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2) Tombstone
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On a fierce frontier
In 1878, a struggling prospector found silver in the jagged mountains of Arizona. Within a year the town of Tombstone was filling up with merchants, tradesmen, gamblers, whores, gunslingers...and, eventually, Wyatt Earp.
One town earned a legend of its own...
When Earp arrives in Tombstone, nothing is ever the same. Along with Doc Holliday and a band of thieves, he turns the Arizona territory into his personal stomping grounds-until...
3) Territory
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
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Tombstone, Arizona in 1881: where veins of silver run like ley lines under the earth, a network of power that belongs to anyone who knows how to claim and defend it. Above ground, power is about allegiances. A magician can drain his friends' strength to strengthen himself, and can place them between him and danger. The one with the most friends stands to win the territory. The physician Chow Lung insists that Jesse Fox has a talent for magic; and...
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After Lance Sidway comes to the defense of beautiful Madge Stewart and ends upon the wrong side of the law, he escapes to Arizona and find work on her father's ranch. But trouble seems to follow Madge wherever she goes and when she is kidnapped by a gang of cattle rustlers, Lance must intervene once again to save her life...even at the cost of his own.
5) A good town
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There is a dark underside to the sunny city of St. Augustine, Florida. An ancient evil is awakened in the Tolomato Cemetery, and is intent on stalking and destroying the citizens of the town.
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Adam Laret ran from Ehrenberg to the banks of the Rio Colorado. He was blindly fleeing his scheming, gambling brother and the woman Guerd stole from him. But Adam's escape wasn't complete until Guerd, in the company of a sheriff, hunted him down. Then Adam committed the ultimate crime. With the mark of Cain upon him, he traveled into the desert to atone for his sins.
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Gloriana Traft gets more that she bargains for when she visits her tenderfoot brother in Yellow Jacket, Arizona. The notorious Hash Knife Outfit has taken control of the beautiful valley, stealing the ranchers' cattle and kidnapping the women of the town. They are about as bad as any Western rustlers come. Drunk on the excitement of the West, Gloriana falls for a true Hash Knife desperado and becomes a captive of the most dangerous man in Arizona....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
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A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author's own family memoirs, these words belong to Sarah Prine, a woman of spirit and fire who forges a full and remarkable existence in a harsh, unfamiliar frontier. Scrupulously recording her steps down the path Providence has set her upon-from child to determined young adult to loving mother-she shares the turbulent events, both joyous and tragic, that molded her, and recalls the enduring...
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Milt Dale takes shelter at an old log cabin in the forest. It is here he overhears vengeful men scheming to kidnap Helen, the niece and heiress of a prominent rancher in poor health, and take over her uncle's vast property themselves. Determined to thwart the men, Milt springs into action. After narrowly escaping, Milt leads Helen and her kid sister away from manmade danger and deep into the perceived safety of the forest, but the kidnappers are not...
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Accelerated Reader
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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Great western edition volume 37
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Logan Huett thought he knew the West. Once a scout with the US Army, he was familiar with both the hardships and rewards of pioneer life. But not even Logan could foresee the challenges that lay ahead for him and his young wife Lucinda, raising a brood of headstrong children, struggling to achieve financial security in the wilderness, concealing a long-buried family secret, and, finally, surviving the tragedy dealt them by the advent of World War...
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""Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed." -- Bhagavad Gita US Marshal and veteran copper of New York's Five Points, Allingham has established himself as a stellar lawman in the Arizona territory. He was a man once terse and tough, even bent on ending his own life, until he found a home, a family, in the unforgiving western land. Now he faces his greatest test, the loss of everything he holds dear and a range war to rival anything that...
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Newly orphaned, newly broke, and far from the comforts of New York, young Horace Tate Pemberton Smith arrives in Tonto's Wickiup, Arizona Territory to meet his only surviving family member, Uncle Hector. Uncle Hector has died in a mining accident, and Horace inherits his uncle's businesses.
17) The lawman
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[2016]
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"Jess Porterfield fled to the big city after his father's sudden death, leaving behind his family ranch--and his childhood sweetheart. Now he's returned as the local lawman, determined to win back the one woman he could never live without. Young frontier doctor Addie Wilcox was devastated when Jess left her behind. Now it's difficult to remember why she should keep her distance. But with the town's richest man set to see her hang, Addie must put her...
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Adventures on the American frontier volume 1
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[2003]
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The Joyton family, who run the Sonora Pass stagecoach station, deal with the mysterious shooting death of a passenger and welcome new neighbors who open a mercantile next door.
20) The mule tamer
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The mule tamer volume 01
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Arvel Walsh can tame mules, but can he tame the wild Arizona frontier, and the Mexican girl known as Chica, a young woman as unpredictable as the land she roams? Arizona in 1892 is the last of the wild country in America. Laws are hard to enforce and bad hombres know it. Texas pushed them out of their land with the famous Texas Rangers, can Arizona do the same? Challenged by savage bandits, psychotic serial killers, and anarchists, Arvel Walsh and...
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