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1) Catlow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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As part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials!
Ben Cowan and Bijah Catlow had been friends since they were boys. By the time they grew to manhood, Catlow had become an outlaw and Cowan a U.S. marshal. So when his old friend rode to Mexico to pull the biggest robbery of his career, it became Ben Cowan’s job to hunt him down.
While trailing Catlow south...
Ben Cowan and Bijah Catlow had been friends since they were boys. By the time they grew to manhood, Catlow had become an outlaw and Cowan a U.S. marshal. So when his old friend rode to Mexico to pull the biggest robbery of his career, it became Ben Cowan’s job to hunt him down.
While trailing Catlow south...
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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A marshal and a teenage bounty hunter team up to dole out justice in this classic tale of the Old West.
If things are quiet in the little town of Sweetwater, Marshal Fred Hitch sees no reason to make waves. But when Tyree Johnson shows up, Fred’s relaxed nature is put to the test. At fifteen years old, Tyree is a tough-as-nails bounty hunter with no patience for anyone calling him “boy.” He’s come to apprehend a killer...
If things are quiet in the little town of Sweetwater, Marshal Fred Hitch sees no reason to make waves. But when Tyree Johnson shows up, Fred’s relaxed nature is put to the test. At fifteen years old, Tyree is a tough-as-nails bounty hunter with no patience for anyone calling him “boy.” He’s come to apprehend a killer...
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Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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"There's something rotten in Wyoming, and the first whiff is coming off the Laramie County Cattlemen. Right off the bat Duff MacCallister notices there's no small-time ranchers allowed. It's big-leaguers only, like Brad Houser of the sprawling Twin Peaks ranch. He's up in arms over small-timers claiming escaped unbranded mavericks. Which is perfectly legal. But Houser has a plan to stop them: for $1000, he will make the small ranchers go away -- six...
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English
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"Shady Rest, Texas has the dubious reputation for being the deadliest town in America. Getting yourself killed is as easy as blinking and twice as quick. Sure enough, Matt Jensen hasn't swallowed his whisky before the town's marshal is gunned down before his eyes. Matt defends himself by putting two bullets in the shooter's chest, unaware that he's in line for a $5,000 bounty--as long as he stays in Shady Rest to collect it. And staying gets even...
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English
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"The accidental gunslinger Dooley Monahan has quit wandering and settled down to a farmer's life. But when the itch for adventure gets too strong, he packs up and rides west. Along with his horse General Grant, and Blue, a dog who's too smart for his own good, Dooley rides for the Black Hills to strike it rich in the gold fields of Colorado. But fate has other ideas. When the trigger-happy Dobbs-Queeg gang holds up the Omaha bank, Dooley is mistaken...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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It might be said that both Jim Currys were the victims of fate. Jim Curry the elder had an unsavory reputation, but he only got into bad trouble when, demonstrating a slick piece of gun play to Dad Jackson, he accidentally killed him. Wanting to do the right thing, Jim Curry the elder rode into town to explain what happened to Sheriff Mason, and though the sheriff accepted his explanation, he insisted Jim be locked up to await trial. Then the real...
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Rance Cash is not only this wanderer's name it's his lifelong pursuit. Rance - short for Ransom - often bears only one weapon: his skill at cards. And he almost always beats the odds. When he gets an urgent wire to help spring his friend Jody Barnes out of jail Rance heads for Abilene. But prosperity has brought an invasion of Texas cowboys to the town along with the likes of Jesse James and John Wesley Hardin... and the legendary Marshal Bill Hickok....
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
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Half-white and half-Indian, Yakima Henry tends to mind his own business among folks who see him as little more than a savage. But when a man named Barstow—who's taking his dead daughter home for burial—is bullied by badmen, Yakima steps in and becomes a target of both bandits and lawmen alike.
Barstow's daughter supposedly shared a secret with her father—the location of the $56,000 her outlaw lover stole. Although Barstow...
Barstow's daughter supposedly shared a secret with her father—the location of the $56,000 her outlaw lover stole. Although Barstow...
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Seven years ago, orphaned and alone, Em finally arrived at a new home in Iowa after riding the orphan train. But secrets from her past haunt her, and her new life in the Western wilderness is a rough one. When her guardian is shot and killed, Em, now nineteen, finally has the chance to search for her long-lost sister, but she wont be able to do it alone. For Azure Springs Sheriff Caleb Reynolds, securing justice for the waifish and injured Em is...
11) High lonesome
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English
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Considine and Pete Runyon had once been friends, and back in the days when both were cowhands. But when Runyon married the woman Considine loved, the two parted ways. Runyon settled down and become a sheriff. Considine took up robbing banks. Now Considine is planning a raid on the bank at Obaro, a plan that will pit him against Runyon . . . and lead to riches or suicide. The one thing he never counted on was meeting a strong, beautiful woman and her...
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Ben Savage saloon ranger volume 3
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"Running a small town saloon is no easy task, even for a former Texas Ranger like Ben Savage. A lot of men get mean after a few shots of hooch. Some get violent. Others get revenge--bloody, bloody revenge . . .There's a new stranger in town, and he goes by the name of Lucas Blaine. Some folks say he's the fastest gun in the West. But Ben Savage don't put much stock in what folks say --- until the killing starts. So far, Blaine has his sights set on...
13) Pitchfork Pass
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Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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When a bloodthirsty band of raiders, led by an insane gunslinger called The Old Man of the Mountain, attack his friend, kill a kindly miner, and kidnap the miner's daughter, Flintlock embarks on a vengeance-fueled rescue mission.
14) Shadow of a star
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004, c1959
Language
English
Description
Deputy Sheriff Jim-Bob McClain isn't sure he's ready to follow in his father's footsteps as the law in Coolridge County. In fact, he has a hard enough time keeping the peace between the drunks in the local saloon. But, with tough Sheriff Mont Naylor to back him up he figures he can handle whatever comes his way.
Jim-Bob's first real assignment is no piece of cake. He must escort a ruthless outlaw into the hands of justice. All seems well with the...
15) The trail west
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English
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"In 1848, Dooley Monahan, son of struggling Iowa pioneers, went off to pick up a new milk cow. Young Dooley never came home. Now, nearly three decades later, Dooley Monahan has become an accidental legend, managing to plant a bullet in the chest of a dangerous outlaw. All Dooley really wants is to claim his reward at a bank in Phoenix and make his way North to a gold strike he read about in a newspaper. But fate has other plans. It starts with a family...
16) Too far down
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Cimarron legacy volume 3
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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When an explosion at the mine kills workers and damages the CR Company, the Boden family is plunged deep into the heart of trouble yet againches As they try to identify the forces against them once and for all, Cole Boden finds himself caught between missing his time back in the east, and all that New Mexico offers-- namely, his family and cowgirl Melanie Blake.
18) Buckhorn
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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Joe Buckhorn is a cowboy handy with a gun. If the gun work is easy, knowing which side to be on is hard.
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Series
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"After traversing California from one end to the other, and finding nothing much to his liking, Mac Mackenzie is heeding his heart's call to return to Texas. Lucky for him, a group of cowboys heading for the Lone Star state need someone who knows their way around a chuckwagon. Their previous cook's temper boiled over during a saloon brawl and ended up in jail. With no love for the cook -- or his food -- the cowboys just want to head home peaceably,...
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Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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He lost his arm to outlaws. Replaced it with a double-barreled boom stick. Now Civil War veteran Dr. John Bishop is armed for justice . . . John "Shotgun" Bishop's lowlife brother, Devlin, has set his cold black heart on taking over John Chisum's land, destroying the cattle king's dream of building a new town. So Chisum hires Shotgun and his partner, White Fox, to protect his investment. But when the family feud turns into an all-out turf war, Shotgun...