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1) Chancy
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Poor, orphaned Otis Chancy left the Tennessee mountains with nothing but a will to work, a drive to succeed, and the backbone for a fight. So when a fight comes his way, along with a chance to buy a herd of cattle, 19-year-old Chancy doesn't hesitate. He kills a cattle thief and finds himself stalked by a deadly gunman. When his past catches up with him in Cheyenne, Chancy makes his stand ... even if he has to fight alone.
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Series
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English
Description
Many a hardcase had died trying to take the bank and settle an old score at the same time. But he never counted on meeting a beautiful woman and her trail-savvy but reckless father, headed straight for Apache country. Now Considine and his gang can either ride like hell for the border just ahead of an angry posse, or join the old man and his daughter in a desperate last stand against blood-hungry warriors. The choice is simple: risk the hangman's...
3) Old Yeller
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
In the rugged landscape of early frontier Texas, fourteen-year-old Travis is faced with taking over his family's farm and making a painful, important decision.
Author
Publisher
Prion
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Zane Grey is, without doubt, the absolute master of the Western novel. Although he was 31 years old before his first book was published in 1903, his writing style and his depiction of the old 'wild' west led to him becoming one of the highest-earning authors of 'popular' literature of his time. This classic collection of three of the best Zane Grey Western adventures includes: Riders of the Purple Sage, a thrilling saga set in the Utah/Arizona border...
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Language
English
Description
An Indian request in 1854 for 1,000 white brides to ensure peace is secretly approved by the U.S. government in this alternate-history novel. Their journey west is described by May Dodd, a high-society woman released from an asylum where she was incarcerated by her family for an affair.
7) Doc
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Series
Language
English
Description
Born to the life of an educated Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday is given a choice at the age of twenty-two: die within months in Atlanta or leave everyone he loves in hopes of finding health in the West. Young, scared, lonely and sick, he arrives on the rawest edge of the Texas frontier in time for an economic crash. Soon he's gambling professionally and living with a high-strung Hungarian whore who insists that they follow the money to...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
They called him Scholar. Ronan Chantry took his prized Ferguson rifle and went west to die. He found himself a civilized man in the rugged wilderness. He joined up with some rough trappers and traveled on--until they met up with hostile Indians, a beautiful girl looking for a 200-year-old treasure, and her treacherous uncle. They were all fighting for their lives. And then Chantry found out how brave he really was ...
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"They rode into town like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Four armed outlaws bringing their own brand of hell to Paris, Texas. First they rob the First National Bank. Then they take a woman hostage as insurance. When Perley Gates learns that local waitress Becky Morris is in the hands of these tough customers, he rides alone to get her back. Problem is, the outlaws are heading toward the Red River--straight into Indian Territory. That's where...
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Language
English
Description
Crooked Sheriff Harry Gauge rules the town of Trinidad, New Mexico, with an iron fist. His latest scheme is to force rancher George Cullen into selling his spread and to take Cullen's beautiful daughter Willa for his bride-whether she's willing or not.
Crooked Sheriff Harry Gauge rules the town of Trinidad, New Mexico, with an iron fist. His latest scheme is to force rancher George Cullen into selling his spread and to take Cullen's beautiful daughter...
15) The big showdown
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Caleb York is about to say goodbye to his sweetheart, Willa, as he leaves to join the Pinkertons when the peaceful morning erupts into gunfire. Someone has to bring law and order to the wild little town of Trinidad, even as a band of outlaw brothers rides toe vengeance trail and a new cattle baron sets his sights on more land...and on Willa, too. Looks like Caleb will be staying on for a while.
16) Dark canyon
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
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Description
Gaylord Riley set up a cattle range bordering Dark Canyon, a tough stretch of country. Rustlers used it to drive stolen cattle across the mountains. Desperate men skulked in it when they were in trouble. It was a road for bandit raids.
Author
Series
Great western edition volume 45
Language
English
Description
This novel is an expanded version of Open Range written by Zane Grey. Following Grey's death, his estate allowed a ghost writer to expand the story "Open Range" into a longer novel for publication and movie rights. The stories are very similar.
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English
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"Sheriff Walt Longmire is reading A Christmas Carol in his office on December 24th when he's interrupted by the ghost of Christmas past: a young woman with a hairline scar across her forehead and more than a few questions about Walt's predecessor, LucianConnally. Walt doesn't recognize the mystery woman, but she seems to know him and claims to have something she must return to Connally. With his daughter, Cady, and his undersheriff Vic Moretti in...
20) Comstock Lode
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
It was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vultures -- they were lured by the glittering promise of instant riches and survived the brutal hardships of a mining camp to raise a legendary boom town. But some sought more than wealth. Val Trevallion, a loner haunted by a violent past. Grita Redaway,...