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The Sacketts volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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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. Despite...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Wounded, dehydrated, and escaping a violent feud with the men of Bob Sutton’s ranch, Trace Jordan is near collapse when he descends from the heat of the desert into a cool, secluded canyon. He wakes to find a beautiful woman gently nursing him back to health. Strong and proud, Maria Cristina has also suffered at the hands of Sutton and his men. The experience has left her hostile and defiant. Trace, intrigued by Maria’s grit and determination,...
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The Sacketts volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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The Sackett boys have antagonized the notorious Black Fetchen who is coming after them with the best guns in the country
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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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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Bowdrie volume 2
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English
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Bowrie, Texas Ranger, lawman, manhunter, peacemaker--it takes a hard breed of man to survive as a Texas Ranger, but Chick Bowdrie stands head and shoulders above the rest. The rough trails are his home, from the Big Thicket to the pecos to the border.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Dan Sheridan, Vietnam veteran and writer of Westerns and history, had come to Arizona to research the Toomey brothers, who had vanished there 90 years earlier with 4,000 head of cattle and 27 hands. He was about to give up and go home when someone was killed. Then someone tried to kill him, which, naturally, got his attention and riled his curiosity. Now he wouldn't go until he found the truth ...
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No one tells tales of the frontier better than Louis L'Amour, who portrays the human side of westward expansion-the good and the bad-before the days of law and order. Collected here are six stories penned by America's favorite Western author.
"Trap of Gold"
Wetherton has been three months out of town when he finds his first color in a crumbling upthrust granite wall with a vein of quartz that is literally laced with gold. The problem is that the...
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Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1984
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
161 p. : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mike Bastian must decide whether he will take over his fathers gang or not, but he finds himself caught between jealous gang members, his growing love for an innocent girl, and the relentless pursuit of two lawmen.
9) Chancy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Chancy started out with nothing until fate dealt him four of a kind--all bullets. The young drifter plays his hand for keeps--taking on crooked sheriffs, deadly gunmen, and renegade Indians. When the smoke clears away, he stands alone--boss of his own cattle outfit. But the game isn't over yet.
10) To tame a land
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Talon and Chantry volume 5
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English
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Tom Chantry wore no gun and wished no man harm. French Williams was a ruthless cattleman more than willing to use his weapon. But Tom needed Williams to help him drive a herd north to Dodge. Setting off together on a trail alive with danger, soft-spoken Chantry and hard-bitten Williams faced storms, treachery, and Indian attacks. Now the man some call a coward and the man many call a killer have no choice but to trust each other with their lives--for...
12) Catlow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Pursued by law officers and the Mexican Army after stealing a shipment of gold, Catlow must trek through Sevi Indian country where few men have lived to tell about their ordeal crossing the hostile desert.
13) Fallon
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Macon Fallon thinks that all he needs is a gun, a deck of cards, and a fast horse, until he finds himself ready to defend the reclaimed mining town that has become his home from a vicious gang of outlaws, even if it costs him his life. .
14) Sackett
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The Sacketts volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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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...
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The Sacketts volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking for answers to their father's disappearance twenty years before. To uncover the truth, the brothers enlisted the aid of a trail wise gypsy and a mysterious voodoo priest as they sought to re-create their father's last trek. But Louisiana is a dangerous land, and with one misstep the brothers could disappear in the bayous before they even set foot on the trail that led to whatever legacy...
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A PRIZED COLLECTION OF AMERICAN FICTION—FROM AMERICA’S FAVORITE STORYTELLER
This first-rate collection of short stories by the incomparable Louis L’Amour showcases the legendary writer at his very best: spinning a fascinating and wholly authentic set of unforgettable tales. In these extraordinary stories, we meet a man who is forced to defend himself by taking another’s life—and must pay for his...
This first-rate collection of short stories by the incomparable Louis L’Amour showcases the legendary writer at his very best: spinning a fascinating and wholly authentic set of unforgettable tales. In these extraordinary stories, we meet a man who is forced to defend himself by taking another’s life—and must pay for his...
17) Dutchman's Flat
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1987.
Physical Desc
x, 242 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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A collection of 11 stories illustrating the way of the West: the need to fight against the bad in order to keep the good, and the struggle to maintain friendships, family, love and even honor.
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The Sacketts volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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The saga of the Sackett family continues with Logan Sackett, a cynical and rootless drifter, meeting a fiery old widow, Emily Talon-who is even wilder than him. Tall and plucky, she is determined to defend herself against the locals who are trying to take her land. And even though Logan initially intends on not getting himself involved, he can't help it when he discovers that Emily had been born a Sackett.
19) Tucker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Once, impressed by their tales of gunplay and thievery, Shell Tucker had been eager to call them his friends. Then he saw the men in Bob Heseltine's gang rob his father of twenty thousand in hard-earned money.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Barnabus Pike is no gunfighter and not much of a street fighter. Eddie Holt is a black boxer in a white man's world. They've both taken their share of hard knocks. Now they're looking to survive a brutal winter in a remote Montana line shack, collect their pay, and settle down for good. Then they cross paths with a hardworking Irish immigrant and his beautiful, spirited sister, who've been burned off their land. It's a fight Pike and Holt don't want,...
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