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Author
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Bill Canavan was a young man who knew what he wanted--a ranch in good stock country. He intended to settle for nothing less. The big ranchers, former rustlers turned respectable, were now in a shooting war with one another. In the middle of the fracas was a small spread and one elusive lady--and where Canavan decided to stake his claim.
85) The son
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Comanche Indian captive Eli McCullough must carve a place for himself in a world in which he does not fully belong -- a journey of adventure, tragedy, hardship, grit, and luck that reverberates in the lives of his progeny.
Author
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads an exploratory expedition up the Wolverine River and into the vast, untamed Alaska Territory. Leaving behind Sophie, his newly pregnant wife, Forrester records his extraordinary experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her if he doesn't return. As they map the territory and gather information on native tribes, whose understanding of the natural world is unlike anything...
87) Woods runner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes at the end of each chapter.
Author
Publisher
High Bridge
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In these three classic novels, Leonard has crafted raw, hard-bitten tales of courage, treachery, and redemption. In "The Bounty Hunters, " a cavalryman turned Indian scout rides after an Apache renegade while he himself is pursued by a powerful army commander. In "Forty lashes less one, " two prisoners search for a way out of a hellhole of hatred and suffering, and find it in a crazed, violent contest. And in "Gunsights, " an Arizona land war draws...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Living with seven brothers and her father, who thinks girls are useless, a thirteen-year-old Finnish American farm girl is determined to prove her worth when a enterprising gentleman tries to purchase their cash-strapped family settlement in Washington State in 1900.
Author
Language
English
Description
It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian Mountains engage in a never-ending series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet, the French, and finally against the mother country itself in an American Revolution destined to reverberate...
91) El Paso
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When the Colonel's famous Valle del Sol ranch is raided, it was Pancho Villa who not only stole the cattle but also murdered the ranch manager. Even worse, Villa's henchmen abduct the Colonels grandchildren in another daring raid only days later. Frantic, the aging patriarch and his adopted son race to El Paso, hoping to gather a group of cowboys brave enough to hunt down the generalissimo on his own turf. But their deep pockets and political clout...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.
94) Blue horizon
Author
Language
English
Description
In the sequel to Monsoon, the next generation of Courtneys are out to stake their claim in colonial South Africa, traveling along the infamous "Robber's Road," in an exciting and hazardous journey through the untouched wilderness of a beautiful land filled with warring tribes and wild animals.
Author
Publisher
Playaway Digital Audio
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Louis L'Amour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a "big country needing big men and women to live in it." Here are three more of his fine short stories about the West. In West of the Tularosa, Ward McQueen, foreman for the Tumbling K, is accused of killing a nearby rancher and he's going to need some help to prove his innocence. In Home in the Valley, Steve Mehan can still recoup the money to save five ranches back...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"The hangman cometh ... When a farmer's wife is murdered, an innocent man is accused: Patrick O'Brien. The book-loving brother had shared his love of literature with the woman, but her husband claims she spurned Pat's advances and that's why he killed her. Now it looks like Patrick will swing from the gallows--especially after his lawyer is targeted, too. Pat's brothers try to track down the real killer, but time is running out. A team of hired guns...
Author
Language
English
Description
*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award*
*A New York Times Notable Book*
*Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*
This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West "is nothing short of a revelation...will leave dust...
*A New York Times Notable Book*
*Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*
This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West "is nothing short of a revelation...will leave dust...
98) The way west
Author
Language
English
Description
A hundred-odd men, women, and children gathered at the rendezvous a few miles outside of Independence. They were solid, established folk, most of them, and they were leaving behind prosperous farms and businesses because they shared a dream about the rich lands in the West, where a man, his wife, and their young ones might make a better life and a new world more desirable than any Americans before them had ever known.
100) Stop the train!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Despite the opposition of the owner of the Red Rock Runner railroad in 1893, the new settlers of Florence, Oklahoma, are determined to build a real town.