Brave CowboyThe Brave Cowboy Jack Burnes is a loner at odds with modern civilization. A man out of time, he rides a feisty chestnut mare across the New West -- a once beautiful land smothered beneanth airstrips and superhighways. And he lives by a personal code of ethics that sets him on a collision course with the keepers of law and order. Now he has stepped over the line by breaking one too many of society's rulus. The hounds of justice are hot in his trail. But Burnes would rather die than spend even a single night behind bars. And they have to catch him first. |
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... relaxing , and stared at the city beyond the river . Stared at it from under the brim of his black slouch hat , his head tilted back against the tree , the hat pushed forward and almost down over his eyes . The attitude The Cowboy 5.
... relaxing , and stared at the city beyond the river . Stared at it from under the brim of his black slouch hat , his head tilted back against the tree , the hat pushed forward and almost down over his eyes . The attitude The Cowboy 5.
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Edward Abbey. forward and almost down over his eyes . The attitude of his head and hat , the gaze from narrowed eyes down past the flanges of the nose , the cigarette jutting at an acute angle from his mouth , made his stare seem dis ...
Edward Abbey. forward and almost down over his eyes . The attitude of his head and hat , the gaze from narrowed eyes down past the flanges of the nose , the cigarette jutting at an acute angle from his mouth , made his stare seem dis ...
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... head , watching him , swept a fly from her haunch and stamped at the sand but did not step toward him . He shrugged his shoulders wearily and walked to- ward her , eating the apple as he went . He saved the core and when he had advanced ...
... head , watching him , swept a fly from her haunch and stamped at the sand but did not step toward him . He shrugged his shoulders wearily and walked to- ward her , eating the apple as he went . He saved the core and when he had advanced ...
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... head and leaned forward and clutched at the mane with one hand , twist- ing the strong hairs around his fingers and wrist . " Come on , you bitch ! " he shouted , and whipped the mare across the flank with the leather hobble . She ...
... head and leaned forward and clutched at the mane with one hand , twist- ing the strong hairs around his fingers and wrist . " Come on , you bitch ! " he shouted , and whipped the mare across the flank with the leather hobble . She ...
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... head nerv- ously , and the leather gear on her back creaked and rustled the most reassuring and satisfying of sounds , that agitation of used , worn , familiar leather . The man heard it , turned , caught up the dragging reins , put a ...
... head nerv- ously , and the leather gear on her back creaked and rustled the most reassuring and satisfying of sounds , that agitation of used , worn , familiar leather . The man heard it , turned , caught up the dragging reins , put a ...
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