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Code of the West volume V. 2
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
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Trouble. Somehow it manages to find people who try their hardest to stay away from it. Like Tap Andrew. He's tired of fighting every gun-toting bounty hunter trying to drag him back to Arizona in order to make a quick buck. He's innocent. He knows it. Pepper believes it. But he has to prove it. However, Pepper Paige won't sit around doing nothing while her husband-to-be sets things right. She's determined to follow him ... until she learns where he's...
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James Goodenough, whose family had originally settled in Connecticut from England brings his family to Ohio to carve out a new life for them in the Black Swamp in 1838. As swamp fever gradually picks off their children and they wrestle daily with survival. This course will see their family engulfed in tragedy and fifteen years later we pick up with their youngest son, Robert who has been running west since the trying to escape his memories of what...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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Sold into prostitution as a child, Angel survives by keeping her hatred for men alive, until Michael Hosea obeys God's call to marry Angel and love her unconditionally. As Angel's heart slowly begins to thaw, her feelings of unworthiness and fear cause her to run away, until she realizes that her final healing must come from the One who loves her even more than Michael does.
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A ripsnorting Western, as brashly entertaining as they come. Slambang! —The New York Times on John Ford's The Searchers
John Ford's The Searchers defined the spirit of America, influenced a generation of film makers, and was named the Greatest Western Movie of All Time by the American Film Institute in 2008. Now, the novel that gave birth to the film returns to print—a timeless work of vivid, raw western fiction and a...
John Ford's The Searchers defined the spirit of America, influenced a generation of film makers, and was named the Greatest Western Movie of All Time by the American Film Institute in 2008. Now, the novel that gave birth to the film returns to print—a timeless work of vivid, raw western fiction and a...
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The marshal's name was Borden Chantry. Young, lean, rugged, he's buried a few men in this two-bit cow town every single one killed in a fair fight. Then, one dark, grim day a mysterious gunman shot a man in cold blood. Five grisly murders later, Chantey was faced with the roughest assignment of his life find that savage, trigger-happy hard case before he blasts apart every man in town ... one by bloody one.
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Pub. Date
2022
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English
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"Settling the American West required true grit, fortitude, and when necessary, shedding blood. It also required men like Preacher and MacCallister to enforce peace in a land where the law was scarce--and justice was delivered from the barrel of a gun... Wagon trains carrying immigrants along the Oregon Trail are falling prey to outlaws. Most families surrender their valuables and goods peacefully, but anybody brave enough to resist gets a bullet....
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Frontier stories volume V. 1
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English
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Contains a collection of thirty-five frontier tales of faith, adventure, and survival on the American frontier by twentieth-century author Louis L'Amour.
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English
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The three short novels in this new Western trio by beloved author Max Brand(r) tell the story of Joe Good and his struggle against the Altons, who control most of the ranch land in the valley of the Cronin Mountains around Fort Willow. When Joe's father is accused of attempted murder, he's executed by a posse made up of Alton's men. Joe is financed by Zeke Stevens, who has his own score to settle with the Altons.
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L'Amour takes us across a bold, beautifully rendered landscape where strangers may come to trust or kill one another; where old scores haunt new lives and the wrong choice leaves unwitting victims. Even at the best of times, this is a world in which every man and woman must be responsible for their own survival.
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Arizona trilogy volume V. 1
Publisher
Golden West Publishers
Pub. Date
©1982, c2006
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English
15) To tame a land
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Rye Tyler was twelve when his father was killed in an Indian raid. Taken in by a mysterious stranger with a taste for books and an instinct for survival, Rye is schooled in the hard lessons of life in the West. But after killing a man, he is forced to leave his new home. He rides lonely mountain passes and works on dusty cattle drives until he finds a job breaking horses. Then he meets Liza Hetrick, and in her eyes he sees his future. After establishing...
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Wild west wind volume V. 2
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English
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With a secretive widow, a love-struck cowboy and a suspicious rancher standing in her way, Cassie Lockwood struggles to fulfill her father's dream of starting a horse ranch among the Black Hills of South Dakota.
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Code of the West volume V. 3
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
In just two weeks, Tap Andrews will tip his hat and say so long to bachelorhood plenty of time to take care of business and finalize wedding plans. But a gang of rustlers has invaded his ranch and a sniper is taking potshots at him, among other troubles. Theres so much trouble that its doubtful that Tap will make it to his own wedding! But Pepper Paige is determined to get him to stand in one place long enough to get hitched so they can finally set...
18) Annie Lash
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
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After the death of her parents, Annie Lash yearned for a man she could give her love to completely. Then a young frontiersman offered her a chance to escape her childhood home. When Annie arrives on the frontier, she discovers hostile Indians, river bandits, and a hidden passion that grows as the strong, young man who fought to tame the wild also begins to tame her stubborn heart. Reissue.--