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When Duff MacCallister journeys to Texas to deliver 500 head of Angus cattle, he finds a land on fire. Unruly, lawless teams of fence cutters are rampaging across grazing land and cutting fences in the name of an eastern land company. The ranchers are fighting back, and Duff joins the fray. But the fight leads to Austin, and into an even deadlier mission. The governors daughter has been kidnapped by Fence Busters. Duff and his partner Elmer are...
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Sarah Agnes Prine novels volume 3
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English
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Draws on the true stories of the author's grandmother to continue the tale of turn-of-the-twentieth-century pioneer Sarah, whose efforts to survive in the Arizona Territory are challenged by drought before a stagecoach accident puts her in the path of three strangers.
6) Mustang man
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Nolan Sackett could outride and outshoot any five men, but he was a fool for a lady in distress.
7) Resolution
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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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 plac
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year oldAda's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are...
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Sammy Gregg was born in Brooklyn, small in stature and naive to the ways of the world, but headstrong and resolute to save enough money to marry Susie Mitchell. Gregg calculated that he needed $15,000 and figured he could earn enough in six months out West. Although he was a small man who knew nothing of fighting, guns, or horses, he took the $5,000 he had already saved and headed out West, arriving in Munson - a tough lawless town. With his unwavering...
10) Bendigo Shafter
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Eighteen-year-old Bendigo Shafter arrives with a group of pioneers in a small Western settlement in Wyoming to begin a new life filled with struggle, adventure, and excitement.
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[1996?]
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English
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Presents a series of interlocking stories originally published as a series in 1927-28, telling of Walking Horse, a war chief who makes a suspicious bargain with Big Hard Face for some of the horses captured by Big Hard Face's son, Thunder Moon.
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Pub. Date
2016
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English
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FP 100,000. The 8th Cole-Hitch western, following BRIDGE. There's a new menace in town: a wealthy, handsome easterner - and the owner of Appaloosa's new casino - Boston Bill Black. He's a notorious womaniser, and with eight notches on the handle of his Colt, he's rumoured quick on the draw. When he finds himself wanted for a series of murders, he quickly vanishes. Cole and Hitch locate and arrest him, but Boston Bill escapes once again. Another murder...
13) Appaloosa
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Series
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 1
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English
Description
When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a small, dusty town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg, a man who has so little regard for the law that he has taken supplies, horses, and women for his own and left the city marshal and one of his deputies for dead. Cole and Hitch, itinerant lawmen, are used to cleaning up after opportunistic thieves, but in Bragg they find an unusually wily adversary-one who...
14) The hope within
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Series
Heirs of Montana volume 4
Language
English
Description
After a fire destroys Dianne and Cole Selby's beloved Diamond V ranch in Montana Territory, the couple is summoned to Cole's family home in Kansas where his father is dying, but his inability to see how unkind and manipulative his mother is, forces Dianne to make the drastic decision to take their children and go home without Cole.
15) Shalako
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1995, c1962
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
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English
Description
He rode wild country with wilder men. Shalako was a loner who owned nothing but his horse and saddle--and his guns. He was a man willing to gamble his life to get the woman he wanted.
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English
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Chancy Gantry and Ollie Teal are honest cowpunchers riding herd on fifteen hundred longhorns from Texas to Kansas. Their trail boss, Lucas Stout, is tough but fair. He's never lost a hand on a drive and doesn't aim to start now. So when a cowhand needs a sawbones bad, Stout send Chancy and Ollie to escort the man to a town called Prosperity, which none of them has ever heard of. At first glance, the town looks deserted-but the saloon is full. The...
17) Conagher
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Conagher, a drifter who is waging a personal war against a murderous band of rustlers, is forced to look for help from Evie Teale, a lone woman who is fighting her own battle with the elements, the Indians, and the thieves.
18) Sixteen brides
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English
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Sixteen potential brides arrive in Plum Grove, Nebraska, where they risk everything to fulfill their dream of owning land and finding love, turning the townspeople upside down in the process.
19) Of mice and men
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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They are an unlikely pair: George is small and quick and dark of face; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a bond, clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land...
20) Blue-eyed devil
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Series
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 4
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English
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Refusing recruitment by ambitious new chief Amos Callico, itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch protect local merchants whom the chief is harassing for protection money, a situation that escalates to the shooting of a politically connected landowner's son.
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