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Publisher
The Arena Platform, Inc
Language
English
Description
The Old West-with a perfect blend of classic firepower, legendary characters of the time, holsters, knives and Cowboy Action Shooting-comes alive again in each quarterly issue of Guns of The Old West. Warning: Only die-hard enthusiasts should dare to join the party!
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English
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Account of an 1882 cattle drive from Texas to the Blackfoot Agency in Montana.THE LOG OF A COWBOY, published in 1903 is one man?s reaction to the dime novel depictions of cowboy life that so distorted its true nature. Andy Adams had, by that time, spent ten years living that life. This fictionalized account of a trail drive from the southern tip of Texas to Montana on the Great Western Cattle Trail set the record straight. THE LOG OF A COWBOY has...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally powerful, vivid, and unforgettable re-creation of the Western novel, which Clark transmuted into a universal story about good and evil, individual and community,...
9) Desert gold
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890L
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English
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"A border town like Casita is no place for a drifter - especially a rich man's son looking for adventure. From the moment Dick Gale steps into this stinking, sun-baked hellhole of gambling and corruption, revolution, and revenge, he gets more than a bargained for. His old friend Thorne is in love with a beautiful senorita who's been targeted by the Mexican rebel Rojas. A bold, sneering devil of a man, feared, envied, and idolized by his people, Rojas...
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English
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In the bright morning of his youth Lewis H. Garrard traveled into the wild and free Rocky Mountain West and left us this fresh and vigorous account, which, says A. B. Guthrie, Jr., contains in its pages "the genuine article-the Indian, the trader, the mountain man, their dress, and behavior and speech and the country and climate they lived in." On September 1, 1846, Garrard, then only seventeen years old, left Westport Landing (now Kansas City) with...
14) The cowboys
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Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
[1973]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Drawings, rare photographs, personal anecdotes, and other forms of memorabilia convey the true nature of the American cowboy and his work
17) The Soldiers
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Series
Language
English
Description
Pictorial survey of the U.S. Army soldier's daily life in the early West, his Indian wars, Custer's last stand, etc.
