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1) Kid Rodelo
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English
Description
Harbin was the gunslinger. All he wanted was the gold. Badger was just a little weasel waiting to see where the chips fell before he made his move. Nora, the orphan, was searching for news of her lost parents. But Kid Rodelo? He was the man of mystery. Who was he? Where had he come from? What did he want?
2) Dark canyon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
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...
3) Kiowa trail
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
910L
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English
Description
It was no crime for a young cowboy to want to talk to a pretty girl, but that was what got Tom Lundy killed. The hard men of the Tumbling B, who had survived stampede and Kiowa lance to drive their herd up from Big Bend country, wanted to burn the town down. But Kate Lundy, the Tumbling B's owner, had a better plan. Calling on dozens of seasoned fighters, Kate aimed to strangle the town that lived off cowboy money but had no use for the Texans themselves....
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English
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"Ross Hardy had made his decision. He sat in the middle of all he owned, a splendid Appaloosa gelding, a fine California saddle, a .44 Winchester rifle, and two walnut-stocked Colt .44 pistols. These were his all. It was a life that had left him rich in experience but poor in good of the world. The experience was the hard-fisted experience of cold winters, dry ranges, and the dusty bitterness of cattle drives. He had fought Comanches and rustlers,...
5) Buckskin run
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"For the westerner, trouble came with the territory. Long grass valleys, merciless deserts, sheer rock cliffs, icy streams, hidden trails, dusty towns. These were the proving grounds of daily life. At any time violence could explode, and on the frontier there was no avoiding its sudden terrible impact. In this collection of his stories, Louis L'Amour guides us to some of these untamed places where men and women faced the challenge of survival. And...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
In one swift moment, a fall wiped away his memory. Now all he knew for certain was that someone wanted him dead -- and that he had better learn why. But everywhere he turned there seemed to be more questions -- or people too willing to hide the truth behind a smoke screen of lies. He had only the name he had been told was his own, his mysterious skill with a gun, and a link to a half million dollars' worth of buried gold as evidence of his past life....
7) Tucker
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
840L
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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.
8) Milo Talon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
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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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
When Flagon and Gallaway Sackett went to the town of Tazewell, Tennessee to pay a debt their father had incurred, they were not looking for trouble. Black Fetchen and his clan had other ideas, but they let the Sacketts get the drop on them. Humiliated, Fetchen swore to get even. He thought he saw a chance to do that when the two men agreed to escort sixteen year old Judith Costello, who had a crush on Fetchen, to her father's ranch in Colorado. With...
10) Monument Rock
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English
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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.
11) Lonigan
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English
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In this exciting collection of short stories, Louis L'Amour, the legendary voice of the American West, celebrates the unique breed of men who worked the great cattle ranches. Men like Dan Regan, who refused to surrender when trouble came; Con Fargo, who would fight for what was his--despite the odds; Rowdy Horn, a small-time rancher with big-time dreams; Tandy Thayer, too loyal to forget a friend; Bill Carey, who might have fallen low, but not low...
12) Radigan
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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,...
15) Long ride home
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Series
Lexile measure
810L
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English
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Description
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.
16) (LP) War Party
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Bud Miles was a boy when he crossed the Mississippi. But Bud buried his father after an Indian attack, and as the wagon train pushed on through Sioux country, the boy stood as tall as any man ... Tell Sackett killed cougars at fourteen and fought a war at fifteen. Now Tell was hauling dangerous freight--a soldier's wife and a fortune in gold--knowing that someone wanted him dead ... Laurie Bonnet was a mail-order bride who thought she was a failure...
17) Chancy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
880L
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English
Description
Poor, orphaned at thirteen, Otis Chancy left the Tennessee mountains with nothing but a will to work, a drive to succeed, and the backbone for a fight. So when a fight comes his way, along with a chance to buy a herd of cattle and start his own spread, ninteen-year-old Chancy doesn't hesitate. He guns down a man who'd been using a sheriff's badge to justify cattle thieving. But when a mysterious woman betrays him, he will find himself stalked by...
18) Bowdrie's law
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English
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Ten stories of the wild West featuring Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie, some with historical notes that set the scene for the fictional action.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
The rare letters Tell Sackett received always had trouble inside. And the terse note from his cousin Logan is no exception. Logan faces starvation or a hanging if Tell can't drive a herd of cattle from Kansas to British Columbia before winter. To get to Logan, he must brave prairie fires, buffalo stampedes, and Sioux war parties. But worse trouble waits, for a mysterious enemy shadows Sackett's every move across the Dakotas and the Canadian Rockies....
20) Rivers west
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Series
Talon and Chantry volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
"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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