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1) Flint
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
880L
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English
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"He left the West at the age of seventeen, leaving behind a rootless past and a bloody trail of violence. In the East, he became one of the wealthiest financiers in America--and one of the most feared and hated. Now, suffering from incurable cancer, he has come back to New Mexico to die alone. But when an all-out range war erupts, Flint chooses to help Nancy Kerrigan, a local rancher. A cold-eyed speculator is setting up the land swindle of a lifetime,...
2) Kilkenny
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Kilkenny settles in the lonely mountains of Utah after killing a reckless youngster named Tetlow who challenged him, drew his gun, and paid for it with his life. The boy's father is a powerful rancher who is determined to run his vast herd on the limited grasslands in the valley - whether he has to buy out, run out, or kill the local ranchers. He'll cut down anyone in his way - especially a man he already hates for killing his son. Kilkenny's going...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
"The marshal's name was Borden Chantry. Young, lean, rugged, he's buried a few men in this two-bit cow town--every single one killed in a fair fight. Then, one dark, grim day a mysterious gunman shot a man in cold blood. Five grisly murders later, Chantry was faced with the roughest assignment of his life--find that savage, trigger-happy hard case before he blasts apart every man in town...one by bloody one."--Back cover.
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In Riders of the Dawn, a young gunslinger is changed for the better by a meeting with a beautiful woman. A classic range-war western, this novel features that powerful, romantic, strangely compelling vision of the American West for which L'Amour's fiction is known. In the author's words, "It was a land where nothing was small, nothing was simple. Everything, the lives of men and the stories they told, ran to extremes."
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...5) Showdown
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Rock Bannon, wounded in an Indian attack, is rescued by a wagon train heading to Oregon. He has fully recovered when the train pulls into a fort to stock up on supplies. It is there that the leaders of the train meet Morton Harper, a smooth-talking man who persuades them to take an easier trail that will allow them to escape an attack by Indians. Bannon knows that there will be no escape from attack on that route and that it will lead the train directly...
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