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1) Tempest
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What kind of mail-order bridge greets her intended with a bullet instead of a kiss? One like Regan Carmichael - an independent spirit equally at home in denims and dresses. Shooting Dr. Colton Lee in the shoulder is an honest error, but soon Regan wonders if her entire plan to marry a man she's never met is a mistake. Colton, who buried his heart along with his first wife, insists he only wants someone to care for his daughter. Yet Regan is drawn...
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Free Anderson-Parks Scott Trilogy volume 03
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The year is 1874 and the plains of Texas are on the brink of war. This final book of the Free Anderson-Parks Scott trilogy finds the men caught up in the conflict as the military and native people prepare to clash over societal rights. Free and Parks are in a fight for their lives at the battle of Adobe Walls and later as witnesses to the momentous battle of the Palo Duro Canyon. Ambush at Mustang Canyon provides the harsh reality of each side's destiny...
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The hell called Yuma prison can destroy the soul of any man. And it's worse for those whose damning crime is the color of their skin. The law says Chiricahua Apache Raymond San Carlos and black-as-night formr soldier Harold Jackson are murderers, and they'll stay behind bars uuntil they're dead and rotting. But even in the worst place on earth, there's hope. and for two hard and hated inmates-first enemies, then allies by necessity-it waits at the...
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Buford "Big" Torrey has one ironclad rule: keep out ot white man business. And so far it hasn't been hard to hold to it. But when Big Witnesses a brutal murder, he forgets the rules. Big is determined that the culprit will pay, though he knows no one will believe a black man's word against a white man.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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860L
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Pronto Pike and his partner Eddie Holt follow the trail of rustlers who are raiding the Bar J Ranch and who are so ruthless that they have no qualms about murdering a woman. Pronto Pike had punched longhorns along the Rio Grande and ridden the rails back East, but he'd never been in a spot like this before. It had begun with a bitter standoff between a powerful rancher and a homesteading Irishman. It escalated into missing cattle, overlaid brands,...
10) West Texas
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"Lt. Thomas Mullin, retired against his will but almost glad to be free of the searing dusty desert around Fort Davis. A hard life in a hard place for a black man in a white man's cavalry. The US Cavalry was glad to be rid of him, too .. until a US Senator's son disappears in the desert and someone realizes that Mullin was the best tracker around. Mullin quickly discovers that quite a few travelers and cowboys have recently disappeared without a trace...
11) The Eureka Trail
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[1999]
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The whites, who've swarmed into the West, have turned into a marauding band of claim jumpers and thieves. The blacks, who've gone west to settle there and raise their own towns, are attacked at gun point by these same whites. Hunter Peck has found a home in the black township, Eureka, and a peace to win.
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c2008
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IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Prometheus Jones and his eleven-year-old cousin Omer flee Tennessee and join a cattle drive that will eventually take them to Texas, where Prometheus hopes his father lives, and they find adventure and face challenges as African-Americans in a land still recovering from the Civil War.
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2018.
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Gunsights: Together, Brendan Early and Dana Moon have tracked down Apaches and gunned down scalp hunters to become Arizona legends. But now they find themselves fierce adversaries in what newspapers are calling The Rincon Mountain War. Brendan and a gang of mining company gun thugs are dead set on running Dana and the "People of the Mountain" from their land. Which of these former friends-turned-foes will triumph.
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[2018]
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English
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In the annals of frontier history, there was no lawman as skilled or tireless in meting out justice than former runaway slave, Bass Reeves. Having lived with the Five Civilized Tribes during the Civil War years, Reeves was taught tracking and hunting by the natives of that rugged land. After marrying and starting a horse ranch, he soon realized raising a large family (he would have ten children) was expensive. Thus when offered to pin on the U.S....
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