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81) Mustang Man
Author
Series
Sacketts volume 13
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
When Nolan Sackett met Penelope Hume in a cantina at Borregos Plaza, the girl immediately captured his attention. That she was heir to a lost cache of gold didn?t make her any less desirable. But Penelope isn't the only one after her grandfather's treasure; Sylvie, Ralph, and Andrew Karnes, distant relatives with no legal claim to the gold, are obsessed with claiming the Hume fortune for themselves. Their all-consuming sense of entitlement recklessly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
While traveling in 1883 with her Italian American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.
83) 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 determined...
84) Warm as wool
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
When Betsy Ward's family moves to Ohio from Connecticut in 1803, she brings along a sockful of coins to buy sheep so that she can gather wool, spin cloth, and make clothes to keep her children warm.
86) Dakota dugout
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 1040L
Language
English
Description
A woman describes her experiences living with her husband in a sod house on the Dakota prairie.
87) To the last man
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Toward the end of the nineteenth century in the Tonto Basin of Arizona, a fierce and deadly feud erupts between local cattlemen and sheepherders, as a rancher's son, Jean Isbel, and a shepherd's daughter, Ellen Jorth, fall in love.
Author
Series
Alaskan quest volume 2
Language
English
Description
When Pinkerton agent Helaina Beecham's obsession with capturing a dangerous fugitive dulls her judgment, she is kidnapped and carried off into the wilderness just as an early winter is approaching. Now her only hope is that Jacob Barringer--the man who has captured her heart--will find her before it is too late.
90) Matagorda
Author
Series
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
After serving in the Civil War and fighting Indians on the frontier, Tap Duvarney finds he has bought a partnership in a feud as well as in a cattle outfit.
91) Fallon
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"John Tylor figures everything is finally coming his way. He's got what he wants: a free shot into the wilderness where no one will ever know his name or his shame. As he and Will Cunningham head west into the northern Plains, Tylor rescues a wounded hawk, which he had dreams foretelling the event. Tylor and Cunningham run smack into a party of Arapaho who are eager to relieve these solitary white guys of everything they've got, including the hawk....
Author
Series
Short Story collections volume 20
Language
English
Description
Cattlemen ride alone across the open range under the deadly aim of roving desperadoes.... Gamblers stake their fortunes and their lives on a deck of cards.... Strong-willed senoritas seek independence through an enticing combination of beauty, audacity, and spirit.... Lawmen and outlaws walk the same dusty streets and speak a common language: Colt, Winchester, Smith & Wesson. Gritty, tough, and unflinchingly authentic, here is the West as it really...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
The Sackett Brothers didn't know what brand of trouble had Cousin Logan stirred up, but he needed beef cattle badly. So with Tell Sackett ramrodding, Tyrel, Orrin, and Cap Rountree ride north to the wild country, pushing 1100 head of fat steers across the wide Dakota plains toward the mountains of far western Canada. Past Sioux, past Logan's treacherous enemies, through trails no cattle had ever crossed, the Sacketts drive on. Because when you step...
96) Falconer's law
Author
Series
Falconer volume 1
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1837. The fur trade that bred a generation of daring mountain men is in decline. A trapper by the name of Hugh Falconer knows it's time to look for new horizons, and he looks westward. Organizing a brigade of fiercely independent mountain men is no easy task but Falconer pulls it off, and he keeps them together as he leads them on a trail of constant danger, across the worst desert in the West, over savage mountains, through hostile Indian...
97) My Antonia
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
The moving portrait of an orphan boy and immigrant girl who find hardship and love on the American prairie.
99) Conger's woman
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Jud Hunter helps Auralee Ford escape from jail to avoid hanging for her husband's murder. She claims she is innocent, but her brother-in-law is sure she is guilty. With a bloodthirsty posse, he will relentlessly pursue the pair across rough Indian territory as they head for Mexico"--