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In "The Flaming Rider," large groups of Blackfeet, Cheyennes, and Crows, ordinarily hostile to each other, are camped around the newly built Fort Meany, having come to trade with factor Henry Meany. The members of these tribes love most of all to gamble, and what better way than betting on a horse race? Then, one race incites open hostility toward the factor and threatens the very existence of the fort.
Barney Dwyer in "Outlaw Buster" is a gentle...
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The story of a 17th century Mohawk woman's interaction with her land, the Jesuits, and the religion they brought.
In The Reason for Crows, award-winning author Diance Glancy retells the story of Kateri Tekakwitha, a seventeenth-century Mohawk woman who converted to Christianity and later became known as the "Lily of the Mohawks." Left frail, badly scarred, and nearly blind from a smallpox epidemic that killed her parents, Kateri nevertheless took...
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Acclaimed Texas historian, Mike Kearby packs his Westerns with vivid details and characters straight off the plains. After outlaw Tig Hardy kidnaps his wife Clara, ex-soldier Free Anderson feels his blood boiling. Teaming with Parks Scott, Free embarks on a stirring quest for vengeance, with plenty of iron on his hip and time running out.
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Howard Moon Deer mysteries volume 2
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In the deserts of New Mexico, someone has just discovered his inner child . . . and it's about to throw a deadly temper tantrum. When Howard Moon Deer's girlfriend Aria storms from his cabin in the middle of the night, he just considers it another conflict in their tempestuous relationship. But when he finds her Jeep abandoned down the road with no sign of her nearby, his instincts lead him on an investigation that uncovers the dark underbelly of...
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Howard Moon Deer mysteries volume 1
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A Native American working on his PhD. A cop blinded in the line of duty. A chic resort's only hope to stop a killer cold in his tracks. Once a land of Pueblo dwellers, the town of San Geronimo Peak, New Mexico, is prime ski country. P.I. Howard Moon Deer and ex-cop Jack Wilder are headed there to meet their first client-a former U.S. senator and the ski slope's owner. Instead, they find his body-and a murder case to solve. Overrun with pleasure seekers,...
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A secret son. A lost love. A dangerous job. A frightening risk. A second chance at the happiness their hearts were once afraid to share. Thirteen years ago, alone and secretly pregnant, Helen Ketterling left her job as a school teacher on the Bad River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. Her summer love affair with Reese Blue Sky had ended abruptly when he left the reservation to pursue his chance at a NBA career. Now her new position, a dangerous...
67) Dry Gulch ambush
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The Indians around Fort Laramie, Wyoming are peaceful. Or so it has seemed - until killers ambush a detail of U.S. soldiers and an officer's wife. One man, an ambitious cavalry officer, flees the carnage and lives to tell the story - his own story, an outright lie. When Duff MacCallister and a few brave men go after the attackers, they discover the officer's wife is very much alive and at the cold merciless hands of the sadistic warrior Yellow Hawk....
68) Ancient ones
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Though there are signs of foul play, BIA investigator Emmett Quanah Parker and FBI special agent Anna Turnipseed aren't looking for a killer—the remains dug out of a riverbank by an illegal fossil hunter are 14,000 years old. Parker and Turnipseed are sent to Central Oregon as official witnesses to the examination of John Day Man, as he is dubbed, for the bones have quickly provoked a controversy that threatens to erupt into violence: the skeleton...
69) Red moon
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In San Geronimo, New Mexico, the rich and famous mingle with the down and out-and the secrets of the past collide with the crimes of the present . . . Shortly after private eye Howard Moon Deer decides to settle down with his latest lady love, he accepts a new case that takes him away from the home front-and introduces him to the dangerous passions that drive San Geronimo's thriving art scene . . . Howard and ex-police commander Jack Wilder have been...
70) BorderLords
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They had settled a bloody score and put the turncoat McAfferty to rest in the snowbound Rockies. Slowly, painfully, the wounded Paddock and Scratch found their way back to the Crow village, where they were welcomed as brother and son. The people of Chief Arapooesh offered rest, healing, and home to the mountain men. Then a misunderstanding over a beautiful Crow woman drove the friends apart, propelling Scratch into the unforgiving wilderness on a...
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Combines fifteen of the author's classic short stories with fifteen new stories in an anthology that features tales involving donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, and marriage. In these comfort-zone-destroying tales, including the masterpiece, War Dances, characters grapple with racism, damaging stereotypes, poverty, alcoholism, diabetes, and the tragic loss of languages and customs. Questions of authenticity and identity abound.
74) In the wind
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Anni Koskinen is out of a job. After ten-years in the Chicago Police Department, her moral compass led her across the thin blue line to testify against a fellow cop, and, in the aftermath, she lost the only career she ever wanted.
As she is putting a new life together, a gentle church worker appears on her doorstep and asks for a ride out of town. It's not until the FBI gets involved that Anni realizes she has helped a fugitive escape. And, not just...
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"Founded in 1866, the Frontier Overland Company was no ordinary stagecoach operation. Two kindred souls with the same fighting spirit, Tucker Cobb and former Texas Ranger Butch Keeling agreed to launch a business together: a brand-new stagecoach line through the wilds of Wyoming . . . They called it the Frontier Overland Company. And a legend was born. Cobb and Keeling knew it wouldn't be easy. The nation was still healing from the War Between the...
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Badly wounded and estranged from his partner and love interest, Anna Turnipseed, Emmett Parker has come home. After thirteen years of federal law enforcement assignments that took him to every Indian nation but his own, the veteran investigator for the Bureau of Indian Affairs has finally arrived in Oklahoma on convalescent leave. At once a son of the Nuhmuhnuh (“the People,” as the Comanche call themselves) and a government investigator, he has...
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Available digitally for the first time ever, Mackenzie's Mountain is a classic novel of romantic suspense from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Linda Howard
Mary Elizabeth Potter is a self-appointed spinster with no illusions about love. When she meets Wolf Mackenzie, a man with a chip on his shoulder the size of Wyoming, she sets out to convince the whole town he's a man worth loving. But Wolf's not sure he's for the taming
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FBI Agent Anna Turnipseed, a Modoc Indian from California, and Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator Emmett Parker, a Comanche from Oklahoma, are a team, sent by the Feds wherever there are problems in tribal territory. This assignment takes them to upstate New York where an elder of the Oneida tribe was found dead, every major bone in her body shattered. Their investigation puts them in the middle of a race war, and soon their lives depend on their...
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