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1) Reaching Colorado

Author

Roderus, Frank

Series

Harrison Wilke Trilogy

Pub. Date

1984

Physical Desc

178 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

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Tenderfoot Harrison Wilke wondered about the three men: heavily armed, avoiding the town, carrying gold coin in their saddlebags. Alert. Surly. Arrogant. Robbers, Harrison concluded; they must have robbed a bank or a train. Harrison thought about the money in the saddlebags while he worked. He had no idea how much was there or where it might have come from. But he was convinced that these three unpleasant men had come by its possession dishonestly....

2) Cowboy

Author

Roderus, Frank

Pub. Date

1981

Edition

1st ed.

Physical Desc

184 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

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Cowboy had been drifting ever since he left his home in Yellow House Creek, Texas, moving from ranch to ranch, making enough money to buy the Triple X Ranch. It was a bargain...or so it seemed.

3) Leaving Kansas

Author

Roderus, Frank

Series

Harrison Wilke Trilogy
Double D western

Pub. Date

1983

Edition

1st ed.

Physical Desc

178 pages ; 22 cm.

Language

English

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Available again for the first time in nearly 30 years, Frank Roderus's classic novel LEAVING KANSAS is the compelling story of a young man who considers himself born in the wrong time and place. Living on a Kansas cattle ranch, Harrison Wilke believes that he was destined for better things, more civilized things than life on the frontier during the last fading days of the Old West. Harrison's efforts to make that dream a reality lead him into nothing...

4) Charlie and the Sir

Author

Roderus, Frank

Series

Double D western

Pub. Date

1988

Edition

1st ed.

Physical Desc

180 pages ; 22 cm.

Language

English

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Charlie Roy and pale, skinny Sir Arthur, an English gentleman, arrive at the Crown B ranch north of Cheyenne which is owned by the Sir's sister, Elizabeth. Elizabeth was widowed the past winter, and left with a ranch that lost nearly all its beef stock from the brutal 86'-87' winter freeze. Additionally, Elizabeth's dead husband's former partner, Justin Harper, is hell-bent on taking over her ranch. But what Harper and his boys don't figure on is...

5) Finding Nevada

Author

Roderus, Frank

Series

Harrison Wilke Trilogy

Pub. Date

1985

Edition

1st ed.

Physical Desc

189 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

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Frank Roderus's critically acclaimed, award-winning Harrison Wilke trilogy comes to a rousing conclusion in FINDING NEVADA, which finds reluctant hero Harrison embroiled in a dispute over a potentially valuable gold mine. From Denver's high society to the rough-and-tumble mining camp of Goldfield, Nevada, Harrison has to navigate a treacherous path that includes murder, action, and romance. The Western Fictioneers Library presents another classic...

6) Old Kyle's boy

Author

Roderus, Frank

Pub. Date

1981

Edition

1st ed.

Physical Desc

185 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

7) The 33 brand

Author

Roderus, Frank

Pub. Date

1977

Edition

1st ed.

Physical Desc

181 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

8) Ransom

Author

Roderus, Frank

Pub. Date

2011

Physical Desc

229 pages ; 21 cm

Language

English

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John Taylor works a lot as a day laborer or cowboy, taking pretty much any job he can get. Actually, he spends most of his time resenting Richard Hahn, the man who's living with the woman John loves, John's wife, Jessie.