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RIVERS WEST: THE YELLOWSTONE Win Blevins
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RIVERS WEST: THE SMOKEY HILL Don Coldsmith
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RIVERS WEST: THE COLORADO Gary McCarthy
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Bold men and women risked their lives in the vast western wilderness to carve a life for themselves. One such man was Robert Burns "The Dancer" Maclean, who found his destiny in the mountains above the Yellowstone.
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Through the rolling grasslands of Kansas runs the Smoky Hill River, a rich source of opportunity for those bold enough to risk the dream-killing territory.
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When the rest of the West was already won...the mountains remained unspoiled and deadly. The men and women who tamed this savage land were tough, lawless and, when necessary, as mean as the traps they carried.
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RIVERS WEST: THE RUSSIAN Gary McCarthy
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RIVERS WEST: THE COLUMBIA Jory Sherman
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RIVERS WEST: THE GILA Gary McCarthy
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Along the harsh north California coast the otter swam, enough to fill the Russian's trading ships with valuable pelts. Inland lay another land, a river wilderness where game and grizzly thrived.
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Haunting, majestic, powerful, the Columbia River flowed down from the rugged Rockies, through the deep, forbidden forests, and across the open plain. Along its banks, bold, strong men of ambition and enterprise sought their fortune.
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The Gila River flows gently through the parched Sonoran Desert and along its banks fierce Apaches, Pima farmers, Spaniards and brash Americans all vie for control in a harsh and unforgiving land.
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RIVERS WEST: THE RIO GRANDE Jory Sherman
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RIVERS WEST: THE HUMBOLDT RIVER Gary McCarthy
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RIVERS WEST: THE PECOS Frederic Bean
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From the distant mountains, through the vast deserts to the Gulf of Mexico flows the Rio Grande River, giving life, promising adventure, shaping empires. And across its banks fought the Americans, the Mexican Army, the Shoshone, the Utes and the Arapaho Indians.
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For many bold pioneers headed west, the sweetest sight of all was the Humboldt River, a crooked ribbon of silver snaking through Nevada into California. But to Libby Pike and her family, the Humboldt brought sudden disaster.
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Buck Wallace, a lone white man in the land of the Kwahadie Comanche, was determined to make his home by the Pecos River. He vowed to live alongside the Kwahadies and carve his own private paradise out of the wilderness.
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RIVERS WEST: THE SNAKE RIVER Win Blevins
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RIVERS WEST: THE ARKANSAS RIVER Jory Sherman
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RIVERS WEST: THE PURGATORY Frank Roderus
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Flare O'Flaherty, of Irish descent, mountain man and gambler, agrees to lead a group of missionaries down the Snake River to the remote headquarters of Hudson's Bay Company. Along the way, he faces the greatest challenges of a wandering man's lifetime.
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Eastward, as far as the eye could see, stretched the Great Plains. Westward rose the Rockies, snow-capped peaks of grandeur. In the middle flowed a mighty river - silent, glistening, and turbulent - the bloodline of a wide and wild land.
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Amid the magnificent desolation of the American Southwest ran a river of hope, bringing life to the desert, and pioneers to a forbidding land. They gathered on the banks of the Purgatory - wandering souls on the run from the past - or in search of the future.
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RIVERS WEST: THE POWDER RIVER Win Blevins
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RIVERS WEST: THE TWO MEDICINE RIVER Richard S. Wheeler
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RIVERS WEST: THE BRAZOS Jory Sherman
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The northern Cheyenne still called the lush Powder River country their sacred home. But now, far to the south in harsh Indian Territory, the bitter remnants of that once mighty nation were growing feeble and dying.
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Down the eastern slopes of the Rockies, out upon the Great Plains, and into the heart of Blackfeet country flows the Two Medicine River. To this wild and beautiful land come a pair of young wanderers, half-breeds born of two worlds...but belonging to neither.
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Through a harsh land of mesquite and prickly pear, scattered oaks and carpets of stubborn grass, the Brazos River wound its way south to the Gulf of Mexico. To its banks came settlers from across America.
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RIVERS WEST: THE HIGH MISSOURI Win Blevins
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RIVERS WEST: THE SOUTH PLATTE Jory Sherman
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RIVERS WEST: THE AMERICAN RIVER By Gary McCarthy
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In his quest toward the legendary High Missouri, Dylan Campbell, a would-be priest from the East, learned on the frontier what it meant to brawl and scratch for your life with body and soul as he witnessed acts of violence, carnality, and evil he could never have imagined.
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At the far western edge of the Great Plains, where the prairie meets the mountains, flows the South Platte, drawing farmers, traders and trappers to land long held sacred by two proud tribes. As the pioneers stake claims beside the pure waters of the river conflicts threaten to explode into war.
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John Augustus Sutter came to the wide and wild California country to build an empire. At his side was Morgan Beck, out to stake his own claim at the confluence of two powerful rivers, the Sacramento and the American.
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RIVERS WEST: RED RIVER Frederic Bean
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Flatboat pilot Eli McBee and his partner Seth Booker leave their former life on the great Mississippi River to seek their fortunes out west. Drawn by the promise of an unspoiled paradise rich in furs, they set their sights on the banks of the uncharted Red River.
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