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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... hear the silence , or what seemed like its music , the singing of the blood through his ears . Far to the southeast , from the direction of the giant military air base adjoining The Factory , came the shat- tering roar of a jet engine ...
... hear the silence , or what seemed like its music , the singing of the blood through his ears . Far to the southeast , from the direction of the giant military air base adjoining The Factory , came the shat- tering roar of a jet engine ...
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... hear it ; a continuous droning roar , the commingled vibra- tions of ten thousand automobiles , trucks , tractors , airplanes , locomotives , the hum and whine of fifty thou- sand radios , telephones , television receivers , the vast ...
... hear it ; a continuous droning roar , the commingled vibra- tions of ten thousand automobiles , trucks , tractors , airplanes , locomotives , the hum and whine of fifty thou- sand radios , telephones , television receivers , the vast ...
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... hear a meadowlark whistling in the alfalfa field beyond the ditch , and the steady rasping of cicada . The sun was high now , approaching noon and very hot . Without remounting he led the mare on a narrow wooden 16 Brave Cowboy.
... hear a meadowlark whistling in the alfalfa field beyond the ditch , and the steady rasping of cicada . The sun was high now , approaching noon and very hot . Without remounting he led the mare on a narrow wooden 16 Brave Cowboy.
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... hear the man outside talking in low tones to the horse , then his steps approaching and the musical rattle of spurs on the back porch . A knock on the door . " Jerry , " the man said . " Come on in , " she called , wiping her hands ...
... hear the man outside talking in low tones to the horse , then his steps approaching and the musical rattle of spurs on the back porch . A knock on the door . " Jerry , " the man said . " Come on in , " she called , wiping her hands ...
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... hear the mare outside , stamping , shaking her gear . " That's what I aim to do . " He gave her wrist a squeeze . " Don't you worry none about Paul ; I'll think of somethin . I sure didn't ride fifty miles just to take the air . " " I'm ...
... hear the mare outside , stamping , shaking her gear . " That's what I aim to do . " He gave her wrist a squeeze . " Don't you worry none about Paul ; I'll think of somethin . I sure didn't ride fifty miles just to take the air . " " I'm ...
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