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The floor manager had just called out that it was «ladies' choice,» when the schoolma’am laid proprietary hand upon his cinnamon-brown coat sleeve, and led him into another corner, and announced that she was tired and wanted a nice long talk with him. Happy Jack sighed a bit and sat down obediently—and thereby walked straight into the loop which the schoolma'am had spread for his unwary feet.

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In a week all Chouteau County knew that Andy Green would ride for the purse, and nearly all Chouteau County backed him with all the money it could command.

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When Andy Green, fresh-combed and shining with soap and towel polish, walked into the dining-room of the Dry Lake Hotel, he felt not the slightest premonition of what was about to befall.

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JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WILDER THAN EVER. Welcome to the Lost Coyote Saloon. Saddle up to the bar and order a whiskey. Play a few hands of poker. But don’t make any trouble. The new owner is savage. Ben Savage. Once a Texas Ranger, he’s always cocked and ready for some fool to come looking for payback . . . EAT, DRINK, AND BE WARY When Ben Savage receives a telegram informing him that an old friend died—and left him his saloon—he’s not sure what to think. Western saloons are as wild as it gets, full of rowdy ranchers and cocky cowboys, high-stakes gamblers and low-life drifters, hard liquor and easy women. Then there’s the occasional outlaw gang. But when Savage travels to Buzzard’s Bluff, Texas, to check out his inheritance, he meets the saloon’s lovely manager, Rachel Baskin, and has a change of heart. As an experienced lawman, he figures he can run a decent establishment. Keep things friendly, peaceful, and orderly. There’s just one problem: a rival saloon owner wants Savage out of the way so he can control all the vice in town. And some of his men are bound to turn up in his saloon—thirsty for whiskey . . . and killing . . . Live Free. Read Hard.

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The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st CenturyWhen The Bullets Start To Fly Smoke Jensen sat in a cave and boiled the last of his coffee. He figured he was in Idaho-somewhere south of Montpelier-but he was certain about only two things: he was cold and he was being hunted by a small army of men. Smoke knew why he was cold-it was winter. He just didn't have a clear idea of why anyone was after him. He was soon to find out that he'd unwittingly ridden into the middle of the fiercest range war in years. Now he had to either choose sides or return home across the back of a horse. Smoke had never taken kindly to being bullied. . .so when Jud Vale and his cutthroat gang started pushing him around, Smoke Jensen just pushed right back. . .

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Based on the life of bronc rider Doughbelly Price, The Diamond Hitch tells the story of Dewey Jones, western cowman and rodeo hooligan, as he travels the circuit throughout the Southwest in search of that one big purse that will punch his ticket out of rodeo bumming and into a more normal life. O’Rourke effectively evokes the sights, sounds and smells of the cowboy way presenting an unvarnished glimpse into this vanished way of life.

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These beautifully connected stories follow the adolescent exploits of protagonist Jerry Gordon throughout the American Southwest. Jerry’s coming-of-age episodes find him seducing an innocent girl from the neighborhood, roping his first rodeo, garnering the aid of his older brother in a boyhood fight, keeping his dog from eating a rescued tiger kitten, navigating the rituals of secrecy and physical violence in a New England prep school, and coping, ultimately, with the cataclysmic event of his father’s death.Mayer’s prose is clear and perfectly concise in portraying the vulnerability, cruelty, and unfettered confusion of his beloved character. His original debut collection, these stories first appeared when Tom Mayer was astonishingly just twenty-one years old. His work appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Story Magazine, and Sports Illustrated. This new Pharos Edition includes two short stories previously uncollected.

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This volume assembles no less than 42 of the classic Old West novels and short stories of B.M. Bower. Included are many tales of the Flying U Ranch, as well as stories set in California, Montana, and many other western locales. Hours of great western reading await! <P> Included are: <P> Flying U Ranch <BR> Chip, of the Flying U <BR> The Flying-U’s Last Stand <BR> Blink <BR> Miss Martin’s Mission <BR> Happy Jack, Wild Man. <BR> A Tamer of Wild Ones. <BR> Andy, the Liar <BR> “Wolf! Wolf!” <BR> Fool’s Gold <BR> Lords of the Pots and Pans <BR> First Aid To Cupid <BR> The Lamb <BR> The Reveler <BR> The Spirit of the Range <BR> The Unheavenly Twins <BR> When the Cook Fell Ill <BR> Good Indian <BR> The Heritage of the Sioux <BR> The Phantom Herd <BR> Her Prairie Knight <BR> Cabin Fever <BR> Casey Ryan <BR> Cow-Country <BR> The Gringos <BR> Ananias Green <BR> The Long Shadow <BR> The Lookout Man <BR> Lonesome Land <BR> The Lure of the Dim Trails <BR> The Quirt <BR> The Ranch at the Wolverine <BR> The Range Dwellers <BR> Rim O’ the World <BR> Sawtooth Ranch <BR> Skyrider <BR> The Trail of the White Mule <BR> The Uphill Climb <BR> Jean of the Lazy A <BR> Rowdy of the «Cross L» <BR> The Thunder Bird <BR> Starr, of the Desert <P> And don't forget to search this ebook store for more entries in the Megapack series – collection covering Westerns, Cowboys, Science Fiction, Mystery, Adventure … and many more!

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Her name was Vera Mae, and she had been around these dusty tank towns too long—working the two-bit rodeos and cozying up to suckers, like this fat tourist in the bar.<P> Oh God, she thought, I can con him and ditch him by nine-thirty, but what then? Sit in a hotel room. Get drunk and pass out. I'll be an old bag before I'm thirty.<P> That was Vera Mae: fed up and ripe for trouble, when a lean ex-bronc rider named Lonnie drifted in from the desert…

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