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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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This is the concluding volume of the saga of Barnabus Sackett, patriarch of that family. He returns to England, where he learns of an order for his arrest. The gold coins he found in Sackett's land are thought to be the royal treasure King John lost in the Wash during the time of the Crusades. After encountering some old friends and enemies from the previous book, he returns to America with Abigail, his new bride. He establishes a community between...
22) Borden Chantry
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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Borden Chantry never wanted to be a marshal. His plan was to wear the badge until he could raise enough money to buy cattle. But he was good at his job of riding herd on horse thieves, drifters, and drunken cowpokes. Now, a well-dressed stranger lay dead in the street, seemingly the victim of a cold-blooded murderer. With few clues to go on, Chantry knows only one thing for sure: the killer lives in this town. But who can it be? The ruthless saloon...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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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 can’t 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. But worse trouble waits, for a mysterious enemy shadows Sackett’s every move across the Dakotas and the Canadian Rockies....
24) Buckskin run
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Presents eight stories of survival on the Western frontier based on actual events. Includes historical notes for each story.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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Dal and Mac Traven left Texas young and idealistic. They came back from opposite sides of a living hell, a war that had torn the nation in two. They wanted only to reclaim their old lives...but one man held their future hostage. Colonel Henry T. Ashford had gathered an army of criminals and renegade soldiers, leading them on a path of destruction and kidnapping through Texas to the Gulf. Among Ashford's captives were the Traven's sister and Dal's...
26) Bowdrie's law
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Lawman, manhunter, peacemaker - it takes a hard breed of man to survive as a Texas Ranger, but Chick Bowdrie stands head and shoulders above the rest. The rough trails are his home, from the Big Thicket to the Pecos to the border. He's dried by the desert sun and wind, scarred and toughened by uncounted gunbattles, and when you look into his black eyes it's like looking down the barrels of two .44s with their hammers drawn back. He rides in the name...
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From his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in Singapore and the West Indies, and as an itinerant bare-knuckled prizefighter across small-town America, here is Louis L'Amour's memoir of his lifelong love affair with learning--from books, from yondering, and from some remarkable men and women--that shaped him...
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1995
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Cattlemen ride alone across the open range under the deadly aim of roving desperadoes--. Gamblers stake their fortunes and their lives on a deck of cards--. Strong-willed senoritas seek independence through an enticing combination of beauty, audacity, and spirit--. Lawmen and outlaws walk the same dusty streets and speak a common language: Colt, Winchester, Smith , Wesson. Gritty, tough, and unflinchingly authentic, here is the West as it really was:...