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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Callaghen was part Irish rogue and all soldier. For twenty years, his love of action and expert ability had carried him to every major battle around the world. Now , as a cavalry soldier in the Mojave desert, he needed every ounce of skill he possessed. This time he faced bad Indians, mountain outlaws,and grisly ambush. Could he outwit and outfight them in a search for the fabled underground river of gold? ... provided by dust jacket.
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"The last days of the Civil War. With Richmond under siege, Confederate soldier Luke Jensen is assigned the task of smuggling gold out of the city before the Yankees get their hands on it--when he is ambushed and robbed by four deserters, shot in the back, and left for dead. Taken in by a Georgia farmer and his beautiful daughter, Luke is nursed back to health. Though crippled, he hopes to reunite with his long-lost brother Smoke, but a growing romance...
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In Joe Pepper, the title character, while awaiting a hangman's noose, tells the story of how he discovered a propensity for violence while seeking revenge. The irony is that Joe's keen sense of justice puts him on he wrong side of the law. / Long Way to Texas, taking place just after the Civil War battle of Glorieta Pass in New Mexico, is the story of Lt. David Buckalew, whose remnant of Confederate riflemen is under siege and low on rations and water....
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It's been thirty years since they battled through a war-torn frontier. Now they'll ride together once again-and the bullets will fly... THE HELL RIDERS During the bloody Apache Wars, Trap O'Shannon, Clay Madsen, Ky Roman, and a few others distinguished themselves with uncommon valor in the brutal Geronimo Campaign. Known as the Scout Trackers, this fearsome bunch of battle-hardened warriors rode hard, shot straight and plenty, and took chances no...
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This biographical novel about the life of Kit Carson-frontiersman, fur trapper, Army scout and later military officer, and always a trusted friend to the Indian nations-focuses primarily on the seventeen years from 1831 to 1848 when Carson was among the foremost of the men engaged in war.
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It's the spring of 1864, and times are hard in Washington County, Arkansas, especially for thirteen-year-old Travis Ford. He hasn't heard from his father, a sergeant in the 2nd Arkansas Cavalry, in months. His mother is struggling to make ends meet on the family farm near Poison Spring. All Travis really wants to do is to follow his passion--to make up adventure stories in the style of Alexandre Dumas. But the Civil War keeps getting in his way. When...
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Seven brides volume 01
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The Randolph brothers are known as a wild, unruly bunch. Carving an empire out of the rugged Texas land, fighting off rustlers, they're unwilling to change their ways until oldest brother George Randolph lays down the law. George wants to bring his brothers in line and put his ranch in order, but he needs to find someone strong enough to help him. Rose Thornton is penniless and desperate, and will do just about anything to keep going. It's going...
9) Outlaw
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Matt Slaughter volume 01
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When war came to the Shenandoah Valley, Matt Slaughter and his older brother, Owen, joined the Confederate army. But three years defending his homeland as a sniper has weighed heavily on Matt's conscience. With the cause lost, the brothers desert--only to find upon their arrival home that Owen's farm has fallen into the hands of swindlers. When Owen accidentally kills a Union officer, Matt takes the blame. But now--facing a sham trial and a noose--he...
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In "The Calaveras Hills", homeward bound Union scout Jeff Burkhart dreams of putting away firearms forever to resume working the family farm with is father. Until he arrives home to find a gang of renegades and a burning barn .... Honoring the deathbed wish of his old friend, Jess Holloway sets out to ramrod Saul Morrel's ranch for his widow. When he stops two men from starting a deadly stampede, there is no way Jess can know that he's taking the...
11) Kitt Peak
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Thomas Mullins, recently retired lieutenant in the Buffalo Soldiers all-Negro regiment, and an avid fan of Sherlock Holmes, has his own mystery to solve. Thomas received a letter from Bill Adams, one of his few white friends from the 101st cavalry, whose daughter Abby has disappeared. A brilliant deductive mind, and the example of the master, Sherlock Holmes, sends Mullins off to Arizona on the trail of something more horrifying than he could ever...
12) Indigo heaven
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2021.
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"Clayton Jane, a war-weary ex-Confederate from Georgia, heads west to Wyoming, where he reconstructs his life as a ranch foreman and right-hand man for an English cattle baron. When the Englishman's sister, a promising Surrey painter, visits along with her husband and young son, the ranch hands soon learn that this reunion is more than a family gathering. The brother-in-law, who provided most of the investment money for the Rolling F Ranch, has come...
13) The warrior
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His assignment -- to protect the Indians he had spent his entire adult life fighting against! Captain John Early had definitely been given the dirty end of the stick. It seemed that the lion's share of a lifetime as a member of the Indian Fighting Army qualified him to re-establish Fort Sheridan as an outpost to protect the nearby Pine Ridge Agency. As an outworn soldier, the Review Board figured he could make the mistakes that would otherwise be...
15) Trail angel
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Josey Angel novel volume 01
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"From award-winning journalist and first-time novelist Derek Catron comes a historical Western and love story set on "the bloody Bozeman," the trail that sparked the only Indian war that ended with the army's defeat. In the spring of 1866, Annabelle sets out with her extended family to the gold fields of Montana. Guiding the wagon train is Josey Angel, a cavalryman said to have killed more men than any soldier in the Union army. His reputation frightened...
16) Bitter trumpet
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Jesse Wilder volume 01
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It is 1865. Jesse Wilder has survived the horrors of Shiloh, the hell of a Yankee prison camp, and the shame of volunteering for the Union army of the West - the only way to escape certain death in the camp. Now the war is over and he has come home to Tennessee. But the word of his "treachery" has preceded him and Jesse finds himself shunned by his neighbors, and worse, disinherited by his late father. Like so many disillusioned survivors of the old...
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