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The Flockmaster of Poison Creek is a western novel by George W. Ogden. Ogden was a prolific author of western novels. He often used to do original research for his books and settings. Excerpt: "So John Mackenzie had put his foot upon the road. This after he had reasoned it out as a mathematical problem, considering it as a matter of quantities alone. There was nothing in school-teaching at sixty dollars a month when men who had to carry a rubber stamp to sign their names to their checks were making fortunes all around him in sheep. That was the way it looked to John Mackenzie the morning he set out for Poison Creek to hunt up Tim Sullivan and strike him for a job. Against the conventions of the country, he had struck out on foot. That also had been reasoned out in a cool and calculative way. A sheepherder had no use for a horse, in the first place. Secondly and finally, the money a horse would represent would buy at least twelve head of ewes. With questioning eyes upon him when he left Jasper, and contemptuous eyes upon him when he met riders in his dusty journey, John Mackenzie had pushed on, his pack on his back…"

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Claim Number One is a western novel by George W. Ogden. Ogden was a prolific author of western novels. He often used to do original research for his books and settings. Excerpt: "Coming to Comanche, you stopped, for Comanche was the end of the world. Unless, of course, you were one of those who wished to push the boundary-line of the world farther, to make homes in the wilderness where there had been no homes, to plant green fields in the desert where none had been before. In that case you merely paused at Comanche, like the railroad, to wait the turn of events. Beyond Comanche was the river, and beyond the river, dim-lined in the west, the mountains. Between the river and the mountains lay the reservation from which the government had pushed the Indians, and which it had cut into parcels to be drawn by lot."

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The Bondboy is a western novel by George W. Ogden. Ogden was a prolific author of western novels. He often used to do original research for his books and settings. Excerpt: "Sarah Newbolt enjoyed in her saturnine, brooding way the warmth of April sunshine and the stirring greenery of awakening life now beginning to soften the brown austerity of the dead winter earth. Beside her kitchen wall the pink cones of rhubarb were showing, and the fat buds of the lilacs, which clustered coppice like in her dooryard, were ready to unlock and flare forth leaves. On the porch with its southern exposure she sat in her low, splint-bottomed rocker, leaning forward, her elbows on her knees. The sun tickled her shoulders through her linsey dress, and pictured her, grotesquely foreshortened, upon the nail-drawn, warped, and beaten floor. Her hands, nursing her cheeks, chin pivoted in their palms, were large and toil-distorted, great-jointed like a man's, and all the feminine softness with which nature had endowed her seemed to have been overcome by the masculine cast of frame and face which the hardships of her life had developed…"

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On Canada's Frontier is an autobiographical sketch by Julian Ralph. The book is based on author's experiences from his journeys to West Canada. This book is composed of series of papers which recorded journeys and studies author made in Canada during the three years he stayed there. The author brings many interesting stories of adventures of Indigenous people of Canada, missionaries, fur-traders, and settlers to this theritory. Contents: Titled Pioneers Chartering a Nation A Famous Missionary Antoine's Moose-yard Big Fishing "A Skin for a Skin" "Talking Musquash" Canada's El Dorado Dan Dunn's Outfit

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The Land of Strong Men is a western novel by Arthur Murray Chisholm. Chisholm, also known as Bob Chisholm later in life, was an author of Western fiction. He also served as government agent, coroner, police magistrate, and Justice of the Peace in British Columbia. Excerpt: "It was light, but not yet day. The shadows of the night seemed to linger, to retreat with reluctance; and as they were beaten back by the sun, still far below the eastern curve of the earth and further blockaded by giant mountain ranges also to the eastward, the clinging, gray morning mists of early Fall came to replace them. In the pallid light, a-swim with vapor, objects loomed gigantic and grotesque. The house which stood among the mists was of squared timbers, mortised and fitted…"

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Seth Craddock and Calvin Morgan are pitted against each other in a lawless town with corrupt judge and evil outlaws. Who will ultimately win in this game of blood and revenge? Excerpt: "Bones of dead buffalo, bones of dead horses, bones of dead men. The tribute exacted by the Kansas prairie: bones. A waste of bones, a sepulcher that did not hide its bones, but spread them, exulting in its treasures, to bleach and crumble under the stern sun upon its sterile wastes. Bones of deserted houses, skeletons of men's hopes sketched in the dimming furrows which the grasses were reclaiming for their own…"

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e-artnow presents to you this unique and meticulously formatted collection of the greatest western novels by George W. Ogden for your reading pleasure. Contents: Trail's End The Rustler of Wind River The Flockmaster of Poison Creek The Bondboy The Duke of Chimney Butte Claim Number One

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After his father's demise, Joe Kent returns home to take charge of the family's lumber company. Being inexperienced and facing a strong adversary in the form of a wily railroad owner, Kent will have to overturn his misfortunes into opportunities. Will he succeed?

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Роза всю жизнь живет с комплексом сироты. Брошенная в детстве собственными родителями, она цепляется за каждые новые отношения с мужчиной, как за спасительную соломинку. Но раз за разом переживает одну и ту же драму. Но неожиданное письмо возвращает ее в прошлое, тайны которого, возможно, помогут ей изменить ее настоящее. Сможет ли она их разгадать, вернуться к своим корням и станцевать наконец свой яркий танец жизни? Чувственный рассказ, в котором переплетаются темы одиночества, страсти и любви…

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Эта книга о судьбе одного человека, который доводится мне прадедом. Его жизненный путь прошел через три исторических слоя – война на Кавказе, революция и период политических репрессий.

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