Download or read book The Reluctant Lawman written by Bob Terrell and published by Thomas Bouregy. This book was released on 1991-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He quit running in Lone Pine and reluctantly accepted the lawman's star. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Download or read book The Reluctant Lawman written by David Osborne and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jake Harn had served in the Civil War as an officer and upon being discharged he came back to his home near Savannah, Georgia. What he found was that his family, along with others, were living with destruction and devastation caused by the war. On his family's advice he decided to travel west. Early influences helped Jake develop a strong sense of right and wrong. During his adult years he became an individualist who not only took care of himself, but tried to provide comfort to those less fortunate than himself. As an army officer, Jake became an expert with a rifle and while traveling west he began to hone his skills with a hand gun, not to be used as a vocation but as a necessity against the lawless breed that inhabited the Wild West. When he arrived in Burkeville he found himself embroiled in a bloody range war. He became a full-time cowboy by choice and a reluctant part-time lawman when the local sheriff was ambushed by a gang of outlaws.

Download or read book The Reluctant Lawman written by Robert Eynon and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 2006 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gunslinger Pete Symonds seems unable to avoid trouble, which usually leaves a trail of corpses in his wake. Then, seeking a quieter life, he ends up in cattle country but is soon sucked into the explosive rivalry between two large spreads. Reluctantly, he is persuaded to take the place of Hardwick's town marshal and faces the hostility of a scheming and powerful saloon owner and the knowledge that the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid is at large in the territory. If Symonds is to live he must abandon diplomacy and meet violence with violence.

Download or read book Ralph Compton The Reluctant Lawman written by Craig Barstow and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gunman wants to hang up his Colts in this fast-paced installment of Ralph Compton’s Sundown Riders series. Luke Lessing was told his career at the Pinkerton Agency was assured, thanks to his skill with pistol and rifle. But when his partner got ambushed, Luke was widely blamed. Discouraged with Pinkerton politics, he moved on to a job as sheriff in a “sleepy” little town in Colorado, only to barely escape with his life. So Luke happily traded wearing a badge for cooking at the Comstock Café in Virginia City, hub of the fabled Comstock Lode. He’d put his past behind him—until a bushwhacked marshal and a confrontation with an old enemy drag him into a whirlpool of corruption, missing miners, and concealed treasure, where you can never tell who will betray you next. Luke’s pressured to pin on a badge yet again, not only by the Secretary of the Nevada Territory, but the Secretary’s boss, who happens to be President of the United States. There’s a lot of dough on the line, but not the kind he’s got a talent for. What does a fella have to do to get back to baking biscuits? More than eight million Ralph Compton books in print!

Download or read book Reluctant lawman written by Edwin Booth and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Reluctant Lawman written by Craig Barstow and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Luke Lessing was told his career at the Pinkerton Agency was assured thanks to his skill with pistols and rifles. But after he and his partner got ambushed, Luke was widely blamed. Discouraged with Pinkerton politics, he moved on to a job as the lawman in a 'sleepy' little town in Colorado, only to barely escape with his life. So Luke happily traded wearing a badge for cooking at the Comstock Café in Virginia City, hub of the fabled Comstock Lode. He'd put his past behind him--until a bushwhacked marshal and a confrontation with an old enemy drag him into a whirlpool of corruption, missing miners, and concealed treasure, where you can never tell who will betray you next. Luke's pressured to pin on a badge yet again, not only by the secretary of the Nevada Territory but by the secretary's boss, who happens to be president of the United States. There's a lot of dough on the line, but not the kind he's got a talent for. What does a fella have to do to get back to baking biscuits?" -- Page [4] cover.

Download or read book Jersey Lawman written by Jim Plousis and published by Callahan Services, LLC. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the story of a four-decade-long journey within America's criminal justice system. After starting out as a barely dry-behind-the-ears seasonal cop at the Jersey shore, I served as a police officer in two New Jersey municipalities before voters elected me sheriff of Cape May County. After 17 years in that post, I received a Presidential appointment as U.S. Marshal.

Download or read book Ralph Compton The Guns of Wrath written by Tony Healey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman seeks revenge for her father’s murder in this tense installment of bestselling author Ralph Compton’s Gunfighter series Eight years ago, vicious bandits killed Marshall Tobias Cassidy and left his daughter for dead. They thought they got away clean. Now a contest to determine the top shootist in the Wild West is set to take place in Fortune’s Cross and lady gunslinger Hope Cassidy has come to town…only it’s not for glory, it’s for vengeance. After gunning down one of the men who murdered her father, Hope is given a stark choice: swing from a rope, or take the dead man's place in the contest. As the number of guns in play dwindles, Hope learns the identity of the person who ordered her father’s death all those years ago. She will make him pay for what he’s done, just like she did the others. But first she must survive a competition in which there can be only one competitor left alive...

Download or read book Lawman written by Diana Palmer and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When San Antonio FBI agent Garon Grier buys a ranch in Jacobsville, Texas, the strong, silent loner is hoping to mend some broken family fences. He's not looking for love. Grace Carver grew up in this quiet Texas town, but because of her troubled youth, she's never married—hadn't even thought about it…until Garon. These unlikely allies are brought together by the most difficult case of Garon's career: hunting an escaped child predator whose former victims are all dead. All except one. Now a desperate lawman and the woman who is the lone survivor of a madman's twisted rampage have one chance to put the past to rest….

Download or read book The Lawman written by Lily Graison and published by Lily Graison. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the run from her ex-lover... Jilted by a no-show husband... And now mistaken for a whore in the Diamond Back Saloon... Abigail Thornton doesn’t think things can get any worse. That is until a single slap to a man’s face starts a barroom brawl that lands her in the last place she expected to be. Town Marshal Morgan Avery wants nothing more than to wash away the trail-dust and sleep for a week, preferably with a soft, willing woman by his side. Instead, he gets Abigail Thornton – all one hundred pounds of her thrust at him seconds before a fist connects with his face. Breaking up the fight takes more effort than he wants to admit and when the last man falls he finds Abigail still standing and not looking the least bit contrite. Throwing her into the town jail for the night would salve his wounded pride and then he will let her go. Or that was the plan. When morning comes he finds himself oddly reluctant to do so. Miss Thornton is hiding something and he aims to find out what, even if he has to bed her to do so. But will one night in her bed be enough? The Lawman is a novella of approximately 36,000 words and is Book 1 in the Willow Creek Series. This ebook also contains bonus material: An excerpt of The Outlaw, Willow Creek #2 by Lily Graison. Books in The Willow Creek Romance Series #1 - The Lawman #2 - The Outlaw #3 - The Gambler #4 - The Rancher #5 - His Brother's Wife #6 - A Willow Creek Christmas

Download or read book The Lawman s Promise written by Alexis Morgan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He’s the perfect catch… But for how long? Museum curator Shelby Michaels seems to be the only woman in Dunbar not chasing after the new police chief, Cade Peters. When a stranger lays claim to the town’s famous gold nugget, Shelby helps Cade find the truth. Because if the town loses this precious connection to its past, Cade’s job here is done. Can Shelby stop herself from falling for a man who may not stick around? From Harlequin Heartwarming: Wholesome stories of love, compassion and belonging. Heroes of Dunbar Mountain Book 1: The Lawman's Promise Book 2: To Trust a Hero

Download or read book The Texas Lawman s Woman written by Cathy Gillen Thacker and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Best Man In Laramie She's no damsel in distress, but Shelley Meyerson may just need a white knight like deputy sheriff Colt McCabe. Thanks to her scheming ex-husband, Shelley's about to lose her home. The last person she wants to turn to for help is Colt, the guy who broke her heart the night of the high school prom. But now that she's back in Laramie, there's no avoiding him—especially when they're both serving in the same wedding party. True, the handsome, gallant lawman is a valuable ally. And he seems genuinely interested in Shelley and her little boy. She could definitely use a friend…and maybe something more. Rekindling their romance is easy—but learning to trust again is hard. Especially when Shelley learns that Colt's been keeping a secret that could cost him his badge….

Download or read book The Reluctant Warrior High Sierra Sweethearts Book 2 written by Mary Connealy and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Union army officer Cameron Scott is used to being obeyed, but nothing about this journey to Lake Tahoe has gone as expected. He's come to fetch his daughter and nephew, and seek revenge on the people who killed his brother. Instead he finds himself trapped by a blizzard with two children who are terrified of him and stubborn but beautiful Gwen Harkness, who he worries may be trying to keep the children. When danger descends on the cabin where they're huddled, Cam is hurt trying to protect everyone and now finds Gwen caring for him too. He soon realizes why the kids love her so much and wonders if it might be best for him to move on without them. When she sees his broken heart, Gwen decides to help him win back their affection--and in the process he might just win her heart as well.

Download or read book Ralph Compton Demon s Pass written by Robert Vaughan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two men brave the unforgiving frontier in this western in Ralph Compton's Sundown Riders series. Parker Stanley’s family had a dream: to start a new life in the Far West. But en route, a Cheyenne band slaughters his parents and abducts his sister, leaving him for dead. Then a cowboy named Clay Springer rides to the rescue—and comes up with an idea. He’s got a team ready to deliver goods to the Mormons in Utah, but he’s short on funds for supplies. He knows that Parker managed to hold on to his family’s savings, so he suggests a fifty-fifty partnership. With a three-wagon, seven-man team, Parker and Clay will traverse the barren land to find a secret mountain pass that will save them three hundred miles on their journey. But out in the wilderness, Parker’s sister needs saving—and he has vowed to find her. More Than Eight Million Ralph Compton Books In Print!

Download or read book Gunfighters written by Rick Steber and published by Bonanza Publishing. This book was released on with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The names of the gunfighters are legendary: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Doc Holliday, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, Henry Plummer, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok.... These men, and others like them, epitomize the image of the Wild West. The gunfighting era was born in the late 1830s when Samuel Colt patented his single-barreled pistol with a revolving bullet chamber. But the gunfighter was not common on the frontier until after the Civil War when renegade bands of Confederate soldiers refused to surrender. Their lawless ways spread as they stole from the hated Union bankers and the monopolistic railroads, rustled from wealthy ranchers and killed anyone who dared stand in their way. Railhead towns, where the great Texas cattle drives ended, generated more than their fair share of gunfights. In these towns the distinction between the law and the outlaw was a fine line and many times the men who wore badges worked both sides of the fence. It generally fell to the individual to uphold the law and nearly every western man strapped a six-shooter to his hip. If a man's cattle or horses were stolen, if his home was ransacked or his family attacked, it was up to that man to track down the guilty party and administer swift justice. Around the turn of the 20th century the free-roaming gunfighters found the wild country could no longer hide them as technology, in the form of telegraphs and telephones, cut off escape routes. Even though the era of the gunfighter had drawn to a close, writers and movie makers, using the colorful backdrop of the Old West, turned the frontier gunfighters into larger-than-life folk heros, folk heros who will never die.

Download or read book The Reluctant Outlaw written by Karen Kirst and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inspirational historical romance"--Spine.

Download or read book Gunman s Pass written by Ralph Cotton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A keen judge of horseflesh takes a wild ride in this suspenseful new Western by USA Today bestselling author Ralph Cotton Two deputies fresh from a hard-won gunfight with the gang of notorious outlaw Dolan Coyle stroll into a saloon in the dusty little town of Broken Hat, inquiring after one Will Summers. The men are looking to swap out their exhausted horses, and they could use extra men, too. Just on the outskirts of town, Axel Coyle waits with the remnants of his brother’s crew, ready to shoot down the men who captured their leader. The deputies offer Summers a paid position in the posse escorting Dolan into federal custody. If they only knew how well acquainted the horse trader once was with the killer chained up out front, they might second-guess their proposal. Dolan had chosen a reckless trail for himself, like Summers and many others had done in their early years. Summers could not say exactly what had directed him off that trail before it managed to settle into his blood, but he’s grateful. He just doesn’t know if that resolution will hold now that his past has landed on him out of a clear blue sky… More than four million Ralph Cotton books in print!