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1) Cowboy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
IG 1120L
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs trace the history and lore of cowboys around the globe.
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Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
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.
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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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English
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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...
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English
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Like his celebrated ancestors who tamed the wilds of Arizona, Jesse McKettrick's Indian Rock ties run deep. The Triple M. Ranch is in his blood, along with the thrill of risk. But wish his land at stake, Jesse wouldn't get involved in Cheyenne Bridges's scheme -- despite the temptation she brings.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
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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.
8) Stand proud
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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."-
9) Cowboy Small
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Cowboy Small takes good care of his horse, rides the range, helps in the roundup, and rides a bucking bronco.
10) Arizona nights
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English
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A collection of short stories about being a cowboy in the early days of Arizona Territory. "Riding the range as a cowpoke in those days was precisely the way [White] describes it."--Publisher's preface.
11) Chancy
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Bantam Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
880L
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.
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Publisher
Dial Press
Language
English
Description
About modern cowboys, their hard life on the range, and modern aspects of ranch ownership.
The setting for this virile novel is a Nevada cattle ranch covering one thousand miles of wilderness. The time is the present and the action takes place during the fall when the cattle must be rounded up. Several years of mismanagement have left the ranch and its livestock in bad shape, and the crew is faced with a monumental task in making the gather. Fences...
17) Lonesome dove
Author
Series
Lonesome dove saga volume 3
Language
English
Description
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.
