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1) Dark canyon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
870L
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English
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When Gaylord Riley walked away from the Coburn gang, he had money and a dream. He worked hard and built a cabin, gathered a herd of cattle, and fell in love with Marie Shattuck. But when he is confronted with false accusations of rustling and murder, Riley is forced to defend his new law-abiding way of life. Outnumbered and facing a lynching party, Riley is surprised when his old friends return to lend him a hand. But how can they help him and keep...
2) Milo Talon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
Although content with drifting through the Western wilderness, Milo Talon falls on hard times and agrees to help in a search for a buried fortune that leads him into a confrontation with a deadly band of liars and killers.
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Western icon Andrew J. Fenady, producer and writer for the legendary television program The Rebel, pens a novel starring that series' title character, Johnny Yuma, a former Confederate soldier in search of justice.After the Civil War, Johnny heads home to Texas to find the mother and sister of a close friend who died beside him in battle. What Johnny doesn't know is that a merciless saloon owner has staked his claim on the sister, and the brute doesn't...
4) Catlow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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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...
6) Winter kill
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When a brutal winter left John Henry Cole's small Wyoming ranch devastated, he decided to cut his losses--which was every penny he had--and move on. When a Texas Ranger arrives in Cheyenne, looking for a woman John once knew to answer some questions about a Denver City murder, John signs on to help track her down. But John and Ranger Teddy Green aren't the only ones looking for Ella Mims; a posse of gunmen and a serial killer are also on her trail,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
"At what point does a group of strangers become a community? When young Bendigo Shafter and a ragtag bunch of travelers settle in the rugged Wyoming mountains, they quickly come to depend on a toughness and wisdom many of them never knew they possessed. Led by the beautiful and resourceful widow Ruth Macken, the settlers battle harsh winters, renegade opportunists, and the destructive lure of gold. Through these brutally demanding experiences, young...
9) Bowdrie
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It was a name that caused the most hardened gunmen to break out in a cold sweat. Chick Bowdrie. He could have ridden the outlaw trail, but the Texas Rangers recruited him because they didn't want to have to fight against him. Pursuing the most wanted men in the Southwest he knew all too well the dusty trails, the bitter cattle feuds, the desperate killers and the quiet, weather-beaten, wind-blasted towns that could explode into actions with
...10) Callaghen
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
810L
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English
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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.
11) Radigan
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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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,...
12) Long ride home
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810L
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No one brings to life the Old West like Louis L'Amour. Collected here for the first time, these vintage frontier stories introduce you to lawmen and loners, ranchers and renegades, gunslingers, cardsharks, bank robbers, etc. In these pages L'Amour brings to life such classic characters as the Cactus Kid, Tensleep Mooney, One-Eared Tim, and the gunfighter Kim Sartain.
14) Kilkenny
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Kilkenny settles in the lonely mountains of Utah after killing a reckless youngster named Tetlow who challenged him, drew his gun, and paid for it with his life. The boy's father is a powerful rancher who is determined to run his vast herd on the limited grasslands in the valley - whether he has to buy out, run out, or kill the local ranchers. He'll cut down anyone in his way - especially a man he already hates for killing his son. Kilkenny's going...
15) Monument Rock
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A collection of seven short fiction stories and one short novel about fortune seekers, lawbreakers, dreamers, and pioneers in the American frontier.
16) Taggart
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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.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
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English
Description
Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking for answers to their father's disappearance twenty years before. To uncover the truth, the brothers enlisted the aid of a trail wise gypsy and a mysterious voodoo priest as they sought to re-create their father's last trek. But Louisiana is a dangerous land, and with one misstep the brothers could disappear in the bayous before they even set foot on the trail that led to whatever legacy...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"They tried to tell him that his father had killed himself, but Kearney McRaven knew better. No matter what life had dealt him, his father would go down fighting. And as he delved deeper into the mystery, he learned that just before his father died, the elder McRaven had experienced a remarkable run of luck: he'd won nearly ten thousand dollars and the deed to a cattle ranch. Not yet eighteen, Kearney was determined enough to track down his father's...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Clay Bell spent the last six years fighting Indians, rustlers, and the wilderness itself to make the B-Bar ranch the prize of the Deep Creek Range. But Jud Devitt, a ruthless speculator from the East, now threatens everything Clay has worked for. Devitt, holding a contract with the Mexican Central to deliver railroad ties, wants to harvest timber off the land where Clay grazes his cattle. Backing Devitt are shady politicians, a dishonest banker, and...
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