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3) Kiowa Trail
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Language
English
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It was no crime for a young cowboy to want to talk to a pretty girl, but that was what got Tom Lundy killed. The hard men of the Tumbling B, who had survived stampede and Kiowa lance to drive their herd up from Big Bend country, wanted to burn the town down. But Kate Lundy, the Tumbling B's owner, had a better plan. Calling on dozens of seasoned fighters, Kate aimed to strangle the town that lived off cowboy money but had no use for the Texans themselves....
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 6
Language
English
Description
Forced to kill a man in Tennessee, Tyrel Sackett and his brother Orrin hit the trail heading west. Arriving in Montana, Orrin takes on a job as a marshal in a frontier town, with Tye, the fastest gun alive, backing him up every step of the way. Determined to bring peace and security to the area riddled by rustlers, killers, and Indians, the two work to make the West a place where decent men and women could live in peace.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1979]
Language
English
Description
Bendigo Shafter and his followers build a town in the heart of Wyoming Indian country, where the crack-shot leader falls in love with two women, the dignified Widow Macken and the beautiful Ninon.
They came west inspired by the boldest American dream. Pioneers whose hands and hearts shaped the proud destiny of a nation. Seven men and thirteen women and children--strangers who shed their blood to build a community out of the Wyoming wilderness....
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
It began with gold that had once belonged to Montezuma. Stolen and cached in a church in Mexico, it was recovered by two army officers who fled north for the French settlements. Along the way one stabbed the other to death. The remaining officer was eventually killed by Plains Indians, but he buried the treasure just before he died. Now Ronan Chantry, a handful of trappers, and an Irish girl whose father was killed after telling her a few vague landmarks...
10) Grub line rider
Author
Publisher
Leisure Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Collects seven short stories set in the golden days of the American West, including the title story in which an easygoing young drifter decides to homestead an unclaimed stretch of land until a cattleman decides to teach him a deadly lesson.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Cattlemen ride alone across the open range under the deadly aim of roving desperadoes--. Gamblers stake their fortunes and their lives on a deck of cards--. Strong-willed senoritas seek independence through an enticing combination of beauty, audacity, and spirit--. Lawmen and outlaws walk the same dusty streets and speak a common language: Colt, Winchester, Smith and Wesson.
12) Mojave crossing
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Tell Sackett was sitting pretty, with thirty pounds of gold that were mostly his. Maybe that was why when a beautiful raven-haired woman asked to ride with him to Los Angeles, he didn't care that she came with a lot of trouble. A powerful hard ride over the blistering Mojave desert was one third of the trouble. Another third was trackers out for the woman and for his blood. The last third was getting ambushed and being left without the woman, a horse,...
13) Rivers west
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1984]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Journeying westward from his native Quebec, Jean Talon "stumbles upon a deadly conspiracy involving a young woman's search for her missing brother and a ruthless band of renegades" who want to take over the Louisiana Territory and turn it into an independent nation. Can Jean stop them and also realize his dream of becoming a builder of frontier steamboats?
Jean Talon strikes out at a man who intends to make the Louisiana Purchase his personal kingdom.
His...
15) Lando
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Series
The Sacketts volume 8
Language
English
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Description
In LANDO, Louis L’Amour has created an unforgettable portrait of a unique American hero.
For six long years Orlando Sackett survived the horrors of a brutal Mexican prison. He survived by using his skills as a boxer and by making three vows. The first was to exact revenge on the hired killers who framed him. The second was to return to his father. And the third was to find Gin Locklear. But the world has changed a lot since Lando...
For six long years Orlando Sackett survived the horrors of a brutal Mexican prison. He survived by using his skills as a boxer and by making three vows. The first was to exact revenge on the hired killers who framed him. The second was to return to his father. And the third was to find Gin Locklear. But the world has changed a lot since Lando...
18) Catlow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Ben Cowan and Bijah Catlow were best friends as boys. As adults, they found themselves on different sides of the law. When Catlow rode to Mexico to pull the biggest robbery of his career, it became Ben Cowan's job to hunt him down.
19) End of the drive
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English
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Includes seven tales and one novella, never-before-published.
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