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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Tells a story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers, who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife. Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him. With illustrations from the movie starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Ira Levinson is in trouble. Ninety-one years old and stranded and injured after a car crash, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes beside him: his beloved wife Ruth, who passed away nine years ago. Urging him to hang on, she forces him to remain alert by recounting the stories of their lifetime together. A few miles away, at a local bull-riding event, a Wake Forest College senior's life is about to change. Recovering...
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English
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Mormon elders in the town of Cottonwoods pressure the widow Jane Withersteen to remarry so that her lands and herds will remain in their control. Gradually they frighten away most of her cowboys, and rustlers steal away her cattle, but the gunfighter Lassiter stands by her as the inevitable confrontation draws near.
4) Blind tiger
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English
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Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble...and lands in more than he bargained for. On the day he arrives in Foley, Texas, a local woman goes missing. Thatcher, the only stranger in town, is suspected of her abduction, and worse. Standing between him and exoneration are a corrupt mayor, a crooked sheriff, a notorious cathouse madam, a sly bootlegger, feuding moonshiners...
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Presents a love story and an epic of the frontier, richly authentic that makes readers laugh, weep, dream and remember.
Set in the late-nineteenth century, this novel chronicles a cattle drive from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive, Gus's woman, Lorena, and Blue Duck, a sinister Indian renegade.
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Series
Border trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Cut off from the life of ranching he has come to love by his grandfather's death, John Grady Cole flees to Mexico, where he and his two companions embark on a rugged and cruelly idyllic adventure.
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English
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One beautiful tenderfoot ... A whole frontier of trouble! Madeline Hammond wanted more out of life than the superficial glitter of New York society. So she bought a ranch near the turbulent Mexican frontier and ended up getting more than she'd ever bargained for-and most of it trouble! A bloody revolution, the ravages of a bandit raid, even abduction by Mexican guerrillas -all threatened disaster for the lovely tender-foot until she was saved by...
8) Catlow
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Catlow heard the legend of the Mexican gold. Catlow hijacked the mule train carrying it. He knew the U. S. law and the entire Mexican army was after him. He didn't care. He had all the answers -- except how to get through Seri Indian country rich and alive.
9) Chancy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Poor, orphaned Otis Chancy left the Tennessee mountains with nothing but a will to work, a drive to succeed, and the backbone for a fight. So when a fight comes his way, along with a chance to buy a herd of cattle, 19-year-old Chancy doesn't hesitate. He kills a cattle thief and finds himself stalked by a deadly gunman. When his past catches up with him in Cheyenne, Chancy makes his stand ... even if he has to fight alone.
10) Stand proud
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Language
English
Description
"Elmer Kelton writes of early Texas with unerring authority. His knowledge of the state's history is complete, too-drawn from the lives of real people ... The fate of Texas is at hand, and Kelton will have readers eager to find out what happens."-
11) Cowboy
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs trace the history and lore of cowboys around the globe.
13) Conagher
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In this classic L'Amour adventure, a dark-eyed drifter wages a war against a murderous band of rustlers. As far as the eye could see was a vast, lonely horizon. And Evie Teale and her two children were all alone here now, alone in an untamed country where the elements, the Indians, and the thieves made it far easier to die than to live. But soon a man named Conagher would drift into her life -- and together they would have the courage to make a stand....
14) City slickers
Language
English
Description
Comedy about three men friends who are going through mid-life crises. They decide that the answer to their malaise is a fantasy vacation out West where they can play cowboy on a cattle drive.
15) Black mesa
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English
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Arriving in the desert at the foot of Black Mesa, two men--one hiding from a shady past and the other running from a haunting memory--start a cattle ranch, but a ruthless trader and wild women could ruin their prospects.
16) Dutchman's flat
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Series
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English
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A collection of short frontier stories personally selected and introduced by the author. Contents: Dutchman's Flat; Keep Travelin' Rider ;Trail to Pie Town; Mistakes Can Kill You; Big Medicine; The Man from Battle Flat; West of the Tularosas; McQueen of the Tumbling K; The One for the Mohave Kid; The Lion Hunter and the Lady; A Gun for Kilkenny.
17) Creed's honor
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Series
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English
Description
Follows Connor Creed who, promising to carry on his Uncle's legacy, struggles with identity issues when his estranged identical twin brother returns.
Conner Creed knows exactly who he is: a hard-working rancher carrying on his uncle's legacy in Lonesome Bend, Colorado. Maybe a small-town cowboy's life isn't his dream, but he owes the man who took him in as a kid. Until the twin brother he's been estranged from for years reenters his life. Conner...
18) Cowboys & aliens
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A spaceship arrives in Arizona, 1873, to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. A posse of cowboys and natives are all that stand in their way.
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English
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The Virginian is the quiet, noble foreman of a Wyoming cattle ranch in the 1870s. More comfortable keeping company with his trusted horse than with other people, he nevertheless falls for pretty schoolteacher Molly Wood, who helps him develop an appreciation for Shakespeare, Keats, and the finer things. But when a rival suitor challenges his honor, the Virginian struggles to make his beloved Molly understand the harsh justice of the West.