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1) Hay-Wire
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Hay-Wire by B.M. Bower is a tale of the wild west following Lynn Hayward's escapades on his tiny town's cattle ranch. Excerpt: "Lynn Hayward spun a silver dollar on the counter and wished it were as many as it looked while revolving swiftly on its edge. The new schoolteacher, turning from the ribbon counter at the moment, glanced at his moody profile and wished she had his eyelashes and that intriguing curve of the upper lip."
2) Points West
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Points West by B.M. Bower is about the death of Cole Lawson's father and his attempt to ride east to conduct business with some notorious horse rustlers. Excerpt: "The sheriff's right leg swung a leisurely arc over the wild-rose pattern stamped on the cantle of his saddle and dropped to the iron stirrup that dangled stiffly below the level of his horse's belly. The sheriff was a tall man, with wide shoulders and narrow hips, and blue eyes that sparkled...
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Excerpt: "Quirt Creek flowed sluggishly between willows which sagged none too gracefully across its deeper pools, or languished beside the rocky stretches that were bone dry from July to October, with a narrow channel in the centre where what water there was hurried along to the pools below. For a mile or more, where the land lay fairly level in a platter-like valley set in the lower hills, the mud that rimmed the pools was scored deep with the tracks...
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Black Rim country is called bad. The men from Black Rim are eyed askance when they burr their spur rowels down the plank sidewalks of whatever little town they may choose to visit. A town dweller will not quarrel with one of them. He will treat him politely, straightway seek some acquaintance whom he wishes to impress, and jerk a thumb toward the departing Black Rim man, and say importantly: 'See that feller I was talking with just now? That's one...
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A millionaire's son who's gotten somewhat out of hand is sent out to Dad's ranch in Montana to reform. Years ago his father had gotten into a lively feud with some neighbours, the Kings, whose ill-will is still as strong as ever. Naturally our protagonist falls for their beautiful daughter. There's a jolt of added energy in his handful of encounters with peppery old man King. (Goodreads)
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Excerpt: "The reappearance of Olafson, the violinist, who had gone out in the blizzard and was lost seeking the north wind that he might learn the song it sang, and who, according to Happy Jack, returned to earth on moonlight nights to play his violin in the doorway of the deserted shack in One Man Coulee."
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Excerpt: "The proper way to begin this story would be to assure the reader, first of all, that I have never believed in ghosts, that is the way ghost-stories usually begin, I think. Also, I should say that what I am about to relate is perfectly true-but I won't begin it like that. As a matter of fact, I don't care much whether you believe me or not, and I always did believe in ghosts-at least, I always hoped they were truer than Santa Claus, and that...
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In The Ranch at the Wolverine, we meet a little girl born on a lonely settlement, her only friend the grouchy old lady who lives nearby with her shiftless husband. It's a hard life for both families as Billy Louise grows up and eventually goes away for a better education. When she returns home after the death of her father, she must take up the reins and run their little ranch. Enter, a couple of strangers who may, or may not, be friends. Adventure,...
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Excerpt: "At the moment, Ed Murray, supervisor of the Absarokee Division of the Yellowstone National Forest, was peeved. "Read that!" he snorted, shoving a letter from his particular higher-ups in Washington into the hands of his stolid secretary who, by the way, comprised the entire office force of the Absarokee Division. The secretary obediently began reading in a slightly singsong tone: "Under separate cover we are mailing you blank township maps....
10) Meadowlark Basin
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Lark, owner of the Meadowlark Ranch, had a habit of taking home all sorts of cripples and hurt creatures which he came across, so when he found a child bearing the scars of terrible beatings and crying in fear of another he promptly brought him to Meadowlark also, though the boy was the grandson of old Palmer,-rich and stingy and feared ranch-owner of the district. Palmer tried to brand Lark as a child stealer, but was himself "branded" by Lark's...
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Little, Brown, and Company
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2023
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"The Parowan Bonanza'' by B. M. Bower Follows "Hopeful Bill Dale," a good man who is sometimes a little too naive for his own good. After prospecting in the American West only turns up enough money to pay his expenses, he's about to give up. However, when one of his companions, a talkative parrot named Luella, starts to spread word about a potential turn of luck, Dale is stuck between striking it rich and losing everything.
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