Perry Owens

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Owens was a lawman and gunfighter of the Old West. He established a reputation as a gunfighter and was nominated by the People’s Party for Sheriff of Apache County, AZ. Owens won the Sheriff’s office in November 1886. One of his many exploits was the Owens-Blevins Shootout in Arizona during the Pleasant Valley War. Owens claimed to have killed 14 men during his career. In the end, Owens succumbed to Bright’s disease and died on May 28, 1919, aged 67.

Johnstone Legend: Red Ryan

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If anyone knows the road to purgatory, it’s Red Ryan. As a stagecoach guard, he’s faced holdups, ambushes, and all-out attacks from every kill-crazy outlaw, Indian, and prairie rat. But even he’s a bit reluctant to take on his next job: riding shotgun with his driver Buttons Muldoon on a stage bound from Fort Concho, Texas, to Fort Bliss. Word has it, the Apaches are on the warpath. They’re being led by a vicious war chief who means business, as in slaughtering every Texan from here to El Paso.

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When the Shooting Starts (A Smoke Jensen Novel of the West #4) 

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For Smoke and Sally Jensen, the Sugarloaf Ranch is the American Dream come true. A glorious stretch of untamed land near the Colorado-Kansas border, it’s the perfect place to stake their claim, raise some cattle, and start a new family. But when a man claiming to be an army colonel arrives in Big Rock—with a well-armed militia—the Jensens’ dream becomes a living nightmare. This stranger calls himself Colonel Lamar Talbot. He’s come to warn them about a looming war with the Cheyenne Indians. And only he can save them from a bloody massacre—by launching a counterattack that’s even bloodier. . . .

Pearl Taylor Hart

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Hart was an outlaw of the American Old West. She committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies in the United States, and her crime gained notoriety primarily because of her gender. She would go on to spend most of her life in and out of prison. She is acknowledged as the only known female stagecoach robber in Arizona’s history earning her the nicknames of “Bandit Queen” or “Lady Bandit”.