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Young Coady McIlvain spends his days reading about the heroic exploits of the legendary heroes of the West, especially the glorious Buffalo Bill Cody. The harsh reality of frontier life in Kansas becomes brutally clear to him when his father is scalped and he is taken prisoner by Comanches.
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2017.
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"John Smiley is a travelling entertainer. As he and his son and daughter are approaching the small township of Silver Spur in Kansas, they encounter Black Bart, a notorious gunman, who demands money and carbine whips Smiley's son. Smiley, however, is a skilled boxer and humiliates the outlaw, leaving Black Bart hell-bent on revenge, leading to a series of dark and bloody events when the family reach their destination."--Cover.
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Meg Brennon knows that her new life at her road ranch in Paragon Springs, Kansas, can't truly begin until she severs all ties with the abusive husband she'd fled years before. Although fearful, she returns to St. Louis determined to find him and obtain a divorce. But Ted Malloy refuses, hoping that Meg's return will win him his dying father's favor, and fortune. It's going to be a long hard fight, but Meg can't afford to stay away from Kansas and...
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KINCH RILEY
Newton, Kansas, 1871: One is a young drifter alone in a lawless land. The other is an aged gunfighter well-versed in the bawdy wonders of a wide-open boomtown. When these two lost souls come together one August night, and battle a band of Texas outlaws, the legend of Kinch Riley will be born….
INDIAN TERRITORY
When hired gun John Ryan heads into Indian Territory with a brawling crew of railroad workers, a battle of bloodshed and treachery...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
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Gabriel Lynch, an African-American teenager who has moved with his mother from New York to live on his stepfather's Kansas homestead, brings serious trouble down upon himself and his family when he leaves the farm to join a group of cowboys who turn out to be a gang of criminals.
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Beneath the burning ground volume 1
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The Wares are only one of the families that will soon be caught up in the burning issue of slavery with raids from the Border Ruffians out of Missouri and John Brown's small army devoted to ending slavery and helping runaways to escape to the north. To aid and abet a runaway slave is a crime that carries a dear price.
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1886. Jesse Montgomery is feeling restless. Though he's grateful to friends Colin and Emma for helping him get on his feet again, surely the Lord doesn't want this reformed rowdy cowboy to stay in Apple Grove forever. When an unscrupulous cattle baron tries to steal Amish land, Jesse intervenes and is wounded. Lovely young healer Katie Miller attends to him while guarding her heart. This sweet Amish widow can't risk falling in love with an Englisch...
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Bill Harvey thought he had his hands full with the hotheaded Jesse Overstreet, a Texan like himself, who had stumbled into town. But Overstreet is the least of his problems when Caleb Tatum and his gang sweep through town, cleaning folks out of every last penny. As a bonus, they make off with a beautiful hostage, Eden Harvey, Bill's wife.
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When Star McCallister and his gang break out of the Dodge City jail, there's hell to pay. And it looks like McCallister's half-brother, former Texas Ranger John Checker, will be the one paying. McCallister and his gang murder two of Checker's friends, burn the homestead of his sister, kill her husband, and take her two small children into the wild Indian Territory. Checker knows it's up to him to set things right--and he knows his half-brother...
16) Kansas gambler
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Baynes clan volume 6
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In this riveting conclusion to John S. McCord's "Baynes Clan" saga, cultured cousin Rod Silvana proves that looks can be deceiving--and he can fight like a Baynes.
17) The devil's eye
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[1995]
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In 1879 three people are murdered in Brookville, Kansas and Civil War veteran Sam Dodd finds that a hired assassin is after him and his family.
18) The dead town
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Gunsmith volume 330
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2009.
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"Some ghosts never die-- In the middle of a hellish dust storm, Clint Adams is glad to stumble into Jasper, Kansas. But the town is deserted, except for one stubborn spitfire of a woman. She tells Clint about Jasper's past, about the fatal mistake they made in hanging an innocent man-- and those who came for vengeance. And now the Gunsmith is going to bury the sins of the past once and for all."--p. [4] of cover.
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1996.
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IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 16
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Depicts the wide variety of experiences of Buffalo Bill Cody, from his early years as a mule driver, Pony Express rider, cavalry scout, Indian fighter, and buffalo hunter to becoming a celebrity with his "Wild West Show".
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"Dan Quint's stepfather, Judd Hurley, always meant trouble. When he married Dan's mother, Judd and his son, Blix, moved to the farm and took over. Dan - the target for Judd's meanest moods - had left the farm when he was seventeen, and his visits to his mother since then had been seldom. Now he was twenty-three, and he would take no more of Judd's bossing. Eastern Kansas hadn't changed. Neither had his stepfather. As Dan, seeing a rider galloping...
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