Lewis B. Patten
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Alex Longmire earned his reputation for being fast with a gun at a very early age. Though he never hired out his talent for pay, his reputation served to isolate him from everyone. Most knew not to cross Alex, but Rod Zellman ignored the warnings. When an attack by Rod Zellman against Alex Longmire predictably ends with Zellman's death, Alex and his friend Bud Purvis are pursued by Zellman's father and his hired guns for over 700 miles. And when the...
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"He was only eighteen and not quite a deputy, but Jason's lawman instinct alerted him to the sound of gunfire ripping the early morning calm. Up the street a stranger, with a revolver in one hand and a gunnysack filled with stolen cash in the other, ran out from Satterfield's general store, a murderous look in his eye. Dropping down on the boardwalk, Jason drew his .36 Colt and fired at the retreating desperado, who continued his wild dash out of...
4) Pursuit
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Four strangers rode into Buffalo Wallow on the morning the stage was due to arrive. Within an hour, the town was caught in a grip of terror. Women cowered behind locked doors. Men lay dead in the street. And the stage had been robbed of $150,000 in currency. Casey Day, in charge of the way station, knew the townspeople suspected him of being part of the outlaw gang. To prove his innocence, he had to set out to find the bandits. And he swore to make...
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2018.
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"A group of cattlemen, known as the Cheyenne Pool, have controlled the open range, but small-time famers are looking to homestead there. When some resort to rustling, the hard-driving foreman of the Pool refuses to give in to cattle thieves and forces a showdown"--
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"Denver City in the early days of gold discoveries is the setting for "The Golden Magnet". Cole Estes is on his way there to work for Mike Forrest, who has the mail and stagecoach franchises for the boomtown. Travelling with him is Mike's daughter, Norah, returning from school in the East. Then Mike is murdered, and sabotaged by ruthless competitors leaves Norah owner of a line without operating capital... until Cole comes up with a daring plan..."--Jacket.
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2011.
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Here are two short novels by Lewis B. Patten, written at the height of his powers, collected now for the first time in book form. Dance-Hall Gal is the story of young Tom Otis. Since he was old enough to ride herd, he worked on his father's Anchor Ranch. When his father died suddenly, he inherited Anchor. It was then that Will Geier of the Adams City bank informed Tom that there was a lien on the ranch because of a $10,000 note owed to the bank by...
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"Two western stories: In 'Where the Backshooter Waits' conspirators plot to get rid of the Dawson brothers and take over their ranch. In 'Lone Rider' Lew Stark is supposed to inherit the .45 Ranch when J.D. Regal dies, but his four biological sons plot to get rid of Stark and claim the ranch for themselves"--
15) Outlaw canyon
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2010
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The Outlaw Canyon is a grim hiding place and somewhere within its mysterious boundaries lay the answers to the riddle of the disappearing cattle. The feud between Matt Springer and Wes Knudson began long before, on the Fortress Ranch, when they were growing up together. At first, the pair had small spats, then they fought over a girl. But now the fight has turned serious . . . it's about missing cattle. Matt knows Wes has to be mixed up in the mess,...
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2012
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The years after the Civil War were brutal ones on the plains. Increasing numbers of white settlers struggled with the Indians for possession of the land. It was a situation tailor-made for Major Samuel Burkhalter's dreams of personal glory. But a triangle of hate binds two men to Burkhalter. Lt. Martin Keefe saw the Major's ambition ruin his father's career, and now it is threatening his own. Joe Moya's wife and children were killed in a massacre...