Download or read book Cimarron Jordan written by Matt Braun and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cimarron Jordan Matt Braun On the western plains, they forged a friendship in courage...and ended it in blood. From Abilene to the Smoky Hill country, they fought and hunted side by side. And when they went their separate ways, each knew they would meet again. Cimarron Jordan built a town in Texas, carved a trail to Kansas, and battled the Comanche in the Staked Plains. Virge Hollister made his career with a badge and a gun. Now, on the streets of Dodge City, the two legends of the fierce plains would come face-to-face again-- as the deadliest of enemies.
Download or read book The Overlords and The Wild Ones written by Matt Braun and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of bestselling author Matt Braun's most beloved novels—now newly repackaged as a 2-in-1! In The Overlords, Galveston, Texas belongs lock, stock, and barrel to a handful of criminal overlords. Kingpins of vice, gambling, liquor, and big-time show business, the overlords never counted on a stubborn Hollywood stuntman who inherited his uncle's bank and a grudge. Nor could they have predicted that one Texas Ranger and a beautiful woman would try to shut down America's paradise of gambling. Now, a dangerous brew of mobsters, flappers, traitors, lovers, and lawmen is about to explode in a sin city by the sea. Who will be left standing when the last man goes down? In The Wild Ones, the Fontaines were not prepared for the life they found across the Mississippi. From Abilene to Dodge City, this family of New York City stage performers crossed paths with some of the legendary figures on the frontier, from Jesse James to Bill Hickok and General George Custer. All the while, the Fontaines kept searching for a place to settle down...until they set their sights on the boomtown called Denver.
Download or read book Dodge City written by Matt Braun and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DODGE CITY Matt Braun The cattle trail from Texas to Kansas was long, hot and dangerous. And by the time cowboys got there, they had the money and means to make a boomtown explode—and make Dodge City a great place to be a defense attorney...as long as you weren't looking for an innocent man. Harry Gryden believes in the kind of justice that only happens in a courtroom. In Dodge, it's his job to make sure that the accused get their fair trial. But Harry is a little too good at what he does. And with the Masterson brothers, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday laying down their own brand of law, being a courtroom legend is turning Harry into the rarest of Dodge City men: one who doesn't carry a gun, but is in a fight for his life...
Download or read book Black Fox written by Matt Braun and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 1994-07-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Fox Matt Braun Based on a true story For decades the Texas plains ran with the blood of natives and settlers, as pioneers carved out ranch land from ancient Indian hunting grounds and the U.S. Army turned the tide of battle. Now the Civil War has begun, and the Army is pulling out of Fort Belknap—giving the Comanches a new chance for victory and revenge. Led by the remarkable warrior, Little Buffalo, the Comanche and Kiowa are united in a campaign to wipe out the settlers forever. But in their way stand two remarkable men... Allan Johnson is a former plantation owner. Britt Johnson was once his family slave, now a freed man facing a new kind of hatred on the frontier. Together, with a rag-tag volunteer army, they'll stand up for their hopes and dreams in a journey of courage and conscience that will lead to victory...or a battle to the death.
Download or read book Rio Grande written by Matt Braun and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt Braun is a master storyteller of frontier fiction."--Elmer Kelton "Braun tackles the big men, the complex personalities of those brave few who were pivotal figures in the settling of an untamed frontier."
Download or read book The Last Stand written by Matt Braun and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 1998-06-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the land of Five Civilized Tribes, stolen from its people by a Federal government determined to make Oklahoma the 46th state. Chitto Starr, a full-blood Cherokee, will not go gently into the night. Instead, Chitto ignites an armed rebellion-and brings an honest , determined lawman onto his trail. For Deputy U.S. Marshal Owen McLain, hunting down Starr and his rebels is the last job he wants-and the one he has to do right, or die. Now, the two men are locked in a duel of cunning and violence on a tragic, history-scarred land. And before one of them dies, they must each make a harrowing journey of honor, courage, and war.
Download or read book Kinch Riley and Hickok and Cody written by Matt Braun and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of Matt Braun's most beloved novels—now newly repackaged as a 2-in-1! The Old West comes vividly to life in two novels from bestselling author Matt Braun Something about the boy named Kinch Riley made hardened railroad agent Mike McCluskie take him under his wing. But Kinch got too fast with a gun just as a band of Texas outlaws rode into Newton, Kansas. For the first time, McCluskie will walk into a battle he can't win. Kinch Riley is the masterful retelling of the Newton General Massacre of 1871. In Hickok and Cody, Russia's Grand Duke Alexis has arrived to hunt buffalo. His guides are two heroic deadshots, Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody. But a train approaching from the East will provide Alexis a front-row seat to murder and mayhem that will set Hickok and Cody on the trail of cold-blooded killers.
Download or read book Doc Holliday written by Matt Braun and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the legendary Doc Holliday, a Southern gentleman turned professional gambler, as he drifts through the cities of the Western frontier, building his reputation as a skilled fighter and killer. Reissue.
Download or read book Shadow Killers written by Matt Braun and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-02-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disguised as a minister on a mission, notorious manhunter Cole Braddock secretly prepares for the big showdown with the corrupt landowners of the Santa Fe Ring.
Download or read book Gentleman Rogue written by Matt Braun and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Texas would give way to new-- but not without a fight... They called it Hell's Half Acre: a violent sinkhole of dance halls and brothels, gaming dives and busthead saloons. To some citizens of Fort Worth, the only hope for Hell's Half Acre was to reform it. To others, it was a gold mine. And for one man, a shootist and gambler named Luke Short, it was a place to make a stand. Short wants to run an honest game with straight odds and build a future in Fort Worth. But plenty of people want to see him stone-cold dead. Now Short has no choice but to stake his claim, from behind the barrel of a loaded gun...
Download or read book Jury of Six written by Matt Braun and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-07-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "MATT BRAUN IS A MASTER STORYTELLER OF FRONTIER HISTORY." —Elmer Kelton In a land of death and corruption Texas rancher Ben Langham left his sprawling inheritance to the man he trusted most: Luke Starbuck. Once Starbuck had dreamed of having land of his own. Now he dreams of finding the man who gunned down Langham—and bringing him to justice. One man found a calling of his own... With the Cattlemen's Association behind him, Starbuck has all the authority he needs to ride into New Mexico on the path of a murderous band of thieves. But he didn't count on coming face to face with a scrawny killer named William "the Kid" Bonney, a shifty sheriff named Pat Garrett, or the true story behind the legendary Lincoln County War. Suddenly, Luke Starbuck finds himself dead center in a powerful conspiracy—and heading straight into the line of fire... "BRAUN IS ONE OF THE BEST!" —Don Coldsmith, author of the Spanish Bit series
Download or read book The Judas Tree and The Last Stand written by Matt Braun and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this two-in-one, legendary detective Luke Starbuck finds himself in the dead-center of a murder mystery. In "The Last Stand" it's up to Deputy U.S. Marshal Owen McLain to hunt down Chitto Starr, a full-blood Cherokee, and his rebels, and bring justice to the land. Reissue.
Download or read book Deadwood written by Matt Braun and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "MATT BRAUN IS A MASTER STORYTELLER OF FRONTIER HISTORY." -Elmer Kelton IN THIS TOWN Five thousand dollars. That was what a slick Denver lawyer-representing a mysterious client-offered to pay the legendary manhunter Luke Starbuck. The job: to find a way into Wyoming's infamous Hole-in-the-Wall outlaw stronghold and shoot a bad man dead. Starbuck knew there was something wrong with the deal. And by the time he reached the foothills of the Big Horns he had a good idea what it was: he'd been set up to be killed. ANY MOMENT COULD BE YOUR LAST... Now, making his way among lawmen, gunmen, and free spirits riding on both sides of the law, Starbuck is traveling to Salt Lake City and all the way back to Denver to find the mystery man who wants him dead. But with key players dying every step of the way, Starbuck must find his answers within his own violent past-and in a Badlands town called Deadwood, where secrets are sealed in blood. "BRAUN IS ONE OF THE BEST!"-Don Coldsmith, author of the Spanish Bit series
Download or read book Windward West written by Matt Braun and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brannock brothers couldn't be more different, but they have one thing in common: the drive to make their dreams come true in the wild and wide-open southwest territory. Virgil Brannock's got plans-big plans: From Washington D.C. to the most desolate reaches of the territory, he'll build a railroad empire with sheer guts, raw ambition, and hot lead... Clint Brannock is a solitary man by nature, but that doesn't stop him from joining up with the Cavalry in a violent charge that will darken the desert sands with blood... Earl Brannock lives by no law but his own-until he finds a new code of honor with the Comanches. But will his brotherhood with that fierce, proud tribe put him at odds with his blood kin? Now, on a harsh frontier where weakness equals death, three brothers will cross paths once more-and three men's conflicts will come to a head as a new page in history is written amidst greed, gunfire, and the quest for glory...
Download or read book Hangman s Creek Jury of Six written by Matt Braun and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luke Starbuck poses as an outlaw in order to infiltrate a dangerous gang of cattle rustlers.
Download or read book The Overlords written by Matt Braun and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-01-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As World War I is fought in Europe, the Wild West lives in Galveston, owned by a handful of criminal kingpins of gambling, liquor, and show business. They don't count on a stubborn Hollywood stuntman who has inherited his uncle's bank. Nor can they predict that a Texas Ranger and a beautiful undercover agent will try to shut down America's paradise of gambling. Original.
Download or read book Shadow Killers and Deathwalk written by Matt Braun and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of Matt Braun's most beloved novels—now newly repackaged as a 2-in-1! In Shadow Killers, The Reverend Titus Jacoby has come to Cimarron on a mission: to put himself up as bait for a shadowy coalition of corrupt landowners known as the Santa Fe Ring. But for those who intend to keep their stranglehold on New Mexico, going after the good Reverend will be a big mistake-because the fiery-talking man of God is really Cole Braddock, the West's most notorious manhunter operating in disguise. And with a little help from a lady, Braddock won't leave Cimarron until he forces the conspirators out into the open-and brings them down... In Deathwalk, Ben Thompson carved out a name for himself as a gambler and a shootist-from Dodge City to the Rio Grande. But settling down in Austin with a wife and young son didn't settle Ben's taste for the sporting life. He still found himself in the gambling dives-where the turn of a card too often led to a shootout. Soon a circle of powerful businessmen decides that Thompson is the only man who can tame Austin's wild side. They ask him to rule the streets-and take no prisoners. They want him to take on the job of a marshal in a town in which every man packs a gun. Thompson's career as a lawman is about to take an explosive turn. He finds himself at a crossroads: Is his personal code of honor the price for a tin-star badge? It's a risk he's willing to take...even if there's no going back.
