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1) Trailin'
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Trailin' (1919) tells the story of Anthony Bard, a young aristocrat from the east with a hunger for adventure, who sees his father murdered in the yard of their home. This starts young Anthony on a trail of vengeance that leads him to the far west. Here, Anthony, a tenderfoot with a knack for survival must track down a legendary outlaw who waits for him, not with a gun, but with a story. Along the way he braves the elements, resists a band of cold-blooded...
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Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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When the wagon carrying the McDougal sisters falls under attack, each sister is picked up by a different man. Anne-Marie, the middle sister, is saved by Creed Walker, a Crow warrior. It's loathing at first sight, but with bandits on their tail and a cache of gold to hide, Creed and Anne-Marie need each other. Will they learn to put aside their differences and trust each other--and God? And can their growing faith turn their lives around?
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This fast-paced story is about a tough rebel named Destry who is sent to prison for years, serving time for a crime he did not commit. Once out, he aims to seek revenge on the 12 jury members who sent him to prison. However, his mission isn't to kill but to find other unique ways as punishment...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Lance Kilkenny's is believed to be the fastest gun in the West, but once the gunfight is over, he disappears. Most folks don't even know what he looks like. Some time back, Mort Davis saved Kilkenny's life after he was shot up. Now Davis needs Kilkenny's help. He has filed a claim on a water hole near Lost Creek in the live oak country. The district is dominated by two wealthy cattlemen, Webb Steele and Chet Lord, each one claiming for himself the...
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Forge
Pub. Date
1999
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English
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Jubal Kane was twenty-two years old. For the past year, he'd been in the saddle every day, riding from town to town on a seemingly endless search for three cold-blooded killers. They were the men who'd shot his parents in cold blood while Jubal watched, hidden inside a pile of hay.
Mitchell was one of these men. And with his death, Kane found some relief from the memories that had been haunting him. But two murderers lived on. Jubal knew that until...
7) Appaloosa
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English
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The New York Times bestselling Western from Robert B. Parker
Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole are lawmen and friends who share the brutal hardships of an emerging West. But the courage that has defined them is challenged by a man without conscience or remorse. Now, Hitch and Cole have followed him to the small town of Appaloosa.
What follows is a dance of wills where villains are cast in shades of grey, where heroes hide in the blackest...
Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole are lawmen and friends who share the brutal hardships of an emerging West. But the courage that has defined them is challenged by a man without conscience or remorse. Now, Hitch and Cole have followed him to the small town of Appaloosa.
What follows is a dance of wills where villains are cast in shades of grey, where heroes hide in the blackest...
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Upon the death of his uncle, Ernest Selby, a young man from Iowa, inherits the Red Rock Ranch in Arizona. When he learns that the ranch's 20,000 cattle have dwindled to 6000 he suspects foul play. Ernest decides to go undercover in order to investigate these strange circumstances and lands a job on his own ranch, posing as a tenderfoot cowboy under a different name. As he makes friends and enemies and courts Annie, the daughter of the crooked foreman,...
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Gunslinger Dooley Monahan has quit wandering and settled down to be a farmer. But when he longs for adventure he packs up and rides west with his horse, General Grant and Blue a dog too smart for his own good. Then a gang holds u the Omaha bank, Dooley is mistaken for one of the robbers, with every lawman on his trail, he has no choice but to gang up with the outlaws. WIth BLue and General Grant at his side Dooley will make his forturne come hell...
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Thorndike Press
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English
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When this unforgettable novel was first published it was a rousing success and was made into a movie four times. Buck Duane's father was a gunfighter who died by the gun and, in accepting a drunken bully's challenge, Duane himself was forced into the life of an outlaw. He roamed the dark trails of southwestern Texas, living in outlaw camps, until he met Jennie Lee, the one woman who could help him overcome his past.
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Gregg Press
Pub. Date
1978, c1939
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English
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In 1875, the deadly Apache warrior Antone and his band controlled every scrap of Arizona sagebrush from Tuscon to Camp Grant. Then two battle-hardened young lieutenants were given strict orders to find Antone--and root him out for good.
12) Comanche dawn
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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In Comanche Dawn Mike Blakely does for the Comanche nation what Ruth Bebe Hills did for the Sioux in Hanta Yo. This landmark novel is the first time the story has been told from the point of view of the Comanches themselves. We witness the rise of one of the most powerful mounted nations in history through the eyes of a young warrior named Horseback.
Born on the very day that the first horse comes to his people, Horseback matures into a leader of...
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"In 'Sergeant Forson's Dirty-Shirt Army' a seasoned sergeant tries to turn undisciplined recruits into true soldiers despite his commanding officer's indifference, but things change when Major King learns his daughter's stagecoach will likely be attacked by Indians. 'Furnace Flat' tells of Grady Ryan's attempt to get rich mining borax in Death Valley"-- Provided by publisher.
14) Houston
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Forge/A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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In Doug Bowman's Houston, trail boss John Calloway and two of his faithful companions have been robbed and shot to pieces in a Kansas gully by the same five drovers who had helped them deliver a large heard of cattle to the rails. When the five drovers-turned-outlaws scatter to hell and gone, they have no idea that one of the men they have riddled with lead will live to call their names. And when Calloway's best friend Camp Houston gets on their trail,...
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This 1914 novel of frontier romance by "the greatest Western writer of all time" was the basis for the classic film starring Victor Jory (Jackson Cain, author of Hellbreak Country).
Feeling constrained by her high-society life back east, Madeline Hammond decides to join her brother Alfred at his cattle ranch in El Cajon, New Mexico. But she gets a rude introduction to frontier living when she encounters a drunken cowboy named Gene Stewart. Though...
16) Dark thicket
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1985
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English
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Donovan: Donovan was supposed to be dead. The town of Dry Fork, southern Texas, had buried him years before when Uncle Joe Vickers had fired off both barrels of a shotgun into the vicious outlaw's face as he was escaping from jail. Now, Uncle Joe has been shot-in just the same way. And Judge Upshaw had found a noose hanging on his door. It looked as though Donovan was back-gunning for the people who had tracked him down and tried him. Sheriff Webb...
17) Barbed wire
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Irishman Doug Monahan runs a fencing crew outside the south Texas town of Twin Wells, digging post-holes and stringing red painted barbed wire for ranchers as protection against wandering stock, rustlers, and land hungry thugs.
Monahan's fencing operation is opposed by Captain Andrew Rinehart, a former Confederate officer and an old-school open range baron of the huge R Cross spread.
With his brutal foreman, Archer Spann, assigned to the violent...
18) The nightriders
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Wells Fargo trail volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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The Gold Bandits Struck with Impunity, But Zac Cobb Could Not Abide Injustice With rumors swirling around a series of stolen gold shipments, Wells Fargo sends Zachary Cobb to the California gold fields to investigate the unsolved robberies. A gang of vigilantes called the Vindicators have taken it upon themselves to prosecute men suspected of the hold-ups, but while innocent people are being lynched, the real bandits seem able to strike with impunity...
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Milt Dale, man of the forest, halted at the edge of a timbered ridge, to listen and to watch. Beneath him lay a narrow valley, open and grassy, from which rose a faint murmur of running water. Its music was pierced by the wild staccato yelp of a hunting coyote. From overhead in the giant fir came a twittering and rustling of grouse settling for the night; and from across the valley drifted the last low calls of wild turkeys going to roost. To Dale's...
20) Sunset pass
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Walter J. Black, Inc
Pub. Date
c1928
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English
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Trueman Rock is a daring young cowboy and rider. Six years ago he had to leave the cowtown of Wagontongue because of a history of gunfights and run-ins with bad hombres. Since then, he's become a man who only uses his gun when he needs to, on rustlers and crooks. Now, he's returning to his hometown. But things have changed. The town and its people aren't what they used to be. He expects to find some of his enemies there to welcome him, but instead...

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