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Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.

Lee Child

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Lee Child
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: October 29
Author
Film Actor
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Jim Grant
James D. Jim Grant
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Range
Problem
Mysterious
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Western
Rides
Trouble
Rider
Days
Riders
Shows
Practically
Three
Sunset

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