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'Under Handicap' is a tale of character-building, grit and gumption in the desert of Southwest. Two young men, Tommy Garton and Conniston, struggle to overcome their respective handicaps—the former is disabled while the other lacks tolerance and integrity being the spoilt son of a multi-millionaire father! What is in store for these unusual pair of «friends» in an unforgiving ranch lifestyle? Will they succeed or lose irrevocably? Excerpt: "Outside there was shimmering heat and dry, thirsty sand, miles upon miles of it flashing by in a gray, barren blur. A flat, arid, monotonous land, vast, threatening, waterless, treeless. Its immensity awed, its bleakness depressed. Man's work here seemed but to accentuate the puny insignificance of man. Man had come upon the desert and had gone, leaving only a line of telegraph-poles with their glistening wires, two gleaming parallel rails of burning steel to mark his passing."

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The young and headstrong BeatriceCarliss has inherited quite a fortune from her illustrious father. However, she cannot tolerate the aloofness of Bill Steele, a gold prospector, who is resistant to her feminine charms. The more she wants to bring him under her control, the more he distances himself from her. At last, she enlists the help of a dubious fellow to help her in her manoeuvres but alas she is double-crossed at her own game! Will Bill manage to rescue her? Will they finally reunite?

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Judith of Blue Lake Ranch – Judith Sanford is the sole heiress of Blue Lake Ranch that is worth a million-dollars but one of her own employees is plotting to swindle her. With the help of Bud Lee, a horse foreman, she is determined to figure out the mystery and put an end to the scheme. However, Bud Lee has his own vested interest in helping Judith! The Joyous Troublemaker – The young and headstrong BeatriceCarliss has inherited quite a fortune from her illustrious father. However, she cannot tolerate the aloofness of Bill Steele, a gold prospector, who is resistant to her feminine charms. The more she wants to bring him under her control, the more he distances himself from her. At last, she enlists the help of a dubious fellow to help her in her manoeuvres but alas she is double-crossed at her own game! Will Bill manage to rescue her? Will they finally reunite?

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Get captivated and thrilled by the action-packed Western novels and mystery tales by Jackson Gregory, one of America's most famous western authors. Contents: Yahoya The Fire Flower The Joyous Trouble Maker Under Handicap Beyond the Law The Short Cut Wolf Breed Six Feet Four The Bells of San Juan Judith of Blue Lake Ranch A Forced Acceptance Man to Man The Chinese Jewel Daughter of the Sun The Desert Valley The Everlasting Whisper Timber-Wolf

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e-artnow presents to you the wonderful collection of the most famous works of Jackson Gregory for your reading pleasure. Gregory was an American teacher, journalist, and writer. He was one of the America's most successful and prolific authors in the first half of the 20th century. His writing formula was usually a successful 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. This edition includes: Yahoya The Fire Flower The Joyous Trouble Maker Under Handicap Beyond the Law The Short Cut Wolf Breed Six Feet Four The Bells of San Juan Judith of Blue Lake Ranch A Forced Acceptance Man to Man The Chinese Jewel Daughter of the Sun The Desert Valley The Everlasting Whisper Timber-Wolf Sudden Bill Dorn Powder Smoke on Wandering River Dark Valley The Man from Painted Rock

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The beautiful daughter of a notorious gangster suddenly goes missing. However, she is not abducted by anyone but has willingly gone into hiding. What's the terrible secret that has forced her to take such a drastic step? Who is the man who has claimed to be her father all this while?

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Judith Sanford is the sole heiress ofBlue Lake Ranch that is worth a million-dollars but one of her own employees is plotting to swindle her. With the help of Bud Lee, a horse foreman, she is determined to figure out the mystery and put an end to the scheme.However, Bud Lee has his own vested interest in helping Judith! Excerpt: "Bud Lee, horse foreman of the Blue Lake Ranch, sat upon the gate of the home corral, builded a cigarette with slow brown fingers, and stared across the broken fields of the upper valley to the rosy glow above the pine-timbered ridge where the sun was coming up. His customary gravity was unusually pronounced. «If a man's got the hunch an egg is bad,» he mused, «is that a real good and sufficient reason why he should go poking his finger inside the shell? I want to know!» Tommy Burkitt, the youngest wage-earner of the outfit and a profound admirer of all that taciturnity, good-humor, and quick capability which went into the make-up of Bud Lee, approached from the ranch-house on the knoll. «Hi, Bud!» he called. «Trevors wants you. On the jump.» Lee watched Tommy coming on with that wide, rocking gait of a man used to much riding and little walking. The deep gravity in the foreman's eyes was touched with a little twinkle by way of greeting."

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A mysterious stranger had suddenly appeared in a small town. The town was used to visitors but no one could foresee what kind of trouble this new guy had brought with him. Nothing portends danger than unannounced brooding men from distant lands! Excerpt: "All sorts and conditions of men come to the North Woods; some because they want to, some because they have to. Some because they are drawn by the fine lure of adventure and the urge of the restless spirit, some because they are driven by that bloodhound which is the law. All types, all classes. And yet now, standing jauntily upon Père Marquette's threshold, was a type of which as yet the Settlement had had no knowledge. He was young and wore his black mustaches with all of the fierceness of youth. His boots were at once the finest and the smallest which MacLeod's had ever seen upon a man's feet. He wore gloves, and when in due time the hands came out of the gloves, they were little like a woman's and white and soft. He was a handsome young devil-of-a-fellow with all of the soft, graceful beauty of the far southland. His mouth, smiling now, was red lipped, his teeth a glistening white. Eyes very big, very black, very soft, very tender, smiling too. From the crown of his wide black hat to the tall heels of his dainty boots he was such a dandy as demanded more than a casual glance."

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Hap Smith is a new coach driver who took over from Bill Varney but little does he know that he is going to be dragged into a gruesome murder mystery. Which of his four male passengers have committed the crime? Is Smith himself the real murderer? Excerpt: "All day long, from an hour before the pale dawn until now after the thick dark, the storm had raged through the mountains. Before midday it had grown dark in the canons. In the driving blast of the wind many a tall pine had snapped, broken at last after long valiant years of victorious buffeting with the seasons, while countless tossing branches had been riven away from the parent boles and hurled far out in all directions. Through the narrow canons the wet wind went shrieking fearsomely, driving the slant rain like countless thin spears of glistening steel."

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Timber-Wolf is a dashing rider who rides into the troublesome village called Big Pine. Big Pine is a tiny human outpost set well within the rim of the great south-western wilderness country. Wolf's friend is in big trouble amidst a mad-rush for suspected treasure. How will Wolf rescue his friend now? And who are the people he has pissed off?

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