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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... miles away , stretched out like a long gray shadow on the other side of the river , or would take a look at the chestnut mare limping among the black rocks beyond the wash , its forelegs held stiffly together , its iron shoes scraping ...
... miles away , stretched out like a long gray shadow on the other side of the river , or would take a look at the chestnut mare limping among the black rocks beyond the wash , its forelegs held stiffly together , its iron shoes scraping ...
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... miles away , the city lay waiting , stirring faintly but in silence - vague wisps of smoke and dust , glints of reflected light from moving objects , a motion of shadows -- not yet fully awake and too far to be heard . In the early ...
... miles away , the city lay waiting , stirring faintly but in silence - vague wisps of smoke and dust , glints of reflected light from moving objects , a motion of shadows -- not yet fully awake and too far to be heard . In the early ...
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... mile or more until it veered too much to the south . Under the arroyo's banks , on the fine drifted sand , he noted the delicate hieroglyphics of field mice , lizards , gophers , jackrabbits , quail and buz- zards , but in the light of ...
... mile or more until it veered too much to the south . Under the arroyo's banks , on the fine drifted sand , he noted the delicate hieroglyphics of field mice , lizards , gophers , jackrabbits , quail and buz- zards , but in the light of ...
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... miles east of the city the Sangre Mountains began to reveal themselves in more detail as the sun rose higher , the ... mile high into the frosty blue sky , sparkling with a new fall of snow . The mountains loomed over the valley like a ...
... miles east of the city the Sangre Mountains began to reveal themselves in more detail as the sun rose higher , the ... mile high into the frosty blue sky , sparkling with a new fall of snow . The mountains loomed over the valley like a ...
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... mile of a sheep camp : black tarpaper shack , a cardboard housetrailer resting on two flat tires , a brush corral ... miles an hour over a wash- board road . The distance and the silence , the grotesque disproportion between the small ...
... mile of a sheep camp : black tarpaper shack , a cardboard housetrailer resting on two flat tires , a brush corral ... miles an hour over a wash- board road . The distance and the silence , the grotesque disproportion between the small ...
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