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1) Hondo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Hondo Lane was a man who'd come to terms with the hard land in which he lived. He rode dispatch for General Crook through the Arizona desert--a severe and beautiful landscape where one mistake could lead to a quick and lonely death. It was on the way to deliver an important message about an imminent Apache raid that he came upon an isolated ranch defended by a lone woman and her young son. But Angie Lowe wasn't just any woman. She was a fighter with...
2) Radigan
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When beautiful Angelina Foley presents Tom Radigan with a Spanish grant and claims ownership of his land, he realizes he's up against a cunning and deadly opportunist. Foley wants him off Vache Creek immediately, and with three thousand head of cattle, an outfit of hardcase gunfighters, and winter coming on, she is unwilling to take no for an answer. But Radigan has worked four hard years building up his ranch. Fighting for it--and, if he has to,...
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Language
English
Description
Many a hardcase had died trying to tale the bank and settle an old score at the same time. But he never counted on meeting a beautiful woman and her trail-savvy but reckless father, headed a straight for Apache country. Now Considine and his gang can either ride like hell for the border just ahead of an angry posse, or join the old man and his daughter in a desperate last stand against blood-hungry warriors. The choice is simple: risk the hangman's...
4) Lando
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Orlando Sackett got to Texas with a damn good idea of the whereabouts of buried gold across the border in Mexico. In Mexico he had bad luck. His party had to run for it, and when Lando stood rear guard they pulled out and left him. Six years in a Mexican prison put muscles in his arms, fire in his heart and pure recklessness in his head. He survived by using his skills as a boxer and by making three vows. One was to find the men who betrayed him....
5) Shalako
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traveling north from Mexico in 1882, Shalako meets up with a group of touring Europeans in Apache country. He warns them of the Apaches, and they refuse to believe him until they are attacked. The tourists allow Shalako to take them to cover as the Apaches continue to battle them and the U.S. Army, which has been alerted. The final battle is between Shalako and Tats-ah-das-ay-go. Shalako wins, the remaining Europeans return to safety with the U.S....
6) Dark canyon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
When Gaylord Riley walked away from the Coburn gang, he had money and a dream. He worked hard and built a cabin, gathered a herd of cattle, and fell in love with Marie Shattuck. But when he is confronted with false accusations of rustling and murder, Riley is forced to defend his new law-abiding way of life. Outnumbered and facing a lynching party, Riley is surprised when his old friends return to lend him a hand. But how can they help him and keep...
7) Kiowa trail
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
It was no crime for a young cowboy to want to talk to a pretty girl, but that was what got Tom Lundy killed. The hard men of the Tumbling B, who had survived stampede and Kiowa lance to drive their herd up from Big Bend country, wanted to burn the town down. But Kate Lundy, the Tumbling B's owner, had a better plan. Calling on dozens of seasoned fighters, Kate aimed to strangle the town that lived off cowboy money but had no use for the Texans themselves....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
When Flagon and Gallaway Sackett went to the town of Tazewell, Tennessee to pay a debt their father had incurred, they were not looking for trouble. Black Fetchen and his clan had other ideas, but they let the Sacketts get the drop on them. Humiliated, Fetchen swore to get even. He thought he saw a chance to do that when the two men agreed to escort sixteen year old Judith Costello, who had a crush on Fetchen, to her father's ranch in Colorado. With...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
The saga of the Sackett family continues with Logan Sackett, a cynical and rootless drifter, meeting a fiery old widow, Emily Talon--who is even wilder than himself. Tall and plucky, she is determined to defend herself against the locals who are trying to take her land. And even though Logan initially intends on not getting himself involved, he can't help it when he discovers that Emily had been born a Sackett.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking for answers to their father's disappearance twenty years before. To uncover the truth, the brothers enlisted the aid of a trail wise gypsy and a mysterious voodoo priest as they sought to re-create their father's last trek. But Louisiana is a dangerous land, and with one misstep the brothers could disappear in the bayous before they even set foot on the trail that led to whatever legacy...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Cal Vallian knew the best way to stay out of trouble was to mind his own business. Then he stopped for a cup of coffee at a stranger's campfire and found himself guiding a family of greenhorns across the prairie-fighting a pack of rustlers on one hand and some mighty unpredictable indians on the other!
13) Sackett's land
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
This is the first half of the story of Barnabus, the patriarch of the Sackett clan, and his migration to North America in 1600. His saga begins when he discovers a purse of gold coins in the mud of Devil's Dyke in Finland. On the run from English authorities, he meets and marries Abigail Tempany, the daughter of a sea captain. Nick Bardle, the master of a merchant vessel, the Jolly Jack, is half pirate, ready to take any advantage of any activity...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
This is the concluding volume of the saga of Barnabus Sackett, patriarch of that family. He returns to England, where he learns of an order for his arrest. The gold coins he found in Sackett's land are thought to be the royal treasure King John lost in the Wash during the time of the Crusades. After encountering some old friends and enemies from the previous book, he returns to America with Abigail, his new bride. He establishes a community between...
15) Borden Chantry
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.
16) Flint
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"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,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Pronto Pike and his partner Eddie Holt follow the trail of rustlers who are raiding the Bar J Ranch and who are so ruthless that they have no qualms about murdering a woman. Pronto Pike had punched longhorns along the Rio Grande and ridden the rails back East, but he'd never been in a spot like this before. It had begun with a bitter standoff between a powerful rancher and a homesteading Irishman. It escalated into missing cattle, overlaid brands,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
In a remote corner of Utah lies the secret outlaw kingdom of Ben Curry. For fifteen years Curry has ruled supreme, as his men have pulled jobs from Canada to Mexico. But the king is getting old. He wants to turn his legacy over to someone younger, tougher. Mike Bastian is Ben's adopted son -- a young man who can handle a knife, a gun, and his fists, but a man who has never broken the law. Now, Mike must choose...
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