache of gold that is hidden in the craggy hills of the Sierras. But his single-minded quest for the gold is derailed by a chance encounter with a wealthy heiress visiting the area, Gloria Gaynor.

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"The Fire Flower" is a Western novel written by Jackson Gregory. Gregory was one of the America's successful and prolific authors in the first half of the 20th century. His writing style was usually a combination of an abundance of action, adventure and suspense coupled with a dependable story line about areas and the life he was familiar with in the American Southwest. Excerpt: "Sheldon had plunged on into this new country rather recklessly, being in reckless mood. Now, five days northward of Belle Fortune, he knew that he had somewhere taken the wrong trail.The knowledge came upon him gradually. There was the suspicion before ten o'clock that morning, when the stream he followed seemed to him to be running a little too much to the northwest. But he had pushed on, watchful of every step, seeking a blazed tree or the monument of a stone set upon a rock.When he made camp at noon he was still undecided, inclined to believe that the wise thing would be to turn back. But he did not turn back. He was his own man now; all time was before him; the gigantic wilderness about him was grateful. At night, when he had yanked his small pack down from his horse's saddle, suspicion had grown into certainty. He smoked his good-night pipe in deep content."

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