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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 15
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940L
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"The world renowned, American epic Dances With Wolves is the eternal story of one man's search for his place in the world. Set in 1863, the novel follows Lieutenant John Dunbar on a magical and unpredictable journey from the ravages of the Civil War to the far reaches of the imperiled American frontier, a frontier he naively wants to see "before it's gone". His posting to a desolate and deserted outpost is the springboard for contact with the lords...
3) 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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Mile upon mile of prairie covered by great buffalo herds; reckless, hard riding plainsmen, buffalo hunters, Indians, bandits-the whole colorful epoch of the pioneer, in a story which centers around the destruction of the thundering herds of buffalo. In this breathless tale of bravery and battle, of white man's courage and red man's daring, Zane Grey has written one of his finest novels.
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Lonesome Dove saga volume Second Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 42
Lexile measure
980L
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English
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In the waning days of the Old West, many of the great Comanche warriors are old, and their sons would rather use guns than arrows. As Texas Rangers Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call ride out to protect the frontier, they are led by the eccentric Captain Inish Scull, who sits astride a massive stallion Indians call the Buffalo Horse. When a scheming Comanche steals this great beast, it sparks a chase that will lead the Captain into the clutches of a sadistic...
6) Badger boy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
700L
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English
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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.
9) Brules
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Cat Brules westerns volume 1
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English
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An account of the life and times of Brules, a young and reckless cowboy, as narrated by himself in his later years to a young man who dared to approach the gritty outlaw's lonely cabin.
10) Moon medicine
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Young Jean-Guy, living in a school for boys in France, dreams of Indians and far-off lands. When he murders his fencing teacher in an act of revenge, he flees for his life and boards a Clipper ship bound for America. Finally arriving on the new land, he encounters the colorful visions of his dreams and begins a transformation into a mythical western hero.
11) Come sundown
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A novel that follows the adventures of Honore Greenwood, a frontier scout and Civil War volunteer in New Mexico.
12) The searchers
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From the moment they left their homestead unguarded on that scorching Texas day, Martin Pauley and Amos Henry became searchers. First they had to return to the decimated ranch, bury the bodies of their family, and confront the evil cunning of the Comanche who had slaughtered them. Then they set out in pursuit of missing Lucy Henry. In the years that follow, Amos and Henry survive storms of nature and of men, seeking more than a missing girl, and more...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of Cynthia Ann Parker and the last days of the Comanche
In 1836, when she was nine years old, Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanche Indians from her family's settlement.
She grew up with them, mastered their ways, and married one of their leaders. Except for her brilliant blue eyes and golden mane, Cynthia Ann Parker was in every way a Comanche woman. They called her Naduah—Keeps...
In 1836, when she was nine years old, Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanche Indians from her family's settlement.
She grew up with them, mastered their ways, and married one of their leaders. Except for her brilliant blue eyes and golden mane, Cynthia Ann Parker was in every way a Comanche woman. They called her Naduah—Keeps...
14) Buffalo wagons
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Accelerated Reader
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...
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Young Comanches Daniel Killstraight and Charles Flint have been called to Texas. Captain Pratt will be giving a talk on the transformations brought about by the Carlisle Industrial School, of which Killstraight and Flint are shining examples. They'll be joining a Comanche delegation led by Quanah Parker, who will be negotiating grasslands leases--until blown-out gas lamps in Quanah Parker's room kill a Comanche chief and put Parker in a coma. But...
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John Dunbar has spent the last eleven years living in peace with his wife, a white-born woman raised as a Comanche from early childhood, and his three children, but when a group of white raiders tries to push their Comanche tribe onto a reservation, violence ensues.
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Jackals volume 5
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"When a band of merciless, murdering thieves raise hell across the territory, three men committed to justice descend upon them like angels of death. And when the guns fall silent and the smoke clears, the Jackals are always the last men standing. Comanchero Cullen Brice has escaped from a Huntsville, Alabama, prison, where he was sentenced to hang. And he has sworn revenge against the man who killed his brother and put him behind bars, Texas Ranger...
18) The son
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930L
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The acclaimed author of American Rust, returns with The Son: an epic, multigenerational saga of power, blood, and land that follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family from the Comanche raids of the 1800s to the border raids of the early 1900s to the oil booms of the 20th century. Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, The Son is an utterly transporting novel that maps the...
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Killstraight stories volume 5
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English
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After visiting his late mother's people on the Mescalero reservation, Comanche tribal policeman Daniel Killstraight receives disturbing news: a Chiricahua Apache has brutally murdered a teenage girl in the railroad town of Deming - an a bunch of locals plan on lynching him. Killstraight has no jurisdiction in this territory. He knows nothing about the murdered girl or the accused killer; and he doesn't really care much for Apaches anyway. Yet,...
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