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Carley Burch leaves her high society life in New York City to reclaim her fiancé, Glen Kilbourne, who had moved to the Wild West to recover from World War I. She braves fierce ruffians, brutal elements and lack of civilization. Carley must adapt to the rigorous life of the West. But will she be able to convince Glenn to return to his "home" in New York? Will she be in time before a rival temptress steals Glenn away?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
710L
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English
Description
Soldiers on opposite sides in the Civil War, Dal and Mac Traven must join forces to defeat their longtime rivals, a ruthless band of killers whose reign of death and pillage extends south of the border.
3) True grit
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800L
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English
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Mattie Ross is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory.
5) Desert gold
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Lexile measure
890L
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English
Description
"A border town like Casita is no place for a drifter - especially a rich man's son looking for adventure. From the moment Dick Gale steps into this stinking, sun-baked hellhole of gambling and corruption, revolution, and revenge, he gets more than a bargained for. His old friend Thorne is in love with a beautiful senorita who's been targeted by the Mexican rebel Rojas. A bold, sneering devil of a man, feared, envied, and idolized by his people, Rojas...
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Lexile measure
690L
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English
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Chantry came home to a murdered brother and a couple of squatters. Then the Mowatt gang moved in. They were looking for his brother's buried treasure. Chantry was going to lead them to it. Or else.
Owen Chantry arrives at his brother Clive's ranch to find him murdered and two squatters occupying his cabin. The unlikely trio -- and a beautiful stranger -- soon find themselves in a deadly feud with Clive's killers, the Mowatt gang, who return in search...
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Mormon elders in the town of Cottonwoods pressure the widow Jane Withersteen to remarry so that her lands and herds will remain in their control. Gradually they frighten away most of her cowboys, and rustlers steal away her cattle, but the gunfighter Lassiter stands by her as the inevitable confrontation draws near.
10) Arizona nights
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A collection of short stories about being a cowboy in the early days of Arizona Territory. "Riding the range as a cowpoke in those days was precisely the way [White] describes it."--Publisher's preface.
11) The bloody spur
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The Santa Fe Railroad wants to build a spur through Trinidad, New Mexico, linking the town to the cattle trade. Only one man stands against it - rancher George Cullen. At the request of the town council, Sheriff Caleb York rides out to the Bar-O to reason with his old friend. With murder in the wind, the whole town's in danger. To bring a killer to justice, and protect the woman he loves, Caleb York must strap down his Colt .44, enter the big game,...
12) Dry bones
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When the largest, most complete fossil of a Tyrannosaurus Rex is discovered in Absaroka County, it would appear to have nothing to do with Walt. That is, until the Cheyenne rancher who finds her is found face down in a turtle pond. As a number of parties vie for ownership of the priceless remains, including rancher Danny Lone Elk's family, the Cheyenne tribe, the Deputy Attorney General, and a cadre of FBI men, Walt must recruit undersheriff Victoria...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Locked in a deadly feud, cowboys Randy Locke and Frank Farmer have spent decades attempting to annihilate each other any time they are within shooting distance. So far, the men are even. One of Frank's bullets has given Randy a permanent limp. Vain Frank wears a prosthetic ear, his own lost to Randy's assault. If either of them remembers the original reason for the feud, it seems moot now. Their quest for revenge has led them on a merry chase through...
Author
Series
Sundown Riders volume Book 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Across rivers of blood and plains of tears, he led a wagon train toward a country fighting to be born. Miners dug for fortunes. Soldiers died on open plains. And a few brave men drove the wooden freight wagons into the wild land. Now, master Western novelist Ralph Compton tells the real story of the tough-as-leather men who first blazed the way into the untamed frontier. Texas! For the pioneers who streamed out of Missouri it was a land of dreams...
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English
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"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men are (relatively) well behaved, and Eliza has attained what few women have:...
17) Sing her down
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A rage-brimmed, razor-sharp, feminist neo-western about two women who meet in an LA prison and the cat-and-mouse game that follows their release"--
Author
Publisher
Outlaws Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Lizzie, is a self-proclaimed tomboy, growing up on a ranch in the New Mexico Territory during late 1800's. In fact, she was so influenced by it that she dreamed of becoming a rancher herself! On her 10th birthday, she received a leather-bound journal with her initials EMH branded into the cover. It was all the more special because it was hand crafted by her father, a leather worker. Lizzie gives the diary a name, LJ, which stands for Lizzie's journal....
20) Desperate rider
Author
Series
Signets Belles lettres volume 1748
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
1959.
Language
English
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