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Lonesome Dove saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 58
Lexile measure
990L
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English
Description
Late 1870s. Captain Woodrow F. Call and Captain Augustus "Gus" McCrae, two famous retired Texas Rangers, run the Hat Creek Cattle Company and Livery Emporium in the small Texas border town of Lonesome Dove. A friend talks them into joining him on a cattle drive from Texas to Montana. They have adventures as they meet heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
This is the first half of the story of Barnabus, the patriarch of the Sackett clan, and his migration to North America in 1600. His saga begins when he discovers a purse of gold coins in the mud of Devil's Dyke in Finland. On the run from English authorities, he meets and marries Abigail Tempany, the daughter of a sea captain. Nick Bardle, the master of a merchant vessel, the Jolly Jack, is half pirate, ready to take any advantage of any activity...
3) Hondo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
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English
Description
Hondo Lane was a man who'd come to terms with the hard land in which he lived. He rode dispatch for General Crook through the Arizona desert--a severe and beautiful landscape where one mistake could lead to a quick and lonely death. It was on the way to deliver an important message about an imminent Apache raid that he came upon an isolated ranch defended by a lone woman and her young son. But Angie Lowe wasn't just any woman. She was a fighter with...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Ninety years ago the Toomey brothers, along with twenty-five other men and four thousand head of cattle, vanished en route to Arizona. When writer and historian Dan Sheridan is invited to the missing brothers' ranch by its current owner, he jumps at the chance. The visit fits right in with his plan to solve the century-old mystery--but it turns out that his host isn't a fan of books, writers, or people who don't mind their own business...
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Lexile measure
890L
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English
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In The Rustlers of West Fork, the quick-thinking, fast-shooting cowpuncher heads west to deliver a fortune in bank notes to his old friend, Dick Jordan. When he arrives at the Circle J, he discovers that the rancher and his daughter, Pam, are being held prisoner by a desperate band of outlaws led by the ruthless Avery Sparr and his partner Arnold Soper. Even if Hopalong Cassidy can free Jordan and Pam, he will have to lead them across rough and untamed...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"He had led the posse for miles through the desert, but now Matt Keelock was growing desperate. He was worried about Kristina. His trip to the town of Freedom for supplies had ended in a shootout. If caught he would hang. Even though Kris could handle a horse and rifle as well as most men, the possibility of Oskar Neerland's finding her made Matt's blood run cold. He knew the violent and obsessive Neerland, publicly embarrassed when Matt had stepped...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
810L
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English
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Wilderness explorer Jubal Sackett was the son of Barnabas Sackett, the first of that line to come to the New World. Jubal feared no man, nor did he back away from any challenge. His determination to blaze new trails took him across the vast savage North American continent where no white man had been before. Living and fighting among the Indian tribes, Jubal forged a legend as a powerful medicine man whom they called "Ni'kwana, master of mysteries."...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack is a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must call upon the ancient skills of his Native American forebears to survive the vast Siberian wilderness. Only one route lies open to Mack: the path of his ancestors, overland to the Bering Strait and across the sea to America. But in pursuit is a legendary tracker, the Yakut native Alekhin, who...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
This is the concluding volume of the saga of Barnabus Sackett, patriarch of that family. He returns to England, where he learns of an order for his arrest. The gold coins he found in Sackett's land are thought to be the royal treasure King John lost in the Wash during the time of the Crusades. After encountering some old friends and enemies from the previous book, he returns to America with Abigail, his new bride. He establishes a community between...
11) Black mesa
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When Paul Manning set out in search of adventure, he didn't realize what was in store. He'd never been in a blistering hell-hole like Bitter Seeps ... or met a man as crooked as Belmont. And he'd never laid eyes on a woman as good as Belmont's wife, Louise. Manning had an awful lot of growing up to do if he wanted to stay alive.
12) Borden Chantry
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
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English
Description
"The marshal's name was Borden Chantry. Young, lean, rugged, he's buried a few men in this two-bit cow town--every single one killed in a fair fight. Then, one dark, grim day a mysterious gunman shot a man in cold blood. Five grisly murders later, Chantry was faced with the roughest assignment of his life--find that savage, trigger-happy hard case before he blasts apart every man in town...one by bloody one."--Back cover.
13) The sky-liners
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
910L
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English
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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...
14) Mustang man
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
930L
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English
Description
Nolan Sackett is in a world of trouble. After shooting a man in self-defense, he runs for his life from a posse in hot pursuit. Always a fool for a lady in distress, he takes time out to rescue Sylvie from a gang of desperadoes. It isn't until she bushwhacks him with a shotgun and tries to poison him that he realizes she is up to on good. No sooner than he shoots his way out or her clutches, he meets Penelope -- a lass with a sad story. But in helping...
15) Silver Canyon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
800L
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English
Description
Gunfighter Matt Brennan inherits a ranch from a bullet riddled, dying man, and seeks revenge for his friend's death.
16) Sackett
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
910L
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English
Description
William Tell Sackett had followed a different path from his younger brothers, but his name, like theirs, was spoken with respect, and just a little fear. Where Orrin had brought law and order from New Mexico to the plains of Montana, backed up by the gunfighting talents of his brother Tye, Tell Sackett's destiny drew him to Texas after he had to kill a man. There, in the high, lonesome country, he came upon a vein of pure gold. All he'd wanted was...
17) Brionne
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English
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Major James Brionne had brought Dave Allard to trial for murder, but his brothers returned to settle the score four years later. Brionne and his son headed West to start a new life knowing there would be another showdown.
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The Sacketts volume 12
Sackett titles volume no. 7
Sacketts an American frontier volume 7
Louis L'Amour collection
Sackett titles volume no. 7
Sacketts an American frontier volume 7
Louis L'Amour collection
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Van Allen was a strong, arrogant man who rode roughshod over anything that got in his way. Brutal and uncaring with women, he suddenly found himself guilty of an ugly murder and in a panic, tried to cover it up and destroy the evidence. Tell Sackett was a part of that evidence, but he was not going to be easy to get rid of. Allen murdered Tell's wife, Angie, while he was away. When he returned, one of Allen's men shot him and left him for dead....
19) Mojave crossing
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
890L
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English
Description
"In Mojave Crossing, Louis L'Amour takes William Tell Sackett on a treacherous passage from the Arizona goldfields to the booming town of Los Angeles. Tell Sackett was no ladies' man, but he could spot trouble easily enough. And Dorinda Robiseau was the kind of trouble he wanted to avoid at any time--even more so when he had thirty pounds of gold in his saddlebags and a long way to travel. But when she begged him for safe passage to Los Angeles, Sackett...
20) The daybreakers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
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English
Description
Tyrel Sackett was born to trouble, but vowed to justice. After having to kill a man in Tennessee, he hit the trail west with his brother Orrin. Those were the years when decent men and women lived in fear of Indians, rustlers, and killers, but the Sackett brothers worked to make the West a place where people could raise their children in peace. Orrin brought law and order from Santa Fe to Montana, and his brother Tye backed him up every step of the...
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