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21) Blood Truce
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Wilderness series (David Thompson) volume 16
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When a deadly dispute among rival Indian tribes explodes into a bloody war, Nate has to make peace between the enemies-or his young family will be the first to lose their scalps.
22) Venom
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When Nate King and his family hold a cabin raising for new neighbors in their remote valley, they come face-to-face with a new kind of enemy - one that strikes terror into their hearts.
23) Assassination
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Riverboat volume 3
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Campaigning for the presidency of the United States, Senator Stephen Douglas is the target of assassins who hope to benefit from a war between the states. His trip on the TEMPEST QUEEN offers a golden opportunity for the charming but deadly Genevieve St. James, the assassin. Meanwhile, Clifton Stewart is still searching for his lost love, Mystie Waters. He finds the ruins of the riverboat she last served on and can only conclude that she was one of...
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BLOOD ON THE SNOW! There was probably no better tracker in the West than famous Kit Carson. With his legendary ability to read sign, it was said he could track a mouse over smooth rock. So Kit didn't expect any trouble when he set out on the trail of a common thief. But he hadn't counted on a fierce blizzard that seemed determined to freeze his bones. Or on a band of furious Comanches led by an old enemy of Kit's – an enemy dead set on revenge.
26) The Avenger
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EYE FOR AN EYE. Zach King has given up the ways of the warrior. The woman he loves is about to give birth, and he intends to be the best father he can be. Little does he know that he is being stalked. From out of his recent past comes an avenger. A man who has vowed to make Zach pay for killing his brother. A new birth should be a time of joy. Instead, Zach and his family find themselves ensnared in a deadly web of deception and peril.
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It takes a special breed of man to survive in the wilds of the American frontier. A man like Nate King has the courage, the strength, and the skills he needs to endure the hardships of the magnificent Rockies. But the four cutthroats who heard about Nate paying for provisions with gold don't plan to make it on their own. They figure they can get Nate's gold for themselves. When they kidnap Nate's younger daughter they think they've struck it rich....
28) Comanche Moon
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When a good deed leaves him stranded in Comanche territory, where his supplies and weapons are stolen, Nate King finds himself defenseless against a band of bloodthirsty warriors who want him dead.
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Our American West, Volume 3 is filled with western frontier stories you'll find entertaining. The Roadrunner – Our Sagebrush Clowns reflects on the speedy and often comical bird of our southwestern deserts. Wild and wicked Calamity Jane lived up to her reputation as the West's most infamous outlaw woman. "The Donner Party – Frozen Horror" describes the horror that led to cannibalism. The 49er Gold Rush ruined the lives of two ambitious and well-intentioned...
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Wilderness series (David Thompson) volume 1
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Nathaniel King left NYC in 1828 to venture into the vast unexplored regions beyond Mississippi. He heads west, lured on by dreams of wealth based on his uncle's promise to share with him "the greatest treasure in the world".
31) Eden
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The Kings aren't like other families. They are bound together by a hatred as vast as their oil-rich Texas ranch and the purse strings of a fortune held by the cold matriarch of their wealthy clan.
32) Black Gold
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In 1930's Texas, the oil industry is booming and small-time wildcatter Bill Dodd has secretly acquired the oil lease to the property adjoining H.L. Hunt's latest gusher. It promises to make Dodd a millionaire but before he can register the leases with the county, he is gunned down and Hunt's company takes over the land.
33) Death Hunt
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Wilderness series (David Thompson) volume 8
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In 1829, a new life in the vast uncharted region beyond the Mississippi River was a cause for celebration, and fear.
34) Savages
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Wilderness series (David Thompson) volume 30
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THE PREDATORS. Frontiersmen living in the untamed Rockies are surrounded every day by endless dangers, including attack by hostile Indians. But to Nate King and his family, the local tribes are simply people like them, people trying to live free in the glorious mountains, and many of them have become their friends. It is only when Nate's son, Zach, sets out with his fiancée to visit her relatives in St. Louis that Zach meets savages of a very different...
35) Second Chance
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These novels are works of fiction that use facts and locations that are historically accurate to paint a picture in the reader's mind as they turn the page. Tye Watkins is a scout for Fort Clark, Texas, who uses his skills to work his way through one adventure after another. In this book, Tye is tracking a band of outlaws who robbed and murdered a rancher's wife and son. Adam Carter, one of the men Tye is after, worked for the rancher, and was coerced...
36) Cry Freedom
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Samuel Worth never meant to kill the man. But when the son of the plantation owner they worked for tried to attack Samuel's daughter, he had to defend her. Now his whole family is on the run from a pack of slave hunters and their bloodhounds — straight into the deadly wilds of the Rocky Mountains. Nate King and his family value their freedoms. It is one of the reasons they chose to live so far from civilization. It's also why Nate knows he and his...
37) Oklahoma Odyssey
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In late fall of 1892 outlaw Eddie Mole gallops down the main street of Jericho Springs, Kansas, where he robs and shoots dead the freighter Barney Kreider. Some urge Barney's son Ulysses ("Euly") to take revenge, but Euly is a Mennonite and Mennonites don't seek revenge. Instead, Euly plots how to make his fortune with the aid of his half-Osage sister, Kate, and his friend Johnny, an Osage farmhand. The three make a plan to sell goods and livestock...
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The Epic Struggle for Survival in America's Untamed West. When Nate King chose a new valley in which to build his home, he wanted to get away from all civilization and the inevitable trouble it brings. But Nate can't duck trouble for very long. A hostile band of Indians has also laid claim to the Kings' valley, and they've made it clear they're not willing to share. In a desperate act to punish Nate and his family, they capture his daughter, Evelyn....
39) Trapper's Blood
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Wilderness series (David Thompson) volume 17
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When trappers start turning up dead, their bodies mutilated, Nate and his friends vow to track down the merciless killers.
40) Mountain Madness
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Wilderness series (David Thompson) volume 24
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When Nate King comes along a pair of green would-be trappers from New York, he is only too glad to risk his life to save them from a Piegan war party. It's only after he takes them into his own cabin that he realizes that they would repay his kindness with betrayal.