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Series
Lonesome Dove saga volume 2
Language
English
Description
Pits legendary Texas Ranger Woodrow Call against his deadliest adversary ever.
Author
Series
Last picture show volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three novels - Horseman, Pass By (1961),* Leaving Cheyenne (1963), and The Last Picture Show (1966) - all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II, are collected here for the first time. In this trilogy, McMurtry writes tragically of men and women trying to carve out an existence on the plains,...
Author
Series
Lonesome Dove saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 58
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
Late 1870s. Captain Woodrow F. Call and Captain Augustus "Gus" McCrae, two famous retired Texas Rangers, run the Hat Creek Cattle Company and Livery Emporium in the small Texas border town of Lonesome Dove. A friend talks them into joining him on a cattle drive from Texas to Montana. They have adventures as they meet heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers.
7) Sin killer
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Series
Language
English
Description
It is 1830, and the Berrybender family -- rich, aristocratic, English, and hopelessly out of place -- is on its way up the Missouri River to see the untamed West as it begins to open up. With irascible determination -- and a great deal of outright chaos -- the party experiences both the awesome majesty and brutal savagery of the unexplored land, from buffalo stampedes and natural disasters to Indian raids and encounters with frontiersmen and trappers,...
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