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Snowboundby: Richard S. Wheeler
 In this powerful biographical novel, Richard Wheeler—winner of the Owen Wister Lifetime Achievement Award and five Spur Awards—tells the amazing tale of the American explorer and hero, John Fremont, and his attempt to find a railway route to the west along the 38th parallel. Trapped in the snowbound Co
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Last Train from Cuernavacaby: Lucia St. Clair Robson
 In the Christmas season of 1913, Grace Knight’s elegant old hotel on Cuernavaca’s main plaza is the place to see and be seen. Mexico’s landed aristocracy, members of the foreign community, wealthy tourists, and young army officers with their wives flock to the Colonial. Under the ballroom’s hundr
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Damnation Road (Pinnacle Westerns)by: Max McCoy
 It's the last chance for Jacob Gamble, Rough Rider, outlaw and man of a few principles. Nearing 50 and flat broke, Jacob bends his own rule about robbing trains. But by the time he reaches the payroll safe on a Rock Island train, he finds another thief there first with a bullet in his head. Jacob is caught ho
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Galveston: A Novelby: Nic Pizzolatto
 Recalling the moody violence of the early novels of Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, a dark and visceral debut set along the seedy wastelands of Galveston by a young writer with a hard edge to his potent literary styleOn the same day that Roy Cady is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he senses that his bos
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Wolf: The Lives of Jack Londonby: James L. Haley
 Jack London was born a working-class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast—by turns playing the role of hobo, sailor, prospector, and oyster pirate. He spent his brief life rapidly accumulating the experiences that would inform his
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The Killing of Crazy Horseby: Thomas Powers
 He was the greatest Indian warrior of the nineteenth century. His victory over General Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was the worst defeat inflicted on the frontier Army. And the death of Crazy Horse in federal custody has remained a controversy for more than a century. The Killing of Crazy Ho
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The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern Americaby: Lawrence Culver
 Southern California has long been promoted as the playground of the world, the home of resort-style living, backyard swimming pools, and year-round suntans. Tracing the history of Southern California from the late nineteenth century through the late twentieth century, The Frontier of Leisure reveals how this
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Glimmer Train Stories, #73by: Nellie Hermann, K.L. Cook, Abby Geni, Stefanie Freele, Nancy Reisman, Matthew Mercier, Louis Gallo, Michael Schiavone, Dana Kinstler, Sara Whyatt, Lucrecia Guerrero (interviewer)
 Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Excerpts: Nellie Hermann Can We Let the Baby Go? Life was confusing and strange and unpredictable, and here, the two of them joined in holy matrimony under this tree in Virginia, here was the proof that we could never comprehend it. K.L. Cook Bo
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Moon Over Manifestby: Clare Vanderpool
 The movement of the train rocked me like a lullaby. I closed my eyes to the dusty countryside and imagined the sign I’d seen only in Gideon’s stories: Manifest—A Town with a rich past and a bright future. Abilene Tucker feels abandoned. Her father has put her on a train, sending her off to live with an
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Buffalo Bill Cody (Legends of the Wild West)by: Ronald A. Reis
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A Night on the Rangeby: Aaron Frisch
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