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"The American Queen is based on actual events that occurred between 1865-1889 and shares the unsung history of a Black woman who built a kingdom as a refuge for the courageous people who dared to dream of a different way of life."--
"Over the twenty-four years she was enslaved on the Montgomery Plantation, Louella learned to feel one thing: hate. Hate for the man who sold her mother. Hate for the overseer who left her daddy to hang from a noose....
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"'You're not wanted in Hattan's Point, ' Matt Brennan was told moments after arriving in town. 'There's trouble here and men are picking sides.' But Matt decided he wasn't going anywhere. Not until he found out what the dispute was about, and not before he got to know Moira Maclaren. She considered him nothing more than a drifting ranch hand, but Matt was determined to prove her wrong. To do so, he'd have to solve a mystery that was at the center...
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Series
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Preacher and Jamie MacCallister search for a hidden fortune that might be just a legend-but the bandits, bullets, and bloodshed they find are all too real ... Jamie MacCallister remembers the Alamo-especially one brave frontiersman who died fighting there. Now the fallen veteran's granddaughter needs Jamie's help. She's found a letter written by her grandfather with a map to the spot where Alamo legend Jim Bowie supposedly hid a fortune in silver...
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Series
Brannigan's land volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"As a man who traded his tin star for a cattle ranch and a family, Ty Brannigan loves his wife and children. And may Lord have mercy on those who would harm them -- because Ty Brannigan will show none. No one knows their way around a faro table, bank vault, or six shooter more than Smilin' Doc Ford. When he's not gambling or thieving, he's throwing lead -- or, if he's feeling especially vicious, slitting throats with his Arkansas toothpick. Roaming...
5) War party
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
Description
A collection of tales of the frontier features the story of Bud Miles, who must bury his father to become a man, Tell Sackett's transport of dangerous freight across the country, and Laurie Bonnet, a mail-order bride.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
It was no crime for a young cowboy to want to talk to a pretty girl, but that was what got Tom Lundy killed. The hard men of the Tumbling B, who had survived stampede and Kiowa lance to drive their herd up from Big Bend country, wanted to burn the town down. But Kate Lundy, the Tumbling B's owner, had a better plan. Calling on dozens of seasoned fighters, Kate aimed to strangle the town that lived off cowboy money but had no use for the Texans themselves....
8) Dark canyon
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Gaylord Riley set up a cattle range bordering Dark Canyon, a tough stretch of country. Rustlers used it to drive stolen cattle across the mountains. Desperate men skulked in it when they were in trouble. It was a road for bandit raids. When Gaylord Riley chooses the notorious Dark Canyon, the lair of ruthless outlaws, to set up his cattle ranch, he finds himself struggling to cope with rustlers, a deadly feud, bandit raids, and his own less-than-law-abiding...
9) Lando
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 8
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In this episode from the Sackett saga, Orlando Sackett has survived a Mexican prison through his determination to return to his family and the woman he loves. He is now determined to find the hired killers who framed him, even if it costs him his life.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Tom Kedrick earned his stripes during the Civil War, fought Apaches, and even soldiered overseas. But in the high desert country of New Mexico, the battle-hardened Kedrick is entangled in a different kind of war, fueled by greed and deception. Hired by Alton Burwick to drive a pack of renegades and outlaws off the government land recently set aside for an Indian reservation, Kedrick begins to notice that things are not as they seem. As his suspicions...
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Series
Heart of Cheyenne volume 1
Language
English
Description
"The heart finds its way when one least expects it -- even in the most unforgiving frontiers. Invited by a friend to trek west and help establish the newly formed town of Cheyenne, Edward Vogel is prepared to leave the haunting memories of his wife and son's deaths behind him. The only problem is the corrupt new railroad town wants family men who can establish law and order, and desperation leads Edward to his friend Marybeth with a proposition of...
12) The lonely men
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 14
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Tell Sackett had fought his share of Indians and had managed to take something of value from his battles--respect for the Apaches as warriors. But that respect is lost when Apache braves kidnap Tell's nephew, forcing him to cross the border into the Sierra Madres to bring the boy back."--Back cover
13) Shalako: a novel
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Traveling north from Mexico in 1882, Shalako meets up with a group of touring Europeans in Apache country. He warns them of the Apaches, and they refuse to believe him until they are attacked. The tourists allow Shalako to take them to cover as the Apaches continue to battle them and the U.S. Army, which has been alerted. The final battle is between Shalako and Tats-ah-das-ay-go. Shalako wins, the remaining Europeans return to safety with the U.S....
14) Killoe: a novel
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"For Dan Killoe, leading a cattle drive across harsh wilderness newly won in the war with Mexico meant a chance to prove himself to his father and his friends. It also meant riding alongside the man who had been like an older brother to him, a charismatic gunman named Tap Henry. But there was a lot about Tap that Dan didn't know. Through miles of dust, nights under the stars, and a battle with Comanches, they would ride together, until Tap revealed...
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 13
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In The Sky-Liners, Louis L'Amour introduces Flagan and Galloway Sackett, heading west from Tennessee to seek their fortunes. That's when they came across an old Irish trader who offered them two fine horses if they would agree to escort his granddaughter, Judith, to her father in Colorado. Flagan saw nothing but trouble in the fiery young woman, but they needed the horses. Unfortunately, Flagan was right, for Judith had fallen for James Black Fetchen,...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Logan Cates knew the many ways the Arizona desert could kill a man. He had ridden the sunblasted dunes, tracked the Apache over barren lava beds, sheltered in the dry washes of this forbidding land. Above all, he knew a man needed water to survive. Cates rode to Papago Wells a few miles ahead of an Apache war party led by the vicious Churupati. There he met a dozen desert wanderers whom chance had led to the only water between Yuma and hell. There...
18) 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
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...
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