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1) Dark canyon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Gaylord Riley sets up a cattle range bordering a tough stretch of country called Dark Canyon where rustlers drive stolen cattle across the mountains and desperate men skulk when they are in trouble.
3) Wagontongue
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1998
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A freed slave and an unrepentant Confederate soldier find themselves side by side on a cattle drive north where both will have to decide whether to fight alone or to survive together.
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Down on his luck, Smoke Jensen contracts to deliver 3000 head of cattle. Then a renegade Cheyenne warrior uses an early winter blizzard to attack Smoke and his crew. Too bad it's only the first step in journey built to test Smoke's mettle, because some people are hunting a payday of their own--for killing Smoke Jensen. Soon the streets of Laramie will run with blood.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
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When word of the Pony Express being formed reached Texas, Clay Roswell decided to get a job as a rider. At a way station in Kansas, he was told his best chance was along the desert stretch in Nevada Territory, so he headed there. Along the way, he met up with two brothers, Jess and Hoke Pickard. That night the Pickards clubbed him to death, stole his money and his horses, and left his body behind. Only Roswell wasn't dead. And now he has a score to...
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" In 1883, young Wes Montana, hired gun for the cattlemen in Montana Territory, lives a dark life, but he is so dangerous, no one dares call him a breed. Down in Arizona Territory at the Claymore Ranch, his Arapaho mother is murdered. That's when he learns that Ray Eastman, the white father he believes had abandoned them before Wes was born, is still alive and may have sent the killers. Wes swears vengeance on his own father. Eastman is wealthy with...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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At the Sugarloaf Ranch, Smoke and Sally Jensen prepare to welcome Preacher home for the holidays unaware that their friend is trailed by a storm full of trouble. On a mission of vengeance, an old trapper is rescued by Ace and Chance Jensen from ruthless outlaws and wanted by a driven bounty hunter named Luke Jensen. And, just released from prison, a criminal mastermind assembles a vicious gang of cutthroats to extract his final revenge against his...
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In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa...
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"As sleepy as Buffalo Peak's been, legendary marshal, Elwood "Firestick" McQueen, and his deputies "Beartooth" Skinner and "Moosejaw" Hendricks never expected a couple of drifters to wake it up--by kidnapping two lovely ladies in town. Hardly the sharpest quills on a cactus, these dim drifters call it courtin'. Firestick doesn't see it that way. Now the woman snatchers are heading for West Texas with their reluctant brides-to-be--and unwittingly plunging...
11) The cowboy way
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"No one writes the old west like Seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton. In The Cowboy Way, Kelton captures the action, adventure, brotherhood and betrayal of the old west, chronicling the highs and lows of cowboy life in these sixteen stories, collected together for the first time"--
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