Doug Bowman
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Twenty-year-old Billy Free, falsely accused of the murder of a deputy, becomes the object of an extensive manhunt when he kills two members of the posse sent to arrest him and goes on the run across the Texas frontier, leaving more and more trouble in his wake.
2) Pilgrim
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Doug Bowman, a staple of the western for decades, takes the genre to new heights in this story of a young man seeking fame and fortune in the wide open plains of Texas.
Eli Pilgrim gave up his simple life as a pig farmer in Ohio to chase his dream on the ranges of Texas. Eli believed what he had heard about the legendary state, a land so vast, with so much opportunity, that a man has no choice but to get rich.
So, when the first frost ended, Eli...
3) Houston
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Renowned gunman Camp Houston sets out on a journey of revenge when his best friend, trail boss John Calloway, is robbed and shot, along with his companions, by five drovers hired to help Calloway deliver a herd of cattle to the rails.
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When Seth Copeland returns home to Kentucky after the Civil War, he is a different man. Having expanded his horizons during the war, he finds himself suddenly restless, his mind filled with the tales of his fellow soldiers in arms about the wide-open spaces and cheap lands of Texas. Packing up his family and earthly belongings, he sets out on a daunting trek across three states.
The journey is perilous and filled with many obstacles, including...
5) Sam Curtin
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Times are hard for the Curtin clan. Farming and raising cattle don't bring in enough money, and payments on the ranch are due.
Curtin is the best there is with a six-shooter--and there are more wanted men than the law can handle. To save the ranch, Curtin brings ruthless criminals to justice--dead or alive. He becomes known far and wide as The Judge, a bounty hunter who will outdraw any man for a fair reward.
But when his own brother is stabbed...
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In Doug Bowman's The H&R Cattle Company, when Zack Hunter and his best friend Brett Rollins first hit Texas, they are near-penniless men, looking to get a stake in life. But, they don't stay that way for long: Charming Rollins always has a smile, a scheme, and a plausible tale with which to pave the way. It doesn't hurt that he's handy with a deck of cards, and even quicker with his six-gun.
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Jubal Kane was twenty-two years old. For the past year, he'd been in the saddle every day, riding from town to town on a seemingly endless search for three cold-blooded killers. They were the men who'd shot his parents in cold blood while Jubal watched, hidden inside a pile of hay.
Mitchell was one of these men. And with his death, Kane found some relief from the memories that had been haunting him. But two murderers lived on. Jubal knew that until...
8) Gannon
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Texas was a vast, lawless frontier after the Civil War...Gunslingers rode roughshod over scarce, often corrupt, lawmen. Into this Texas rode young Jake Gannon, a tough but peaceable man from Kentucky, skilled in tracking and shooting, who dreamed only of a ranch of his own. Outlaws shattered his new life; his brother was ambushed by a crooked marshal. But, the last straw was when his beloved 16-year-old fiancée was raped and murdered. Now Jake Gannon...
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When Kirb Renfro and his wife left Tennessee for the vast plains of Texas, they were looking for a place to call home. Kirb acquires a small ranch and finds his dreams coming true. Then during their first winter, that dream is shattered. Kirb finds his wife raped and murdered. Kirb goes on a manhunt, acquiring the reputation as the most heartless killer in Texas history.
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Doug Bowman puts the reader in the saddle beside Civil War veteran Litt Blue as he heads west after Lee's surrender. Blue is taken in by a rancher who is the grandfather of a close friend who died in the war. While learning the cattle business from the ground up, run-ins with toughs prove to the large-framed Blue that size alone is not enough to hold his own on this harsh cattle frontier. He learns to box and becomes on of the fastest draws around,...