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1) Sackett
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 9
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
William Tell Sackett, brother of a politician and a gunfighter, wants only enough gold from the vein he discovers to buy a ranch, but other men have plans for his money.
Author
Publisher
TAN Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Set within the expanses of the American frontier, this story follows Slainie, an inquisitive pioneer girl, whose life is forever transformed when a mysterious seer shows up at her door. Amidst the backdrop of the Civil War, family tragedy, and the nation's most destructive wildfire, Slainie must navigate her rugged pioneer life as she encounters love and loss, and comes face to face with the story of America's first approved Marian apparition."--Back...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Owen Chantry arrives at his brother Clive's ranch to find him murdered and two squatters occupying his cabin. The unlikely trio--and a beautiful stranger--soon find themselves in a deadly feud with Clive's killers, the Mowatt gang, who return in search of Clive's rumored buried treasure. Precedes Borden Chantry.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Captured by her enemies, married to a foreigner, and a mother at age sixteen, Sacajawea lived a life of turmoil and change. Then, in 1804, the mysterious young Shoshone woman met Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Acting as interpreter, peacemaker, and guide, Sacajawea bravely embarked on an epic journey that altered history forever. Hear her extraordinary story, in the voices of Sacajawea and William Clark in alternating chapters, with selections...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
It was no work for a woman. That's what they told Mary Breydon when she came to manage a rundown stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail. But Mary had no choice. Her fine Virginia home burned to ashes in the Civil War and her husband was brutally shot down on the way to Colorado. She needed to make a new beginning for herself and her young daughter on the raw frontier. Isolated in an untamed land, their life at the station was achingly hard and they...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
1846. The territory of New Mexico has fallen to United States forces. Hugh Falconer - tracker, trapper, explorer, mountain man - rides to Taos to rendezvous with old friends at the wilderness outpost of Turley's Mill. Falconer doesn't know it but he's heading into a deadly trap. Mexicans and Indians have united against the new American lords of the land. Falconer finds himself among the handful of trappers and traders surrounded by an angry mob bent...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the creator of the "Legends of the Old West" podcast, a book exploring the overlapping narratives of the biggest legends in frontier mythology. The summer of 1876 was a key time period in the development of the mythology of the Old West. Many individuals who are considered legends by modern readers were involved in events that began their notoriety or turned out to be the most famous - or infamous - moments of their lives. Those individuals...
Author
Series
First mountain man series volume 29
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When greed overtakes men's souls, it falls to the righteous mountaineer known as Preacher to rain fire and brimstone upon them from the barrels of his guns ... Preacher has agreed to escort Barnaby Cooper through Dakota Territory's hills to establish a trading post. Accompanied by his friends Lorenzo and Tall Dog, the mountain man hopes they'll be able to protect Cooper from Sioux warriors who don't want any white man trespassing on their sacred...
10) Son of the Old West: the odyssey of Charlie Siringo: cowboy, detective, writer of the wild frontier
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An epic account of the Old West and a vivid portrait of the outsized life of cowboy, detective, and chronicler Charlie Siringo. No figure in the Old West lived or influenced its legacy more fully than Charlie Siringo. Born in Matagorda, Texas, in 1855, Charlie went on his first cattle drive at age 11 and spent two decades living his boyhood dream as a cowboy. As the dangerous, lucrative "beeves" business boomed, Siringo drove longhorn steers north...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Bowrie, Texas Ranger, 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.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Pronto Pike had never been in a spot like this before. It began with a bitter standoff between a powerful rancher and a homesteading Irishman. It escalated into missing cattle, overlaid brands, and the arrival of a whole lot of folks itching to shoot one another. Now Pronto and his partner, Eddie Holt, are holed up in a cabin against a rugged Montana winter, waiting for their enemies to come. And when they do, the final battle will begin on Hanging...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Describes the actions of both whites and Comanches during a 40-year war over territory, in a story that begins with the kidnapping of a white girl, who grew up to marry a Comanche chief and have a son, Quanah, who became a great warrior.
Publisher
Outland Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Presents sixteen original and never-before-published adventures by some of today's most visionary writers who have spun wildly offbeat tales of gunmen, lawmen, magic, and weird science. These tales twist the American West into a place of darkness, shadows, sudden death, terror in the night, bold heroism, devious magic, and shocking violence. Each story blazes a new trail through very strange territory--discovering weird science, ancient evil, mythic...
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