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The Sacketts volume 1
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English
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An adventure set in 17th century England and America. Barnabas Sackett, a young English yeoman with a thirst for adventure, sets out on a trading voyage to the New World and returns triumphant to England, after many perils and hardships, determined to go back to America and make his life there.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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It was a time of golden opportunity in the West. For Jean Talon, young shipwright it meant a chance to build. But there were others in the land-unscrupulous men eager to seize what couldn't be gained lawfully. Jean Talon struck out against the most vicious of these, a man who planned to make the Louisiana Purchase his own personal kingdom-the evil Baron Torville.
3) Appaloosa
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Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 1
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English
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Arriving in a small nineteenth-century western town where the sheriff has been killed and the residents are at the mercy of a renegade rancher, lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch face an adversary who works by playing psychological games.
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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In this final volume of The Border Trilogy, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, in the still point between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing or already changed beyond recognition.
In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham—nine years apart in age, yet with a kinship greater than perhaps they know—are cowboys on a...
In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham—nine years apart in age, yet with a kinship greater than perhaps they know—are cowboys on a...
5) Flint
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English
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Dying of cancer, ruthless financier James T. Kettleman decides to leave the East and returns to old familiar hideouts in New Mexico. When a range war erupts, he finds himself helping a local rancher named Nancy Kerrigan against the land speculator setting up the swindle of a lifetime and his hired assassin, Blackdun. Kettleman--now called Flint--has resources that Nancy needs to survive the clash. The question is whether he will live long enough....
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English
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Trust was rare and precious in the wide-open towns that sprung up like weeds on America's frontier - with hustlers and hucksters arriving in droves by horse, coach, wagon, and rail, and gunmen working both sides of the law, all too eager to end a man's life with a well-placed bullet.
The New York Times best-selling grand master of suspense deftly displays the other side of his genius, with seven classic Western tales of destiny and fatal
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Mike Raglan is summoned to No Man's Mesa located in Southwestern Utah near the San Juan River by a long time friend, Erik Horkart. Mike doesn't know for sure what it's all about but thinks it may have something to do with a map given him by a prospector a year before. Raglan's investigation of the mesa turns up a gate to a parallel universe. Crossing to the other side, he finds the river boat, Iron Duke, which disappeared after the Civil War. There...
9) Ceremony
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English
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"This story, set on an Indian reservation just after World War II, concerns the return home of a war-weary Navaho young man. Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless...
13) The empty land
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1971, c1969
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Matt Coburn faces a nearly impossible task when he seeks to establish law and order in Confusion, a Western town full of tough gunmen and outlaws.
19) Big sky mountain
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Pub. Date
2012
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English
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The "First Lady of the West," #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller, brings you to Parable, Montana—where love awaits.
With his rugged good looks, vast wealth and family name, hell-raiser Hutch Carmody is still the golden boy of Parable, Montana. But he's done some growing up—making peace with his illegitimate half brother and inheriting half of Whisper Creek Ranch,...
With his rugged good looks, vast wealth and family name, hell-raiser Hutch Carmody is still the golden boy of Parable, Montana. But he's done some growing up—making peace with his illegitimate half brother and inheriting half of Whisper Creek Ranch,...
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