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IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 20
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It was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vultures—they were lured by the glittering promise of instant riches and survived the brutal hardships of a mining camp to raise a legendary boom town. But some sought more than wealth. Val Trevallion, a loner haunted by a violent past. Grita Redaway,...
2) Hondo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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He was etched by the desert’s howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and the ways of staying alive. She was a woman alone raising a young son on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were preparing to rise against the white men. Now the pioneer woman, the gunman, and the Apache warrior are caught in a drama of love, war, and honor.
3) Conagher
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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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.
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Orphaned as a child, Mike Bastian was taken in by the legendary outlaw Ben Curry, raised and trained to take over his empire of crime. Today, Mike is the quickest draw and the stealthiest tracker around, and Ben Curry is getting ready to retire. To test Mike’s wings, he has set him a task: the planning and execution of a gold-train robbery.
Now, as he prepares for his first criminal job, Mike must decide whether to follow the path that has
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
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The story of the peolpe who established the land beyond the Mississippi, The Great Plain was a place of peril containing thundering herds of buffalo and savage red riders; a land whose asking price was blood and raw, unbeatable courage.
6) Matagorda
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Tap Duvarney, a war veteran, finally decides to settle down in a ranch in Texas, but soon he finds himself caught in the midst of a blood feud between two families.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Orrin and Tyrel Sackett are forced to leave their home in the Tennessee mountains when Tyrel shoots Long Higgins, after he accidentally shoots Orrin's bride-to-be. Higgins is the last of a family with which the Sacketts have been feuding. To keep from getting into a situation with the local sheriff, a distant cousin of the Sacketts, the two strike out for the western lands. With Cap Roundtree and Tom Sunday, the brothers settle in the town of Mora,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Lance Kilkenny is believed to be the fastest gun in the West, but once the gunfight is over, he disappears. Most folks don't even know what he looks like. Some time back, Mort Davis saved Kilkenny's life after he was shot up. Now Davis needs Kilkenny's help. He has filed a claim on a water hole near Lost Creek in the live oak country. The district is dominated by two wealthy cattlemen, Webb Steele and Chet Lord, each one claiming for himself the water...
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Two men in the isolated town of Tucker want the XY ranch—Jim Walker and the ruthless Wing Cary—and one of them wants it badly enough to kill for it.
The Black Rock Coffin Makers is a tale of suspense and danger, with chases, shootouts, double-crosses and posses, all for possession of the XY ranch.
11) The sky-liners
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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After surviving a run-in with Black Fetchen, the Sackett boys are arming themselves for the inevitable second act, as Fetchen comes after them with some of the most vicious mercenaries in the country in his employ.
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"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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It was a land where nothing was small, nothing was simple. Everything, the lives of men and the stories they told, ran to extremes.
Shanghaied into forced labor on a merchant vessel, Charles Rodney dies aboard ship from repeated beatings—but not before deeding part of his ranch to Rafe Caradec, whom he hopes will protect his family.
A word from Louis L'Amour:
"Almost forty years ago, when my fiction was being published exclusively
...14) Crossfire trail
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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Although Rafe Caradec is working to preserve a Long Valley ranch for a dead man's wife and daughter, the daughter's doubt plays right in to the hands of the crooked ranchers plotting to destroy her.
15) The Californios
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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Captain Sean Mulkerin comes home from the sea to find his family's Malibu ranch in jeopardy. The death of Sean's father has pushed his mother to the edge of financial ruin, and now it's up to Sean to find a way out. The rumor is that the elder Mulkerin found gold in the wild and haunted California hills, but the only clue to its whereabouts lies with an ancient, enigmatic Indian. When Sean and his brother set forth to retrace their father's footsteps,...
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Ross Hardy had made a decision about his life, a life that had been rich in the hard-fisted experience of cold winters and dusty cattle drives. He had fought Comanches and rustlers and hunted buffalo and horse thieves, but now he would to ride for himself, and fight for himself.
17) Borden Chantry
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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"The marshal's name was Borden Chantry. Young, lean, rugged, he's buried a few men in this two-bit cow town--every single one killed in a fair fight. Then, one dark, grim day a mysterious gunman shot a man in cold blood. Five grisly murders later, Chantry was faced with the roughest assignment of his life--find that savage, trigger-happy hard case before he blasts apart every man in town...one by bloody one."--Back cover.
18) The High graders
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The town of Rafter Crossing had been simmering for some time when Mike Shevlin rode in. The quiet ranching community has turned into a booming mining town, and the newfound wealth has made Rafter Crossing anything but peaceful. The cattlemen are bound and determined to close down the mines because they're poisoning the range water. And the miners are stealing the high-grade ore that rightfully belongs to Laine Tennison. Mike Shevlin's mission is to...
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Tom Chantry wore no gun and wished no man harm. French Williams was a ruthless cattleman more than willing to use his weapon. But Tom needed Williams to help him drive a herd north to Dodge. Setting off together on a trail alive with danger, soft-spoken Chantry and hard-bitten Williams faced storms, treachery, and Indian attacks.
20) The key-lock man
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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Matt Keelock uses every trick he can to escape a posse intent on hanging him for shooting a man in the back
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