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Louis L'Amour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a "big country needing big men and women to live in it." This volume presents nine of L'Amour's ever-popular short stories-history that lives forever. In "Riding for the Brand," Jed Asbury comes across a derelict covered wagon-the people and their horses killed-and decides to finish what the former owners had set out to do. In "Four Card Draw," Allen Ring wins a small...
3) The rebels
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English
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Beginning with a rag-tag group of Continental soldiers awaiting the British charge on Breed's Hill, and sweeping across the luminous fabric of our Nation's earliest, war-torn years. The Rebels continues the passionate chronicle of Philip Kent, patriot soldier, and the colorful array of men and women, both famous and unknown, whose destiny propelled them into the epic struggle for American independence.
7) Open country
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Blood rose trilogy volume 2
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Berkley Sensation
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English
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Fleeing from her brutal brother-in-law with her recently deceased sister's children in tow, Molly McFarlane escapes to frontier Texas. When she learns that the victims of a recent train accident will receive a large insurance settlement, she claims to be a badly injured man's fiancee, believing that she will get the money when he dies. However, when the man recovers--and turns out to be from a wealthy cattle baron's family--Molly finds herself trapped...
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Harcourt
Pub. Date
1943
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Laura Ingalls is teaching school, and it's terrifying! Most of the students are taller than she is, and she is away from home. Laura is miserable but needs to make money to help support Mary.
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Bantam
Pub. Date
c1959
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English
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Here lies Sam Barlow Coward -Thief-Murderer Killed by Cullen Baker. I burned those words on a rough board and dug the grave deep and left them for Barlow to see. Then I started to practicing with my Colt ten hours a day, till it leaped into my hand and found the target like a living thing. I was ready for Barlow now. I had invented the deadliest form of hand-to-hand fighting the world had ever seen.
11) The iron marshal
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Bantam
Pub. Date
c1979
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English
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Young Tom Shanaghy was hardheaded and hard-muscled. Back in New York he could handle anything from a blacksmith's anvil to knuckle-and-skull street brawling. Now Shanaghy was a stranger in a small Kansas town, a town desperate for a marshal. He pinned on the badge, but facing down a vengeful trail driver and a murderous gang of gold thieves would take more iron than even Shanaghy could pack into two fists.
12) Blackrobe
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The Canadians / Robert E. Wall volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1981
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English
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Stephen Nowell - first a boy caught in the whirlwind of history. Torn from the arms of his family, he is captured by Indians and raised by Jesuits - missionaries who train him, mold him, until he is ready to take his vows. But one mystery remains to haunt him. What was his birthright? In his search for his roots, Stephen finds that his fiercely guarded past has become a burning issue of the present and of the future. And he finds the love he...
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