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Author
Publisher
TwoDot
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
During the 1800s trains carried the nation's wealth throughout the east, but no one thought to rob a speeding train until 1866. In 1870 the first western train was robbed in Nevada and within hours a second train was robbed. Railroads made every alteration to their cars and changed every procedure they could imagine to thwart the robbers, but to no avail. Robbing trains became epidemic over the next five decades, even when the legislatures made train...
42) Bull Mountain
Author
Series
Bull Mountain volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
" "Brian Panowich stamps words on the page as if they've been blasted from the barrel of a shotgun, and as with a shotgun blast, no one is safe from the scattered fragments of history that impale the people of Bull Mountain."-Wiley Cash, New York Times-bestselling author of This Dark Road to Mercy. The Godfather meets Daniel Woodrell in this Southern debut, a multigenerational saga of crime, family, and vengeance. Clayton Burroughs comes from a long...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When Emma Switzer's Amish family is robbed of all their possessions on a trip to visit relatives, leaving them destitute and stranded on the Kansas prairie, Luke Carson--a trail boss heading up his first cattle drive--is not Emma's first choice as an answer to her prayers.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In "The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon," Mike Bastian has been raised by outlaw chief Ben Curry and trained in frontier skills by Curry's most trusted associates. Curry now wants to retire from leadership of the gang he has headed for years. But he is frustrated in this ambition by various factions within his gang who want to seize leadership and by Mike himself, who is not sure that he wants to lead the life of an outlaw. In "Showdown Trail," Rock...
46) Scalpers
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Arizona Territory Ranger Sam Burrack rides the border badlands to Iron Point, hoping to capture Ozzie Cord, a mercenary who killed a sheriff back in Mesa Grande. Cord has escaped jail once, but he won't get away this time... As Sam nears his prey, the trail of scalped bodies makes it clear that someone else has a vendetta. By all appearances, Turner "Big Foot" Pridemore, leader of the scalpers, has gained major footing in Iron Point. He has driven...
Author
Publisher
KWYM Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Discovering that his childhood sweetheart is engaged to another man, Jeff Havens, a young civil war soldier, leaves home. Seven years later, after learning of the death of his grandfather, he returns and suddenly finds himself branded an outlaw and hunted like an animal. Jeff's enemies have stolen his grandfather's ranch and will stop at nothing in their quest for land, money, and power--but Jeff vows to stop them or die trying.
49) Oliver Twist
Author
Publisher
Reader's Digest Association
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Olvier Twist is a poor orphan boy cruelly treated in the public workhouse. Pennyless and hungry, he runs away to London, only to fall into the clutches of a gang of thieves and pickpockets led by the master crimminal, fagin. Befriended by a man robbed by the gang, Oliver ultimately learns his true identity and gains a home, a fortune, and a family!
50) Starcrossed
Author
Series
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In a kingdom dominated by religious intolerance, sixteen-year-old Digger, a street thief, has always avoided attention, but when she learns that her friends are plotting against the throne she must decide whether to join them or turn them in.
Author
Series
Flame in the Mist volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"After an attempt is made on her life, Mariko disguises herself as a boy and infiltrates a gang of bandits known as the Black Clan, determined to hunt down the person responsible"--
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Examines the colorful lives and careers of the leaders of the Wild Bunch, who always managed to escape unscathed from their criminal exploits until new twentieth-century inventions and crime-fighting techniques caught up with them.
56) To hell on a fast horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the epic chase to justice in the Old West
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
No outlaw typifies America's mythic Wild West more than Billy the Kid. To Hell on a Fast Horse by Mark Lee Gardner is the riveting true tale of Sheriff Pat Garrett's thrilling, break-neck chase in pursuit of the notorious bandit. This is spellbinding historical adventure at its very best, recalling James Swanson's New York Times bestseller Manhunt-about the search for Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth-as it fills in with fascinating detail the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In 1840s Ireland, heartstruck thief Liam O'Connor lures away, lovely Cora from her intended, so angels send him to small-town in contemporary America to right this wrong. He must convince today's Cora, a police detective, to marry a lawyer she loves, or Liam will be damned for eternity." -- Provided by publisher.
In 1844 Ireland, Liam OConnor, a rogue and a thief, fell madly in love with a squire's daughter and unwittingly altered the future. Shy...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Due to a misunderstanding over her involvement in a botched robbery, Maude, with younger sister Sallie, hides out at the home of an uncle, but when she is discovered and arrested, the orphaned sisters flee, trying to clear Maude's name.
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