Catalog Search Results
1) Hostiles
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In 1892, a legendary Army captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.
3) Tucker
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Disillusioned by his boyhood dreams of gunplay and glory after his own father is robbed and murdered, young Shell Tucker decides to reclaim the stolen gold, and when he is shot and left for dead, he plots revenge.
4) Brimstone
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the moment the new reverend climbs into the pulpit, Liz knows she and her family are in great danger.
Author
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Owen Chantry arrives at his brother Clive's ranch to find him murdered and two squatters occupying his cabin. The unlikely trio--and a beautiful stranger--soon find themselves in a deadly feud with Clive's killers, the Mowatt gang, who return in search of Clive's rumored buried treasure.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Log of a Cowboy is an account of a five-month drive of 3,000 cattle from Brownsville, Texas, to Montana in 1882 along the Great Western Cattle Trail. Although the book is fiction, it is firmly based on Adams's own experiences on the trail, and it is considered by many to be the best account of cowboy life in literature. Adams was disgusted by the unrealistic cowboy fiction being published in his day; The Log of a Cowboy was his response."--Google...
Author
Series
Rattlesnake Wells, Wyoming volume 2
Rattlesnake Wells Wyoming volume 02
Rattlesnake Wells Wyoming volume 2
Rattlesnake Wells Wyoming volume 02
Rattlesnake Wells Wyoming volume 2
Language
English
Description
In the shadow of the Prophecy Mountains, the ramshackle boomtown of Rattlesnake Wells draws schemers, predators, and desperate pilgrims. As for the law, that's the town marshal, a former Texas outlaw trying to make a new life for himself. ButSundown Bob Hatfield knows a man who's slick on the draw can't escape trouble for long. In Rattlesnake Wells, you fight fire with fire--and a new one has just exploded.
8) Winter moon
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"U.S. Marshal John Galloway has been tracking the four members of the Streeter gang for some time from Texas to the Pacific Northwest to Montana and into northern Wyoming heading towards a showdown in the town of Brigham"--
9) Damsel
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It's the Wild West, circa 1870. Samuel Alabaster, an affluent pioneer, ventures across the American frontier to marry the love of his life, Penelope. As his group traverses the west, the once-simple journey grows treacherous, blurring the lines between hero, villain, and damsel.
10) Galloway
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Flagon and Galloway Sackett were just looking for a place to start ranching. They found a big, wide, lonely country and, at first, plenty of room. Then Bull Dunn and his two sons decided they wanted it all. When the battle for possession of the land began, Flagon was already in bad shape. He had been taken by Apache Indians, and by the time he escaped, just surviving left him in no condition for any kind of trouble. Bull Dunn's son, Curly, was...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
9 March 1876. My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed, all our possessions burned, our friends butchered by the soldiers, our baby daughters gone, frozen to death on an ungodly trek across these rocky mountains. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Spanning 2,000 miles and traversing six states from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean, the Oregon Trail is the route that made America. In the fifteen years before the Civil War, when 400,000 pioneers used it to emigrate West, the trail united the coasts, doubled the size of the country, and laid the groundwork for the railroads. The trail years also solidified the American character: our plucky determination in the face of adversity, our impetuous cycle...
14) Crossfire trail
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
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 2
Language
English
Description
In the Wandering Hill, Larry McMurtry continues the story of Tasmin Berrybender and her family in the still unexplored Wild West of the 1830s, at the point in time when the Mountain men and trappers like Jim Bridger and Kit Carson though still alive, are already legendary figures...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Crispin Mayo was a reckless young brawler who'd left his tiny fishing village for the vast American frontier. Headed west to join a railroad construction crew, he came upon an isolated station--and a mystery.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
For seasoned outlaw Henry and his gang of bandits, a high-stakes bank heist turns bloody when they kill a U.S. Marshal in the process. With one of the largest bounties in the history of the American West on their heads, they make their way south and invade the home of a seemingly innocent and unsuspecting frontier family for refuge. As an unexpected game of cat and mouse ensues, this twisted tale leads to seduction, role reversal, and ultimately revenge....
Author
Language
English
Description
"With the end of the Civil War, the nation recommenced its expansion onto traditional Indian tribal lands, setting off a wide-ranging conflict that would last more than three decades. In an exploration of the wars and negotiations that destroyed tribal ways of life even as they made possible the emergence of the modern United States, Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail. He illuminates the encroachment...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request