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A number of years ago, I heard some stories about ranch and Western life I thought were among the funniest anecdotes I had ever heard. It started a quest. Over a 10-year span, I interviewed 150 cowboys, ranchers, and others, mostly in Texas and Nebraska. The result is Cowboys, Ranchers, and Assorted Characters: True Tales from the New West. It's the best of the best anecdotes from those encounters.

US Marshal Arliss “Patch” Elkins sets out to bring to justice a rich 14-year-old boy accused of murdering his parents. When someone puts a $100,000 bounty on their heads with a single stipulation - kill them - Patch and his prisoner must fight for their lives. The journey to bring the boy to trial turns into a bloody gauntlet from hell when every murderous thug within 500 miles goes after them for the bounty money and the hunter becomes the hunted.

When Hamilton tires of his deputy sheriff job he decides to try ranching, where the grass grows green and no one is shooting at him. His life is upset when the Stanton family arrive from Texas with their cattle, cowboys, feudal ways, and their beautiful daughter, Wanda. When the "Children's Blizzard" overtakes the country in 1888, the Texans and Hamilton are thrown together for mutual survival. What ensues includes adventure, generosity, misunderstanding, suffering, survival, a bit of humor, and some romance.

Within this audiobook is a collection of short stories I have written over the past few years. The stories were mostly inspired by trips I've taken, places I've stayed, and conversations I've overheard from Maine to Florida. Although these stories differ from ones I have released in the past, I hope you will enjoy listening to them as much as I enjoyed writing them.

Ship of Fools is the fourth book in The Tales of Dan Coast series and begins where Coasts of Christmas Past left off. Find out how Dan deals with the death of a young friend while looking into the disappearance of a new friend's sister. Join Dan, Red, and Skip as they fumble their way through a new mystery.

During the winter and spring of 1990, three Spokane area women were found dead, their bodies dumped along the Spokane River.

If you are tired of being broken and ineffective due to daily obstacles and lack of time circumstances, then listen to this book to find out the secret to a more amazing life! Through this book you will learn what drives most of your daily interactions with others and how to deal with your most obnoxious and difficult daily encounters.

Talk about seeing the sunny side of things: when Thomas is turned into a vampire, he sees the terrifying transformation as a gift from God. Being a vampire is not a death sentence but a second chance at life for him, and he sets off to do God's work in his new role. Too bad there are older vampires who do see their transformation as a curse and resent God. A battle ensues, pitting vampire against vampire and threatening the existence of everyone.

Set during the Great Depression, The Christians tells the story of two psychopathic Bible salesmen who murder in the name of God. Hot on their trail is a former Texas Ranger, and US Bureau of Investigation (pre-FBI) agent, John Stoddard Pyle, a man who knows no mercy, and who does not know exactly whom he is chasing, as there is no apparent motive, and virtually no clues.

Henry Kellogg was a simple man who enjoyed hiking in his Shawnee Forest and working on web projects for his clients. Then one day, while out hiking the top of Limestone Gap, he found Keyawa, a Wauami Indian, and Keyawa was injured and in need of help. But the help Keyawa needed was not to be rescued from the ledge he had fallen to, as Henry had thought upon finding him there. Keyawa needed help dying, and in order to do so, he needed a successor to the Gift of the Egg.

WMD, planted in a foreign country to justify invasion, go missing. One person knows their location. His value is tied to public reaction. Time is running out!

Moss Partridge has just had a very rude awakening. The last he remembers, it was 1864, and he was a paroled Union soldier stopping off in Denver on his way home to his wife and child in Montana. Now it's a dozen years later, he's the town drunk in Mirage, Colorado, and he has no memory of those lost years. Something sure must have happened, because there are people trying to kill him and two Indian children who are following him everywhere he goes - and, apparently, deciding whether he should live or die.

Buddhism is not just about letting your mind go blank and controlling your thoughts. It's a philosophy of life that teaches you about how to manage your life and relationships. It teaches compassion and about your oneness with God. In short, there are many parts to Buddhism, and this guide is meant to let you, the beginner, know about all aspects of the religion you can learn and how you can incorporate these into your life.

The Civil War was over: Lee had surrendered to Grant at Appomattox courthouse in Virginia. Four young warriors, tired of the horrors of war, dedicated themselves to a new life in the West, helping others along the way. Freed slaves also were making an exodus from the South, hoping to survive and find true freedom in the West. Texas was the Promised Land for many, although the Lone Star State had also suffered the ravages of the war.

McAllister is a lonely man. He has spent 10 years tracking the 10 men who made his fiancée take her life. He watched nine of them hanged - all but the one with the strange looking eyes. When a bank is robbed in Amarillo it puts him on the trail again. He follows the outlaw across Mexico where he meets a female missionary.

Following a Comanchero raid led by El Carcinero - the Butcher - young Emily Mercer has lost just about everything: her folks, her home and her future. But she'd damned if she was going to lose her beloved stallion, El Diablo, as well. With the stallion already sold to Stillman J. Stadtlander - the ruling rancher of Santa Rosa - Emily faces a ruthless opponent, who has the enigmatic gunfighter Latigo Rawlins on his payroll. But she has an ace of her own: a man, known only as Drifter, is backing her every step of the way.

Two cold-blooded killers and one stormy night of murder... together they resulted in a posse of three ill-matched man-hunters. But each of them had his own reasons for riding into Redbird Valley after the killers. For Marshal Cord, it wasn't only duty, it was personal. Charlie Pearson had something to prove - and not only to himself. As for Jack Sumlock... well, he tagged along because one of the killers was his own grandson. Up in the isolated high country, all three had to face their own demons.

George Alwood III is a spoiled and rich young man who heads west to become a mountain man in 1825. Taken under wing by two experienced old mountain men, George Alwood the third becomes Bear Killer the mountain man. After a short visit with Shoshoni Indians, Bear Killer finds himself with an unwanted wife and though he resist's, he eventually learns to love her. A cold and hard winter in the mountains brings him closer to his bride, as he learns to live as a mountain man, and just before spring she informs him a child will soon come.

Marilynn Hughes presents, The Out-Of-Body Travel Foundation Journal: Issue Seventeen: Secret Friend of Franz Hartman - Forgotten Mystical Adept

Rhone McLean can only watch his entire world burn as his wife's lifeless body disappears into the raging inferno. A mysterious cowboy in black emerges from the ashes of Rhone's home with a message of hope. His words push McLean into a quest to free Clara, but how much of himself is he ready to sacrifice?