Jim Gough
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IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 16
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This is a rousing, old-fashioned tale that Grey based on the true story of a chapter of Western history&;the deadly feud of the Tonto Basin in Arizona, also known as "The Pleasant Valley War." It might be compared to an Old West Romeo and Juliet with two feuding families and two star crossed sweethearts. Family loyalty, forbidden love, and rivalry between cattle ranchers and sheep herders are all wrapped up in this classic western tale.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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820L
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Lance Kilkenny's is believed to be the fastest gun in the West, but once the gunfight is over, he disappears. Most folks don't even know what he looks like. Some time back, Mort Davis saved Kilkenny's life after he was shot up. Now Davis needs Kilkenny's help. He has filed a claim on a water hole near Lost Creek in the live oak country. The district is dominated by two wealthy cattlemen, Webb Steele and Chet Lord, each one claiming for himself the...
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This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
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The setting of A Man Called Trent is New Mexico. The story opens to a nester, Dick Moffitt, dead, killed by King Bill Hale's riders. Sally Crane, sixteen and adopted by Moffitt, and Moffitt's fourteen-year-old son Jack witnessed Moffitt's murder from hiding, and then went to a cabin owned by a man named Trent for safety. Trent is actually Lance Kilkenny, a gunfighter hoping to leave behind his reputation. King Bill Hale has decided that he wants the...
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"Ross Hardy had made his decision. He sat in the middle of all he owned, a splendid Appaloosa gelding, a fine California saddle, a .44 Winchester rifle, and two walnut-stocked Colt .44 pistols. These were his all. It was a life that had left him rich in experience but poor in good of the world. The experience was the hard-fisted experience of cold winters, dry ranges, and the dusty bitterness of cattle drives. He had fought Comanches and rustlers,...
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Riders of the purple sage volume 02
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Young John Shefford, escaping from his troubled past in Illinois, heads west to follow up the curious legend of three people living imprisoned in Utah’s isolated Surprise Valley, one of whom is a beautiful girl named Fay Larkin. Shefford, half in love with the girl he’s never met, is determined to find the valley and free her—if she’s still alive.Shefford is nearly overwhelmed with his experiences of the beauty of the high desert, his first...
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In Riders of the Dawn, a young gunslinger is changed for the better by a meeting with a beautiful woman. A classic range-war western, this novel features that powerful, romantic, strangely compelling vision of the American West for which L'Amour's fiction is known. In the author's words, "It was a land where nothing was small, nothing was simple. Everything, the lives of men and the stories they told, ran to extremes."
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The story of Nophaie, a young Navajo, who is picked up by a party of whites at the age of seven. White parents bring the child up as though he were their own, eventually sending him to a prestigious Eastern college where he distinguishes himself by his outstanding athletic skill all the while struggling to find a place in society.
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"The Rustlers of Pecos County" is another fantastic example of Western fiction by the master of the genre, American Author Zane Grey. This book is highly recommended for all lovers of Western fiction and constitutes a must-read for fans of Grey's seminal work. Contents include: "Vaughn Steele And Russ Sittell", "A Kiss And An Arrest", "Sounding The Timber", "Steele Breaks Up The Part", "Cleaning Out Linrock", "Enter Jack Blome", "Diane And Vaughn",...
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Carley Burch, a beautiful young woman must leave her glamorous high society life of New York to follow her fiancé, Glenn Kilbourne, to the rugged Wild West. She braves fierce ruffians, brutal elements and lack of civilization in an attempt to reclaim him. Glenn, suffering from shell shock and the betrayal of his country following World War I, had moved west to recover. He then fell in love with the West and his perspective on life was changed forever....