Wayne D Overholser
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Small ranchers in Harmony Oregon are up against it with the price of cattle down and Skull Ranch, owned by a syndicate, trying to buy them out. Dan Riley spends a month trying to find a bank to help them, but he fails. When the editor of The Clarion is shot, the ranchers blame Black Mike Sand, the manager of Skull, in spite of the circumstances of the shooting. As pressure mounts, Riley is determined to find out who is really in charge of the syndicate,...
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In the title story, Murdo Morgan left Paradise Valley sixteen 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...
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The summer warpath began in late spring 1876 and was one laid out under the command of General George Crook, perhaps the most experienced Indian fighter in the United States Army at that time. Among other officers under Crook's command was the daring and resourceful Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and the 7th Cavalry. The purpose of the campaign was to round up the wild tribes of the Cheyennes and Sioux and place them on reservations.
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Black Mike
Sam Cassidy comes home to find himself in a series of tense confrontations. His father expects Sam to work for him at the local bank, and Sheriff Ben Faraday, for whom Sam worked the previous summer as deputy, is suffering from a terminal disease and wants Sam to become a deputy again. "Black Mike" Nickels wants to expand his use of public land and bring in more sheep, backed by guns. The Cattlemen's Association has vowed to stop Black...
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Stories included: "The Woman from Cougar Creek” “The Price of Pride” “The Devil and Old Man Gillis” “Shooting for a Fall” “It’s Hell to Be a Hero” “The Tongue-Tied Cowboy” “From Hell to Leadville” “The Deputy with a Past” “Judge Peterson's Colt Law” “The Breaking of Sam McKay” “Fugitive from the Boot hill Brigade” “The Man Ten Feet Tall"
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Old Mike Varney is a callous, bad-tempered ranch owner of the Pitchfork Ranch, located near the Nevada Mesa during the second half of the 19th century. Bill Varney, his 23-year-old son, is often mistreated by his father; he is thinking about leaving the ranch and starting over somewhere else.
His sister, Vida, and his girlfriend, Marian Tracy, try to keep him from leaving. Several of the local citizens and ranchers, tired of Mike Varney's ruthless...
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Mark Girard was a young boy during the boom period of Angel's Landing, a mining town near Banjo Creek. When the boom played out, Mark's father moved on, but his mother refused to leave. When the job as sheriff opened, Mark ran for the office and won. It was a relatively easy job until a new gold strike on Banjo Creek brought brawling lawbreakers back to town. Now the question is whether or not Mark can handle them.
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Central Oregon-the last frontier. Transportation is still by stagecoach and freight wagon. There is a movement afoot for a people's railroad, paid for by the state, to bring the benefits of rails to the area, to make it easier to ship livestock and produce, and to encourage settlement. For years, the competing railroad barons, James J. Hill and Edward H. Harriman, have done nothing toward building a line in central Oregon, but now, under the impetus...
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Eighteen-year-old Mark Kelton's parents are killed by an unknown assailant and the money they were carrying to buy a ranch in Eastern Oregon is stolen. Bronco Curtis befriends Mark, trains him to survive, and calls him his partner, but Mark is convinced that he won't be a man until he finds that murdering thief.
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Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
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2013.
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331 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
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In Shadow of a lobo, Cliff Jenson, a mercantile owner, finds his business crippled by usurious fees he has to pay to get supplies through a toll road. A new banker in towns wants to get rid of Jenson's store, but Jenson has other plans. In Beyond the law, Sherman Rawls, a brutal ranch owner, is pitted against Dane Devlin, a gunman hired by a woman to avenge Rawls' murder of her husband. But Devlin has his own problems, including Keno Kane, a man even...