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Download or read book The Coming of the Law written by Charles Alden Seltzer and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Coming of the Law" is a Western adventure novel. Kent Hollis arrives a day too late after his father's death. But he is soon informed of his inheritance, the one thousand acre Circle Bar Ranch, quite some livestock and an ailing newspaper. The ranch however faces stiff competition from a rival ranch group that has somehow managed to corrupt the legal system to their advantage. But Hollis decides that he will carry on the fight against them that his late father started. And fight he will, all perils not withstanding...

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Download or read book The Law at Randado written by Elmore Leonard and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phil Sundeen thinks Deputy Sheriff Kirby Frye is just a green local kid with a tin badge. And when the wealthy cattle baron's men drag two prisoners from Frye's jail and hang them from a high tree, there's nothing the untried young lawman can do about it. But Kirby's got more grit than Sundeen and his hired muscles bargained for. They can beat the boy and humilate him, but they can't make him forget the jog he has sworn to do. The cattleman has money, fear, and guns on his side, but Kirby Frye's the law in this godforsaken corner of the Arizona Territories. And he'll drag Sundeen and his killers straight to hell himself to prove it.

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Download or read book Shane written by Jack Schaefer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1949 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shane rides into the valley where Bob Starrett's family lives, and Bob, 15, tells about Shane's winning ways.

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