Frank Roderus
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Out on the frontier, there are two kinds of men. There's the kind who's tough with a gun in his hand, who preys on anyone or anything weaker than himself. And then there's the kind like Stillwater Smith. Long and lean, Stillwater's a grizzled Civil War veteran. He doesn't take easily to killing, but he's always ready to fight for what he believes in. And you can only push him so far, as Asa Wheeler, wealthy cattle rancher, is about to find out. Wheeler's...
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Riding through the Wyoming Territory, Daniel Veach was surprised to find a small cabin tucked away in a gorge. He was even more surprised when lovely Ann Waring asked him in for tea. Soon they were joined by her husband, John, who seemed a bit out of place in the wilderness. They invited Veach to stay the night, which he was happy to accept in the face of a gathering storm. Then two strangers arrived, and it seemed only right to make room for them....
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1983
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Available again for the first time in nearly 30 years, Frank Roderus's classic novel LEAVING KANSAS is the compelling story of a young man who considers himself born in the wrong time and place. Living on a Kansas cattle ranch, Harrison Wilke believes that he was destined for better things, more civilized things than life on the frontier during the last fading days of the Old West. Harrison's efforts to make that dream a reality lead him into nothing...
6) Easy money
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Bert follows his buddy and fellow cowhand Chic across the west in the search for easy money but they soon find themselves on the wrong side of the law, putting their friendship to the test.
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2014.
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The Keystone Kid comes all the way from Pennsylvania to be a cowboy dressed in a new Western outfit. He became the butt of some jokes at the local bar and made no attempt to fight back against the bully who decided to make a show of it. That day is how he got his name "Keystone Kid" and his reputation as a coward. He made one friend who showed him the ropes and ways of a cowhand and when the time finally came to prove himself, he had to stand alone...
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Pub. Date
1984
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Tenderfoot Harrison Wilke wondered about the three men: heavily armed, avoiding the town, carrying gold coin in their saddlebags. Alert. Surly. Arrogant. Robbers, Harrison concluded; they must have robbed a bank or a train. Harrison thought about the money in the saddlebags while he worked. He had no idea how much was there or where it might have come from. But he was convinced that these three unpleasant men had come by its possession dishonestly....
10) Finding Nevada
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Pub. Date
1985
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Frank Roderus's critically acclaimed, award-winning Harrison Wilke trilogy comes to a rousing conclusion in FINDING NEVADA, which finds reluctant hero Harrison embroiled in a dispute over a potentially valuable gold mine. From Denver's high society to the rough-and-tumble mining camp of Goldfield, Nevada, Harrison has to navigate a treacherous path that includes murder, action, and romance. The Western Fictioneers Library presents another classic...
11) Purgatory River
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Rivers West volume 16
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c1997
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Amid the magnificent desolation of the American Southwest ran a river of hope, bringing life to the desert, and pioneers to a forbidding land. They gathered on the banks of the Purgatory...wandering souls on the run from the past...or in search of the future: Hernan Eduardo and his sister Elena, posing as husband and wife to hide her shame; Aaron, who has fled from danger his whole life, and who now would have to summon the courage to stand up for...
12) Hayseed
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c1998
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Arnie Rasmussen was big, with the general build of a young ox, and he may not have known much, but he knew one thing: He loved Katherine Mulraney. Sure, she was too good for him; she was beautiful and fine, and he was, well, just Arnie. Just as he was steeling his nerve to talk to her, she disappeared. Folks said she up and ran off with a fancy traveling man, but Arnie couldn't believe that. So he set off after her. But the Wyoming Territory was a...