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The historic Don Carlos Rancho stood at the gateway of the pass through which the Old Santa Fe Trail wound off to the Great Plains. Col. Ripple had married the glamorous Spanish daughter of the proprietor. As the years went by, their beautiful daughter, Holly Ripple, grew up, sheltered far away in a boarding school in the East. At her father's death, Holly was plunged onto the throne of this cattle empire, a bewildered girl who knew nothing about...
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Upon the death of his uncle, Ernest Selby, a young man from Iowa, inherits the Red Rock Ranch in Arizona. When he learns that the ranch's 20,000 cattle have dwindled to 6000 he suspects foul play. Ernest decides to go under cover in order to investigate these strange circumstances and lands a job on his own ranch, posing as a tenderfoot cowboy under a different name. As he makes friends and enemies and courts Annie, the daughter of the crooked foreman,...
5) MacKinnon
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"In southern New Mexico, Sam MacKinnon is double-crossed by his partners after robbing a saloon and left with busted ribs, a banged-up head, no gun, and no horse. Overlooked by a posse, he finds his horse and starts out on the vengeance trail. Stopping to help Katie Callahan and her siblings alters his plans"--
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"1886 Montana stands on the brink of statehood, and Dianne Selby finds her world turned upside down in this conclusion to Tracie Peterson's Montana saga. Through the twists and turns of life and nature, Dianne comes to realize that the hope within Jesus Christ is the only hope that lasts"--Provided by publisher.
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In later years people often asked Hugh Hitchcock about the Canadian River cowboy strike of 1883. Wagon boss Hugh Hitchcock knows the cowboy life better than most: In 1883 if you're a cowboy, you can't own a cow and you are stigmatized as a drunk. Worse, you are exploited by the wealthy cattle owners who fence the range, replace traditions and trust with written rules of employment, refuse to pay a livable wage and change things that ought to be left...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
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810L
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With the big ranchers fighting each other, in the middle was a small spread and a woman, Dixie Venable. Bill Canavan had a mind to stay to stake a claim and when the gun hands were gone he'd have everything he wanted-the land, the water, and Dixie. But first he'd have to take care of Star Levitt, a rustler disguised as a gentleman.
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Larry McMurtry's Cheyenne is not a place on the map it's a part of life the best part ... Leaving Cheyenne tells of a love triangle unlike any other: Gideon Fry, heir to Texas ranch; Johnny McCloud his cowboy friend; and Molly, whom they both love and who bears each of them a son. Gid, Molly, and Johnny take turns narrating a deeply human story that spans forty years the story of how finally they all left Cheyenne.
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Hank the Cowdog volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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760L
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Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, is framed for the murder of a chicken and becomes an outlaw with the coyotes. Includes two short stories which became the inspiration for the Hank books.
11) The red pony
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
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From the Publisher: Raised on a ranch in northern California, Jody is well-schooled in the hard work and demands of a rancher's life. He is used to the way of horses, too; but nothing has prepared him for the special connection he will forge with Gabilan, a hot-tempered pony his father gives him. With Billy Buck, the hired hand, Jody tends and trains his horse, restlessly anticipating the moment he will sit high upon Gabilan's saddle. But when Gabilan...
12) Calder storm
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Trey Calder could have any woman he wants, but has always been waiting for the right woman, so when freelance photographer Sloan Davis walks into his life, he thinks he has found the perfect woman, despite their differences, and the two are married within a few weeks, but when Trey makes a startling discovery, he begins to wonder if he knows his wife as well as he thought.
13) The home ranch
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IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
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Little Britches becomes the "man" in his family after his father's early death, taking on the concomitant responsibilities as well as opportunities. During the summer of his twelfth year he works on a cattle ranch in the shadow of Pike's Peak, earning a dollar a day. Little Britches is tested against seasoned cowboys on the range and in the corral. He drives cattle through a dust storm, eats his weight in flapjacks, and falls in love with a blue outlaw...
14) Lonesome land
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Lonesome Land (1912) delicately balances an idealistic, romantic view of the American West with its hard, gritty reality. Although focused on the West's often lonesome and open lifestyle, scenes of true Western-genre suspense appear in this critical yet beautiful imaging of the land and its pioneers.
Valeria Peyson has spent her life on the East Coast and, therefore, holds a beautifully serene vision of the West in her mind.
...15) This Calder sky
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Calder saga volume 3
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Chase Benteen Calder, haunted by his mother's desertion and the death of his father, and pursued by unprincipled cattlerancher Judd Boston, stakes a claim in Montana and sets out with his young bride Lorna to make a new life.
16) Land of my heart
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Heirs of Montana volume 1
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In the 1860s, a woman and her family embark on a perilous wagon train journey to her uncle's ranch in the Montana Territory, during which she meets an embittered trail guide.
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
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680L
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The author fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. It is 1952 and John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands in New Mexico. The change comes when John falls in love with a Mexican prostitute and sets in motion a chain of events.
18) Silver Canyon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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800L
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Gunfighter Matt Brennan inherits a ranch from a bullet riddled, dying man, and seeks revenge for his friend's death.
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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940L
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Cut off from the life of ranching he has come to love by his grandfather's death, John Grady Cole flees to Mexico, where he and his two companions embark on a rugged and cruelly idyllic adventure.
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Hank the Cowdog volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
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750L
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Hank the Cowdog almost loses his job as Head of Ranch Security when he develops a case of Eye-Crosserosis.
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