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IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
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Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic of the Western genre. Lassiter, a gunglinging avenger in black, shows up in a remote Utah town just in time to save the young and beautiful rancher Jane Withersteen from having to marry a Mormon elder against her will.
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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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In the days of the frontier West, it was not unusual for desperadoes and fugitives from justice to seemingly disappear from the face of the earth. Shadow on the Trail by Zane Grey, one of the bestselling authors of all time, is the story of one such man who returned to reestablish himself in a law-abiding society. In Texas, young bank robber Wade Holden, once the toughest, fastest trigger man in the notorious Simm Bell gang, makes a promise to his...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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790L
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Rafe Caradec--gambler, wanderer, soldier of fortune--was as hard a man as the battlefields and waterfronts of Latin America could fashion, but he was as good as his word. As Charles Rodney lay dying in a dank ship's fo'c'sle, Rafe swore to make sure that Rodney's Wyoming ranch went to his daughter, Ann. In Painted Rock, Wyoming, Caradec found land for a man to love, miles of rolling grasslands and towering mountains. He also found that one of the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
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880L
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Ninety years ago the Toomey brothers, along with twenty-five other men and four thousand head of cattle, vanished en route to Arizona. When writer and historian Dan Sheridan is invited to the missing brothers' ranch by its current owner, he jumps at the chance. The visit fits right in with his plan to solve the century-old mystery--but it turns out that his host isn't a fan of books, writers, or people who don't mind their own business...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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740L
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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...
7) Blood bond
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Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves have been bloodbrothers since they were children, with Bodine learning the ways of the Cheyenne from his friend and Sam receiving the benefit of a university education, but when war breaks out between their people, it looks like the young men are going to have to choose sides.
12) The hide hunters
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On the way to Indian country, a buffalo hunter meets an abused wife he can't leave alone to be a victim of the indians or her angry husband.
13) White desert
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"Cynical U.S. Marshal Page Murdock pursues a vicious gang into the far north of Canada during winter."--from NoveList.
14) Badger boy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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700L
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After the Civil War, David Shannon makes his way home to the Red River. But his girl has married someone else, and his past as an Indian captive returns to haunt him.
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Chad Walker doesn't give a hoot about anyone in Pinto, Texas. Not his wife, not his ranch hands, not even his horse. So when a stranger wanders in to town, everyone at Baldy's Saloon is shocked when Walker extends a hand, and a job to the mysterious war-torn man.
Adam Dawson is the stranger travelling west through Texas. He's left the army and his best friend Autie because he's done with killing, and the two go hand in hand. He fought for years under...
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The Civil War has ended, and federal officials have taken control of Texas as Rusty Shannon rides to his home on the Colorado River. As a child he was a captive of the Comanche; as a young man he proudly protected settlers from Indian raids. Shannon's fate is intertwined with his companion's: young Andy Pickard, himself recently rescued from Comanche captivity. But Texas is in turmoil, overrun with murderous outlaws, vengeful lawman, night riders...
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