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In 1911, Carrie Strahorn wrote a memoir entitled Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, which shared some of the most exciting events of 25 years of traveling and shaping the American West with her husband, Robert Strahorn, a railroad promoter, investor, and writer. That is all fact. Everything She Didn't Say imagines Carrie nearly ten years later as she decides to write down what was really on her mind during those adventurous nomadic years. Certain that...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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840L
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Deep in Indian country, Major Mark Devereaux and his men find a grisly scene: a wagon train savagely attacked, with no survivors. One of the wagons originally with the group is missing; in it is a fortune in gold and Devereaux's daughter, Mary. The slaughter, Devereaux learns, was not the work of Indians but of a murderous outlaw band. With the stakes rising in a deadly game, the only wild card is Lieutenant Tenadore Brian, who is riding with the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
810L
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"Wagon trains heading west were forced to defend themselves against Indians, cope with injuries and illness, and struggle to find food. The group of easterners Rock Bannon was scouting for faced another problem. They were being deceived. When he warned them to remain on the Humboldt Trail, Sharon Crockett and the others refused to listen. Mort Harper, a stranger riding a beautiful black mare, had dazzled them with his charm and good looks. The southern...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
910L
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"Tell Sackett had fought his share of Indians and had managed to take something of value from his battles--respect for the Apaches as warriors. But that respect is lost when Apache braves kidnap Tell's nephew, forcing him to cross the border into the Sierra Madres to bring the boy back."--Back cover.
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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.
9) Conagher
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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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...
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Hank the Cowdog volume 2
Accelerated Reader
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.
13) Rivers west
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Talon and Chantry volume 8
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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760L
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"He killed me," the dying man had said. "He stabbed me." Those words stayed with young Jean Talon as he journeyed westward, finally reaching the Missouri in search of a simple and honest life building river boats. But the stranger died. And that meant unraveling a deadly knot that tied together a vicious renegade's army, the Louisiana Purchase, and the missing brother of a beautiful, headstrong woman. Too near the truth to break away, Jean Talon turns...
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Hank the Cowdog volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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730L
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Hank the cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, pursues an elusive chicken murderer.
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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.
16) End of the drive
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End of the Drive is comprised of seven unforgettable, never-before-published tales, together with one complete novella. Here a boy of seventeen, yearning to prove he's a man, squares up against an outlaw...and discovers that what counts is not how fast you can draw a gun but how much faith you have in yourself. A veteran trail driver, who's faced lightning and hail, raiding Comanche and thundering stampedes, finds that there's nothing quite so dangerous...
17) Killoe
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"The job was to take a herd of longhorns across Texas to New Mexico and a fertile graze. For Dan Killoe it meant a chance to prove himself to his father and the hands who worked along Cowhouse Creek. It also meant riding alongside the man who was like a brother to Dan--a dashing gunman named Tap Henry. But there was a lot about Tap Henry that Dan didn't know. Through six hundred miles of Comanches, Comancheros, and bushwhackers, they would ride side...
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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.
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The Lindsay family has come west hoping to help the father, John, recover from an illness. When they arrive, they are induced to purchase Spanish Peaks Ranch, an abandoned United States military post surrounded by mountains. It seems like a perfect place to settle into their new life as ranchers. As they soon find out, though, this deserted fort is equally suited for both protection and imprisonment. In fact, they've been swindled into buying the...
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Heart of the West is a collection of 19 short stories highlighting the complicated relationship between men and women, law and order, honor and obligation. These compelling tales are filled with memorable characters and fascinating conflicts. In Heart of the West, O. Henry explores the illustrious region featuring cowboys, outlaws, rangers and sheepherders. It consists of 19 short stories celebrating the unique culture and happenings in the Old West....
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