Dark Horses

Dark Horses

Author: Ralph Cotton

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0451465938

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SOUTH-OF-THE-BORDER SHOWDOWN Trouble follows horse trader Will Summers as soon as he sets foot in Dark Horses, Mexico. A party of men is intent on hanging Summers, believing him to be a horse thief, but not before they take him to their boss--Ansil Swann, the very man Summers is delivering four horses to. Will is saved from the hangman's noose when the men are waylaid by Ansil's beautiful wife, Bailey. Only Bailey has an agenda of her own, one that lands Will right in the middle of a deadly shootout. Now, in a lawless land where anything goes, Will's gunslinging skills are put to the test--and if he's not careful, he may never make it back across the border alive....


Price of a Horse

Price of a Horse

Author: Ralph Cotton

Publisher: Cotton-Branch Publishing

Published: 2018-10-19

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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Sure, it would’ve been easy killing Two Diamond Joe with a second shot. No man takes a .44 round square between the eyes and survives. But Jeston Nash only wants his prize horse back from the man, and a fast trail out of the New Mexico badlands. Together again with Quiet Jack, Nash is on a hunt that will take him through unforgiving terrain, a tangle of firebrand beauties, and even into a lawman’s trust—before squaring off with the most ruthless pack of gunmen ever to rule the desert frontier. Ralph Cotton spins another epic tale of guns and grit in the wake of the Civil War—a journey through a world of outlaw justice and the men who lived and died by it.


Blood Money

Blood Money

Author: Ralph Cotton

Publisher: Cotton-Branch Publishing

Published: 2018-10-16

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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Ever since Federal Deputy Sullivan Hart lost his father to ruthless J.T. Priest, he's hoped to find the outlaw leader and bring him down. When hanging judge Isaac Parker sends Hart and his partner, Twojack Roth, to break up Priest's infamous gang, Los Pistoleros, he is only too willing to fulfill his duty. With the price on Priest's head rising, gunmen from the East and the West alike come forward, rifles in their hands and dollar signs in their eyes. Hart and Roth need all the help they can get to catch Priest and his crew, who've stolen a million dollars - and taken a pretty hostage. Joining Hart's hunt is former bounty hunter Jake Coak and the ever-resourceful "Quick Charlie" Sims. With these two on his side, Hart sets out on a trail leading to a final desert showdown in this the concluding third book in the Dead or Alive Trilogy.


Devil's Due

Devil's Due

Author: Ralph Cotton

Publisher: Cotton-Branch Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13:

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Federal Deputy Sullivan Hart thinks he has broken the back of the outlaw organization Los Pistoleros after he arrests its leader, J.T. Priest - the man who killed his father. But just before his trial, Priest escapes from jail, and he's determined to rebuild his criminal empire. Hart knows that if he's ever to put his father's ghost to rest, he must stop the outlaw once and for all. Only Quick Charlie Sims knows where Priest is planning to meet up with the rest of his gang. And Hart is none too sure he can trust the wily gambler, who has his own debt to settle with Los Pistoleros' leader -and his own interest in the organization . . .


Wolf Valley

Wolf Valley

Author: Ralph Cotton

Publisher: Cotton-Branch Publishing

Published: 2018-10-23

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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Along the road to Paradise . . . “We can sympathize with a man being short on cash, times being such as they are.” He eyed Ellis’s horse and said, “We just lost our pack mule two days ago. I always say, a good riding animal is just as good as legal tender when a man finds himself in a spot.” “Funny, I always say that myself,” said Ellis, his hat against his chest. His smile remained as he continued to stand in silence, leaving the man unsure of what to say or do next. Finally the man cleared his throat and said, “So, if you have no cash, we’ll be obliged to take the animal off your hands.” “There he stands,” said Ellis, giving a nod toward the big bay. “Take him whenever you’re ready.” But in spite of his invitation, the riders made no move forward. Studying the resolve in Ellis’s cold gray eyes, the bearded man said, as if it had just dawned on him, “You’ve got a gun cocked behind that hat, don’t you?” “You can count on it,” said Ellis, his smile still showing beneath his broad dark mustache. *Preview of Ralph Cotton's Black Mesa at the end of this book.


I, Quantrill

I, Quantrill

Author: Max McCoy

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-05-06

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1440632502

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William Clarke Quantrill is the most hunted man in America. Ask anybody and they’ll tell you how he burned Lawrence, Kansas, to the ground, brought the Yankees to their knees in Missouri, and wrote his name in blood on the pages of history. Now the war is over, and he’s leading Frank and Jesse James and the boys to Kentucky for one last campaign. They aim to raise hell, spill blood, and break some hearts before they’re done. This is his story, and he tells it his way, with no apologies. His name is Quantrill—but some just call me the devil.


The Trailsman #394

The Trailsman #394

Author: Jon Sharpe

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-08-05

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 0698144155

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Things are getting hot all over… Fargo is guiding a squad of horse troopers to Flathead country to check on homesteaders, when he comes across a pack of vicious varmints up from Texas causing no end of terror for the settlers. And there’s only man who can take on the troublemakers: the Trailsman.


Tanner's Law

Tanner's Law

Author: Charles G. West

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-01-02

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1101211423

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A soldier gets swept up in the gold rush in this western from Charles G. West.... Tanner Bland leaves his Virginia home on foot to fight for Dixie and rides back on a fine horse. Most folks would call that a profit—until they consider his loss. With everyone thinking the soldier dead, his younger brother marries Tanner’s fiancée hours before he returns. His home no longer his own, Tanner heads west to join an old army pal and hit the gold mines of Montana. But the wagon train the men join is not what they are hoping for. In the train with them are the four Leach brothers, each one meaner than the next. Now, if Tanner and his buddy want to make it to Montana alive, they’ll have to keep their enemies close…and their weapons closer. “The West as it really was—savage, heroic, and unforgettable.”—Ralph Compton


Trick of the Trade

Trick of the Trade

Author: Ralph Cotton

Publisher: Cotton-Branch Publishing

Published: 2018-10-19

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13:

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Jeston Nash knew horses—he’s stolen enough of them in his time. But the lookalike cousin of Jesse James was going respectable, almost. Then, in a New Orleans teeming with drunks and blue uniforms, he sold a horse to a well-bred lady. It was the biggest mistake of his career .... He hit Fort Lincoln with a belly full of wounds and minus a boot. His horse had been stolen, and he’d stolen it back—along with some bootleg crackers. All in all, it hadn’t been a pleasant trip through the dreaded Black Hills. But at least Jeston Nash—for the time being calling himself Beatty—hadn’t drowned. Now he fully intended to fulfill a promise: to deliver an unridable horse called Honest Bob to a woman named Custer. The trouble was, the wife of General George Armstrong Custer, Elizabeth, wasn’t very interested in the horse she’d persuaded Nash to deliver. In fact, Mrs. Custer was on the warpath. So were the Sioux—and General Custer’s commanders in Washington. Suddenly, Nash finds himself in the middle of the most dangerous kind of fight: a marital squabble. Before he knows it he’s riding alongside a hardheaded, buffalo-hunting, blond-haired general who’s sure glory awaits them—at a place called Little Big Horn ....


The Trailsman #392

The Trailsman #392

Author: Jon Sharpe

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0698144139

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One town’s as deadly as another... Fargo can’t say no when the oddball citizens of the near-dead boomtown of Lodestone offer him a small fortune to guide them on a two-day trip to a new home over the mountains. But when there are two separate attempts to gun him down, the Trailsman realizes that somebody doesn’t want the people of Lodestone going anywhere—except six feet under.