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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
780L
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English
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In one swift moment, a fall wiped away his memory. Now all he knew for certain was that someone wanted him dead -- and that he had better learn why. But everywhere he turned there seemed to be more questions -- or people too willing to hide the truth behind a smoke screen of lies. He had only the name he had been told was his own, his mysterious skill with a gun, and a link to a half million dollars' worth of buried gold as evidence of his past life....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
850L
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English
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Stripped of all he values in life, Roman Chantry takes up his prized Ferguson rifle and heads west--into an unknown land and an uncertain future. For an educated man, Chantry is surprisingly tough, For a civilized man, he is unexpectedly dangerous. But even he can't know the true extent of his courage until he draws the fire of a man who will do anything--kill anyone--for the glitter of gold.
3) Taggart
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Adam Stark had found gold. In the confusion of the mesas and canyons near Rockinstraw Mountain, Stark, his wife, Consuelo, and his sister, Miriam, were quietly working a rich vein while keeping their presence a secret from raiding Apaches. Worried that his wife might leave him, Stark wanted to make enough money to take her to San Francisco, where she could enjoy the style of life she craved.
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820L
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English
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A "riveting ... sweeping epic" of one man driven by gold fever, by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of North and South-Richmond Times-Dispatch. At the height of California's Gold Rush, men left everything behind for the chance at striking it rich. Now, some thirty years after its peak, gold fever still entices adventurous Easterners like James Macklin Chance, a poor Pennsylvanian who is drawn to California by the dream of lasting wealth-a...
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Amid the mountains of the West, lie incredible riches never uncovered. Three prospecting brothers, in search of a great fortune, are led on the counsel from a dying Indian straight to the base of Thunder Mountain a gravelly summit absent of life and vegetation. Despite the mountain's outwardly desolate appearance, the three Emerson brothers approach the five thousand foot silt deposit with wide, hungry eyes convinced they may have struck the motherload....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
750L
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English
Description
Captain Sean Mulkerin comes home from the sea to find his family's Malibu ranch in jeopardy. The death of Sean's father has pushed his mother to the edge of financial ruin, and now it's up to Sean to find a way out. The rumor is that the elder Mulkerin found gold in the wild and haunted California hills, but the only clue to its whereabouts lies with an ancient, enigmatic Indian.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Matt Bardoul was a good man to have as a friend and a bad one to make trouble with. He was also a single-minded drifter--until he met his match in an outspoken beauty named Jacquine Coyle. She was headed into the Bighorn Mountains with her father and an expedition in search of gold. After Matt signs on to join them, he discovers that there is a group of outlaws in the party--gunfighters and thieves that Matt wouldn't trust for a minute. At first it's...
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When a frontier baron known as the Commodore orders Charlie and Eli Sisters, his hired gunslingers, to track down and kill a prospector named Herman Kermit Warm, the brothers journey from Oregon to San Francisco, and eventually to Warm's claim in the Sierra foothills, running into a witch, a bear, a dead Indian, a parlor of drunken floozies, and a gang of murderous fur trappers.
9) Milo Talon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Although content with drifting through the Western wilderness, Milo Talon falls on hard times and agrees to help in a search for a buried fortune that leads him into a confrontation with a deadly band of liars and killers.
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"New York Times-bestselling author of The Last Gunfight, Jeff Guinn turns his eye for evocative detail and history to a sweeping novel of the Old West, weaving a compelling tale of life in the Arizona Territory in 1872. We've all got mistakes in our past we'd rather forget. Cash McLendon has always had an instinct for self-preservation, one that was honed by an impoverished childhood and life with an alcoholic father barely scraping by on the streets...
12) Cutthroat Canyon
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"Sometimes it's bad to be good. That's what happens when Scratch Morton and Bo Creel are rewarded with a gold mine for saving a rich man's bacon. The catch: this mine is a magnet for marauding Mexican banditos. Budding capitalists, Scratch and Bo fight back. That's when they discover that the thieves aren't who they thought they were, some really bad guys are on the way, and a beautiful woman might just be the most dangerous bandit of all-the kind...
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He is known as Johnny Montana. It is the name given to him by his fellow miners in the Redhawk mining district. Those working have been able to accumulate sizable caches of gold dust. The problem for the miners is how to get their gold out of the district. Brett Cutter and his gang of Cut-throats watch the roads and byways for miners trying to leave. Vacating miners are attacked and usually left dead after having been stripped of their gold.
It is...
14) The high graders
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900L
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Rafter Crossing was a town building for an explosion between the cattlemen and the miners. Mike Shevlin was hired to stop the miners, but he also had an old debt he wanted to pay back with lead--not gold.
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Jim Cleve has been deemed, ""a good guy"" all of his life and it agitates him to no end. Even his girlfriend, Joan Randle has scorned him for this ""weakness"" shouting, ""You haven't it in you even to be BAD!"" Dejected and hurt, Jim abandons the life he has known for the gold mining camps along Alder Gulch in southern Montana. It is here, among the thieves and murderers, that he must make a new name for himself. Meanwhile, Joan realizes the danger...
18) The trail west
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Trail West series volume 1
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English
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"In 1848, Dooley Monahan, son of struggling Iowa pioneers, went to pick up a new milk cow and never came home. Nearly three decades later, Dooley Monahan has become an accidental legend. His trail is populated by strange friends and dangerous enemies, strewn with bad luck and bad blood--and frequently interrupted by sudden storms of gunfire"--
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Every gunslick from the Atlantic to the Rockies is beating a path to the gold strike. Smoke Jensen is outnumbered a hundred to one, but he recruits an army of his own: twenty aging--but still lethal--legends of the frontier in the violent sunset of their grizzled lives.
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"Vulture City is home to a prosperous gold mine and every bad man in the Arizona Territory knows it. Nearly every stagecoach attempting to deliver the gold to the railroad at Maricopa has been ambushed on the trail - a trail known as the Gunpowder Express for the bullet-riddled bodies along the way. With gold piling up and a lack of volunteers to transport it, the mine owner hires Newt "Widowmaker" Jones to ride shotgun on the next stage. Foolhardy...
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