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From the bestselling author of the Gideon Johann Western series—the Wild Horse Westerns series—the Hand of Western series—comes Return to Laramie. Deputy Beau Messinger lived a quiet life until trouble found him—and it keeps on finding him. After he makes a name for himself by putting an end to the careers of a pair of stagecoach robbers, Beau learns that his fellow deputies in Cheyenne resent him and his reward money. With an opportunity to return to Laramie for a fresh start after being gone for ten years, Beau heads home.

Sydney finds more than she bargained for when she gets lost on her way to report for a new job and finds herself at a lifestyle club. Peering in through the window, her attention--and libido--are both snagged by a man delivering some old-fashioned discipline to a young blonde. After he runs Sydney off, both are surprised to discover she is the new chef he's hired for his ranch.

Julia Duke has watched her brothers fall in love, and it's her turn. But after a rude ex complained she was terrible between the sheets, her confidence is shot. If she can't please one man, how can she satisfy two? She's not looking for love, but one Friday night, love finds her.

One man. One town. One almost forgotten crime. When the stranger who has answered the ad for the teaching position at Kecking Horse School climbs down from the stage on a sleepy Montana afternoon, things are about to change. With Virgil Watt, cowboy, horse-breaker and the first black man in the history of the town by his side, the stranger quickly upsets the tranquility of the town's leading citizens, administers a vicious beating to a couple of the town's toughs and sets out to avenge a long neglected wrong.

Northern Soldiers killed Liam's parents and left the half white, half Chinese boy for dead. The feared Quantrill's raiders, rescued him to fight for the racially intolerant south. To hide his Chinese roots, he changed his name and posed as an Indian scout. After the war, all Quantrill's men were to be rounded up and hung so he joined a horse drive to Canada. Someone among the Chinese miners murdered the tax collector pitting the Chinese against the white community. Kola is forced to decide which side he will support.

In 1907, the fifteen-year-old French-Canadian Ernest Dufault left his home in Quebec for Montana, where he was promptly arrested as a cattle thief and, as a prisoner of the state of Nevada, passed himself off as an American cowboy named Will James. Over the next few decades, Dufault, a.k.a. James, would flourish as a cowboy and horsebreaker and go on to become an artist, a soldier, a Hollywood stuntman, a bestselling author of award-winning westerns - and his own false memoir.

The top western stars of the silver screen are featured in the "All-Star Western Theatre", a highly entertaining series of shows first heard in 1946. Hosted by Cottonseed Clark and highlighted by the music of Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage, the 20 broadcasts in this collection offer a virtual round-up of singing cowboys, including Tex Ritter, Eddie Dean, Jimmy Wakely, and Ken Curtis, as well as Saturday Matinee favorites like Tim Holt, Wild Bill Elliott, Alan "Rocky" Lane, and Johnny Mack Brown.

Volume 1 of Chuck-Wagon Jamboree! To western fans, he will always be best known as Festus Haggen, the cantankerous sidekick of Sheriff Matt Dillon on the television series "Gunsmoke." But even die-hard fans of Dodge City may not realize that, in the years just after World War II, actor Ken Curtis was a singing cowboy -- the star of his own western movie series and a musical radio favorite to boot.