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1) Sam Hook
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Meagher County, Montana, was Hereford country. All the ranchers were raising Hereford or Angus cattle-all except Sam Hook.
2) Fool's coach
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When three people need to leave Virginia City, they face a jarring stagecoach ride across the plains toward Salt Lake through an area infested with ruthless road agents.
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Skye's West volume 15
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Barnaby Skye, a deserter from the Royal Navy, takes a second wife at the urging of his Crow Indian wife, and agrees to act as a guide for a wealthy Englishman hoping to explore the Yellowstone and Missouri River valleys.
4) Winter grass
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In Montana in the 1880s John Quincy Putnam works and fights for his Q ranch and "Missy," the orphan he rescued from the Indians, and finds love in the person of Nicole Aumont, first women lawyer in the territory.
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Collected here for the first time are all the Western short stories of Richard S. Wheeler, winner of four Spur Awards and the Owen Wister Award for his lifetime achievement in the world of Western literature by the Western Writers of America, with a cast of vividly drawn characters including madams, miners, morticians, detectives, newsmen, and lawmen.
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Skye's West volume 10
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During a trip back to the village of his Crow wife, Victoria, she is abducted by a deadly band of Blackfeet, and Skye must risk his life to rescue her, following a trail that takes him back to Canada, where he is still wanted by the British Navy for deserting his ship, four years ago.
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Skye's West volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
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Barnaby Skye and his Crow Indian Wife travel to St. Louis in the hopes of finding a job as a post trader, but along the way, the couple encounter numerous obstacles.
10) Anything goes
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August Beausoleil and his colleague, Charles Pomerantz, have taken the Beausoleil Brothers Follies to the remote mining towns of Montana, far from the powerful impresarios who own the talent and control the theaters on the big vaudeville circuits. Their cast includes a collection of has-beens and second-tier performers: Mary Mabel Markey, once queen of the boards but now a little out of breath; Wayne Windsor, "The Profile," who favors his audiences...
11) Montana hitch
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From the moment Abner Dent spotted Eve in a Maiden dance hall, he knew he wanted her for his wife. He promised her everything and kept his word. But suddenly--so it seemed to Abner--everything was falling into ruin. When it seemed as if nothing worse coul
12) Drum's ring
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Drovers, bringing their herds up from Texas, don't like Opportunity, Kansas, at all. The town is full of crooks and corrupt officials, milking the cattlemen for all they're worth. Angie Drum, the editor of the town's weekly paper, is determined to root out the corruption and give the cattlemen from Texas a fair shake. But when she starts looking into the corruption, she is shocked to her core. Opportunity is not a friendly town any
...13) Stop
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While there were some initial suspicions about Sam Stop's background, people came to respect and then trust the reclusive founder of Pony, Montana's local bank.
14) Richard Lamb
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He was a peace-loving man forced to fight for his kin and his rights against the U. S. Army. In the forty years since Richard Lamb had come to Montana, he had built a thriving trading post where he lived with his Blackfoot Indian wife, their children and grandchildren. It was a hard, but happy existence. That is until ""they"" came. Captain Partridge had orders to arrest Lamb's entire family, then place them on the Blackfoot Reservation. Half-indian...
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Skye's West volume 14
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Barnaby Skye, the most durable and unforgettable character in modern Western fiction, returns in this harrowing tale of survival from his early years in the Rockies.
In the midst of a brutal winter, Skye's beloved Crow Indian wife, Victoria, is critically wounded when a Blackfeet raiding party attacks a Crow hunting camp. Despite Skye's attempts at doctoring, Victoria's life hangs in the balance as the two, left alone in the frozen wilderness, struggle...
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Skye's West volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
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It is 1832, six years after he deserted the Royal Navy, when Barnaby Skye has a chance to return to England to clear his name and take up employment with the Hudson's Bay Company. But "Mister Skye," as he insists on being called, is as much a magnet for trouble as he is a legend among mountain men, and this opportunity of a lifetime begins to disintegrate almost from the moment it is presented to him.
With his devoted Crow wife, Victoria, an eccentric...
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Skye's West volume 16
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Former British naval officer Barnaby Skye journeys two Native American wives, Victoria and Mary, across the Southwestern desert while chaperoning a caravan of children stricken with tuberculosis, but when the members of the nearby caravans become ill, Barnaby faces the blame.
18) Snowbound
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This novel is based on the experience of American explorer John Frm̌ont and his attempt to find a railway route to the West along the 38th parallel, when he becomes trapped in the snowbound Colorado mountains and must fight his way out.
20) The deliverance
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Skye's West volume 13
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Barnaby Skye, the earthy deserter from the Royal Navy who has carved a career in the Rocky Mountains as a trapper, guide, and magnet for adventure, drifts south to Mexican territory with his Crow Indian wife, Many Quills Woman (or "Victoria," as he calls her), in this thirteenth and newest of the Skye chronicles.
At Bent's Fort on the Mexican frontier, the Skyes agree to help a mysterious Cheyenne woman, Standing Alone, locate her two children who...
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