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2) First cow
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"A skilled cook has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers in Oregon, though he only finds true connection with a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two collaborate on a successful business"--www.imdb.com
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"There are two kinds of traps in the Old West. One is the kind that Preacher and his buddy, Charlie, use to catch a mountain-load of fur pelts. The other is the kind that Charlie steps into a trap set by a low-life gambler and his seductive partner in crime to swindle Charlie out of his fur money. Preacher hates to see a good friend get robbed. So he sets off after the grifters on a riverboat bound for New Orleans. First, he infiltrates the criminal...
4) The revenant
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"A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team"--www.imdb.com.
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THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITERS OF THE 21ST-CENTURY
Uncharted. Untamed. Unforgiving. This is the epic story of the American frontier-and the trailblazing fur trappers who lived it, conquered it, and often died for it. Bestselling authors William W. and J.A. Johnstone take readers on an unforgettable journey into the wild, where nature is cruel, fear is the enemy-and only the strong survive...
TO THE RIVER'S END
Luke Ransom was just eighteen...
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First mountain man series volume 29
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When greed overtakes men's souls, it falls to the righteous mountaineer known as Preacher to rain fire and brimstone upon them from the barrels of his guns . . .
JOHNSTONE COUNTRY.
THE SPIRIT OF COURAGE AND TRUE GRIT.
Preacher has agreed to escort Barnaby Cooper through Dakota Territory's hills to establish a trading post. Accompanied by his friends Lorenzo and Tall Dog, the mountain man hopes they'll be able to protect Cooper from Sioux...
8) Born to hang
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Jeremiah Halstead volume 4
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Jeremiah Halstead knew it would be hard to uphold the law in a buckwild boomtown like Silver Cloud, Montana. He also knew it would be easy to make some dangerous enemies. But he never counted on a foe as flat-out evil as Ed Zimmerman. This cold, conniving cutthroat may be awaiting trial, but the outlaw bounty he placed on Halstead's head is still in effect. Warrants have been issued for Halstead's arrest--and even his once-close friends are looking...
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Biblioasis international translation volume no. 19
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During the early summer of 1967, two inseparable teenage beauties are found dead in the forest and Detective Stan Michaud is determined to find out what happening in Boundary before someone else is found dead.
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, Michael Punke's The Revenant is the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass
The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is among the company's finest men, an experienced
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Of the settlers, prospectors, trappers, mountaineers and loggers who came to British Columbia's remote Bute Inlet between the 1890s and the 1940s, few remained long. August Schnarr, however, trapped far up the Homathko and Southgate Rivers and logged the inlet shores from 1910 until the 1960s. An adventurous photographer, August strapped his Kodak camera to his suspenders and captured his mountain climbing, upriver treks and family homestead. His...
14) The searchers
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"The searchers": John Wayne and John Ford's 12th collaboration, perhaps their finest, is an epic story of a former Confederate soldier in search of his niece, who's been captured by Comanches who masscred his family.
"Jeremiah Johnson": Robert Redford and director Sydney Pollack teamed up on this box-office hit shot entirely in Utah. Jeremiah Johnson "gets back to nature" in a way no film has before or since
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