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The 10 Deadliest Wild West Gunfighters
Duration: May 1, 2018-April 30, 2019

Levels:
Addle-pot: 5-15 books
Mouldy Grubs: 16-30 books
Dabster: 31-45 books

The Gunfighters:

James “Wild Bill” Hickok
Deadly gunman and Old West folk hero James “Wild Bill” Hickok was born in Illinois on May 27, 1837. Hickok is said to have been a great shot, even as a youngster, and was well known for his marksmanship with a pistol. He had many nicknames. A few he gave himself.

On April 15, 1871, Hickok took over as the marshal of Abilene, Texas. Hickok traveled with Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show for a few years, performing as himself. Fate caught up with Hickok on August 2, 1876 when a man named Jack McCall walked into the Deadwood, (South) Dakota saloon in which Hickok was playing poker and shot him in the head from behind.
The hand of cards which he supposedly held at the time of his death has become known as the dead man's hand: two pairs, aces and eights.

✹ 1. Read a book with a character that is a law man.
✹ 2. Read a book with a poker scene.
✹ 3. Read a book with a character that has a nickname.
✹ 4. Read a book where a character has to travel to earn his/her living.
✹ 5. Read a book with a moustache or playing cards on the cover. Please post the cover.

William “Curly Bill” Brocius
Born around 1845, William Brocius, better known as “Curly Bill” Brocius, may well be Arizona’s most famous – or infamous – outlaw. He was involved in multiple gunfights and related incidents, including the accidental shooting of Tombstone town marshal Fred White on October 27, 1880 and the March 8, 1881 killing of a cowboy named Dick Lloyd.

Brocius was known for a mean sense of humor when drunk. He was reported to have perpetrated such "practical jokes" as using gunfire to make a preacher "dance" during a sermon and making Mexicans at a community dance take off their clothes and dance naked.

On March 24, 1882, Wyatt Earp killed Brocius during a shootout involving the Earp posse, Brocius and several other cowboys in Iron Springs, Arizona.

✹ 6. Read a book set in Arizona.
✹ 7. Read a book with a character that is very mean.
✹ 8. Read a book whose author or MC has an unusual last name. Tell us the name.
✹ 9. Read a book with a character that has curly hair.

Dallas Stoudenmire
Dallas Stoudenmire was born in Aberfoil, Alabama on December 11, 1845. He fought in the Civil War, and he later operated as a Texas Ranger for three or more years.

In April 1881, Stoudenmire became marshal of El Paso, Texas – this being an infamously lawless and violent town at the time. On his third day on the job, Stoudenmire killed three men with two .44 caliber Colt revolvers in a famous incident known as the “Four Dead In Five Seconds” gunfight. Although the crime rate in El Paso fell significantly, and Stoudenmire earned himself repute as a legendary lawman and gunslinger, he also made himself a lot of enemies. On September 18, 1882, he was shot and killed during a shootout with the Manning brothers, the culmination of a feud. He was 36 years old.

✹ 10. Read a book with a title that has a number in it.
✹ 11. Read a book a character that dies young - 36 or younger.
✹ 12. Read a book where characters are involved in a feud or vendetta.
✹ 13. Read a book with a character whose name is also a name of a city, country or place. Example: Dallas - Dallas, Tx.
✹ 14. Read a book set in a town/city on or near a border. Tell us which border. May be a state or country's border.

Luke Short
Fast-drawing gunslinger and killer Luke Short was born in Mississippi in 1854 but was raised in Texas. Leaving home whilst in his teens, Short worked as a cowboy, an illegal whiskey trader, a professional gambler and an investor in various saloons. Short had a reputation for his skill with a gun. Short had been in over thirty engagements fighting Indians while working for the government. His first Indian fight was in 1869.

After buying shares in the Long Branch Saloon, Short was branded “undesirable” by the Dodge City, KS authorities, and they made attempts to get rid of him. He was determined not to go down without a fight, Short reached out to Old West lawman Bat Masterson, who in turn got in touch with Wyatt Earp. Earp then descended on Dodge City with a posse of desperados. And in order to prevent any conflict, Short was allowed back into Dodge and given permission to reopen his saloon – all without a single gunshot sounding. Short is also famous for winning a duel against Jim Courtright on February 8, 1887 in Forth Worth, Texas, where his ability to pull a pistol saved his own life – and ended Courtright’s.

✹ 15. Read a book where a character owns a bar.
✹ 16. Read a book where a character participates in a duel.
✹ 17. Read a book with a Native American character.
✹ 18. Read a book where a character works for the government. Tell us what their job is.

Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan
Born in Tama County, Iowa in 1867, Harvey Logan – otherwise known as “Kid Curry” – was caught up in criminal activity such as robbery from a young age, and in 1894 he got on the wrong side of the law in Montana. As the story goes, a miner and lawman named Powell “Pike” Landusky believed that Logan was involved with his daughter and accused him of assault. Logan was taken away by police and beaten. So on December 27, the 27-year-old Logan confronted Landusky in a saloon and shot and killed him with a pistol. Afterward the daughter said it was Lonny Logan she was involved with.
Forced to flee, Logan would ride with outlaw Black Jack Ketchum, form his own gang, and eventually join Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’s Wild Bunch.

According to some, Logan was considered “the fastest gun in the West” and is thought to be the basis for the Sundance Kid character as depicted by Hollywood. Logan participated in a series of train robberies in South Dakota, Wyoming, New Mexico and Colorado, and Wild West magazine even claims that he was “the wildest of the Wild Bunch.”

This gunman escaped from prison on two occasions and allegedly killed nine men in various shooting incidents during his time. In the end, on June 17, 1904, Logan took his own life after being wounded in a gunfight in Parachute, Colorado – perhaps to evade capture one last time. It is also said that he did not die in Colorado but escaped to South America with Butch and Sundance.

✹ 19. Read a book with the word WILD in the title.
✹ 20. Read a book where a bank/train is robbed.
✹ 21. Read a book where a character commits suicide.
✹ 22. Read a book where a character escapes from something. Tell us what.

The 10 Deadliest Wild West Gunfighters Part 2

William “Wild Bill” Longley
William Preston Longley – better known as “Wild Bill” Longley – is regarded as one of the most lethal gunfighters of the Old West. He had a notoriously short fuse and killed upon the slightest provocation. In fact, he may even have been what today we’d call a psychopath. By his own account, he was instructed from an early age to “believe it was right to kill sassy Negroes,” and by the age of 17 he had committed his first murder.

Longley was born in Austin County, Texas on October 6, 1851 and grew up on a farm close to Evergreen in Lee County, where he mastered the art of shooting. This dangerous gunfighter was known to carry two Dance .44 caliber revolvers, but he used a shotgun as well. At the time of his hanging, on October 11, 1878, Longley said that he had killed eight people – although he earlier claimed the figure was 32. Either way, CBS News calls him “one of the first two-gun fast draw experts.”

✹ 23. Read a book where a character is a psychopath.
✹ 24. Read a book set in Texas.
✹ 25. Read a book published in October (of any year).

Dan Bogan
Born in Alabama in 1860, Dan Bogan relocated and grew up in Texas, where he started working as a cowboy from an early age. Bogan moved to Wyoming after being blacklisted in a wage dispute.

It is believed that by 1886 this cowboy had taken the lives of three men. What’s more, Bogan’s rabblerousing didn’t end there, and on January 15, 1887 he murdered Constable Charles S. Gunn, shooting the onetime Texas Ranger with a revolver. Before he could get away, though, Bogan was himself shot in the shoulder and then captured – although he managed to make a getaway in the midst of a raging blizzard.

Bogan later turned himself into the authorities because his wounds had caused him to get sick. However, in October 1987 he succeeded in breaking out of jail. And although famous detective Charlie Siringo pursued him, Bogan vanished without leaving much of a trace and possibly escaped to Argentina. While Bogan is not as well known as some of his contemporaries, author Robert K. DeArment considers him among the Old West’s most underestimated gunslingers.

✹ 26. Read a book with a detective character.
✹ 27. Read a book where a bad guy escapes and is never seen again.
✹ 28. Read a book where a character gets caught in a blizzard.

John Wesley Hardin
According to an article in True West magazine, a contemporary of John Wesley Hardin’s claimed that Hardin “could get out a six-shooter and use it quicker than a frog could eat a fly.” And describing Hardin’s skills, Texas Ranger James B. Gillett said, “The quick draw, the spin, the rolls, pinwheeling, border shift – he did them all with magical precision.” Hardin is also said to have been a crack shot from horseback, able to unload his ammo into the knot of a tree trunk while galloping past.

Unfortunately, he used his skills for ill. Born on May 26, 1853, this Texan desperado and gunfighter shot and killed his first victim in 1868, when he was just 15 years old. Publications of the period say that he dispatched with 27 men during his lifetime. However, he got his comeuppance on August 19, 1895 when he was shot and killed at the age of 42 by outlaw-cum-constable John Selman.

Interestingly, whilst he was a teenager going by the alias Wesley Clemmons, Hardin encountered another individual covered in this article, “Wild Bill” Hickok. Hardin was captivated by Hickok and in awe of his gun-fighting reputation.

✹ 29. Read a YA book or a book where the MC is a teenager.
✹ 30. Read a book where a teenager is in awe of an older man.
✹ 31. Read a book where a character has skills. (Tell us what they are skillful in.)
✹ 32. Read a book with an author that also publishes under another name. Tell us both of the names.

James “Killin’ Jim” Miller
James “Killin’ Jim” Miller was born in Van Buren, Arkansas on October 25, 1866, but his family moved to Texas when he was a baby. Miller’s parents died when he was young, and he moved in with his grandparents. Yet he was orphaned for a second time when his grandparents were murdered, with Miller himself arrested for the crime, even though he was only eight years old. In the end, he wasn’t charged, and he went to live with his sister and her husband. Later, as a teenager, Miller blasted his sister’s husband in the head with a shotgun after a quarrel. He was handed a life sentence for the murder but escaped justice owing to a technicality.

Next, Miller was implicated in another shotgun attack, this time on Ballinger City lawman Joe Townsend. Following this incident, “Killin’ Jim” spent time traveling and ran a saloon. He then turned lawman himself, eventually becoming the marshal of Pecos. In 1894, an ongoing feud between Miller and Pecos sheriff George A. “Bud” Frazer led to Frazer shooting Miller in the arm, groin and chest – but thanks to a steel plate under his shirt, Miller survived.

Miller married Sallie Clements, daughter of Mannen Clements, in 1891. Assuming the appearance of a devout Methodist, he would earn the nickname Deacon Jim. He was well liked by the townspeople because he was polite and an avid member of the church. Regardless of the weather, he would wear a large black frock coat.

“Killin’ Jim” went on to become a Texas Ranger as well as a professional assassin. However, on April 19, 1909, following the murder of former Deputy US Marshal Allen “Gus” Bobbitt, Miller was hanged. Apparently, he screamed, “Let ‘er rip,” before stepping off the box. This outlaw once claimed that he’d killed 51 men; other sources say he dispatched with 12 in gunfights.

✹ 33. Read a book where a child is responsible for killing his parents or caregivers.
✹ 34. Read a book with a character that is an outlaw or assassin.
✹ 35. Read a book with a character that attends church regularly.
✹ 36. Read a book with a black coat on the cover. Please post the cover.
✹ 37. Read a book where a character is well liked.

Billy the Kid
Legend has it that famous outlaw Billy the Kid had killed as many as 26 men by the time he died at age 21, although the total seems more likely to have been under 10. While there’s conflicting information about Billy the Kid’s true name and origins, he is widely reported to have been excellent with a gun. It seems most likely that he was born in an Irish district of New York City on November 23, 1859 and then settled in New Mexico in 1873, after being moved around the country by his mother.
Billy was 14 when his mother died. He started his criminal career by stealing food and clothing and two pistols. He was caught and sent to jail. He escaped two days later and went on a crime spree.

In 1877 – following his engagement in criminal activity such as livestock rustling – Billy the Kid was hired by a wealthy English cattle rancher named John Tunstall in Lincoln County, New Mexico. The Kid’s job was to protect Tunstall and watch over his animals. And he was known for his lightning-fast draw, his lithe frame, and his readiness to fight with his fists if necessary. The Kid is said to have thought highly of his boss, and the two had a mutual respect. So when Tunstall was murdered in cold blood, Billy vowed to exact revenge on the killers.

Billy the Kid’s favorite gun is believed to have been a .44 caliber Colt “Peacemaker,” and he became notorious due to his involvement in the Lincoln County War. Much violence and many escapades ensued, and on July 14, 1881, he was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett.

✹ 38. Read a book where the MC is an orphan.
✹ 39. Read a book where someone exacts revenge.
✹ 40. Read a book where a character is a bodyguard.
✹ 41. Read a book where the MC is a rancher.

✹ 42. Read a book set in the "Wild West" - The term Wild West refers to area of the United States west of the Mississippi river, specifically during the latter part of the 19th century and into the early 20th century.
✹ 43. Read a Western.
✹ 44. Read a book with a hat or gun on the cover. Please post the cover.
✹ 45. Read a book from a list with the words WILD or WEST or WESTERN or COWBOY. Tell us the name of the list.

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The 10 Deadliest Wild West Gunfighters
Duration: May 1, 2018-April 30, 2019

Levels:
Dabster: 31-45 books

33/45

The Gunfighters:

James “Wild Bill” Hickok
✹ 1. Read a book with a character that is a law man.
2000 Kisses by Christina Skye 5/8/18 (Jake McCall is a sheriff)
✹ 2. Read a book with a poker scene.
Redneck Romeo by Lorelei James 8/12/18
✹ 3. Read a book with a character that has a nickname.
Chain Lightning by Elizabeth Lowell 5/14/18
Damon is called "Demon" around the office.
✹ 4. Read a book where a character has to travel to earn his/her living.
Chasin' Eight by Lorelei James 5/16/18
Chase is on the rodeo circuit.
✹ 5. Read a book with a mustache or playing cards on the cover. Please post the cover.

William “Curly Bill” Brocius
✹ 6. Read a book set in Arizona.
The Secret of Shadow Ranch by Carolyn Keene 5/26/18
✹ 7. Read a book with a character that is very mean.
Beneath the Scars by Cherise Sinclair 5/25/18 (Everett)
✹ 8. Read a book whose MC has an unusual last name. Tell us the name.
Elise Dembowski - This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales 11/10/18
✹ 9. Read a book with a character that has curly hair.

Dallas Stoudenmire
✹ 10. Read a book with a title that has a number in it.
One Bad Apple by Sheila Connolly 6/30/18
✹ 11. Read a book a character that dies young - 36 or younger.
✹ 12. Read a book where characters are involved in a feud or vendetta.
Gone Country by Lorelei James 7/30/18
Ongoing dispute among the McKay families about how the land will be used.
✹ 13. Read a book with a character whose name is also a name of a city, country or place. Example: Dallas - Dallas, Tx.
Kissin' Tell by Lorelei James 7/20/18 (Georgia Hotchkiss)
✹ 14. Read a book set in a town/city on or near a border. Tell us which border. May be a state or country's border.

Luke Short
✹ 15. Read a book where a character owns a bar.
Harvest Moon by Robyn Carr 7/12/18 (Jack)
✹ 16. Read a book where a character participates in a duel.
How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks 1/7/19 (Roman)
✹ 17. Read a book with a Native American character.
Map of Bones by James Rollins 8/8/18 (Painter Crowe)
✹ 18. Read a book where a character works for the government. Tell us what their job is.
Holiday in Death by J.D. Robb 9/26/18 (Eve is a homicide detective for NYPD)

Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan
✹ 19. Read a book with the word WILD in the title.
Wild Man Creek by Robyn Carr 5/2/18
✹ 20. Read a book where a bank/train is robbed.
✹ 21. Read a book where a character commits suicide.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 9/15/18
✹ 22. Read a book where a character escapes from something. Tell us what.
Down London Road by Samantha Young 7/12/18
(Johanna escapes from a bad home situation)

William “Wild Bill” Longley
✹ 23. Read a book where a character is a psychopath.
Winter Prey by John Sandford 9/15/18
✹ 24. Read a book set in Texas.
Travis by Nicole Edwards 6/26/18
✹ 25. Read a book published in October (of any year).
Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie 11/5/18
(Published October 1976)

Dan Bogan
✹ 26. Read a book with a detective character.
Mystery of the Glowing Eye by Carolyn Keene 7/4/18 (Nancy)
✹ 27. Read a book where a bad guy escapes and is never seen again.
✹ 28. Read a book where a character gets caught in a blizzard.

John Wesley Hardin
✹ 29. Read a YA book or a book where the MC is a teenager.
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 5/25/18
✹ 30. Read a book where a teenager is in awe of an older man.
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 8/25/18
Wade is in awe of Halliday.
✹ 31. Read a book where a character has skills. (Tell us what they are skillful in.)
The Clocks by Agatha Christie 8/21/18
Sheila has typing skills.
✹ 32. Read a book with an author that also publishes under another name. Tell us both of the names.
Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie 6/23/18
Also published books as Mary Westmacott

James “Killin’ Jim” Miller
✹ 33. Read a book where a child is responsible for killing his parents or caregivers.
✹ 34. Read a book with a character that is an outlaw or assassin.
Lover Mine by J.R. Ward 11/3/18 (Xhex)
✹ 35. Read a book with a character that attends church regularly.
Rocky Mountain Devil by Vivian Arend 7/23/18 (Laurel attends church regularly)
✹ 36. Read a book with a black coat on the cover. Please post the cover.
✹ 37. Read a book where a character is well liked.
Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn 8/14/18 (Colin)

Billy the Kid
✹ 38. Read a book where the MC is an orphan.
✹ 39. Read a book where someone exacts revenge.
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas 10/22/18
✹ 40. Read a book where a character is a bodyguard.
Rock Chick Rescue by Kristen Ashley 10/22/18
✹ 41. Read a book where the MC is a rancher.
Cowboy Casanova by Lorelei James 5/26/18
✹ 42. Read a book set in the "Wild West" - The term Wild West refers to area of the United States west of the Mississippi river, specifically during the latter part of the 19th century and into the early 20th century.
✹ 43. Read a Western.
✹ 44. Read a book with a hat on the cover. Please post the cover.
Double Sin and Other Stories by Agatha Christie 9/23/18
✹ 45. Read a book from a list with the words WILD or WEST or WESTERN or COWBOY. Tell us the name of the list.
Cowboy Take Me Away by Lorelei James 12/5/18
List: SAVE A HORSE RIDE A COWBOY #123

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The 10 Deadliest Wild West Gunfighters
Duration: May 1, 2018-April 30, 2019

Levels:
Dabster: 31-45 books

The Gunfighters:

James “Wild Bill” Hickok
Deadly gunman and Old West folk hero James “Wild Bill” Hickok was born in Illinois on May 27, 1837. Hickok is said to have been a great shot, even as a youngster, and was well known for his marksmanship with a pistol. He had many nicknames. A few he gave himself.

On April 15, 1871, Hickok took over as the marshal of Abilene, Texas. Hickok traveled with Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show for a few years, performing as himself. Fate caught up with Hickok on August 2, 1876 when a man named Jack McCall walked into the Deadwood, (South) Dakota saloon in which Hickok was playing poker and shot him in the head from behind.
The hand of cards which he supposedly held at the time of his death has become known as the dead man's hand: two pairs, aces and eights.

✹ 1. Read a book with a character that is a law man.
✹ 2. Read a book with a poker scene.
✹ 3. Read a book with a character that has a nickname.
✹ 4. Read a book where a character has to travel to earn his/her living.
✹ 5. Read a book with a moustache or playing cards on the cover. Please post the cover.

William “Curly Bill” Brocius
Born around 1845, William Brocius, better known as “Curly Bill” Brocius, may well be Arizona’s most famous – or infamous – outlaw. He was involved in multiple gunfights and related incidents, including the accidental shooting of Tombstone town marshal Fred White on October 27, 1880 and the March 8, 1881 killing of a cowboy named Dick Lloyd.

Brocius was known for a mean sense of humor when drunk. He was reported to have perpetrated such "practical jokes" as using gunfire to make a preacher "dance" during a sermon and making Mexicans at a community dance take off their clothes and dance naked.

On March 24, 1882, Wyatt Earp killed Brocius during a shootout involving the Earp posse, Brocius and several other cowboys in Iron Springs, Arizona.

✹ 6. Read a book set in Arizona.
✹ 7. Read a book with a character that is very mean.
✹ 8. Read a book whose author or MC has an unusual last name. Tell us the name.
✹ 9. Read a book with a character that has curly hair.

Dallas Stoudenmire
Dallas Stoudenmire was born in Aberfoil, Alabama on December 11, 1845. He fought in the Civil War, and he later operated as a Texas Ranger for three or more years.

In April 1881, Stoudenmire became marshal of El Paso, Texas – this being an infamously lawless and violent town at the time. On his third day on the job, Stoudenmire killed three men with two .44 caliber Colt revolvers in a famous incident known as the “Four Dead In Five Seconds” gunfight. Although the crime rate in El Paso fell significantly, and Stoudenmire earned himself repute as a legendary lawman and gunslinger, he also made himself a lot of enemies. On September 18, 1882, he was shot and killed during a shootout with the Manning brothers, the culmination of a feud. He was 36 years old.

✹ 10. Read a book with a title that has a number in it.
✹ 11. Read a book a character that dies young - 36 or younger.
✹ 12. Read a book where characters are involved in a feud or vendetta.
✹ 13. Read a book with a character whose name is also a name of a city, country or place. Example: Dallas - Dallas, Tx.
✹ 14. Read a book set in a town/city on or near a border. Tell us which border. May be a state or country's border.

Luke Short
Fast-drawing gunslinger and killer Luke Short was born in Mississippi in 1854 but was raised in Texas. Leaving home whilst in his teens, Short worked as a cowboy, an illegal whiskey trader, a professional gambler and an investor in various saloons. Short had a reputation for his skill with a gun. Short had been in over thirty engagements fighting Indians while working for the government. His first Indian fight was in 1869.

After buying shares in the Long Branch Saloon, Short was branded “undesirable” by the Dodge City, KS authorities, and they made attempts to get rid of him. He was determined not to go down without a fight, Short reached out to Old West lawman Bat Masterson, who in turn got in touch with Wyatt Earp. Earp then descended on Dodge City with a posse of desperados. And in order to prevent any conflict, Short was allowed back into Dodge and given permission to reopen his saloon – all without a single gunshot sounding. Short is also famous for winning a duel against Jim Courtright on February 8, 1887 in Forth Worth, Texas, where his ability to pull a pistol saved his own life – and ended Courtright’s.

✹ 15. Read a book where a character owns a bar.
✹ 16. Read a book where a character participates in a duel.
✹ 17. Read a book with a Native American character.
✹ 18. Read a book where a character works for the government. Tell us what their job is.

Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan
Born in Tama County, Iowa in 1867, Harvey Logan – otherwise known as “Kid Curry” – was caught up in criminal activity such as robbery from a young age, and in 1894 he got on the wrong side of the law in Montana. As the story goes, a miner and lawman named Powell “Pike” Landusky believed that Logan was involved with his daughter and accused him of assault. Logan was taken away by police and beaten. So on December 27, the 27-year-old Logan confronted Landusky in a saloon and shot and killed him with a pistol. Afterward the daughter said it was Lonny Logan she was involved with.
Forced to flee, Logan would ride with outlaw Black Jack Ketchum, form his own gang, and eventually join Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’s Wild Bunch.

According to some, Logan was considered “the fastest gun in the West” and is thought to be the basis for the Sundance Kid character as depicted by Hollywood. Logan participated in a series of train robberies in South Dakota, Wyoming, New Mexico and Colorado, and Wild West magazine even claims that he was “the wildest of the Wild Bunch.”

This gunman escaped from prison on two occasions and allegedly killed nine men in various shooting incidents during his time. In the end, on June 17, 1904, Logan took his own life after being wounded in a gunfight in Parachute, Colorado – perhaps to evade capture one last time. It is also said that he did not die in Colorado but escaped to South America with Butch and Sundance.

✹ 19. Read a book with the word WILD in the title.
✹ 20. Read a book where a bank/train is robbed.
✹ 21. Read a book where a character commits suicide.
✹ 22. Read a book where a character escapes from something. Tell us what.

William “Wild Bill” Longley
William Preston Longley – better known as “Wild Bill” Longley – is regarded as one of the most lethal gunfighters of the Old West. He had a notoriously short fuse and killed upon the slightest provocation. In fact, he may even have been what today we’d call a psychopath. By his own account, he was instructed from an early age to “believe it was right to kill sassy Negroes,” and by the age of 17 he had committed his first murder.

Longley was born in Austin County, Texas on October 6, 1851 and grew up on a farm close to Evergreen in Lee County, where he mastered the art of shooting. This dangerous gunfighter was known to carry two Dance .44 caliber revolvers, but he used a shotgun as well. At the time of his hanging, on October 11, 1878, Longley said that he had killed eight people – although he earlier claimed the figure was 32. Either way, CBS News calls him “one of the first two-gun fast draw experts.”

✹ 23. Read a book where a character is a psychopath.
✹ 24. Read a book set in Texas.
✹ 25. Read a book published in October (of any year).

Dan Bogan
Born in Alabama in 1860, Dan Bogan relocated and grew up in Texas, where he started working as a cowboy from an early age. Bogan moved to Wyoming after being blacklisted in a wage dispute.

It is believed that by 1886 this cowboy had taken the lives of three men. What’s more, Bogan’s rabblerousing didn’t end there, and on January 15, 1887 he murdered Constable Charles S. Gunn, shooting the onetime Texas Ranger with a revolver. Before he could get away, though, Bogan was himself shot in the shoulder and then captured – although he managed to make a getaway in the midst of a raging blizzard.

Bogan later turned himself into the authorities because his wounds had caused him to get sick. However, in October 1987 he succeeded in breaking out of jail. And although famous detective Charlie Siringo pursued him, Bogan vanished without leaving much of a trace and possibly escaped to Argentina. While Bogan is not as well known as some of his contemporaries, author Robert K. DeArment considers him among the Old West’s most underestimated gunslingers.

✹ 26. Read a book with a detective character.
✹ 27. Read a book where a bad guy escapes and is never seen again.
✹ 28. Read a book where a character gets caught in a blizzard.

John Wesley Hardin
According to an article in True West magazine, a contemporary of John Wesley Hardin’s claimed that Hardin “could get out a six-shooter and use it quicker than a frog could eat a fly.” And describing Hardin’s skills, Texas Ranger James B. Gillett said, “The quick draw, the spin, the rolls, pinwheeling, border shift – he did them all with magical precision.” Hardin is also said to have been a crack shot from horseback, able to unload his ammo into the knot of a tree trunk while galloping past.

Unfortunately, he used his skills for ill. Born on May 26, 1853, this Texan desperado and gunfighter shot and killed his first victim in 1868, when he was just 15 years old. Publications of the period say that he dispatched with 27 men during his lifetime. However, he got his comeuppance on August 19, 1895 when he was shot and killed at the age of 42 by outlaw-cum-constable John Selman.

Interestingly, whilst he was a teenager going by the alias Wesley Clemmons, Hardin encountered another individual covered in this article, “Wild Bill” Hickok. Hardin was captivated by Hickok and in awe of his gun-fighting reputation.

✹ 29. Read a YA book or a book where the MC is a teenager.
✹ 30. Read a book where a teenager is in awe of an older man.
✹ 31. Read a book where a character has skills. (Tell us what they are skillful in.)
✹ 32. Read a book with an author that also publishes under another name. Tell us both of the names.

James “Killin’ Jim” Miller
James “Killin’ Jim” Miller was born in Van Buren, Arkansas on October 25, 1866, but his family moved to Texas when he was a baby. Miller’s parents died when he was young, and he moved in with his grandparents. Yet he was orphaned for a second time when his grandparents were murdered, with Miller himself arrested for the crime, even though he was only eight years old. In the end, he wasn’t charged, and he went to live with his sister and her husband. Later, as a teenager, Miller blasted his sister’s husband in the head with a shotgun after a quarrel. He was handed a life sentence for the murder but escaped justice owing to a technicality.

Next, Miller was implicated in another shotgun attack, this time on Ballinger City lawman Joe Townsend. Following this incident, “Killin’ Jim” spent time traveling and ran a saloon. He then turned lawman himself, eventually becoming the marshal of Pecos. In 1894, an ongoing feud between Miller and Pecos sheriff George A. “Bud” Frazer led to Frazer shooting Miller in the arm, groin and chest – but thanks to a steel plate under his shirt, Miller survived.

Miller married Sallie Clements, daughter of Mannen Clements, in 1891. Assuming the appearance of a devout Methodist, he would earn the nickname Deacon Jim. He was well liked by the townspeople because he was polite and an avid member of the church. Regardless of the weather, he would wear a large black frock coat.

“Killin’ Jim” went on to become a Texas Ranger as well as a professional assassin. However, on April 19, 1909, following the murder of former Deputy US Marshal Allen “Gus” Bobbitt, Miller was hanged. Apparently, he screamed, “Let ‘er rip,” before stepping off the box. This outlaw once claimed that he’d killed 51 men; other sources say he dispatched with 12 in gunfights.

✹ 33. Read a book where a child is responsible for killing his parents or caregivers.
✹ 34. Read a book with a character that is an outlaw or assassin.
✹ 35. Read a book with a character that attends church regularly.
✹ 36. Read a book with a black coat on the cover. Please post the cover.
✹ 37. Read a book where a character is well liked.

Billy the Kid
Legend has it that famous outlaw Billy the Kid had killed as many as 26 men by the time he died at age 21, although the total seems more likely to have been under 10. While there’s conflicting information about Billy the Kid’s true name and origins, he is widely reported to have been excellent with a gun. It seems most likely that he was born in an Irish district of New York City on November 23, 1859 and then settled in New Mexico in 1873, after being moved around the country by his mother.
Billy was 14 when his mother died. He started his criminal career by stealing food and clothing and two pistols. He was caught and sent to jail. He escaped two days later and went on a crime spree.

In 1877 – following his engagement in criminal activity such as livestock rustling – Billy the Kid was hired by a wealthy English cattle rancher named John Tunstall in Lincoln County, New Mexico. The Kid’s job was to protect Tunstall and watch over his animals. And he was known for his lightning-fast draw, his lithe frame, and his readiness to fight with his fists if necessary. The Kid is said to have thought highly of his boss, and the two had a mutual respect. So when Tunstall was murdered in cold blood, Billy vowed to exact revenge on the killers.

Billy the Kid’s favorite gun is believed to have been a .44 caliber Colt “Peacemaker,” and he became notorious due to his involvement in the Lincoln County War. Much violence and many escapades ensued, and on July 14, 1881, he was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett.

✹ 38. Read a book where the MC is an orphan.
✹ 39. Read a book where someone exacts revenge.
✹ 40. Read a book where a character is a bodyguard.
✹ 41. Read a book where the MC is a rancher.

✹ 42. Read a book set in the "Wild West" - The term Wild West refers to area of the United States west of the Mississippi river, specifically during the latter part of the 19th century and into the early 20th century.
✹ 43. Read a Western.
✹ 44. Read a book with a hat or gun on the cover. Please post the cover.
✹ 45. Read a book from a list with the words WILD or WEST or WESTERN or COWBOY. Tell us the name of the list.

The 10 Deadliest Wild West Gunfighters
Duration: May 1, 2018-April 30, 2019

Dabster: 31-45 books
37/31-45

The Gunfighters:
James “Wild Bill” Hickok
✹ 1. Read a book with a character that is a law man.
Dark Queen Faith Hunter 5/2/18

✹ 2. Read a book with a poker scene.
Feel The Heat Kathryn Shay 5/9/18

✹ 3. Read a book with a character that has a nickname.
Dark Vow Jayne Blue 5/19/18

✹ 4. Read a book where a character has to travel to earn his/her living.
Until You Loved Me Brenda Novak 5/5/18

✹ 5. Read a book with a moustache or playing cards on the cover. Please post the cover.

William “Curly Bill” Brocius
✹ 6. Read a book set in Arizona.

✹ 7. Read a book with a character that is very mean.
The Dead Girls' Dance Rachel Caine 6/16/18

✹ 8. Read a book whose MC has an unusual last name. Tell us the name.
(Vlad Barabas) Dracula Twice Tempted Jeaniene Frost 6/3/18

✹ 9. Read a book with a character that has curly hair.
Lakeshore Secrets Shannyn Leah 5/9/18

✹ 10. Read a book with a title that has a number in it.
Two Nights Kathy Reichs 5/20/18

✹ 11. Read a book a character that dies young - 36 or younger.
Beats of Life Shandi Boyes 5/8/18

✹ 12. Read a book where characters are involved in a feud or vendetta.
Awakening Sharon J. Bolton 5/25/18

✹ 13. Read a book with a character whose name is also a name of a city, country or place. Example: Dallas - Dallas, Tx.

✹ 14. Read a book set in a town/city on or near a border.
Yours for a Song Amy James 6/25/18 Loc 303 Sure enough, there, a little above the border of Missouri and Arkansas, was a small dot for Haven Springs.

✹ 15. Read a book where a character owns a bar.
Because Of You Emilia Finn 5/21/18

✹ 16. Read a book where a character participates in a duel.

✹ 17. Read a book with a Native American character.
Deadly Fate Heather Graham 5/18/18

✹ 18. Read a book where a character works for the government. Tell us what their job is.
FBI Agent The Night Is Forever Heather Graham 5/31/18

✹ 19. Read a book with the word WILD in the title.
✹ 20. Read a book where a bank/train is robbed.

✹ 21. Read a book where a character commits suicide.
The Red Road Denise Mina 5/27/18

✹ 22. Read a book where a character escapes from something. Virginia escapes from the bad guys.
Cocoa Beach Beatriz Williams 6/12/18

✹ 23. Read a book where a character is a psychopath.
Stillhouse Lake Rachel Caine 5/6/18

✹ 24. Read a book set in Texas.
Under Locke Mariana Zapata 5/5/18

✹ 25. Read a book published in October (of any year).
Logan Jay McLean 5/15/18

✹ 26. Read a book with a detective character.
Alone Lisa Gardner 5/10/18

✹ 27. Read a book where a bad guy escapes and is never seen again.
The Stranger Harlan Coben 5/28/18

✹ 28. Read a book where a character gets caught in a blizzard.
The Woman in the Window A.J. Finn 5/13/18

✹ 29. Read a book where the MC is a teenager.
Lucas Jay McLean 5/14/18

✹ 30. Read a book where a teenager is in awe of an older man.
Sisters Like Us Susan Mallery 5/30/18

✹ 31. Read a book where a character has skills.
Music Right Where We Belong Brenda Novak 5/6/18

✹ 32. Read a book with an author that also publishes under another name. Tell us both of the names.
Killman Creek Rachel Caine 5/16/18
Roxanne Longstreet - Roxanne Conrad - Julie Fortune - Ian Hammell

✹ 33. Read a book where a child is responsible for killing his parents or caregivers.
Sometimes I Lie Alice Feeney 5/17/18

✹ 34. Read a book with a character that is an assassin.
Holding on Tighter Shayla Black 6/13/18

✹35. Read a book with a character that attends church regularly.
A Single Thread Marie Bostwick 5/3/18

✹ 36. Read a book with a black coat on the cover. Please post the cover.
Magic Bleeds Ilona Andrews 6/20/18

✹ 37. Read a book where a character is well liked.
Porch Lights Dorothea Benton Frank 5/4/18

✹ 38. Read a book where the MC is an orphan.

✹ 39. Read a book where someone exacts revenge.
Control by Sam Crescent 5/7/18

✹ 40. Read a book where a character is a bodyguard.
Dare to Rock Carly Phillips 5/24/18

✹ 41. Read a book where the MC is a rancher.
Her Big Sky Cowboy Alissa Callen 6/2/18

✹ 42. Read a book set in the "Wild West"
California - Wishes and Stitches Rachael Herron 6/5/18

✹ 43. Read a Western.

✹ 44. Read a book with a gun on the cover. Please post the cover.
Sinful Intent Chelle Bliss 5/22/18

✹ 45. Read a book from a list with the words WESTERN or COWBOY. Tell us the name of the list.
Shine Not Burn Elle Casey 6/17/18 Best Cowboy/Western Romance

Welcome Bonita and Claire!

The 10 Deadliest Wild West Gunfighters
Duration: May 1, 2018-April 30, 2019

Levels:
Addle-pot: 5-15 books
Mouldy Grubs: 16-30 books
Dabster: 31-45 books

James “Wild Bill” Hickok
✹ 1. Read a book with a character that is a law man.
✹ 2. Read a book with a poker scene.
✹ 3. Read a book with a character that has a nickname.
✹ 4. Read a book where a character has to travel to earn his/her living.
✹ 5. Read a book with a moustache or playing cards on the cover. Please post the cover.

William “Curly Bill” Brocius
✹ 6. Read a book set in Arizona.
✹ 7. Read a book with a character that is very mean.
✹ 8. Read a book whose author or MC has an unusual last name. Tell us the name.
✹ 9. Read a book with a character that has curly hair.

Dallas Stoudenmire
✹ 10. Read a book with a title that has a number in it.
✹ 11. Read a book a character that dies young - 36 or younger.
✹ 12. Read a book where characters are involved in a feud or vendetta.
✹ 13. Read a book with a character whose name is also a name of a city, country or place. Example: Dallas - Dallas, Tx.
✹ 14. Read a book set in a town/city on or near a border. Tell us which border. May be a state or country's border.

Luke Short
✹ 15. Read a book where a character owns a bar.
✹ 16. Read a book where a character participates in a duel.
✹ 17. Read a book with a Native American character.
✹ 18. Read a book where a character works for the government. Tell us what their job is.

Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan
✹ 19. Read a book with the word WILD in the title.
✹ 20. Read a book where a bank/train is robbed.
✹ 21. Read a book where a character commits suicide.
✹ 22. Read a book where a character escapes from something. Tell us what.

William “Wild Bill” Longley
✹ 23. Read a book where a character is a psychopath.
✹ 24. Read a book set in Texas.
✹ 25. Read a book published in October (of any year).

Dan Bogan
✹ 26. Read a book with a detective character.
✹ 27. Read a book where a bad guy escapes and is never seen again.
✹ 28. Read a book where a character gets caught in a blizzard.

John Wesley Hardin
✹ 29. Read a YA book or a book where the MC is a teenager.
✹ 30. Read a book where a teenager is in awe of an older man.
✹ 31. Read a book where a character has skills. (Tell us what they are skillful in.)
✹ 32. Read a book with an author that also publishes under another name. Tell us both of the names.

James “Killin’ Jim” Miller
✹ 33. Read a book where a child is responsible for killing his parents or caregivers.
✹ 34. Read a book with a character that is an outlaw or assassin.
✹ 35. Read a book with a character that attends church regularly.
✹ 36. Read a book with a black coat on the cover. Please post the cover.
✹ 37. Read a book where a character is well liked.

Billy the Kid
✹ 38. Read a book where the MC is an orphan.
✹ 39. Read a book where someone exacts revenge.
✹ 40. Read a book where a character is a bodyguard.
✹ 41. Read a book where the MC is a rancher.

✹ 42. Read a book set in the "Wild West" - The term Wild West refers to area of the United States west of the Mississippi river, specifically during the latter part of the 19th century and into the early 20th century.
✹ 43. Read a Western.
✹ 44. Read a book with a hat or gun on the cover. Please post the cover.
✹ 45. Read a book from a list with the words WILD or WEST or WESTERN or COWBOY. Tell us the name of the list.

Welcome Angie!

This challenge hooked me in! I love a good western, and who doesn't love a cowboy?

Goal: Dabster - 31-45 books

James "Wild Bill" Hickok
1. law man
The Mark of the King by Jocelyn Green 11/30/18
Captain Marc-Paul Girard

2. poker scene
Sons of Blackbird Mountain by Joanne Bischof 5/7/18
"The captain didn't answer until he was dealt five cards." 95% (location 3561 in NetGalley copy)

3. nickname
Lakeside Redemption by Lisa Jordan 5/30/18
Caleb "Sully" Sullivan; Ava "Avie" Sullivan

4. travels to earn a living
Classified Christmas Mission by Lynette Eason 5/18/18
CIA Agent Amber Starke

5. moustache or playing cards on cover
Brentwood's Ward by Michelle Griep 7/30/18
moustache


William "Curly Bill" Brocius
6. set in Arizona
A Bride's Agreement: Five Romances Develop Out of Convenient Marriages by Nancy J. Farrier (and four others) 12/30/18
The middle story took place in and around Tuscon, Arizona.

7. very mean character
Blue Skies Tomorrow by Sarah Sundin 7/9/18
Mr. Carlisle (wife-beater)

8. author or MC with unusual surname
The Journal of James Edmond Pease, A Civil War Union Soldier: Virginia, 1863 by Jim Murphy 7/22/18
MC: James Pease

9. curly hair
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott 5/5/18
Rose

Dallas Stoudenmire
10. number in title
A Hometown Fourth of July by June Foster 9/12/18

11. dies young - 36 or younger
Freedom's Ring by Heidi Chiavaroli 6/10/18
(view spoiler)[Michael, a teenager (hide spoiler)]

12. involved in a feud or vendetta
You Made Me Love You by Beth Vogt 5/23/18
Meghan Holloway and Seth Rayner
"The rest of the day -- spent dodging the woman with a supersize personality and a personal vendetta against him." 14% (location 236)

13. character whose name is also a city, country, or place
No Other Will Do by Karen Witemeyer 5/24/18
Henrietta; Henrietta, Texas

14. set in a town/city on or near a state or country border
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park 5/17/18
North Korea/China border; China/Mongolia border

Luke Short
15. owns a bar
A Song Unheard by Roseanna White 8/17/18
Pauly owns Pauly's Pub.

16. participates in a duel
The Legend of Obadiah Wilder: The Glorious Defeat of the Dickenson Gang by Erica Vetsch 7/18/18
"Pete Dickenson's eye widened just a fraction, and in that instant, I drew my gun. We cleared leather at about the same time, and he snapped off a shot a hair before I did..." 65%; location 228

17. Native American character
Mandie and the Secret Tunnel by Lois Gladys Leppard 11/13/18
Native American: Uncle Ned

18. works for the government
Beyond a Doubt by Colleen Coble 8/8/18
Kade Matthews, ranger with National Kitchigami Wilderness Tract

Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan
19. WILD in title
Little Nemo's Wild Sleigh Ride by Roland Urbanek 12/26/18

20. bank/train is robbed
A Harvest of Hope by Lauraine Snelling 9/19/18
bank robbery

21. character commits suicide
Called to Protect by Lynette Eason 7/7/18
(view spoiler)["Vicky committed suicide and left a note detailing everything." 59%, location 2864 (hide spoiler)]

22. character escapes from something
A Memory Between Us by Sarah Sundin 5/20/18
(view spoiler)[A lady escapes an intended rape. (hide spoiler)]

William "Wild Bill" Longley
23. psychopath
Songbird Under a German Moon by Tricia Goyer 9/24/18
Dierk

24. set in Texas
Worth the Wait by Karen Witemeyer 6/30/18
Harper's Station, Texas and surrounding area (fictional town)

25. published in October (of any year)
The Mystery: Finding True Love in a World of Broken Lovers by Lacey Sturm 6/13/18
October 4, 2016

Dan Bogan
26. detective
Butterfly Palace by Colleen Coble 10/15/18
Secret Service detective: Drew Hawkes

27. bad guy escapes and is never seen again
(view spoiler)[Land of My Heart by Tracie Peterson 2/11/18
Jerry Wilson, bank robber and killer (hide spoiler)]

28. caught in a blizzard
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder 5/31/18
Pa
"I figured I had been walking four hours, and these blizzards last three days and nights." p.328

John Wesley Hardin
29. YA book or MC is a teenager
Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba, Angola, Africa, 1595 by Patricia C. McKissack 6/21/18
YA and teen MC (13)

30. teenager in awe of an older man
Jonas and Olivia by Victoria Minks 6/19/18
Olivia (14) admires her father.

31. character has skills
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly 6/30/18
Katherine Goble Johnson; west computer for NACA & NASA

32. author that also publishes under another name
4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie 6/6/18
Agatha Christie - mysteries; Mary Westmacott - romances

James "Killin' Jim" Miller
33. child responsible for killing parents or caregivers
Justice Betrayed by Patricia Bradley 3/30/19

34. outlaw or assassin
Robinson Crusoe by Deanna McFadden 11/16/18
pirates (outlaws)

35. attends church regularly
Once Upon a Summer by Janette Oke 6/28/18
every week

36. black coat on cover
Tide and Tempest by Elizabeth Ludwig 1/11/19


37. character is well liked
Matilda by Roald Dahl 7/13/18
Miss Honey

Billy the Kid
38. MC is an orphan
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (GM) 7/24/18
Alyce was a street urchin with no memory of her parents.

39. someone exacts revenge
Freedom's Light by Colleen Coble 8/2/18
Galen takes revenge for several sleights.

40. bodyguard
How to Catch a Prince by Rachel Hauck 10/18/18
Thomas

41. MC is a rancher
Peace in the Valley by Ruth Logan Herne 5/17/18
Trey Stafford - "He had his ranch down south, rolling acres of creek-fed grass, Black Angus cattle, and horses." p.53

42. set in Wild West
Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton 4/21/19

43. western
Heart of Gold by Lacy Williams 3/12/19

44. hat or gun on cover
The Lady of Tarpon Springs by Judith Miller 9/7/18
hat


45. from a list that has WILD or WEST or WESTERN or COWBOY in title of list
Heart on the Line by Karen Witemeyer 3/26/19
List: Christian Historical/Western Fiction

Reserved.

Dabster: 31-45 books

James “Wild Bill” Hickok
1.Read a book with a character that is a law man.
The Breaker - Minette Walters - 7/26/18
2. Read a book with a poker scene.
The Paris Affair- Tracy Grant - 9/21/18
3.Read a book with a character that has a nickname.
Lighthouse Bay - Kimberley Freeman - 7/2/18- Libby
4. Read a book where a character has to travel to earn his/her living.
Just Add Water - Jinx Schwartz - 1/3/19
5. Read a book with a moustache or playing cards on the cover.
- Agatha Christie - 6/2 /18

William “Curly Bill” Brocius
6.Read a book set in Arizona.
The Someday Jar- Alison Morgan - 6/15/18
7. Read a book with a character that is very mean.
The Chilbury Ladies' Choir - Jennifer Reid - 6/24/18
8.Read a book whose author or MC has an unusual last name. Tell us the name.
Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman - Tessa Arlen - 6/12/18 - three characters with the family name Lambert-Lambert
9. Read a book with a character that has curly hair.
This Pen for Hire - Laura Levine - 5/31/18

Dallas Stoudenmire
10.Read a book with a title that has a number in it.
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley - Hannah Tinti - 10/23/18
11. Read a book a character that dies young - 36 or younger.
The Body in the Library - Agatha Christie - 6/3/18 - two teenage girls are killed
12. Read a book where characters are involved in a feud or vendetta.
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - 6/4/18
13. Read a book with a character whose name is also a name of a city, country or place. Example: Dallas - Dallas, Tx.
The Language of Flowers - Vanessa Diffenbaugh - 10/14/18 - Victoria
14. Read a book set in a town/city on or near a border. Tell us which border.
The Shadowy Horses - Susanna Kearsley - 7/12/18 - (between Scotland/England)

Luke Short
15.Read a book where a character owns a bar.
The Dress Lodger - Sheri Holman - 2/8/18
16. Read a book where a character participates in a duel.
A King Ensnared: A Historical Novel of Scotland - J.R. Tomlin - 5/20/18
17. Read a book with a Native American character.
Ghost of a Chance - Yasmine Galenorn - 10/14/18
18. Read a book where a character works for the government. Tell us what their job is.
The Nature of the Beast - Louise Penny - 5/9/18 - CSIS agent

Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan
✹ 19. Read a book with the word WILD in the title.
✹ 20. Read a book where a bank/train is robbed.
21.Read a book where a character commits suicide.
Last Bus to Woodstock - Colin Dexter - 5/12/18
22. Read a book where a character escapes from something. Tell us what.
A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness - 6/10/18 - trapped in a dungeon (by a witch) but escapes

William “Wild Bill” Longley
23. Read a book where a character is a psychopath.
I Let You Go - Clare Mackintosh - 6/22/18 - abusive husband
24.Read a book set in Texas.
Heaven to Betsy (What Doesn't Kill You, #5): An Emily Romantic Mystery - Pamela Fagan Hutchins - 10/2/18
25. Read a book published in October (of any year).
Mrs. Jeffries Takes the Cake - Emily Brightwell - 5/16/18

Dan Bogan
26. Read a book with a detective character.
Death in the English Countryside - Sara Rossett - 6/14/18
27. Read a book where a bad guy escapes and is never seen again.
Theft of Life - Imogen Robertson - 10/12/18
28. Read a book where a character gets caught in a blizzard.
Death of a Scriptwriter - MC Beaton - 8/8/18

John Wesley Hardin
29.Read a YA book or a book where the MC is a teenager.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling - 5/7/18
30. Read a book where a teenager is in awe of an older man.
Take Me with You - Catherine Ryan Hyde - 8/9/18
31. Read a book where a character has skills. (Tell us what they are skillful in.)
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches - Alan Bradley - 5/3/18 - Flavia skilled in chemistry, science and crime solving
32. Read a book with an author that also publishes under another name. Tell us both of the names.
The Jackal's Head - Elizabeth Peters - 6/7/18 Elizabeth Peters is a pen name of Barbara Mertz. She also wrote as Barbara Michaels as well as her own name.

James “Killin’ Jim” Miller
33. Read a book where a child is responsible for killing his parents or caregivers.
The Atlas of Us - Tracy Buchanan - 10/17/18 - killed her father
34. Read a book with a character that is an outlaw or assassin.
Alice - Christina Henry- 5/17/18
35. Read a book with a character that attends church regularly. The Murder at the Vicarage - Agatha Christie - 5/24/18 - MC is the village Vicar
36. Read a book with a black coat on the cover. Please post the cover.
- Karen Odden - 5/5/18
37. Read a book where a character is well liked.
Northanger Abbey- Jane Austen - 6/17/18

Billy the Kid
38. Read a book where the MC is an orphan.
Crooked Heart - Lissa Evans - 5/2/18
39. Read a book where someone exacts revenge.
Itsy Bitsy Spider - Willow Rose - 8/13/18
40. Read a book where a character is a bodyguard.
Tales of the Peculiar - Ransom Riggs - 9/10/18
✹ 41. Read a book where the MC is a rancher.

✹ 42. Read a book set in the "Wild West" - The term Wild West refers to area of the United States west of the Mississippi river, specifically during the latter part of the 19th century and into the early 20th century.
43. Read a Western.
Longshot Into The West - Keith R. Baker - 11/30/18
44. Read a book with a hat or gun on the cover.
- Agatha Christie -11/27/18
✹ 45. Read a book from a list with the words WILD or WEST or WESTERN or COWBOY. Tell us the name of the list.

Welcome Andrea and Joann!

The 10 Deadliest Wild West Gunfighters
Duration: May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019

READ: 43/40

The Gunfighters:
James “Wild Bill” Hickok
✔️✹ 1. Read a book with a character that is a law man.
Rattling the Heat in Deadwood - Ann Charles 5/14
✔️✹ 2. Read a book with a poker scene.
The Queen of the Tearling - Erika Johansen 9/2
✔️✹ 3. Read a book with a character that has a nickname.
Whiskey Sour - J.A. Konrath 7/25
✔️✹ 4. Read a book where a character has to travel to earn his/her living.
Flying by the Seat of My Knickers - Eliza Watson 7/18
✔️✹ 5. Read a book with a moustache or playing cards on the cover. Please post the cover.
Unlucky - Jana DeLeon 7/12


William “Curly Bill” Brocius
✔️✹ 6. Read a book set in Arizona.
Red Velvet Revenge - Jenn McKinlay 6/2
✔️✹ 7. Read a book with a character that is very mean.
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman 4/18
✔️✹ 8. Read a book whose author or MC has an unusual last name. Tell us the name.
Death of a Nightingale - Lene Kaaberbøl 2/28
✔️✹ 9. Read a book with a character that has curly hair.
Book, Line and Sinker - Jenn McKinlay 12/21


Dallas Stoudenmire
✔️✹ 10. Read a book with a title that has a number in it.
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline 5/29
✔️✹ 11. Read a book a character that dies young - 36 or younger.
Stygian - Sherrilyn Kenyon (various characters die at 27) 10/13
✔️✹ 12. Read a book where characters are involved in a feud or vendetta.
Black Widow - Jennifer Estep 11/26
✔️✹ 13. Read a book with a character whose name is also a name of a city, country or place.
Dark in Death - J.D. Robb (Eve Dallas) 8/9
✔️✹ 14. Read a book set in a town/city on or near a border. Tell us which border. May be a state or country's border.
Beautiful Sacrifice - Elizabeth Lowell (Texas/Mexico border) 11/4


Luke Short
✔️✹ 15. Read a book where a character owns a bar.
Haunted Moon - Yasmine Galenorn 11/17
✹ 16. Read a book where a character participates in a duel.
✔️✹ 17. Read a book with a Native American character.
Cold Reign - Faith Hunter 5/8
✔️✹ 18. Read a book where a character works for the government. Tell us what their job is.
The Heist - Janet Evanovich (FBI agent) 7/5


Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan
✔️✹ 19. Read a book with the word WILD in the title.
Wild Embrace - Nalini Singh 4/26
✔️✹ 20. Read a book where a bank/train is robbed.
Bitter Bite - Jennifer Estep (bank robbery) 2/1
✔️✹ 21. Read a book where a character commits suicide.
Suicide Forest - Jeremy Bates 10/13
✔️✹ 22. Read a book where a character escapes from something. Tell us what.
Total Surrender - Rebecca Zanetti (from an underground laboratory) 8/1


William “Wild Bill” Longley
✔️✹ 23. Read a book where a character is a psychopath.
Kin - Kealan Patrick Burke 6/10
✔️✹ 24. Read a book set in Texas.
Queen of Shadows - Dianne Sylvan 7/24
✔️✹ 25. Read a book published in October (of any year).
Holding - Graham Norton (pub October 2016) 5/26


Dan Bogan
✔️✹ 26. Read a book with a detective character.
Pale Horses - Jassy Mackenzie 6/15
✔️✹ 27. Read a book where a bad guy escapes and is never seen again.
Dark Saturday - Nicci French 2/14
✔️✹ 28. Read a book where a character gets caught in a blizzard.
The Mountain Between Us - Charles Martin 5/14


John Wesley Hardin
✔️✹ 29. Read a YA book or a book where the MC is a teenager.
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow - Jessica Townsend 7/16
✔️✹ 30. Read a book where a teenager is in awe of an older man.
City of the Lost - Kelley Armstrong 8/30
✔️✹ 31. Read a book where a character has skills. (Tell us what they are skillful in.)
The Real Deal - Lucy Monroe (mathematical genius) 7/20
✔️✹ 32. Read a book with an author that also publishes under another name. Tell us both of the names.
Death Doesn't Bargain - Sherrilyn Kenyon (Kinley MacGregor) 8/30


James “Killin’ Jim” Miller
✔️✹ 33. Read a book where a child is responsible for killing his parents or caregivers.
Morbid Thoughts - Michael McGovern 2/23
✔️✹ 34. Read a book with a character that is an outlaw or assassin.
The Spider - Jennifer Estep (mc is an assassin) 5/31
✔️✹ 35. Read a book with a character that attends church regularly.
The Devil's Labyrinth - John Saul 1/13
✔️✹ 36. Read a book with a black coat on the cover. Please post the cover.
Harvest Hunting - Yasmine Galenorn 5/25
✔️✹ 37. Read a book where a character is well liked.
Shadow's End - Thea Harrison 5/31


Billy the Kid
✔️✹ 38. Read a book where the MC is an orphan.
Owlflight - Mercedes Lackey 5/18
✔️✹ 39. Read a book where someone exacts revenge.
The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness 5/20
✔️✹ 40. Read a book where a character is a bodyguard.
Twice Bitten - Lynsay Sands (hero) 4/7
✔️✹ 41. Read a book where the MC is a rancher.
Pale Horses - Jassy Mackenzie 6/15


✹ 42. Read a book set in the "Wild West" - specifically during the latter part of the 19th century and into the early 20th century.
✔️✹ 43. Read a Western.
Wyoming Tough - Diana Palmer 3/5
✔️✹ 44. Read a book with a hat or gun on the cover. Please post the cover.
Sacred Cows - Karen E. Olson 5/23
✔️✹ 45. Read a book from a list with the words WILD or WEST or WESTERN or COWBOY. Tell us the name of the list.
Branded - Laura Wright 3/1
(#34 on Cowboy Up: Great Contemporary Western Romance Novels)


CHALLENGE COMPLETE

Welcome Banshee!

JoAnne, would a book that takes place in Port Aransas, TX (on the Gulf Coast/TX border) work for #14?
takes place there.

I’m in!
The 10 Deadliest Wild West Gunfighters
Duration: May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019

READ: 43/40

The Gunfighters:
James “Wild Bill” Hickok
✹ 🔫1. Read a book with a character that is a law man.
How Can the Heart Forget by Emilie Baker Loring 7/21/18 Let's just say this old family friend needed to take his peacekeeping job more seriously...the MCs had to give him a lot of assistance!
✹🔫 2. Read a book with a poker scene.
by E. Phillips Oppenheim 6/13/18
“...found a few kindred spirits who liked a mild game of poker...” p. 267
✹ 🔫3. Read a book with a character that has a nickname.
More Than Meets the Eye by Karen Witemeyer 7/22/18
✹ 🔫4. Read a book where a character has to travel to earn his/her living.
by Becky Wade 6/13/18
Willow is an international model
✹ 5. Read a book with a moustache or playing cards on the cover. Please post the cover.

✔️William “Curly Bill” Brocius
✹ 🔫6. Read a book set in Arizona.
Weaver's Needle by Robin Carroll 6/26/18
✹ 🔫7. Read a book with a character that is very mean.
Echoes of Mercy by Kim Vogel Sawyer 1/30/19: Factory manager is psychotically mean
✹ 🔫8. Read a book whose author or MC has an unusual last name. Tell us the name.
A Boy's Ride by Gulielma Zollinger 12/19/18: Author name Zollinger
✹ 🔫9. Read a book with a character that has curly hair.
Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan 3/19/19 Aunt Nancy Card

✔️Dallas Stoudenmire
✹🔫 10. Read a book with a title that has a number in it.
The Hundredth Chance by Ethel M. Dell
✹ 🔫11. Read a book with a character that dies young - 36 or younger.
Finders Keepers by Catherine Palmer 7/14/18 Mrs. Easton dies young
✹🔫 12. Read a book where characters are involved in a feud or vendetta.
, Irene Hannon 5/19/18
✹ 🔫13. Read a book with a character whose name is also a name of a city, country or place. Example: Dallas - Dallas, Tx.
, Dana Mentink: MC named Dallas 5/30/18
✹ 🔫14. Read a book set in a town/city on or near a border. Tell us which border. May be a state or country's border.
by Patricia Bradley 5/31/18
Set in Memphis (Tennessee border)

✔️Luke Short
✹ 🔫15. Read a book where a character owns a bar.
A Song Unheard by Roseanna White 8/20/18
✹ 🔫16. Read a book where a character participates in a duel.
Mutiny of the Heart by Vickie McDonough 7/28/18 Duel with swords on shipboard
✹ 🔫17. Read a book with a Native American character.
Old-Dad by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1/31/19 An old man who lives near their vacation home
✹ 🔫18. Read a book where a character works for the government. Tell us what their job is.
Keepers of the Faith by Emilie Loring 7/8/18
Secretary at WW2 Pentagon

Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan
✹ 19. Read a book with the word WILD in the title.
✹ 🔫20. Read a book where a bank/train is robbed.
Meadowlark Basin by B.M. Bower 8/12/18 Bank robbed
✹ 🔫21. Read a book where a character commits suicide.
A Borrowed Dream by Amanda Cabot 8/17/18
✹ 🔫22. Read a book where a character escapes from something. Tell us what. The Red Signal by Grace Livingston Hill 7/13/18 Escapes captivity by German spies


✔️William “Wild Bill” Longley
✹ 🔫23. Read a book where a character is a psychopath.
Beneath Copper Falls by Colleen Coble 8/24/18
✹ 🔫24. Read a book set in Texas.
Bound by Duty by Valerie Hansen 8/10/18
✹ 🔫25. Read a book published in October (of any year).
Miles from Where We Started by Cynthia Ruchti 12/5/18 (Oct. 2018)

✔️Dan Bogan
✹🔫 26. Read a book with a detective character. Called to Protect by Lynette Eason 7/15/18
✹ 🔫27. Read a book where a bad guy escapes and is never seen again.
, Mary Connealy 5/20/18
✹ 🔫28. Read a book where a character gets caught in a blizzard.
Ranching for Sylvia by Harold Bindloss 7/17/18

✔️John Wesley Hardin
✹ 🔫29. Read a YA book or a book where the MC is a teenager.
, Carol Ryrie Brink: MC Alice is 14. 5/27/18
✹ 🔫30. Read a book where a teenager is in awe of an older man.
Ride for Texas by Lee McGiffin 7/18/18 Dobey looks up to his best pal Clint
✹ 🔫31. Read a book where a character has skills. (Tell us what they are skillful in.)
Dead Drift by Dani Pettrey 7/6/18 A man that's a skilled spy
✹ 🔫32. Read a book with an author that also publishes under another name. Tell us both of the names.
by Louis Tracy, who also published mysteries as Gordon Holmes. 5/25/18

✔️James “Killin’ Jim” Miller
✹ 🔫33. Read a book where a child is responsible for killing his parents or caregivers.
by Patricia Bradley 6/13/18
Girl kills her father
✹ 🔫34. Read a book with a character that is an outlaw or assassin.
Dead Drift by Dani Pettrey 7/9/18
Side character Lauren Graham is an assassin
✹🔫 35. Read a book with a character that attends church regularly.
Where Two Ways Met by Grace Livingston Hill 7/1/18
MC teaches a weekly Sunday School class
✹ 🔫36. Read a book with a black coat on the cover. Please post the cover.
by Schuyler McConkey 6/10/18
✹ 🔫37. Read a book where a character is well liked.
Here Comes the Sun by Emilie Loring 7/20/18 Heroine is well liked

✔️Billy the Kid
✹ 🔫38. Read a book where the MC is an orphan.
Deadly Isle by Dani Pettrey 8/24/18
✹ 🔫39. Read a book where someone exacts revenge.
Top Secret Target by Dana Mentink 8/11/18 Scorned wife
✹ 🔫40. Read a book where a character is a bodyguard.
Shock Wave by Dana Mentink
MC is bodyguard
✹🔫41. Read a book where the MC is a rancher.
by Karen Witemeyer 7/30/18

✹ 🔫42. Read a book set in the "Wild West" - The term Wild West refers to area of the United States west of the Mississippi river, specifically during the latter part of the 19th century and into the early 20th century.
by Mary Connealy 1/8/19
✹ 🔫43. Read a Western.
Van Patten by B.M. Bower 1/31/19
✹ 🔫44. Read a book with a hat or gun on the cover. Please post the cover.
The Reluctant Warrior by Mary Connealy 8/23/18 (hat)
✹ 🔫45. Read a book from a list with the words WILD or WEST or WESTERN or COWBOY. Tell us the name of the list.
Wrangler in Petticoats by Mary Connealy 1/8/19
From list "Christian western fiction..." found here https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...

Reserved

Andrea wrote: "JoAnne, would a book that takes place in Port Aransas, TX (on the Gulf Coast/TX border) work for #14?
takes place there."

Andrea,
I'm going to say no because Port Aransas is not near the border. I grew up near there.

Do you like mystery or crime books? Try Tombstone Courage by J.A. Jance. It's set in Bisbee, AZ.

Welcome Hannah!

Levels:
Addle-pot: 5-15 books
Mouldy Grubs: 16-30 books
Dabster: 31-45 books

Part 1

James “Wild Bill” Hickok
Deadly gunman and Old West folk hero James “Wild Bill” Hickok was born in Illinois on May 27, 1837. Hickok is said to have been a great shot, even as a youngster, and was well known for his marksmanship with a pistol. He had many nicknames. A few he gave himself.

On April 15, 1871, Hickok took over as the marshal of Abilene, Texas. Hickok traveled with Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show for a few years, performing as himself. Fate caught up with Hickok on August 2, 1876 when a man named Jack McCall walked into the Deadwood, (South) Dakota saloon in which Hickok was playing poker and shot him in the head from behind.
The hand of cards which he supposedly held at the time of his death has become known as the dead man's hand: two pairs, aces and eights.

✹ 1. Read a book with a character that is a law man.
✹ 2. Read a book with a poker scene.
✹ 3. Read a book with a character that has a nickname.
✹ 4. Read a book where a character has to travel to earn his/her living.
✹ 5. Read a book with a moustache or playing cards on the cover. Please post the cover.

William “Curly Bill” Brocius
Born around 1845, William Brocius, better known as “Curly Bill” Brocius, may well be Arizona’s most famous – or infamous – outlaw. He was involved in multiple gunfights and related incidents, including the accidental shooting of Tombstone town marshal Fred White on October 27, 1880 and the March 8, 1881 killing of a cowboy named Dick Lloyd.

Brocius was known for a mean sense of humor when drunk. He was reported to have perpetrated such "practical jokes" as using gunfire to make a preacher "dance" during a sermon and making Mexicans at a community dance take off their clothes and dance naked.

On March 24, 1882, Wyatt Earp killed Brocius during a shootout involving the Earp posse, Brocius and several other cowboys in Iron Springs, Arizona.

✹ 6. Read a book set in Arizona.
✹ 7. Read a book with a character that is very mean.
✹ 8. Read a book whose author or MC has an unusual last name. Tell us the name.
✹ 9. Read a book with a character that has curly hair.

Dallas Stoudenmire
Dallas Stoudenmire was born in Aberfoil, Alabama on December 11, 1845. He fought in the Civil War, and he later operated as a Texas Ranger for three or more years.

In April 1881, Stoudenmire became marshal of El Paso, Texas – this being an infamously lawless and violent town at the time. On his third day on the job, Stoudenmire killed three men with two .44 caliber Colt revolvers in a famous incident known as the “Four Dead In Five Seconds” gunfight. Although the crime rate in El Paso fell significantly, and Stoudenmire earned himself repute as a legendary lawman and gunslinger, he also made himself a lot of enemies. On September 18, 1882, he was shot and killed during a shootout with the Manning brothers, the culmination of a feud. He was 36 years old.

✹ 10. Read a book with a title that has a number in it.
✹ 11. Read a book a character that dies young - 36 or younger.
✹ 12. Read a book where characters are involved in a feud or vendetta.
✹ 13. Read a book with a character whose name is also a name of a city, country or place. Example: Dallas - Dallas, Tx.
✹ 14. Read a book set in a town/city on or near a border. Tell us which border. May be a state or country's border.

Luke Short
Fast-drawing gunslinger and killer Luke Short was born in Mississippi in 1854 but was raised in Texas. Leaving home whilst in his teens, Short worked as a cowboy, an illegal whiskey trader, a professional gambler and an investor in various saloons. Short had a reputation for his skill with a gun. Short had been in over thirty engagements fighting Indians while working for the government. His first Indian fight was in 1869.

After buying shares in the Long Branch Saloon, Short was branded “undesirable” by the Dodge City, KS authorities, and they made attempts to get rid of him. He was determined not to go down without a fight, Short reached out to Old West lawman Bat Masterson, who in turn got in touch with Wyatt Earp. Earp then descended on Dodge City with a posse of desperados. And in order to prevent any conflict, Short was allowed back into Dodge and given permission to reopen his saloon – all without a single gunshot sounding. Short is also famous for winning a duel against Jim Courtright on February 8, 1887 in Forth Worth, Texas, where his ability to pull a pistol saved his own life – and ended Courtright’s.

✹ 15. Read a book where a character owns a bar.
✹ 16. Read a book where a character participates in a duel.
✹ 17. Read a book with a Native American character.
✹ 18. Read a book where a character works for the government. Tell us what their job is.

Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan
Born in Tama County, Iowa in 1867, Harvey Logan – otherwise known as “Kid Curry” – was caught up in criminal activity such as robbery from a young age, and in 1894 he got on the wrong side of the law in Montana. As the story goes, a miner and lawman named Powell “Pike” Landusky believed that Logan was involved with his daughter and accused him of assault. Logan was taken away by police and beaten. So on December 27, the 27-year-old Logan confronted Landusky in a saloon and shot and killed him with a pistol. Afterward the daughter said it was Lonny Logan she was involved with.
Forced to flee, Logan would ride with outlaw Black Jack Ketchum, form his own gang, and eventually join Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’s Wild Bunch.

According to some, Logan was considered “the fastest gun in the West” and is thought to be the basis for the Sundance Kid character as depicted by Hollywood. Logan participated in a series of train robberies in South Dakota, Wyoming, New Mexico and Colorado, and Wild West magazine even claims that he was “the wildest of the Wild Bunch.”

This gunman escaped from prison on two occasions and allegedly killed nine men in various shooting incidents during his time. In the end, on June 17, 1904, Logan took his own life after being wounded in a gunfight in Parachute, Colorado – perhaps to evade capture one last time. It is also said that he did not die in Colorado but escaped to South America with Butch and Sundance.

✹ 19. Read a book with the word WILD in the title.
✹ 20. Read a book where a bank/train is robbed.
✹ 21. Read a book where a character commits suicide.
✹ 22. Read a book where a character escapes from something. Tell us what.

Thanks, JoAnne. I've never been to Port Aransas, so I wasn't sure. So, it must be a border between two states/countries rather than an outside border to one (which would border a body of water)?

I'll keep that book you suggested in mind, but I'm also still looking through my owned books.

What about this one?

It takes place partially in North Korea, partially in China, as well as other countries, but the premise says, "she and her mother were smuggled across the border into China." So the border between China and North Korea must be featured at some point. Would that work?

If not, I'll keep thinking and looking. :)

Welcome Jessica!

Andrea wrote: "Thanks, JoAnne. I've never been to Port Aransas, so I wasn't sure. So, it must be a border between two states/countries rather than an outside border to one (which would border a body of water)?

I..."

I'll take that one.

I wrote 14. Read a book set in a town/city on or near a border. Tell us which border. May be a state or country's border. because In April 1881, Stoudenmire became marshal of El Paso, Texas which is a border town between Texas and Mexico.

Thank you, JoAnne. Sorry if I was difficult or didn't understand. I'm so glad it's okay to run books by you for approval.

The 10 Deadliest Wild West Gunfighters
Duration: May 1, 2018-April 30, 2019

Level: Dabster: 31-45 books

The Gunfighters:
James “Wild Bill” Hickok
✹ 1. Read a book with a character that is a law man.
Salem Falls - Jodi Picoult - 5/13/2018
How it fits: Charlie is a Sheriff.

✹ 2. Read a book with a poker scene.

✹ 3. Read a book with a character that has a nickname.
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided - Diane Guerrero - 6/2/2018
How it fits: Diane's nickname is Chibola (Peruvian for My little girl.)

✹ 4. Read a book where a character has to travel to earn his/her living.
Yesterday's Sun - Amanda Brooke - 7/17/2018
How it fits: Tom is a reporter who has to travel internationally to cover stories.

✹ 5. Read a book with a moustache or playing cards on the cover. Please post the cover.

William “Curly Bill” Brocius
✹ 6. Read a book set in Arizona.

✹ 7. Read a book with a character that is very mean.
The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead - 5/15/2018
How it fits: Terrance Randall is mean in his behavior towards his slaves.

✹ 8. Read a book whose author or MC has an unusual last name. Tell us the name.
Mean Girls - Micol Ostow - 10/7/2018
How it fits: Author surname unusual.

✹ 9. Read a book with a character that has curly hair.
Iron Cradles - Carol Mara - 7/3/2018
How it fits: Beth has curls.

Dallas Stoudenmire
✹ 10. Read a book with a title that has a number in it.
Notorious Nineteen - Janet Evanovich - 6/29/2018

✹ 11. Read a book a character that dies young - 36 or younger.
Secrets of Southern Girls - Haley Harrigan - 10/19/2018
How it fits: Reba dies as a teenager.

✹ 12. Read a book where characters are involved in a feud or vendetta.
All These Things I've Done - Gabrielle Zevin - 5/22/2018
How it fits: The two branches of the Balanchine family are in a feud over how should run Balanchine Chocolates.

✹ 13. Read a book with a character whose name is also a name of a city, country or place. Example: Dallas - Dallas, Tx.
The Good Daughter - Alexandra Burt - 7/10/2018
How it fits: Character Memphis Waller.

✹ 14. Read a book set in a town/city on or near a border. Tell us which border. May be a state or country's border.

Luke Short
✹ 15. Read a book where a character owns a bar.
In the Age of Love and Chocolate - Gabrielle Zevin - 7/8/2018
How it fits: Anya owns a nightclub/bar.

✹ 16. Read a book where a character participates in a duel.
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice - 5/29/2018
How it fits: Frenieres (Louis' neighbour) takes part in a duel.

✹ 17. Read a book with a Native American character.
Sandstorm - James Rollins - 5/26/2018
How it fits: Painter Crowe is a Native American.

✹ 18. Read a book where a character works for the government. Tell us what their job is.
White Highlands - John McGhie - 7/24/2018
How it fits: MC Johnny works as a photographer and film-maker for the Propaganda Office during the Kenyan Emergency.

Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan
✹ 19. Read a book with the word WILD in the title.
✹ 20. Read a book where a bank/train is robbed.

✹ 21. Read a book where a character commits suicide.
I've Got My Eyes on You - Mary Higgins Clark - 7/31/2018
How it fits: Nancy Brooks commits suicide.

✹ 22. Read a book where a character escapes from something. Tell us what.
Because It Is My Blood - Gabrielle Zevin - 6/27/2018
How it fits: Anya escapes from Liberty, the juvenile detention centre.

William “Wild Bill” Longley
✹ 23. Read a book where a character is a psychopath.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris - 6/10/2018
How it fits: Story involves Dr Mengele, a true psychopath.

✹ 24. Read a book set in Texas.

✹ 25. Read a book published in October (of any year).
Working Class Boy - Jimmy Barnes - 10/2/2018
How it fits: Published October 2016

Dan Bogan
✹ 26. Read a book with a detective character.
Smokin' Seventeen - Janet Evanovich - 10/31/2018
How it fits: Joe Morelli is a detective.

✹ 27. Read a book where a bad guy escapes and is never seen again.
The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group - Catherine Jinks - 10/5/2018
How it fits: The third man in the werewolf abduction ring escapes and is not seen again.

✹ 28. Read a book where a character gets caught in a blizzard.

John Wesley Hardin
✹ 29. Read a YA book or a book where the MC is a teenager.
Faithful - Alice Hoffman - 5/5/2018
How it fits: Tagged YA by 16 users.

✹ 30. Read a book where a teenager is in awe of an older man.
The Winter Garden - Jane Thynne - 6/20/2018
How it fits: Clara's godson Erich idolizes pilot/actor Ernst Udet.

✹ 31. Read a book where a character has skills. (Tell us what they are skillful in.)
Poison Study - Maria V. Snyder - 5/10/2018
How it fits: Yelena is an acrobat/ good at flips etc and also skilled in magic.

✹ 32. Read a book with an author that also publishes under another name. Tell us both of the names.
The Light of Machu Picchu - Antoine B. Daniel - 5/20/2018
How it fits: Antione B Daniel also writes under the name Jean-Daniel Baltassat.

James “Killin’ Jim” Miller
✹ 33. Read a book where a child is responsible for killing his parents or caregivers.

✹ 34. Read a book with a character that is an outlaw or assassin.
The Girl with a Clock for a Heart - Peter Swanson - 6/23/2018
How it fits: Liana is an outlaw.

✹ 35. Read a book with a character that attends church regularly.
The Hope Jar - Wanda E. Brunstetter - 11/4/2018
How it fits: The Lapp family attend church regularly.

✹ 36. Read a book with a black coat on the cover. Please post the cover.

✹ 37. Read a book where a character is well liked.
The Great Zoo of China - Matthew Reilly - 7/29/2018
How it fits: CJ Cameron is well liked.

Billy the Kid
✹ 38. Read a book where the MC is an orphan.
The Foster Child - Jenny Blackhurst - 6/6/2018
How it fits: Ellie is orphaned after a fire kills her parents and brother.

✹ 39. Read a book where someone exacts revenge.
The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah - 10/13/2018
How it fits: Ernt Allbright vandalizes the pub as revenge for modernizing the town.

✹ 40. Read a book where a character is a bodyguard.
✹ 41. Read a book where the MC is a rancher.
✹ 42. Read a book set in the "Wild West" -
✹ 43. Read a Western.

✹ 44. Read a book with a hat or gun on the cover. Please post the cover.
The Captain's Daughter - Leah Fleming - 10/29/2018
How it fits: Female cover model is wearing a hat on cover.

✹ 45. Read a book from a list with the words WILD or WEST or WESTERN or COWBOY. Tell us the name of the list.
Poison Study - Maria V. Snyder - 5/10/2018
How it fits: Positioned #25 on Wild Things: YA Grown-Up Favorite Books.

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The 10 Deadliest Wild West Gunfighters
Duration: May 1, 2018-April 30, 2019

Dabster: 31-45 books
42/31-45

The Gunfighters:
James “Wild Bill” Hickok
✹ 1. Read a book with a character that is a law man.-The Broken Girls by Simone St. James Finished 6/17/18****
✹ 2. Read a book with a poker scene.-Plum Island by Nelson DeMille Finished 7/4/18***(MC plays poker while at the casino)
✹ 3. Read a book with a character that has a nickname.-Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer Finished 6/6/18**
✹ 4. Read a book where a character has to travel to earn his/her living.-The Dead Zone by Stephen King Finished 9/19/18****
✹ 5. Read a book with a moustache or playing cards on the cover. Please post the cover.- by Robert Galbraith Finished 10/12/18***

William “Curly Bill” Brocius
✹ 6. Read a book set in Arizona.-Bad Country by C.B. McKenzie Finished 10/16/18****
✹ 7. Read a book with a character that is very mean.-It by Stephen King Finished 6/22/18*****
✹ 8. Read a book whose author or MC has an unusual last name. Tell us the name.-The Vanished Man by Jeffery Deaver (Last name is Rhyme) Finished 7/17/18**
✹ 9. Read a book with a character that has curly hair.-Hostile Witness by Rebecca Forster Finished 5/26/18**

Dallas Stoudenmire
✹ 10. Read a book with a title that has a number in it.-The One by John Marrs Finished 7/11/18***
✹ 11. Read a book a character that dies young - 36 or younger.-Fractured by Karin Slaughter Finished 5/21/18****
✹ 12. Read a book where characters are involved in a feud or vendetta.-Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica Finished 6/29/18**
✹ 13. Read a book with a character whose name is also a name of a city, country or place. Example: Dallas - Dallas, Tx.-Undone by Karin Slaughter, character named Faith as in Faith, SD. Finished 7/13/18***
✹ 14. Read a book set in a town/city on or near a border. Tell us which border. May be a state or country's border.-Blood Memory by Greg Iles Finished 6/15/18**** Takes place in Natchez, MS on the border of Mississippi.

Luke Short
✹ 15. Read a book where a character owns a bar.-The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah Finished 5/5/18***
✹ 16. Read a book where a character participates in a duel.-Little Heaven by Nick Cutter Finished 9/2/18****
✹ 17. Read a book with a Native American character.-The Outsider by Stephen King Finished 6/3/18****
✹ 18. Read a book where a character works for the government. Tell us what their job is.-The Deep by Nick Cutter 6/9/18*** (The character is a scientist).

Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan
✹ 19. Read a book with the word WILD in the title.
✹ 20. Read a book where a bank/train is robbed.
✹ 21. Read a book where a character commits suicide.-The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman 6/1/18*****
✹ 22. Read a book where a character escapes from something. Tell us what.-Laurie by Stephen King Finished 5/20/18**** (character escapes from an (view spoiler)[alligator attack (hide spoiler)])

William “Wild Bill” Longley
✹ 23. Read a book where a character is a psychopath.-Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter Finished 5/31/18****
✹ 24. Read a book set in Texas.-The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson Finished 10/6/18****
✹ 25. Read a book published in October (of any year).-Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan Finished 8/26/18****

Dan Bogan
✹ 26. Read a book with a detective character.-Beyond Reach by Karin Slaughter Finished 7/6/18****
✹ 27. Read a book where a bad guy escapes and is never seen again.-Kisscut by Karin Slaughter Finished 6/16/18****
✹ 28. Read a book where a character gets caught in a blizzard.-The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey Finished 6/27/18***

John Wesley Hardin
✹ 29. Read a YA book or a book where the MC is a teenager.-Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuireFinished 6/10/18***
✹ 30. Read a book where a teenager is in awe of an older man.-Indelible by Karin Slaughter Finished 6/23/18***
✹ 31. Read a book where a character has skills. (Tell us what they are skillful in.)-I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh (Jenna makes and sells pottery/sculptures) Finished 7/1/18***
✹ 32. Read a book with an author that also publishes under another name. Tell us both of the names.-On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King. Also published under the name Richard Bachman (Stephen King) Finished 5/18/18*****

James “Killin’ Jim” Miller
✹ 33. Read a book where a child is responsible for killing his parents or caregivers.-(view spoiler)[The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn (hide spoiler)] Finished 5/27/18****
✹ 34. Read a book with a character that is an outlaw or assassin.-Redemption Road by John Hart Finished 7/10/18****
✹ 35. Read a book with a character that attends church regularly.-Faithless by Karin Slaughter Finished 6/24/18****
✹ 36. Read a book with a black coat on the cover. Please post the cover.- by Carlos Ruiz Zafón Finished 11/5/18*****
✹ 37. Read a book where a character is well liked.-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Finished 7/7/18

Billy the Kid
✹ 38. Read a book where the MC is an orphan.-Triptych by Karin Slaughter Finished 5/11/18****
✹ 39. Read a book where someone exacts revenge.-A Faint Cold Fear by Karin Slaughter Finished 6/21/18****
✹ 40. Read a book where a character is a bodyguard.-The One by John Marrs Finished 7/11/18***
✹ 41. Read a book where the MC is a rancher.

✹ 42. Read a book set in the "Wild West" - (Oregon, Washington)-Red Moon by Benjamin Percy Finished 8/4/18**
✹ 43. Read a Western.-Out Of Range by C.J. Box Finished 5/28/18***
✹ 44. Read a book with a hat or gun on the cover. Please post the cover.- by John Grisham Finished 12/8/18***
✹ 45. Read a book from a list with the words WILD or WEST or WESTERN or COWBOY. Tell us the name of the list.-The Quick and the Dead by Louis L'Amour from the list, Best Westerns Finished 7/8/18***

Welcome ElleEm!!

The 10 Deadliest Wild West Gunfighters
Duration: May 1, 2018-April 30, 2019

Level: Dabster: 31-45 books

Progress: 31/45

✹ 1. Read a book with a character that is a law man.
Along Came A Demon, Linda Welch, 20.06.2018

✹ 2. Read a book with a poker scene.
✹ 3. Read a book with a character that has a nickname.

✹ 4. Read a book where a character has to travel to earn his/her living.
Nobody's Boy, Hector Malot, 30.05.2018

✹ 5. Read a book with a moustache or playing cards on the cover. Please post the cover.

✹ 6. Read a book set in Arizona.
Hounded, Kevin Hearne, 18.10.2018

✹ 7. Read a book with a character that is very mean.
Do You Want to Start a Scandal, Tessa Dare, 30.09.2018 - Frances is very mean to Charlotte.

✹ 8. Read a book whose MC has an unusual last name. Tell us the name.
Etiquette & Espionage, Gail Carriger, 03.06.2018 - Temminnick

✹ 9. Read a book with a character that has curly hair.
Scarlet, Marissa Meyer, 04.08.2018 - Scarlet has curly hair

✹ 10. Read a book with a title that has a number in it.
Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet, Darynda Jones, 07.07.2018

✹ 11. Read a book a character that dies young - 36 or younger.
Logavina Street: Life And Death In A Sarajevo Neighborhood, Barbara Demick, 26.05.2018 - many young characters die in war

✹ 12. Read a book where characters are involved in a feud or vendetta.
Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie, 13.07.2018

✹ 13. Read a book with a character whose name is also a name of a city, country or place. Example: Dallas - Dallas, Tx.
Grave Peril, Jim Butcher, 18.06.2018 - Harry Dresden - Dresden, Germany

✹ 14. Read a book set in a town/city on or near a border. Tell us which border. May be a state or country's border.

✹ 15. Read a book where a character owns a bar.
Iron Kissed, Patricia Briggs, 29.05.2018

✹ 16. Read a book where a character participates in a duel.
Amelia, Henry Fielding, 31.05.2018

✹ 17. Read a book with a Native American character.
Blood Bound, Patricia Briggs, 05.05.2018

✹ 18. Read a book where a character works for the government. Tell us what their job is.
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, Erik Larson, 09.05.2018 - President Woodrow Wilson, First Lord of Admiralty Winston Churchill

✹ 19. Read a book with the word WILD in the title.
✹ 20. Read a book where a bank/train is robbed.

✹ 21. Read a book where a character commits suicide.
Bitterblue, Kristin Cashore, 25.07.2018

✹ 22. Read a book where a character escapes from something. Tell us what.

✹ 23. Read a book where a character is a psychopath.

✹ 24. Read a book set in Texas.
Glass Houses, Rachel Caine, 27.05.2018

✹ 25. Read a book published in October (of any year).
Fire, Kristin Cashore, 14.05.2018 - published in October 2009

✹ 26. Read a book with a detective character.
Death Call - Er bringt den Tod, Chris Carter, 12.06.2018

✹ 27. Read a book where a bad guy escapes and is never seen again.
✹ 28. Read a book where a character gets caught in a blizzard.

✹ 29. Read a YA book.
Weil ich Layken liebe, Colleen Hoover, 21.05.2018

✹ 30. Read a book where a teenager is in awe of an older man.
Mädchen Nr. 5, Howard Linskey, 20.08.2018

✹ 31. Read a book where a character has skills. (Tell us what they are skillful in.)
Magic Slays, Ilona Andrews, 02.05.2018 - Kate is skilled in magic.

✹ 32. Read a book with an author that also publishes under another name. Tell us both of the names.
Crocodile on the Sandbank, Elizabeth Peters, 03.05.2018 - Elizabeth Peters is a pen name of Barbara Mertz, who also wrote as Barbara Michaels.

✹ 33. Read a book where a child is responsible for killing his parents or caregivers.

✹ 34. Read a book with a character that is an outlaw or assassin.
Royal Assassin, Robin Hobb, 18.05.2018

✹ 35. Read a book with a character that attends church regularly.
The Shop on Blossom Street, Debbie Macomber, 04.05.2018 - Jordan

✹ 36. Read a book with a black coat on the cover. Please post the cover.
Death Masks, Jim Butcher, 15.08.2018


✹ 37. Read a book where a character is well liked.
The Baronet's Wedding Engagement, Jessica Hart, 14.05.2018 - Flora is well liked.

✹ 38. Read a book where the MC is an orphan.
Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery, 04.07.2018

✹ 39. Read a book where someone exacts revenge.
A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas, 23.06.2018 - Feyre exacts revenge on Tamlin

✹ 40. Read a book where a character is a bodyguard.
Blood Rites, Jim Butcher, 14.11.2018 - there are 4 bodyguars of the head of Raith family

✹ 41. Read a book where the MC is a rancher.

✹ 42. Read a book set in the "Wild West" - The term Wild West refers to area of the United States west of the Mississippi river, specifically during the latter part of the 19th century and into the early 20th century.
Zorro, Isabel Allende, 09.09.2018

✹ 43. Read a Western.

✹ 44. Read a book with a hat or gun on the cover. Please post the cover.
Exit Strategy, Kelley Armstrong, 22.07.2018


✹ 45. Read a book from a list with the words WILD or WEST or WESTERN or COWBOY. Tell us the name of the list.

Welcome Rina!

The 10 Deadliest Wild West Gunfighters
Duration: May 1, 2018-April 30, 2019

Mouldy Grubs: 16-30 books 30/30
Dabster: 31-45 books

The Gunfighters:
James “Wild Bill” Hickok
✹ 1. Read a book with a character that is a law man. Marked Down for Murder by Josie Belle 5/3/18

✹ 2. Read a book with a poker scene. Once Upon a Grind by Cleo Coyle 5/22/18

✹ 3. Read a book with a character that has a nickname. By Invitation Only by Dorothea Benton Frank 5/28/18

✹ 4. Read a book where a character has to travel to earn his living. The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand 7/6/18

✹ 5. Read a book with a moustache or playing cards on the cover. Please post the cover.

William “Curly Bill” Brocius
✹ 6. Read a book set in Arizona.
✹ 7. Read a book with a character that is very mean.
✹ 8. Read a book whose author or MC has an unusual last name. Tell us the name...James Qwerillan...The Cat Who Tailed a Thief by Lilian Jackson Braun 7/31/18

✹ 9. Read a book with a character that has curly hair. Strawberry Cream Murder by Susan Gillard 9/17/18


Dallas Stoudenmire
✹ 10. Read a book with a title that has a number in it. Knit One, Kill Two by Maggie Sefton 6/19/18

✹ 11. Read a book a character that dies young - 36 or younger. Carnegie's Maid by Marie Benedict 9/11/18

✹ 12. Read a book where characters are involved in a feud or vendetta. All Fudged Up by Nancy CoCo 8/21/18

✹ 13. Read a book with a character whose name is also a name of a city, country or place. Example: Dallas - Dallas, Tx.
✹ 14. Read a book set in a town/city on or near a border. Tell us which border. May be a state or country's border.

Luke Short
✹ 15. Read a book where a character owns a bar. Shoots to Kill by Kate Collins 5/30/18

✹ 16. Read a book where a character participates in a duel. Enchanted, Inc. by Shanna Swendson 9/1/18

✹ 17. Read a book with a Native American character.
✹ 18. Read a book where a character works for the government. Tell us what their job is. JFK..President Jackie, Janet & Lee: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Janet Auchincloss, and Lee Radziwill -- The Other Side of Camelot by J. Randy Taraborrelli 5/14/18


Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan
✹ 19. Read a book with the word WILD in the title.
✹ 20. Read a book where a bank/train is robbed.
✹ 21. Read a book where a character commits suicide. Hiss of Death by Rita Mae Brown 6/28/18
✹ 22. Read a book where a character escapes from something. Tell us what. ..Owing his family money....The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney 6/13/18


William “Wild Bill” Longley
✹ 23. Read a book where a character is a psychopath. Eggnog Murder by Leslie Meier 12/18/18

✹ 24. Read a book set in Texas. Rueful Death by Susan Wittig Albert 11/14/18

✹ 25. Read a book published in October (of any year). Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie 5/24/18


Dan Bogan
✹ 26. Read a book with a detective character. Bundle of Trouble by Diana Orgain 7/11/18

✹ 27. Read a book where a bad guy escapes and is never seen again.
✹ 28. Read a book where a character gets caught in a blizzard. Engaged in Death by Stephanie Blackmoore 11/21/18


John Wesley Hardin
✹ 29. Read a book where the MC is a teenager. Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg 6/23/18

✹ 30. Read a book where a teenager is in awe of an older man. Flamingo Diner by Sherryl Woods 9/29/18

✹ 31. Read a book where a character has skills. Musically talented Dead to the Last Drop by Cleo Coyle 8/15/18

✹ 32. Read a book with an author that also publishes under another name. Tell us both of the names. The High Tide Club by Mary Kay Andrews also writes as Kathy Hogan Trocheck7/3/18


James “Killin’ Jim” Miller
✹ 33. Read a book where a child is responsible for killing his parents or caregivers.
✹ 34. Read a book with a character that is an outlaw or assassin.
✹ 35. Read a book with a character that attends church regularly. Out to Canaan by Jan Karon 9/3/18

✹ 36. Read a book with a black coat on the cover. Please post the cover. Evil in Carnations by Kate Collins 7/9/18

✹ 37. Read a book where a character is well liked. The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene 7/14/18


Billy the Kid
✹ 38. Read a book where the MC is an orphan. Murder Ties the Knot by Christy Fifield 11/3/18

✹ 39. Read a book where someone exacts revenge. Wicked Charms by Janet Evanovich 5/15/18

✹ 40. Read a book where a character is a bodyguard. Dead Cold Brew by Cleo Coyle 10/30/18

✹ 41. Read a book where the MC is a rancher.

✹ 42. Read a book set in the "Wild West" - The term Wild West refers to area of the United States west of the Mississippi river, specifically during the latter part of the 19th century and into the early 20th century.
✹ 43. Read a Western.
✹ 44. Read a book with a hat Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand 12/3/18

✹ 45. Read a book from a list with the words WILD or WEST or WESTERN or COWBOY. Tell us the name of the list.

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Welcome Debbie!

🍨🍨🍨🍨 The 10 Deadliest Wild West Gunfighters 🍨🍨🍨🍨 Level: Dabster.

James “Wild Bill” Hickok
✹ 1. Read a book with a character that is a law man. My Granny Writes Erotica - Threesome 20/5/18 ★★★★
✹ 3. Read a book with a character that has a nickname. Bleach (3-in-1 Edition), Vol. 13: Includes vols. 37, 38 39 23/5/18 ★★★★
✹ 4. Read a book where a character has to travel to earn his living. The Light Fantastic 24/5/18 ★★★★★

William “Curly Bill” Brocius
✹ 7. Read a book with a character that is very mean. How to Break a Dragon's Heart 23/5/18 ★★★★
✹ 9. Read a book with a character that has curly hair. As Old As Time 24/5/18 ★★★★★

Dallas Stoudenmire
✹ 10. Read a book with a title that has a number in it. The Titan's Curse 27/5/18 ★★★★★
✹ 11. Read a book a character that dies young. Doctor Who: The Stone Rose: The History Collection 5/6/18 ★★★

Luke Short
✹ 16. Read a book where a character participates in a duel. How to Steal a Dragon's Sword 29/5/18 ★★★★
✹ 17. Read a book with a American character. Furry United Coalition Bundle 4/6/18 ★★★★★

John Wesley Hardin
✹ 29. Read a YA. Heartless 10/6/18 ★★★
✹ 31. Read a book where a character has skills. Winter 25/5/18 ★★★★★

Billy the Kid
✹ 39. Read a book where someone exacts revenge. Howl's Moving Castle 5/6/18 ★★★★★

Welcome Katherine!

The 10 Deadliest Wild West Gunfighters
Duration: May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Dabster: 40/45

James “Wild Bill” Hickok
✹ 1. Read a book with a character that is a law man.
A Mouthful of Murder by Carol Durand 9/5/18
✹ 2. Read a book with a poker scene.
For the Birds by Angela Roquet 7/27/18
✹ 3. Read a book with a character that has a nickname.
Bunny and the Bear by Eve Langlais 7/18/18
✹ 4. Read a book where a character has to travel to earn his/her living.
Ghouls Gone Wild by Victoria Laurie 9/28/18
✹ 5. Read a book with a moustache
10/7/18

William “Curly Bill” Brocius
✹ 6. Read a book set in Arizona.
Firewalker by Allyson James 5/11/18
✹ 7. Read a book with a character that is very mean.
Cold Shadows by J.L. Bryan 10/3/18
✹ 8. Read a book whose author or MC has an unusual last name. - Harry Kough
Necroscope III: The Source by Brian Lumley 6/7/18
✹ 9. Read a book with a character that has curly hair.
Ruby Dragon by Terry Bolryder 6/28/18

Dallas Stoudenmire
✹ 10. Read a book with a title that has a number in it.
One Bite With A Stranger by Christine Warren 6/8/18
✹ 11. Read a book a character that dies young - 36 or younger.
The Headmaster by Tiffany Reisz 6/24/18
✹ 12. Read a book where characters are involved in a feud or vendetta.
The Queen of Zombie Hearts by Gena Showalter 7/21/18
✹ 13. Read a book with a character whose name is also a name of a city, country or place - Houston
A Sweet Chunk of Madness by Deany Ray 6/8/18
✹ 14. Read a book set in a town/city on or near a border. Tell us which border. May be a state or country's border.

Luke Short
✹ 15. Read a book where a character owns a bar.
Out of Time by Monique Martin 7/27/18
✹ 16. Read a book where a character participates in a duel.
✹ 17. Read a book with a Native American character.
Ghouls Just Haunt to Have Fun by Victoria Laurie 8/22/18
✹ 18. Read a book where a character works for the government. - FBI
Lightning Blade by D.N. Erikson 5/9/18

Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan
✹ 19. Read a book with the word WILD in the title.
Wild Game by Alisa Woods 2/1/19
✹ 20. Read a book where a bank/train is robbed.
The Haunted Heist by Angie Fox 3/27/19
✹ 21. Read a book where a character commits suicide.
Gwendy's Button Box by Stephen King 8/21/18
✹ 22. Read a book where a character escapes from something. - Being held against her willHeart of the Dragon by Gena Showalter 6/21/18

William “Wild Bill” Longley
✹ 23. Read a book where a character is a psychopath.
Insanity by Cameron Jace 10/19/18
✹ 24. Read a book set in Texas.
The Magnolia Story by Chip Gaines 11/25/18
✹ 25. Read a book published in October (of any year).
Stone-Cold Fox by Hailey Edwards 5/10/18

Dan Bogan
✹ 26. Read a book with a detective character.
Half Baked Murder by Carol Durand 7/5/18
✹ 27. Read a book where a bad guy escapes and is never seen again.
Archangel's Kiss by Nalini Singh 5/1/18
✹ 28. Read a book where a character gets caught in a blizzard.

John Wesley Hardin
✹ 29. Read a YA book or a book where the MC is a teenager.
Out of Darkness by Jason D. Morrow 5/19/18
✹ 30. Read a book where a teenager is in awe of an older man.
Moonlight & Mechanicals by Cindy Spencer Pape 11/21/18
✹ 31. Read a book where a character has skills. - Carpentry, General Handyman
Pinned for Murder by Elizabeth Lynn Casey 6/13/18
✹ 32. Read a book with an author that also publishes under another name. - Milly Taiden & April Angel
Scaling Her Dragon by Milly Taiden 11/30/18

James “Killin’ Jim” Miller
✹ 33. Read a book where a child is responsible for killing his parents or caregivers.
Jaxson by Alisa Woods 9/19/18
✹ 34. Read a book with a character that is an outlaw
Ex-Con by Scott Hildreth 10/17/18
✹ 35. Read a book with a character that attends church regularly.
House Beneath the Bridge by Iain Rob Wright 8/9/18
✹ 36. Read a book with a black coat on the cover.
10/24/18
✹ 37. Read a book where a character is well liked.
How Beauty Saved the Beast by Jax Garren 5/25/18

Billy the Kid
✹ 38. Read a book where the MC is an orphan.
Money Shot by Scott Hildreth 5/4/18
✹ 39. Read a book where someone exacts revenge.
The Child Thief by Brom 8/31/18
✹ 40. Read a book where a character is a bodyguard.
Fury of the Demon by Diana Rowland 9/14/18
✹ 41. Read a book where the MC is a rancher.
Abigail's Heart by Faye P. Baker 2/17/19

✹ 42. Read a book set in the "Wild West" - The term Wild West refers to area of the United States west of the Mississippi river, specifically during the latter part of the 19th century and into the early 20th century.
✹ 43. Read a Western.
At the Cowboy's Mercy by Emma Jay 2/25/19
✹ 44. Read a book with a hat or gun on the cover.
10/27/18
✹ 45. Read a book from a list with the words WILD or WEST or WESTERN or COWBOY. Tell us the name of the list.

Welcome Sunshine!

The 10 Deadliest Wild West Gunfighters
May 1st, 2018-April 30th, 2019
Completed: 0/31-45

This one, Dabster Level please. Complete 31-45 tasks.

The Gunfighters:

1. James “Wild Bill” Hickok:
✹ 1. Read a book with a character that is a law man.
✹ 2. Read a book with a poker scene.
✹ 3. Read a book with a character that has a nickname.
✹ 4. Read a book where a character has to travel to earn his/her living.
✹ 5. Read a book with a moustache or playing cards on the cover. Please post the cover.

2. William “Curly Bill” Brocius:
✹ 6. Read a book set in Arizona.
✹ 7. Read a book with a character that is very mean.
✹ 8. Read a book whose author or MC has an unusual last name. Tell us the name.
✹ 9. Read a book with a character that has curly hair.

3. Dallas Stoudenmire:
✹ 10. Read a book with a title that has a number in it.
✹ 11. Read a book a character that dies young - 36 or younger.
✹ 12. Read a book where characters are involved in a feud or vendetta.
✹ 13. Read a book with a character whose name is also a name of a city, country or place. Example: Dallas - Dallas, Tx.
✹ 14. Read a book set in a town/city on or near a border. Tell us which border. May be a state or country's border.

4. Luke Short:
✹ 15. Read a book where a character owns a bar.
✹ 16. Read a book where a character participates in a duel.
✹ 17. Read a book with a Native American character.
✹ 18. Read a book where a character works for the government. Tell us what their job is.

5. Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan:
✹ 19. Read a book with the word WILD in the title.
✹ 20. Read a book where a bank/train is robbed.
✹ 21. Read a book where a character commits suicide.
✹ 22. Read a book where a character escapes from something. Tell us what.

6. William “Wild Bill” Longley:
✹ 23. Read a book where a character is a psychopath.
✹ 24. Read a book set in Texas.
✹ 25. Read a book published in October (of any year).

7. Dan Bogan:
✹ 26. Read a book with a detective character.
✹ 27. Read a book where a bad guy escapes and is never seen again.
✹ 28. Read a book where a character gets caught in a blizzard.

8. John Wesley Hardin:
✹ 29. Read a YA book or a book where the MC is a teenager.
✹ 30. Read a book where a teenager is in awe of an older man.
✹ 31. Read a book where a character has skills. (Tell us what they are skillful in.)
✹ 32. Read a book with an author that also publishes under another name. Tell us both of the names.

9. James “Killin’ Jim” Miller:
✹ 33. Read a book where a child is responsible for killing his parents or caregivers.
✹ 34. Read a book with a character that is an outlaw or assassin.
✹ 35. Read a book with a character that attends church regularly.
✹ 36. Read a book with a black coat on the cover. Please post the cover.
✹ 37. Read a book where a character is well liked.

10. Billy the Kid:
✹ 38. Read a book where the MC is an orphan.
✹ 39. Read a book where someone exacts revenge.
✹ 40. Read a book where a character is a bodyguard.
✹ 41. Read a book where the MC is a rancher.

Other Tasks:
✹ 42. Read a book set in the "Wild West" - The term Wild West refers to area of the United States west of the Mississippi river, specifically during the latter part of the 19th century and into the early 20th century.
✹ 43. Read a Western.
✹ 44. Read a book with a hat or gun on the cover. Please post the cover.
✹ 45. Read a book from a list with the words WILD or WEST or WESTERN or COWBOY. Tell us the name of the list.

Welcome Tanya!

The 10 Deadliest Wild West Gunfighters
Duration: May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019

Mouldy Grubs: 16-30 books
Books Completed: 20

James “Wild Bill” Hickok
✹ 2. Read a book with a poker scene- Obsidio by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff 5/2
✹ 3. Read a book with a character that has a nickname- The Edge of Never by J.A. Redmerski 5/9
✹ 4. Read a book where a character has to travel to earn his/her living- Last to Know by Micalea Smeltzer 6/2

William “Curly Bill” Brocius
✹ 6. Read a book set in Arizona- Impulse by Ellen Hopkins 7/6
✹ 7. Read a book with a character that is very mean- The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer 6/11
✹ 9. Read a book with a character that has curly hair- Gone Rogue by Marissa Meyer 6/24

Dallas Stoudenmire
✹ 10. Read a book with a title that has a number in it- One Piece, Volume 20: Showdown at Alubarna by Eiichiro Oda 5/2
✹ 11. Read a book a character that dies young - 36 or younger- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson 5/18
✹ 12. Read a book where characters are involved in a feud or vendetta- A Million Junes by Emily Henry 6/5
✹ 13. Read a book with a character whose name is also a name of a city, country or place- Indie and the Brother's Best Friend by R. Linda 5/6 - Indiana

Luke Short
✹ 15. Read a book where a character owns a bar- Maybe This Time by Chantal Fernando 7/11

William “Wild Bill” Longley
✹ 23. Read a book where a character is a psychopath- Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel 7/2
✹ 25. Read a book published in October (of any year)- Crank by Ellen Hopkins 5/3

Dan Bogan
✹ 26. Read a book with a detective character- Grave Witch by Kalayna Price 7/14

John Wesley Hardin
✹ 29. Read a book where the MC is a teenager- Unraveling You by Jessica Sorensen 5/10
✹ 31. Read a book where a character has skills- Formerly Shark Girl by Kelly Bingham 6/25 - Art

James “Killin’ Jim” Miller
✹ 35. Read a book with a character that attends church regularly- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo 5/3
✹ 37. Read a book where a character is well liked- More Than Her by Jay McLean 7/9

Billy the Kid
✹ 39. Read a book where someone exacts revenge- Heartless by Marissa Meyer 5/15
✹ 40. Read a book where a character is a bodyguard- Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo 7/1

Welcome Grace!

I'M IN!
Dabster: 31-45 books

35 TASKS DONE.

James “Wild Bill” Hickok
✹ 2. poker scene - Playboy - Katy Evans - 9 AUG
✹ 3. character has a nickname - The Butcher - Celia Aaron (David 'The Butcher' Raven) - 1 OCT
✹ 4. character has to travel to earn her living - Revere: A Legacy Novel - Bethany-Kris - 5 AUG
✹ 5. playing card on the cover - King of Clubs - Sandra Owens - 1 SEPT


William “Curly Bill” Brocius
✹ 6. set in Arizona - Taking the Heat - Brenda Novak - 1 AUG
✹ 7. character that is very mean - Cunning - Aleatha Romig - 10 JULY
✹ 9. character has curly hair - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer - 4 JULY


Dallas Stoudenmire
✹ 10. title has a number in it - 1st to Die - James Patterson - 15 JUNE
✹ 11. character that dies young - 4th of July - James Patterson - 13 AUG
✹ 12. character involved in vendetta - Lothaire - Kresley Cole (Vandetta against his mothers killer) - 24 JULY
✹ 13. character name is also a place - Dark in Death - J.D. Robb (Eve Dallas) - 16 AUG


Luke Short
✹ 15. character owns a bar - Jack of Hearts - Sandra Owens - 27 AUG
✹ 17. Native American character - Surrender - Pamela Clare - 21 AUG
✹ 18. character works for the government - Order to Kill - Kyle Mills (Mitch Rapp - C.I.A Anti-Terrorism Operative) - 26 JUNE


Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan
✹ 19. WILD in the title - Wild Heat - Bella Andre - 15 AUG
✹ 21. character commits suicide - Entangled - Bethany-Kris - 25 JUNE
✹ 22. character escapes - Unruly: A Legacy Novel - Bethany-Kris (MC escapes from customs officers before he's arrested for gun running) - 5 AUG


William “Wild Bill” Longley
✹ 23. character is a psychopath - Echoes in Death - J.D. Robb - 9 JULY
✹ 24. set in Texas - Lone Star Nights - Delores Fossen - 3 JULY
✹ 25. published in October - Seducing the Enemy - Noelle Adams (Oct 13) - 29 JULY


Dan Bogan
✹ 26. detective - Apprentice in Death - J.D. Robb - 27 JUNE


John Wesley Hardin
✹ 29. Read a YA book - Mason - Tijan - 21 OCT
✹ 31. character has skills - Resisting Temptation - M.S. Parker (Time Traveler) - 31 AUG
✹ 32. author has another name - Wicked Games - Jessica Clare (Jill Myles) - 5 JULY


James “Killin’ Jim” Miller
✹ 33. child is responsible for killing parents - The 8th Confession - James Patterson - 20 SEPT
✹ 34. assassin - Freaks - Callie Hart - 15 SEPT
✹ 35. attends church regularly - Respect - Aleatha Romig - 16 JULY
✹ 36. black coat on the cover - Book Boyfriend - Claire Kingsley - 6 SEPT
✹ 37. character is well liked - Getting Worked Up - Erin Nicholas - 7 AUG


Billy the Kid
✹ 38. MC is an orphan - Your Alluring Love - Layla Hagen - 19 JULY
✹ 39. someone exacts revenge - Revenge - Debra Webb - 6 JULY
✹ 40. character is a bodyguard - Out of Luck - Geri Foster - 12 JULY
✹ 41. MC is a rancher - Beyond Control - Kat Martin - 11 AUG


Other Tasks
✹ 43. Read a Western - Three Weeks with a Bull Rider - Cat Johnson - 11 OCT
✹ 44. hat on the cover - Tyler - Jennifer Ashley - 26 AUG

Welcome Sandra!

The 10 Deadliest Wild West Gunfighters
May 1, 2018-April 30, 2019
Mouldy Grubs
1/16+

The Gunfighters:

James “Wild Bill” Hickok
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William “Curly Bill” Brocius
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Dallas Stoudenmire
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Luke Short
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Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan
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✹ 21.The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan 6/8 Mother commits suicide
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William “Wild Bill” Longley
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Dan Bogan
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John Wesley Hardin
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James “Killin’ Jim” Miller
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Billy the Kid
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Other
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Welcome Lizz!