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Here is a diverting tale of an Eastern girl who discovers there is more to the West than dude ranches and rodeos. Mary Sutherland was lured to Arizona by the glowing advertisements of the Wagon Wheel ranch. She remained to prove she was no pampered "dude" but the rightful heir to her grandfather's fighting spirit. It was Hamilton Henley's disapproval of the Eastern girl as a possible daughter-in-law that started. Mary on her impromptu career as owner of a bankrupt ranch, self-appointed sheriff's assistant, and general nuisance to rustlers. Kyne has provided an engrossing plot enriched with the amusing weaknesses of Pa Burdan, the forthright prejudices of Hamilton Henley, and the unswerving loyalty of a courageous girl.

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Enchanted Hill, The

"The Enchanted Hill" is the name of a ranch in New Mexico owned by the hero of the story, Major Lee Purdy, ex-aviator. There are two girls, Purdy's frail sister Hallie, and Gail Ormsby of Los Angeles who comes to New Mexico to look after her ranch, and with whom Lee falls in love at first sight. The manager of Gail's ranch, Ira Todd, is a deep-dyed villain who furnishes Gail with unpleasant facts concerning Lee's life, and who on a few occasions hires men to kill Purdy. Thus the story is provided with tragedy, the hum of aeroplanes and the brave work of a loyal collie who speeds the villain's day of reckoning. Gail Ormsby valiantly stands by and watches the retribution of Todd and the salvation of Lee Purdy, and inevitably shares a large interest in the "Enchanted Hill" and its owner.

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Golden Dawn

The story of Penelope Gatlin, society girl cast into the underworld by force of circumstances. A childhood accident had a strange effect upon the character of Penelope, resulting in a dual personality. As Nance Beldon she became involved with crooked companions in San Francisco, landed in San Quentin and made good her escape. Now into the scene comes Dan McNamara, Chief of Police, he of the big heart and by no means stupid head. How Dan matched wits with his own men to save the friendless girl, and how double-barreled romance steps into the picture after a series of exciting adventures makes a story that only Peter B. Kyne, master of Irish wit and story-teller extraordinary, can tell.

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Gringo Privateer, The

Readers have a rich treat in this book which contains two practically full-length novels by Mr. Kyne -- "The Gringo Privateer" and "Island of Desire". The first tells of young Kenneth Burney who turned up on the Mexican line with no apparent errand, yet more opportunely for the border cattle king. Rustlers, working a particularly unpleasant scheme with the local sheriff, were running roughshod over the border country -- until Kenneth turned his engaging attention -- from his employer's daughter to their activities. Fast shooting and faster thinking carry this high-spirited romance to a smashing climax.

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Jim the Conqueror

Don Jaime Higuenes, "lord of a million acres" down Texas way, descendent of Castilian aristocrats, in private life "Jimmy Higgins", was a grand and spacious personality, and a daredevil to boot. Roberts Antrim, who was Easthampton and twice as high-hat, had red hair and ambitions and temperament to match. Was "Jimmy Higgins" shot her uncle as a marauding sheep-owner and sent her a laconic telegram informing her of the fact, Roberta heard the call: "Go West, Young Woman!" And the border country of Los Algodones, Texas, was never the same again. here is one of Peter B. Kyne's best romances of the open spaces, told with all the flash and zest and whimsicality that makes him one of America's most widely read story tellers.

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Kindred of the Dust

A love story of the great Northwest, and of the sort of people who grow there. It has three characters that stand out in contemporary fiction:

"The Old Laird" -- Hector McKaye, millionaire lumber king, a fine old gentleman who has centered the great hopes of a mighty life in his son.

"The Young Laird" -- Donald McKaye, who is torn between his love for his father and his love for Nan.

"The Outcast of Port Agnew" -- "Nan of the Sawdust Pile," ostracized by the townsfolk, who has made two mistakes in life.

Above all, it is of a man's belief in the woman he loves.

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Long Chance, The

Here is a story fresh from the heart of the desert with all the tang of the West to it, that Frederick Remington, the master, put into his paintings. The San Pasqual of the story is a California desert town from its sun-baked, brick-red string of idle box cars right up to the silver dollar restaurant. The characters of Mr. Kyne's story are real people that you can't run away from. Harley P. Hennage, the gambler, the best and worst man in San Pasqual, and bob McGraw, dreamer and "desert rat," will warm the cockles of your heart with their friendship, and you will simply love Donna, brave little daughter of the desert, who prayed over her infant son. "Dear God, help me to raise a man and teach him to be kind."

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Lord of Lonely Valley

Read about a real man ... read about Ray Lanier from out where the old West is still young. Ray was broke -- mortgaged to the hilt -- but he was still Lord of Lonely Valley ... the last of the Laniers who rode as monarchs over their vast ranchlands. When Milo Landrum learned that there was half a million dollars in unexploited water rights on Ray's ranch, he tried to "muscle in", big city fashion. But Lonely Valley had always been a bad place for intruders. Ray's reply to hired thugs and machine guns was "The Laniers kill their own rats .." And read about a real girl ... Janet Corliss halted her cross country jaunt in Modoc City and sprang to the young fellow who had ducked under a rain of bullets from a hidden gun. That's how Ray Lanier gained a trained nurse and staunch ally. As a potential killer -- an outcast -- Ray felt he could expect no more ... It never occurred to him that any woman would understand what Lonely Valley meant to Lanier.

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Never the Twain Shall Meet

Dan Pritchard, successful young shipping merchant, suddenly finds himself guardian to Tamea, a beautiful half-caste South Sea island queen. She is intelligent and schooled in French and English, but unrestrained in her emotions. She immediately falls in love with him and openly demonstrates her affection. Dan's friend, Maisie Morrison, also loving him, is too well-bred to claim him in such a primitive and unconventional manner. There is a constant struggle between two women till Tamea wins him thru sheer infatuation, while Dan is too bewildered to act coherently. After a few months of happiness, Tamea senses his utter inadaptability to the sameness of island life and his yearning for his own race. When Maisie comes at her request, Tamea remains behind while Maisie and Dan return together to live in a more conventional environment.

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Outlaws of Eden

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Parson of Panamint, The

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Pride of Palomar

When two men clash and the under-dog has Irish blood in his veins -- a tale Kyne can tell.

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They Also Serve

"They Also Serve" is a story in which the protagonist is neither private nor general, second-class seaman nor admiral, nor anything in between. He went into the Service before the draft yet without volunteering, for this is a tale of the Great War as it might be told by one of the four-footed conscripts. And the hero is a cowboy's horse who served in France with the artillery. Kyne's vitality and racy humor are at their height in this equine commentary upon the army, which is also a love story as sensed by one witness whose presence never put constraint upon the lover's ardor. There isn't a man who went to the war, or a boy who wanted to go, or a woman whether she went or stayed at home, that will not relish the gusto of "They Also Serve."

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Tide of Empire

A lone young Irish adventurer, Dermod D'Arcy by name, forged across the lofty mountains that lie between Nevada and California. As he came down from the Indian-infested trails, yellow sand was being washed out of the beds of California streams. The gold rush was on. It was a queer medley of comrades that Dermod found waiting for him in this new gold-created world. There was the gallant British surgeon who was absent without leave from H.M.S. Invincible; the renegade New England minister; the crew of liberated jailbirds, whose inventory included "three horse thieves, two killers, one Chinese cook, one bigamist." But for compensation there was the lovely Josepha, daughter of that sturdy old aristocrat Don Jose. It is a fast-moving, high-spirited story that Mr. Kyne has to tell, and he tells it with all his inimitable vitality and zest.

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Valley of the Giants, The

The fight of the Cardigans, father and son, to hold the valley of the giants against treachery.

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