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Ranger series (Ralph W. Cotton)

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Cotton, Ralph
 
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Book cover for "Hell's Riders".
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Series Volume:
0010
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The tough-skinned novels of famed Western writer Ralph Cotton regularly appear on the USA Today best-seller list. Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack thought he'd seen every despicable act of cruelty and murder any man could exact on another. He thought wrong. When he stumbles upon the butchered remains of a scalptaking massacre, he's choked with disgust. So Burrack teams up with veteran Sheriff Boyd Tackett, who's more than willing to help bring these vile...
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Series Volume:
0012
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With over 25 novels under his belt, Cotton writes tales that are popular for their brand of frontier justice. He spins a yarn of intrigue and suspense in Dead Man's Canyon. Ranger Sam Burrack is hot on the trail of identical twin outlaws, but only one is alive when he catches up to them. Could Abel have killed his brother in self-defense as he claims? It seems the manhunt has only just begun.
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Series Volume:
0013
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USA Today best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize nominee Ralph Cotton is one of the most popular chroniclers of the Old West. In Killing Plain he displays the striking combination of gritty authenticity and lyrical beauty that has earned widespread critical acclaim. Lonzo Greer and his Black Moon gang are leaving a blood-soaked trail on the unforgiving desert sands of the Arizona Territory-and they've got a personal vendetta against Ranger Sam Burrack....
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Series Volume:
0014
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Ralph Cotton is hailed for his rough and tumble Westerns full of historical details. Although Ella Lang is now known as Queen of the Outlaws, there was a day when she and Ranger Sam Burrack were deeply in love. Now they're on opposite sides of the law and Burrack is out to rid the West of Lang's motley gang of outlaws.
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Series Volume:
0015
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USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton's westerns are unmatched in their hair-triggered intensity and finely crafted Old West spectacle. In Trouble Creek, hard-hearted Texas Ranger Sam Burrack returns to extinguish a brushfire of outlaw villainy. Dick Lowry and his gang are robbing banks and stages like it's a God-given right-and that chaps Sam something fierce.
Book cover for "Gunfight at Cold Devil".
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Series Volume:
0016
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USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton thrills millions with "solidly crafted" Westerns that bristle with "disarming realism" (Publishers Weekly). Ranger Burrack and Federal Marshal Summers must battle Arizona regulator Morgan Waite and his band of vigilantes. When Burrack and Summers apprehend Cold Devil's saloon owner Jack Spain, Spain offers $10,000 to anyone who frees him. Getting wind of Spain's reward, Waite and his posse bushwhack the lawmen...
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Series Volume:
0017
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USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton exhibits the same dead-eye aim for storytelling that his fictional gunfighters show for slingin' lead. In Guns on the Border, Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack heads out into the Mexican badlands to track down the dirtiest scoundrels to ever strap on a six-gun and laugh in the face of the law. But Burrack is anything but amused, and retribution is soon to be paid. "One of the best Western writers today."-Western...
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Series Volume:
0018
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USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton is hailed as "one of the best Western writers today" by Western Horseman. When Texas Bob Krey gets a hot hand in cards, his good luck sparks a gunfight. Once the smoke clears, two men are dead, including the brother of Judge Henry Bass. Now Texas Bob is an outlaw, and only Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack has the firepower to save him.
Book cover for "Nightfall at Little Aces".
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Series Volume:
0019
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With 1.5 million copies of his books in print, Ralph Cotton has won countless fans for his authentic, actionpacked Westerns. Sheriff 's widow Emma Vertrees is far from the straight-and-narrow citizen the residents of Little Aces assume her to be. When fate reunites her with Memphis Warren Beck, a member of a despicable collection of miscreants known as the Hole-in-the-wall Gang, Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack finds himself right in the line of fire.
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Series Volume:
0020
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In this thrilling tale, tough-as-rawhide ranger Sam Burrack pursues a posse of violent jailbreakers. As he follows the bloody trail, Sam comes face-to-face with an unpleasant foe: the legendary Hole-in-the-Wall Gang.
Book cover for "Showdown at Hole-In-the -Wall".
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Series Volume:
0021
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Since the publication of his first novel in 1994, Ralph Cotton has impressed readers and critics alike with gritty tales of the Old West. Some time ago, Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack caught a bullet in the back. After a winter spent healing, he's now traveling to meet Memphis Beck, leader of the notorious Hole-in-the-Wall gang and the man who saved his life. But another player explodes on the scene-an assassin known as the Dutchman. And as these three...
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Series Volume:
0022
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USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton writes about the Old West with equal parts glorified action and gritty authenticity. In Riders from Long Pines, Cotton crafts a sharp shoot-'em-up that is sure to broaden his already expansive fan base. When a band of drovers stumbles upon the goods that were left behind after a botched robbery, they decide to do the moral thing and take the money to its rightful owner. But there's an outlaw after the prize,...
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Series Volume:
0023
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USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton's gritty tales effortlessly capture the glory days of the Old West. Hanging in Wild Wind finds Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack crossing the Badlands, hot on the trail of Silva "The Snake" Ceran and his gang. But this time the ranger may have bitten off more than he can chew-especially when he comes across Ceran's girlfriend, wildcat Kitty Dellaros, who has a deadly reputation of her own.
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Series Volume:
0024
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USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton pens rough-and-tumble Westerns full of smokin' six-shooters and nefarious outlaws. In Black Valley Riders, Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack teams up with two bounty hunters to track the elusive Black Valley bandits. There's just one problem-the only man who knows the secret route to their hideout is Tinnis Lucas, a drunken gambler the likes of which Burrack has never before encountered.
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Series Volume:
0025
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Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack is hunting Luis and Teto Torres, the notorious leaders of the ruthless Gun Killers Gang. Little does he know that an ambush is waiting for him in the town of Wild Roses. Only the courageous actions of the beautiful Erin Donovan keep the ranger from meeting his end. But Erin has a secret that may prove deadlier than any ambush.
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Series Volume:
0026
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Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack's on the trail of a gang of bank robbers, a mission that's led him right into the path of a raging wildfire. As the pines around him go up in flames, Burrack is determined to catch the murderous Cheyenne Kid and his gang and recover the money they stole. But Burrack isn't the only one with a case against the Kid. When Gilley Maclaine overhears the Cheyenne Kid reveal his plans to kill her, she swipes the money he promised...
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Series Volume:
0027
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ONE BAD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack is deep in Old Mexico, tracking two of the most heinous outlaws it' s ever been his bad luck to track. Hodding "Hot Aces" Siebert and Bobby Hugh Bellibar have nine bank robberies, three train hijackings, and more than a dozen payroll raids to their names. And they've left an undertaker's fortune in dead bodies all along the border country. But there is no honor among thieves. When the pair is...
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Series Volume:
0028
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HOLY HELL Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack has encountered many a relentless outlaw in his days as a lawman, but none quite like Fannin "Dad" Orwick. The devout leader of the Redemption Riders, Orwick robs and kills to support his ever-expanding family of young wives and children, all in the name of the Lord. After the Ranger learns that Orwick is moving his harem of wives to a compound deep in the Mexican badlands, he heads south-- and meets an unlikely...
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Series Volume:
0029
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WANTED: ONE DEAD RANGER Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack is headed for Yuma, escorting Harvey " Cisco" Lang to prison and Adele Simpson to safety. He knows full well of their shared romantic history, and even though Adele swears she' s done with Cisco, Burrack is keeping a hard eye on her as well as on the outlaw. But his companions are the least of his worries. A ruthless cattle baron has put a five-thousand-dollar price on Burrack' s head-- and every...
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Series Volume:
0030
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A KILLER STORM In the dark of night during a raging storm, a criminal is on the loose in the Arizona badlands. His name is Wilson Orez. Half-Apache and a former cavalry scout, Orez is skilled with weapons, seasoned in the desert, and trained to keep a cool head while death lurks all around him. Or when it springs from his own hands. Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack knows the only way to stop Orez is to kill him. But the madman has robbed a stagecoach, driven...
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Series Volume:
0031
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A Family Affair The Traybo brothers have a reputation for being gentleman outlaws-the kind who will make polite chatter as they take your life savings. But Ranger Samuel Burrack has no sympathy for those who show poor manners when it comes to obeying the law. He's traveled as far as the Mexican Badlands to pick up the Traybo brothers' ex-cohort Fatch Hardaway to lead him to his prey. Burrack isn't alone on his pursuit. Ranger Dallas Garand and his...
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Series Volume:
0032
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When wanted men don't want to be found, they hole up in Agua FrIa, Mexico. Nestled in the twisted hills of the Blood Mountain Range just across the border from Arizona, the town is divided by two ruthless gangs of thieves and killers. On one side stands Texas Red Madson, and on the other is Raymond Segert. Between them stands Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack. He rides into Agua FrIa in the guise of a vicious gunslinger with a plan to ingratiate himself...
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Series Volume:
0033
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KNOW YOUR ENEMY.
 
Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack is a predator lying in wait. He’s undercover as an outlaw to infiltrate a pair of vicious border gangs and bring them down. This mission has already had its share of casualties, and if Burrack has his say, there will be more.
 
A cloud of dust rises as four men ride toward the Twisted Hills. The only thing between them and certain death at the hands of the Apaches is...
Book cover for "Golden Riders".
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Series Volume:
0034
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Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack has something of a reputation for finishing what he sets out to do-usually with a shot from his Winchester. He'd been on the trail of five gunmen for days. Then there was four. And he doesn't plan on stopping until every member of the notorious Golden Riders is behind bars or underground. But when a few of the riders escape in a jailbreak, word gets back to gang leader Braxton Kane that his brother fell under the gun of...
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Series Volume:
0036
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LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Arizona Territory Ranger Sam Burrack rides the border badlands to Iron Point hoping to capture Ozzie Cord, a mercenary who killed a sheriff back in Mesa Grande. Cord escaped jail once, but won't get away this time... But as Sam nears his prey, the trail of scalped bodies makes it clear that someone else has a vendetta. By all appearances, Turner "Big Foot" Pridemore, leader of the scalpers, has gained major footing in Iron Point....
Book cover for "Showdown at Gun Hill".
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Series Volume:
0037
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Arizona Territory Ranger Sam Burrack is sent to retrieve the sheriff of Big Silver, Arizona, and escort him to Yuma. Sheriff Sheppard Stone once saved the life of Territory Judge Albert Long, but the judge has heard stories of Stone turning into a reckless drunk--stories that are confirmed when Burrack rides into town. Holed up in his office on a days-long whiskey bender, Stone has been terrifying the townsfolk and firing bullets into the street....Getting...
Book cover for "Payback at Big Silver".
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Series Volume:
0038
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From the USA Today bestselling author of Showdown at Gun Hill comes a tale of outlaws and order in the Old West.
A FATHER’S FURY
Arizona Territory Ranger Sam Burrack knows all too well that criminals don’t concern themselves with consequences. So it’s no surprise to him when Big Silver’s Sheriff Sheppard Stone makes an enemy of wealthy cattle rancher Edsel Centrila, whose son thinks he’s...