Elmer Kelton
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Calloway series volume 2
Hewey Calloway novels volume 02
Hewey Calloway volume 1
Texas tradition volume 1
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Hewey Calloway novels volume 02
Hewey Calloway volume 1
Texas tradition volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
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Hewey Calloway has a problem. In his west Texas home of 1906, the land and way of life he loves are changing too quickly. As Hewey struggles against the relentless stream of progress, he comes to realize that the simple life of his childhood is vanishing - and that every choice he makes requires a sacrifice. --
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In later years people often asked Hugh Hitchcock about the Canadian River cowboy strike of 1883. Wagon boss Hugh Hitchcock knows the cowboy life better than most: In 1883 if you're a cowboy, you can't own a cow and you are stigmatized as a drunk. Worse, you are exploited by the wealthy cattle owners who fence the range, replace traditions and trust with written rules of employment, refuse to pay a livable wage and change things that ought to be left...
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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In the spring of 1874 the Ranger companies that protect settlers against Indian raids and outlaw bands are being reorganized, and Dave "Rusty" Shannon is the most sought-after veteran reenlistment. But Shannon has new goals for his life: he is in love with Josie Monahan, daughter of the family that adopted him, and intends to marry her and take her to his farm on the Colorado River.Then an unspeakable tragedy changes Rusty's plans for a quiet farmer's...
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Former Texas Ranger Andy Pickard, struggling to adjust to life as a farmer after becoming engaged to Bethel Brackett, takes a "time out" to visit his friend Sheriff Tom Blessing and is drawn back into the Rangers when a trio of bank robbers escapes from the county jail and Blessing is killed in the ensuing chaos.
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In Texas standoff, Ranger Andy Pickard and his partner, Logan Daggett, are sent to central Texas to investigate a series of killings and cattle thefts. The two biggest cattlemen in the area blame each other for the violence, but it seems to Andy that neither man may be guilty. The case is complicated by the rise of a gang of "regulators"-masked vigilantes-and the arrival of a notorious hired gunman whose employer is unknown. The murder of a captured...
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In 1816, Mordecai Lewis, a veteran of Andrew Jackson's Indian campaigns and battles against the British, moves his family into the western Tennessee canebrakes. But Mordecai, a born wanderer, is not satisfied with farming, and with his sons Michael and Andrew and some other backwoodsmen, he leads a foray into Spanish-held Texas to hunt wild horses and return the mustang herd to sell in Tennessee. Crossing the Sabine River, Mordecai's party encounters...
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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This is a story of the early days when...
An intense, red-haired young man named Rusty Shannon rides into Fort Belknap on the Brazos River and joins the Texas Rangers. Years before, Mike Shannon rescued Rusty from a Comanche war party and became his adoptive father. Not long ago, Mike Shannon, was bushwhacked and killed, and his death still haunts Rusty. Rusty thinks he knows the identity of Mike's killers. But with Texas now in the throes of seceding...
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The Civil War has ended, and federal officials have taken control of Texas as Rusty Shannon rides to his home on the Colorado River. As a child he was a captive of the Comanche; as a young man he proudly protected settlers from Indian raids. Shannon's fate is intertwined with his companion's: young Andy Pickard, himself recently rescued from Comanche captivity. But Texas is in turmoil, overrun with murderous outlaws, vengeful lawman, night riders...
9) Many a river
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Brothers Jeffrey and Todd Barfield, having been separated seven years earlier when their parents were killed by Comanche Indians, are reunited during the Civil War, however they are on different sides of the battle.
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Calloway series volume 1
A Hewey Calloway Adventure volume Book 1
Forge western
Hewey Calloway novels volume Book 1
A Hewey Calloway Adventure volume Book 1
Forge western
Hewey Calloway novels volume Book 1
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It is 1910 and Hewey Calloway's freewheeling life is coming to an end - the fences, trucks, and automobiles he hates are creeping in even to remote Alpine, in the "smiling country" of West Texas. When he is badly injured trying to break a renegade horse, Hewey sees the loneliness that awaits him, and regrets his decision to run away from the only woman he has every loved, the schoolteacher Spring Renfro.
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Texas Ranger Andy Pickard is sent to apprehend Donley Bannister, a horse trader, for the murder of Cletus Slocum--shot for stealing one of Bannister's horses--but the task is full of unexpected turns and detours, forcing Pickard to track Bannister from his hideout to the town of Junction, where one of Slocum's brothers is determined that Bannister will not live to stand trial.
13) Texas vendetta
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 5
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English
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Andy, a young Texas Ranger, joins forces with Farley, a Confederate soldier turned ranger, to deliver a prisoner to stand trial for murder, but the two lawmen soon find themselves in the middle of two warring families.
14) Buffalo wagons
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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For Gage Jameson, the summer of 1873 has been a poor hunt. A year ago, he felled sixty-two buffalo in one stand, but now the great Arkansas River herd is gone, like the Republican herd before it. In Dodge City, old hide hunters speak is awe of a last great heard to the south-but no hunter who values his scalp dares ride south of the Cimarron and into Comanche territory. None but Gage Jameson...
15) Six bits a day
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"Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country. The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits--75 cents--a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
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To the ranchers and farmers of 1950s Texas, man's biggest enemy is one he can't control. With their entire livelihood pegged on the chance of a wet year or a dry year, drought has the ability to crush their whole enterprise, to determine who stands and who falls, and to take food out of the mouths of the workers and their families. To Charlie Flagg, an honest, decent, and cantankerous rancher, the drought of the early 1950s is a foe that he must fight...
17) Jericho's road
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Young Texas Ranger Andy Pickard is assigned to the Texas-Mexico border and finds himself in the middle of a violent range war, in this sixth book of Kelton's acclaimed Texas Rangers series.
18) Badger boy
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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700L
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After the Civil War, David Shannon makes his way home to the Red River. But his girl has married someone else, and his past as an Indian captive returns to haunt him.
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"An action-packed collection of stories of the old West, Law of the Land includes the never-before-published "Biscuits for a Bandit." Sixteen stories, where good meets bad, and everything in between, from the legendary author of the west, Elmer Kelton. The Law of the Land chronicles some of his most exciting and dangerous tales of the old west, collected together for the first time." --
20) After the bugles
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With the defeat of Santa Anna, a man, still grieving over the death of his brother, returns home to rebuild his life, only to face dangerous Comanche raiders and outlaw gangs.