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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
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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.
2) Shane
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
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Description
"In this true Western classic Jack Schaefer tells the story of a mysterious stranger who finds himself in the Wyoming Territory joining local homesteaders in their fight to keep their land and avoid the intimidating tactics of cattle driver Luke Fletcher. While trying to leave his gunslinging days behind him, the mysterious stranger, Shane, is tested by Fletcher and his men. In Shane, Schaefer executes a perfect Western narrative while exploring the...
3) 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...
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Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Alton Burwick was itching to make a big land grab at Yellow Butte. But first, he had to drive the tough band of squatters from the range. So he rounded up a bunch of killers for the job, and hired Tom Kendrick to ramrod the crew, never mentioning that they would be fighting innocent men and women. Suddenly Kedrick realized he would have to do something fast--before Burwick's mob turned Yellow Butte into a wasteland.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Rye Tyler was 12 when he saw his father cut down in an Indian raid. Taken in by a mysterious stranger with a taste for Shakespeare and an instinct for survival, Rye is schooled in the lessons of a hard country.
8) 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,...
9) Taggart
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English
Description
Adam Stark had found gold. In the confusion of the mesas and canyons near Rockinstraw Mountain, Stark, his wife, Consuelo, and his sister, Miriam, were quietly working a rich vein while keeping their presence a secret from raiding Apaches. Worried that his wife might leave him, Stark wanted to make enough money to take her to San Francisco, where she could enjoy the style of life she craved.
10) 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....
11) Catlow
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Ben Cowan and Bijah Catlow had been bound as friends since childhood. By the time they grew to manhood, Catlow had become a top cowhand with a wild streak. It took just one disastrous confrontation with a band of greedy ranchers to make him an outlaw. And when he crossed that line, it was up to U.S. Marshal Ben Cowan to bring him in alive--if only Catlow would give him the chance...
12) Kilrone
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Series
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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Description
Kilrone the Indian fighter was a hunted man. Medicine Dog, Iron Dave, the Bannocks and the Paiutes want him dead. Betty Considine wants him too--alive. She loves him and along with the rest of the fort, she needs him to lead them in the fight for their lives.
13) Mustang man
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Nolan Sackett is in a world of trouble. After shooting a man in self-defense, he runs for his life from a posse in hot pursuit. Always a fool for a lady in distress, he takes time out to rescue Sylvie from a gang of desperadoes. It isn't until she bushwhacks him with a shotgun and tries to poison him that he realizes she is up to on good. No sooner than he shoots his way out or her clutches, he meets Penelope -- a lass with a sad story. But in helping...
14) Matagorda
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Series
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Duvarey works a ranch as the partner of his old friend Tom Kittery, but Tom's wife stirs up trouble between them and a blood feud is stirring with the vicious Munson clan.
15) Conagher
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As far as the eye could see was a vast, empty horizon. Evie Teale had finally accepted that her husband wouldn't be coming home. Now she and the children were alone in an untamed country where the elements, Indians, and thieves made it far easier to die than to live. Miles away, another solitary soul battled for survival. Conagher was a lean, dark-eyed drifter who wasn't about to let a gang of rustlers push him around. While searching the isolated...
16) The empty land
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Series
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"For thousands of years the lonely canyon knew only wind and rain, wild animals, and an occasional native hunter. Then a trapper found a chunk of gold, and everything changed overnight. In six days a town called Confusion appeared . . . and on the seventh it could disappear, consumed by the flames of lawlessness and violence. On one side are those who understand only brute force. On the other are men who want law and order but are ready to use a noose...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Stripped of all he values in life, Roman Chantry takes up his prized Ferguson rifle and heads west--into an unknown land and an uncertain future. For an educated man, Chantry is surprisingly tough, For a civilized man, he is unexpectedly dangerous. But even he can't know the true extent of his courage until he draws the fire of a man who will do anything--kill anyone--for the glitter of gold.
18) 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
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Holed up in a cabin in the Idaho hills, the mysterious man who called himself Trent wasn't looking for trouble. It came looking for him. A trigger-happy kid named Cub Hale emptied his gun into an unarmed man. Then he came swaggering after Trent. The girl who ran the gambling hall tried to get him to hightail it. But Trent wasn't buying. Even in that forsaken back country, he knew when a man had to speak with his shooting iron.
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