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Traber Burns
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In the title story, Murdo Morgan left Paradise Valley 16 years ago, after his brothers had been killed at the hand of the Turkey Track outfit. One year later, his father died a broken and defeated man. Broad Clancy, owner of the Turkey Track, has remained the controlling force in this area of high desert in Oregon, considering all the land to be open range, including the six-mile strip on both sides of the old wagon road which belongs to Cascade and Paradise Land Company. He fears that Morgan will return to exact his revenge for the death of his brothers.
But Morgan is not driven by revenge but by a desire to carry out the dream of his father - to settle a thousand farming families in Paradise Valley. To that end, as the owner of the Cascade and Paradise Land Company, Morgan arrives with a plan for the sale of the land already under way and he is willing to risk his life and every cent of money he has to do it, despite the backlash he will receive from the Clancy dynasty.
In "The Fence," an Oregon sheriff must race against time to capture the men responsible for brutally murdering the father and grandfather of his former fiancée - before she becomes the next victim.
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- By: Elmore Leonard
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 52
Phil Sundeen thinks Deputy Sheriff Kirby Frye is just a green local kid with a tin badge. And when the wealthy cattle baron's men drag two prisoners from Frye's jail and hang them from a high tree, there's nothing the young lawman can do about it. But Kirby's got more grit than Sundeen and his hired muscle bargained for. They can beat the boy and humiliate him, but they can't make him forget the oath he has sworn to uphold.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Really Good Early Western Novel of Elmore Leonard
- By Frank Donnelly on 10-13-19
By: Elmore Leonard
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Outlaw Town
- A Ralph Compton Novel
- By: David Robbins
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 42
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Chancy Gantry and Ollie Teal are honest cowpunchers, riding herd on 1,500 longhorns from Texas to Kansas. Their trail boss, Lucas Stout, is tough but fair. He’s never lost a hand on a drive and doesn’t aim to start now. So when a cowhand needs a sawbones badly, Stout sends Chancy and Ollie to escort the man to a town called Prosperity, of which neither of them has ever heard. At first glance, the town looks deserted - but the saloon is full. Chancy and Ollie are about to discover that some towns are a lot easier to ride into than to ride out of....
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5 out of 5 stars
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OUTLAW TOWN
- By Danny Harr on 08-16-24
By: David Robbins
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Death of an Eagle
- By: Kirby Jonas
- Narrated by: James Drury
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Mauled by a giant grizzly and left to die, 16 year-old Jose Olano's chances for life were remote. Then, like a guardian angel, came Robert "Gray Eagle" McAllister, one-time army scout and sometime outlaw. In his flight to escape a posse, he finds the brutalized body of Jose. Knowing his decision to help Jose may mean his own death, he stays and brings Jose back from the brink of death. Thus began one of the greatest companionships ever known to the Idaho frontier.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Story and Narration
- By Jake J2 on 11-24-17
By: Kirby Jonas
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This Calder Range
- Calder Saga, Book 1
- By: Janet Dailey
- Narrated by: Mil Nicholson
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 126
Chase Benteen Calder was bound to wrest a fortune from Montana land, where the whisper of riches swept across a sea of buffalo grass. With Lorna at his side, a woman who took the tough ways of the land as her destiny, he would breathe life into his dream. Through the treacherous Texas prairie, the perils of Indian country, and a bustling Dodge City, they forged their way to Montana. With Calder strength, they would harvest their fortune from the rich earth, on the sprawling plains of This Calder Range.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining
- By Lisa M on 11-17-17
By: Janet Dailey
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Strong Convictions
- Emmett Strong Westerns Book 1
- By: GP Hutchinson
- Narrated by: Alex Zonn
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 92
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 76
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Story4 out of 5 stars 77
In 1876 the seemingly impossible happened in San Antonio, Texas - Emmett Strong, a prodigy of a pistolero, accidentally shot his own young wife in a showdown gone awry. Five years later, death again visits Emmett's family, and now - want to or not - he's going to have to overcome his reluctance to draw his six-gun if he's to catch and bring to justice the crazed gunman who murdered his brother.
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2 out of 5 stars
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lost interest.
- By neal berry on 05-15-19
By: GP Hutchinson
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The Chuckwagon Trail
- Chuckwagon Trail Western series, Book 1
- By: J.A. Johnstone, William W. Johnstone
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 383
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 339
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 336
Framed for murder, Dewey "Mac" McKenzie is running for his life. Though Mac's never even made a pot of coffee, he talks his way onto a cattle drive heading west as a chuckwagon cook. Turns out he has a natural talent for turning salt pork and dried beans into culinary gold. He's as good with a pot and pan as he is with a gun, which comes in handy on a dangerous trail drive beset with rustlers, hostile Indians, ornery weather, and deadly stampedes. Mac can hold his own with any cowboy twice his age. At least until the real showdown begins . . .
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5 out of 5 stars
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Need a different narrator
- By Tom on 04-29-18
By: J.A. Johnstone, and others
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Raiders of Spanish Peaks
- A Western Story
- By: Zane Grey
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 127
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 112
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 110
The Lindsay family has come west hoping to help the father, John, recover from an illness. When they arrive, they are induced to purchase Spanish Peaks Ranch, an abandoned United States military post surrounded by mountains. It seems like a perfect place to settle into their new life as ranchers. As they soon find out, though, this deserted fort is equally suited for both protection and imprisonment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More Complex Than Most
- By Fred Ziffle on 05-14-20
By: Zane Grey
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A Man Called Justice
- Silent Justice, Book 1
- By: John Deacon
- Narrated by: A.T. Chandler
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 387
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 308
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 308
Justice is a drifter with no fear and no memory, trailed by a violent past. Nora is a beautiful widow bravely raising her young son on an isolated New Mexican ranch. When a ruthless cattle baron pushes longhorns into the valley, Justice vows to protect Nora and her boy. But how can he succeed against thirty hired guns… including the four outlaws who left him for dead?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Home run!
- By Charlie on 08-30-22
By: John Deacon
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West of the Pecos
- A Western Story
- By: Zane Grey
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
From one of the bestselling western novelists of all time, comes another classic story. Templeton Lambeth had so desperately wanted a son - an heir to ride by his side through the vast, wild ranges just west of the Pecos River. But to his disappointment, his wife bore a girl. His hopes crushed and in denial, he decides to raise his daughter as if she were a boy. In honor of Lambeth's more successful brother, they named her: Terrill.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Book!
- By j. hughes on 04-13-21
By: Zane Grey
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A Braver Man
- By: Royal Wade Kimes
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 211
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 180
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 182
Hawk Haynes ruled from his heart, but stayed alive by using his instincts. Hawk was on his way to start a new life in Texas when he runs into burned out wagons. He finds families slaughtered, the men killed, the women raped, and killed. Hawk Haynes had just introduced himself to Southwest Texas. Hawk had been deeded land just northwest of Rawlins for his services in taking care of Ted Rawlins and his wife until their death.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Over the top
- By Richard on 02-27-10
By: Royal Wade Kimes
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Epitaph
- A Novel of the O.K. Corral
- By: Mary Doria Russell
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 478
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 431
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 428
A deeply divided nation. Vicious politics. A shamelessly partisan media. A president loathed by half the populace. Smuggling and gang warfare along the Mexican border. Armed citizens willing to stand their ground and take law into their own hands.... That was America in 1881. All those forces came to bear on the afternoon of October 26, when Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers faced off against the Clantons and the McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona. It should have been a simple misdemeanor arrest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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SO GOOD!
- By Cait on 06-30-15
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The Curse of Jacob Tracy
- By: Holly Messinger
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,050
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 964
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Story4 out of 5 stars 961
St. Louis in 1880 is full of ghosts - mangled soldiers, tortured slaves, the innocent victims of war - and Jacob Tracy can see them all. Ever since Antietam, when he lay delirious among the dead and dying, Trace has been haunted by the country's restless spirits. The curse cost him his family, his calling to the church, and damn near his sanity. He stays out of ghost-populated cities as much as possible these days, guiding wagon trains west with his pragmatic and skeptical partner, Boz.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Supernatural meets old West.
- By Mbeasley on 01-16-16
By: Holly Messinger
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Vengeance Road
- By: Erin Bowman
- Narrated by: Amy Rubinate
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 71
When Kate Thompson's father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal that reveals the secret location of a gold mine, the 18-year-old disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers and justice. What she finds are devious strangers, dust storms, and a pair of brothers who refuse to quit riding in her shadow. But as Kate gets closer to the secrets about her family, she gets closer to the truth about herself and must decide if there's room for love in a heart so full of hate.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hunting for a gold mine
- By RueRue on 06-28-16
By: Erin Bowman