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  • The Jimmy James Lawson Gang
    Leon Taylor
    Jimmy James Lawson got off to a bad start when he began stealing to help support his family. His father had come home from the Civil War in 1865, 'shell-shocked' and unable to adequately provide for his family. Falling into disfavor in his community, Libertyville, Missouri, for his thievery, Jimmy ran away, followed by his younger brother, Willis, whom he couldn’t turn back.C...
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  • South Of The Border
    Leon Taylor
    When Ted Keyes fled to Cabo San Lucas at the tip of the Baja California Peninsula, it was a quiet and remote little fishing village. The perfect place where no one knew him, and he would never be found. He bought a charter boat business from another American, and with his wife, Maria, and her six children, Captain Ted’s Billfishing Company suspiciously grew to include a luxur...
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  • The True Adventures of Wildcat Willie
    Leon Taylor
    In his youth, Samuel Eaton idolized as heroes the outlaws, gunslingers, and lawmen written about in the dime store novels of the 1800’s, highly exaggerated stories that Samuel believed to be true. Even though he is a fearful and timid man, he ventures out West to live the adventures he read about in his youth but finds he isn’t meant for the hardships of the frontier. Eagerly...
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  • The Last Warriors
    Leon Taylor
    In 1877, one year after the Sioux and Cheyenne defeated General George Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Talking Elk, a prominent war chief, rides in with Crazy Horse to surrender at Fort Robinson but turns back before getting there. He can’t live as the U.S. Government demands. He turns, instead, to driving the gold miners out of the Black Hills who are there illeg...
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  • Pirates Gold
    Leon Taylor
    In 1850, fifteen-year-old Jonas Abrams signed on with Captain Will Johnson to sail his fifty-seven-foot cutter, Wander, from the Chesapeake Bay to St. Thomas Island in the Caribbean Sea where Captain Will wanted to establish a boat repair business. For Jonas, this is the adventure of his dreams, but, after five days at sea, they are overtaken by a violent storm, giving Jonas h...
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  • Walking on the Wind
    Leon Taylor
    That is what they were doing all right. Most other people couldn’t believe it either. Those two and their pet cat, who had no name, looking for paradise? It was the wise old sea turtle who told Burt and Clancy that paradise was across the ocean. His friend, the king bullfrog, and his warrior frogs had sailed there on their lily pad raft with sails. It wasn’t that easy for ...
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  • Legacy of Their People
    Leon Taylor
    Sonja Pretty Flower couldn’t understand how her husband, Billy Bad Feather, could be so mistaken. His fights in town only led to one more night in jail. This was 1972, surely, he could see he wasn’t going to be able to do what their warriors at the time their Lakota nation had been at its strongest could not. Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull thought together they could drive the...
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  • Alongside the Road
    Leon Taylor
    Why was he sleeping on the floor, Jack asked himself when he woke up, and why did his head hurt so bad. They were in jail again, Billy answered. They were getting out of this town, Carrot Stick added, whatever its name was, as soon as they got out of jail. That is what they did, but not before Kate caught a ride with them. She’d seen the bar fight the night before that had ...
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  • Beach Town
    Leon Taylor
    A small tourist town on the Oregon Coast, Beach Town is the descendant of the once-thriving logging and fishing industries which have since fallen into decline, giving way to the vagaries of tourism. The mayor of Beach Town, Jasper Williams, owns the one approachable watering hole in town, The Whaler Bar and Grille. He bought it from the widow Cindy Hawkins for fifteen-thousan...
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  • Spirit of the Whale
    Leon Taylor
    Sailing from Lahaina, Maui to their homeport of Honolulu aboard their cargo-hauling schooner, Island Lady, Kaimana, and his father, Slim, are attacked by a large humpback whale. She puts a hole in the bow of their small ship, breaking several of the planks and damaging some of the ribs, causing water to pour into her. Frantically, Slim and Kaimana make emergency repairs to sa...
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  • California Gold
    Leon Taylor
    It was 1850, and Johnny James, an orphan on the streets of Boston, decided to go to the goldfields of California and leave the desperation of the slums behind. He’d heard the stories told in the saloons of Boston about the forty-niners who’d gone there and struck it rich and determined he could as well.Along the way, Johnny picked up Jasper, another orphan, to go with him. Ja...
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  • Water Supply And Irrigation In Nevada
    Leon Henry Taylor
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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