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1) Kilrone
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Series
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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Description
Kilrone the Indian fighter was a hunted man. Medicine Dog, Iron Dave, the Bannocks and the Paiutes want him dead. Betty Considine wants him too--alive. She loves him and along with the rest of the fort, she needs him to lead them in the fight for their lives.
Author
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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Rafe Caradec--gambler, wanderer, soldier of fortune--was as hard a man as the battlefields and waterfronts of Latin America could fashion, but he was as good as his word. As Charles Rodney lay dying in a dank ship's fo'c'sle, Rafe swore to make sure that Rodney's Wyoming ranch went to his daughter, Ann. In Painted Rock, Wyoming, Caradec found land for a man to love, miles of rolling grasslands and towering mountains. He also found that one of the...
5) Mustang man
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
930L
Language
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...
6) Flint
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"He left the West at the age of seventeen, leaving behind a rootless past and a bloody trail of violence. In the East, he became one of the wealthiest financiers in America--and one of the most feared and hated. Now, suffering from incurable cancer, he has come back to New Mexico to die alone. But when an all-out range war erupts, Flint chooses to help Nancy Kerrigan, a local rancher. A cold-eyed speculator is setting up the land swindle of a lifetime,...
Author
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...
8) Hondo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
890L
Language
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...
10) Galloway
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Flagon and Galloway Sackett were just looking for a place to start ranching. They found a big, wide, lonely country and, at first, plenty of room. Then Bull Dunn and his two sons decided they wanted it all. When the battle for possession of the land began, Flagon was already in bad shape. He had been taken by Apache Indians, and by the time he escaped, just surviving left him in no condition for any kind of trouble. Bull Dunn's son, Curly, was...
11) Matagorda
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Series
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Duvarey works a ranch as the partner of his old friend Tom Kittery, but Tom's wife stirs up trouble between them and a blood feud is stirring with the vicious Munson clan.
12) Conagher
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
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...
13) Radigan
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
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,...
14) Shalako
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Traveling north from Mexico in 1882, Shalako meets up with a group of touring Europeans in Apache country. He warns them of the Apaches, and they refuse to believe him until they are attacked. The tourists allow Shalako to take them to cover as the Apaches continue to battle them and the U.S. Army, which has been alerted. The final battle is between Shalako and Tats-ah-das-ay-go. Shalako wins, the remaining Europeans return to safety with the U.S....
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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,...
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In this third adventure, Hopalong Cassidy rides into the cattle country just east of the California line, looking for an old friend. He finds Red Connors holed up in a mountain cave with a bullet in his side and a story to tell. The ranchers around Tascotal had been losing their stock, and when Red caught the rustlers in the act, they hunted him down, shot him, and left him for dead. Jack Bolt, a savage, ruthless killer, has brought in a tough band...
17) Jubal Sackett
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
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."...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
In a remote corner of Utah lies the secret outlaw kingdom of Ben Curry. For fifteen years Curry has ruled supreme, as his men have pulled jobs from Canada to Mexico. But the king is getting old. He wants to turn his legacy over to someone younger, tougher. Mike Bastian is Ben's adopted son -- a young man who can handle a knife, a gun, and his fists, but a man who has never broken the law. Now, Mike must choose...
19) Kiowa trail
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
910L
Language
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....
20) (LP) War Party
Author
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...
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