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Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[c1960]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Clay Bell spent the last six years fighting Indians, rustlers, and the wilderness itself to make the B-Bar ranch the prize of the Deep Creek Range. But Jud Devitt, a ruthless speculator from the East, now threatens everything Clay has worked for. Devitt, holding a contract with the Mexican Central to deliver railroad ties, wants to harvest timber off the land where Clay grazes his cattle. Backing Devitt are shady politicians, a dishonest banker, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[1986, c1985]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Restless explorer Jubal Sackett journeys westward into the vast, unmapped wilderness of seventeenth-century America and discovers the perils of the rugged frontier, a new way of life among the Indians, and the love of a beautiful Natchez Indian princess.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
This is a story of the early days when...
An intense, red-haired young man named Rusty Shannon rides into Fort Belknap on the Brazos River and joins the Texas Rangers. Years before, Mike Shannon rescued Rusty from a Comanche war party and became his adoptive father. Not long ago, Mike Shannon, was bushwhacked and killed, and his death still haunts Rusty. Rusty thinks he knows the identity of Mike's killers. But with Texas now in the throes of seceding...
4) Resolution
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When greedy mine owner Eamon O'Malley threatens the loose coalition of local ranchers and starts buying up Resolution's few businesses, Hitch and Cole find themselves in the middle of a makeshift war between O'Malley's men and the ranchers. In a place where law and order don't exist, Hitch and Cole must make their own, guided by their sense of duty, honor, and friendship.
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
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[1983]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
The classic Western, now newly repackaged as part of Bantam's Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures program—with never-before-seen material from Louis and his son, Beau L'Amour.
"I am Johannes Verne, and I am not afraid."
This was the boy's mantra as he plodded through the desert alone, left to die by his vengeful grandfather. Johannes Verne was soon to be rescued by outlaws, but no one could save him from the lasting memory of...
"I am Johannes Verne, and I am not afraid."
This was the boy's mantra as he plodded through the desert alone, left to die by his vengeful grandfather. Johannes Verne was soon to be rescued by outlaws, but no one could save him from the lasting memory of...
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...
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
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.
10) 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...
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[1984]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In a remote corner of Utah lies the secret outlaw kingdom of Ben Curry. For fifteen years Curry has ruled supreme, as his men have pulled jobs from Canada to Mexico. But the king is getting old. He wants to turn his legacy over to someone younger, tougher. Mike Bastian is Ben's adopted son -- a young man who can handle a knife, a gun, and his fists, but a man who has never broken the law. Now, Mike must choose...
12) Ranger's trail
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge Western
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Retired ranger David Shannon is being asked to reenlist in the company to help protect settlers against Indian raids, but David has other plans in mind, including marriage and a family, but when an unspeakable tragedy changes David's plans, he joins the Rangers in search of revenge.
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[c1973]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Crispin Mayo was a reckless young brawler who'd left his tiny fishing village for the vast American frontier. Headed west to join a railroad construction crew, he came upon an isolated station, and a mystery. The shack was abandoned, but fresh blood spattered the floor, and the telegraph was clicking away unattended. When Mayo stepped inside and put a hand on the telegraph key, he had no way of knowing the course of his life would change forever,...
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...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
This entry in Elmer Kelton's Tales of Texas series whisks us away to witness a violent 1875 conflict. Thirty years after the Battle of San Jacinto, Texans and Mexicans are still spilling blood over control of the Nueces Strip. And Horse thieves and bushwhackers transform this hot, dry stretch between the Nueces and the Rio Grande rivers into a lawless inferno. Despite long odds, Captain McNelly and his small band of Texas Rangers strive to bring lasting...
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