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Author
Language
English
Description
From the American West to the Siberian coast, from Hollywood to the boxing ring, here are timeless tales of war, mystery, romance, crime, and punishment as only Louis L'Amour can tell them.
These stories are vintage L'Amour:
• A hard-bitten cattle driver is pitted against a man trying to steal his woman, the disappearance of a thousand head of cattle, and a plot to frame him for murder. . . .
• A private eye visits a remote...
These stories are vintage L'Amour:
• A hard-bitten cattle driver is pitted against a man trying to steal his woman, the disappearance of a thousand head of cattle, and a plot to frame him for murder. . . .
• A private eye visits a remote...
2) Utah Blaine
Author
Publisher
Gregg Press
Pub. Date
1980, c1954
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Colonel Utah Blaine escapes from a Mexican jail and makes his way to Texas where he saves a wealthy rancher whose own men were looking to steal his land.
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
This priceless collection of once lost stories brings to life a time of desperate violence and true courage in a wide-open country of fortune seekers and dreamers, lawbreakers and pioneers.
A newly sworn-in marshal must outwit a mysterious killer who’s fleecing his neighbors while secretly cutting their throats. . . .
A young drifter, wounded in a gunfight, finds a chance to change his ways—but he must be willing to pay...
A newly sworn-in marshal must outwit a mysterious killer who’s fleecing his neighbors while secretly cutting their throats. . . .
A young drifter, wounded in a gunfight, finds a chance to change his ways—but he must be willing to pay...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1971, c1967
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Flagon and Gallaway Sackett went to the town of Tazewell, Tennessee to pay a debt their father had incurred, they were not looking for trouble. Black Fetchen and his clan had other ideas, but they let the Sacketts get the drop on them. Humiliated, Fetchen swore to get even. He thought he saw a chance to do that when the two men agreed to escort sixteen year old Judith Costello, who had a crush on Fetchen, to her father's ranch in Colorado. With...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2002, c1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In Lonely on the Mountain, Louis LAmours solitary wandering Sackett brothers make a stand together-to save one of their own.The rare letters Tell Sackett received always had trouble inside. And the terse note from his cousin Logan is no exception. Logan faces starvation or a hanging if Tell cant drive a herd of cattle from Kansas to British Columbia before winter. To get to Logan, he must brave prairie fires, buffalo stampedes, and Sioux war parties....
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1998, c1985
Language
English
Description
It was the only water for miles in a vast, sun-blasted desert where water meant survival. So Logan Cates naturally headed for Papago Wells. But he wasn’t the only one. Fleeing the fierce Churupati and his Apache warriors, other travelers had come there too. And when the Apaches found them, they began a siege as relentless and unforgiving as the barren land…and just as inescapable.
The last thing Cates wanted was to be responsible...
The last thing Cates wanted was to be responsible...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2012, c1970
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In one swift moment, a fall wiped away his memory. All he knew for certain was that someone wanted him dead—and that he had better learn why. But everywhere he turned there seemed to be more questions—or people too willing to hide the truth behind a smoke screen of lies. He had only the name he had been told was his own, his mysterious skill with a gun, and a link to a half million dollars’ worth of buried gold as evidence of his...
15) To tame a land
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Rye Tyler was 12 when he saw his father cut down in an Indian raid. Taken in by a mysterious stranger with a taste for Shakespeare and an instinct for survival, Rye is schooled in the lessons of a hard country.
16) Silver canyon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fueled by youth, courage, and quickness with a gun, Matt Brennan rode into Hattan's Point ready to live or die at a single challenge. But in one day he was a changed man. A beautiful woman had dared him to stay alive. A powerful landowner had set him up for a beating. And a good friend had died in his arms. Suddenly Matt found himself owner of the Two-Bar Rancha̮nd the odd man out in a vicious range war. With enemies everywhere, Matt knew that the...
18) Bowdrie
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[1983]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
It was a name that caused the most hardened gunmen to break out in a cold sweat. Chick Bowdrie. He could have ridden the outlaw trail, but the Texas Rangers recruited him because they didn't want to have to fight against him. Pursuing the most wanted men in the Southwest he knew all too well the dusty trails, the bitter cattle feuds, the desperate killers and the quiet, weather-beaten, wind-blasted towns that could explode into actions with the wrong...
19) Radigan
Author
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When beautiful Angelina Foley presents Tom Radigan with a Spanish grant and claims ownership of his land, he realizes he’s up against a cunning and deadly opportunist. Foley wants him off Vache Creek immediately, and with three thousand head of cattle, an outfit of hardcase gunfighters, and winter coming on, she is unwilling to take no for an answer.
But Radigan has worked four hard years building up his ranch. Fighting for it—and,...
But Radigan has worked four hard years building up his ranch. Fighting for it—and,...
20) The key-lock man
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1997, c1965
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
He had led the posse for miles through the desert, but now Matt Keelock was growing desperate. He was worried about Kristina. His trip to the town of Freedom for supplies had ended in a shootout. If caught he would hang. Even though Kris could handle a horse and rifle as well as most men, the possibility of Oskar Neerland’s finding her made Matt’s blood run cold. He knew the violent and obsessive Neerland, publicly embarrassed when Matt...
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