Louis L'Amour
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The saga of the Sackett family continues with Logan Sackett, a cynical and rootless drifter, meeting a fiery old widow, Emily Talon-who is even wilder than himself. Tall and plucky, she is determined to defend herself against the locals who are trying to take her land. And even though Logan initially intends on not getting himself involved, he can't help it when he discovers that Emily had been born a Sackett.
Author
Language
English
Description
Clay Bell spent the last six years fighting Indians, rustlers, and the wilderness itself to make the B-Bar ranch the prize of the Deep Creek Range. But Jud Devitt, a ruthless speculator from the East, now threatens everything Clay has worked for. Devitt, holding a contract with the Mexican Central to deliver railroad ties, wants to harvest timber off the land where Clay grazes his cattle. Backing Devitt are shady politicians, a dishonest banker, and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Matt Brennon finds the old man as he lays dying near a spring, his body riddled with bullets. The old man leaves his ranch to Brennon, telling him never to sell, never to give up. For the first time in his life he really wants to kill, wants it so much his hands shake. Before the battle is over, Brennon gets the chance to do just that. Falsely accused of murder, he is forced to run from the law while harassing his enemies at the same time. When...
4) Tucker
Author
Pub. Date
c1971
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Story of Mike Bastian and his adoptive father, the outlaw Ben Curry. When Curry wants to turn his legacy over to Bastian, Bastian must choose between his loyalty to Ben and his yearning for a different way of life.
6) Sitka
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1957-
Language
English
Description
When the three outlaws who planned to rob Captain Hutchins are captured through Jean LaBarge's efforts, the captain agrees to take Jean with him on a trip to Alaska.
12) Radigan
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1958-]
Language
English
Description
"When beautiful Angelina Foley presents Tom Radigan with a Spanish grant and claims ownership of his land, he realizes hes up against a cunning and deadly opportunist. Foley wants him off Vache Creek immediately, and with three thousand head of cattle, an outfit of hardcase gunfighters, and winter coming on, she is unwilling to take no for an answer. But Radigan has worked four hard years building up his ranch. Fighting for it and, if he has to, killing...
14) Conagher
Author
Publisher
Ulverscroft
Pub. Date
[1969-]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As far as the eye could see was a vast, empty horizon. Evie Teale had finally accepted that her husband wouldn't be coming home. Now she and the children were alone in an untamed country where the elements, Indians, and thieves made it far easier to die than to live. Miles away, another solitary soul battled for survival. Conagher was a lean, dark-eyed drifter who wasn't about to let a gang of rustlers push him around. While searching the isolated...
15) Kilkenny
Author
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
Former gunman, Kilkenny settles on a ranch in Utah, but his past catches up to him when powerful rancher Jared Tetlow threatens to buy out or kill ranchers for their grasslands, especially Kilkenny--the man who killed his son.
Kilkenny settles in the lonely mountains of Utah after killing a young man who challenged his paid for it with his life. The boy's father is a powerful rancher who is determined to run his vast herd on the limited grasslands...
16) The haunted mesa
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
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Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1982]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Con Vallian knew the best way to stay out of trouble was to mind his own business. Then he stopped for a cup of coffee at a stranger's campfire and found himself guiding the McKaskels, a family of greenhorn Easterners, across the prairie -- fighting a pack of rustlers on one hand and some mighty unpredictable Indians on the other! Quick and the Dead tells the story of peaceful folks driven to action under the guidance of a mysterious stranger. It...
19) Burning hills
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[1956-]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Hiding in the rocks and weakened by a rifle wound in his hip, Trace Jordan struggles to elude the ruthless band of riders hunting him down after he has killed the horse thief who murdered his partner.
20) Long ride home
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Formats
Description
No one brings to life the Old West like Louis L'Amour.nbsp;nbsp;Collected here for the first time, these vintage frontier stories introduce you to lawmen and loners, ranchers and renegades, gunslingers, cardsharps, bank robbers, etc In these pages L'Amour brings to life such classic characters as the Cactus Kid, Tensleep Mooney, One-Eared Tim, and the gunfighter Kim Sartain. These are frontier tales as only L'Amour can tell them--stories that surprise...