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From the bestselling author of Riders of the Purple Sage, comes another classic Western tale.
The sun set across the purple sky over the Don Carlos Rancho while the warm Santa Fe breeze rustled through the grazing fields just off the trail. The Colonel sat on his porch, staring over the whole scene, pondering the seemingly-doomed future of his prized cattle ranch. "Another spell with my heart like this last one will kill me," he said nervously to...
62) Utah Blaine
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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They said his hands moved like the raw edge of lightning. Utah Blaine was a big man, a fighting man, fast with a gun. Very fast. He had to be to face the vigilante terror of the greedy ranchers of Red Creek who were willing to destroy anyone or anything to get at the rich range land of his friend. There were already a lot of stories about Utah Blaine and his guns. After Red Creek they would have to write some new ones - or his epitaph.
63) Silvertip
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"Silvertip" by Max Brand is the fourth novel in the "Silver Tip" series. Silvertip killed someone. Usually not something he would get all bent out of shape about, but this just happened to be a kid wearing the cape of the man Silvertip meant to kill. The man he meant to kill, named Bandini, set the teenager and in effect Silvertip up. Silvertip only feels bad that it was not Bandini bleeding out, but instead a much more innocent child. He decides...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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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,...
65) Wild Horse Mesa
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From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The story begins: The mystery and insurmountable nature of Wild Horse Mesa had usurped many a thoughtful hour of Chane Weymer's lonely desert life in Utah. Every wandering rider had a strange story to tell about this vast tableland. But Chane had never before seen it from so lofty and commanding a height as this to which Toddy Nokin, the Piute, had led him; nor had there ever...
66) High lonesome
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Considine and Pete Runyon had once been friends, back in the days when both were cowhands. But when Runyon married the woman Considine loved, the two parted ways. Runyon settled down and became 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 stubborn...
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Preacher knows there is no turning back civilization now. What he doesn't know is that beyond the plans of some men is a deadly enemy with far more dangerous designs...With vengeance-hungry criminals shadowing his every move, Preacher meets a beautiful woman working to bring a rail line to a remote settlement.
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Family Jensen volume 6
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In this western adventure by the bestselling authors of Massacre Canyon, a family of vigilantes prescribe painful redemption for an evil doctor.
THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITER OF THE 21ST CENTURY
In one of the most shocking chapters in the Jensen family saga, America's fearless frontier clan is about to take on an enemy as cold and relentless as evil itself—a mad, sadistic surgeon skilled...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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A man named Jake Flanner wants to take Emily Talons land. But before he takes it Logan Sackett comes to help her. Logan is her relation. After Logan comes he and makes these guys know that he means business. He takes them out one by one until they begin to leave alone. Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle of the Sackett family.
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Hopalong Cassidy novels volume 2
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Hopalong was headed northeast toward open country when he crossed the paths of six suspicious-looking men wearing silver-plated Colts. By the time he heard the gunshots, he was too far up the trail to do anything--riding back in time to find a robbed stagecoach and two bodies lying sprawled and bloody in the dust .--book jacket