Frank Bonham
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2015.
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"In 'Sergeant Forson's Dirty-Shirt Army' a seasoned sergeant tries to turn undisciplined recruits into true soldiers despite his commanding officer's indifference, but things change when Major King learns his daughter's stagecoach will likely be attacked by Indians. 'Furnace Flat' tells of Grady Ryan's attempt to get rich mining borax in Death Valley"--
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"Searching for a missing man in the Arizona territories was a job Henry Logan was eager to take. His lungs, damaged from malaria during the Spanish-American War, could use a rest. But when the people of Nogales got the mistaken impression that he was a gunman instead of a gunsmith, Logan suddenly found himself the target of jeers -- and bullets. All of which made it harder to uncover the truth about the missing Rip Parrish, especially when the evidence...
8) Fort Hogan
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Pub. Date
2007.
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If Gary Fidel could ge the Gatling across the Mexican border to the Yaqui Indians, it would be worth a hatful of gold. However the Gatling gun did weigh about two hundred pounds.
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2014.
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Examples of two of five stories about cattle ranchers, mining, railroading, and lumber: In "Whiskey Creek Stampeders," Glenn Carnagey returns to Oregon's rough-and-tumble Rouge River mining country, where he is determined to break the stranglehold Charlie Hammaker has on the area by competing against his overland freight line. Set in the years shortly after the Civil War, "Dakota Man" concerns an ex-Union soldier's purchase of land with a guaranteed...
13) Trago
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2012.
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Tom Trago was a man of the West. At the turn of the century, the open country of Oklahoma was changing. Vern Farrell, raised by Trago and molded as a cowboy, saw the changes coming and was powerless to stop them. He knew the best course of action was to work with the government to try to save an open place for the cowmen. But in September 1893, there would be a land rush. The last of the open range would be settled and fenced, unless Trago and his...