L'Amour
2) Buckskin run
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Presents eight stories of survival on the Western frontier based on actual events. Includes historical notes for each story.
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This is an eminently readable and enjoyable collection of 10 previously unpublished short stories by the late L'Amour. In"The Ghost Fighter," Bat McGowan is the world heavyweight boxing champion. He is also a drinker, womanizer, and carouser. His managers have a chance to make some money off the title by staging matches in small towns, and decide to employ look-alike Barney Malone as a stand-in. As the exhibitions progress, Malone proves that having...
5) Galloway
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
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Galloway and Flagan Sackett decide to settle down and take up ranching, but the territory they are interested in has already been claimed by the tough and ruthless Dunn family. Many dead Dunns later, the Sacketts are able to put up their guns and concentrate on their new ranch.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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Only moments after arriving, Matt Brennan was warned to leave Hattan's Point. But Matt wasn't going anywhere. Not until he found out why everyone wanted him out of the way. And not until he got to know Moira Maclaren. Moira was the daughter of one of the most powerful men in Hattan's Point. And she didn't believe Matt when he said he'd come to stay - and survive. Especially when Matt decided to take on both sides in the fierce conflict over a key...
7) Lando
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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Orlando Sackett got to Texas with a damn good idea of the whereabouts of buried gold across the border in Mexico. In Mexico he had bad luck. His party had to run for it, and when Lando stood rear guard they pulled out and left him. Six years in a Mexican prison put muscles in his arms, fire in his heart and pure recklessness in his head. He survived by using his skills as a boxer and by making three vows. One was to find the men who betrayed him....
8) War party
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
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Bud Miles was a boy when he crossed the Mississippi. But Bud buried his father after an Indian attack, and as the wagon train pushed on through Sioux country, the boy stood as tall as any man ... Tell Sackett killed cougars at fourteen and fought a war at fifteen. Now Tell was hauling dangerous freight--a soldier's wife and a fortune in gold--knowing that someone wanted him dead ... Laurie Bonnet was a mail-order bride who thought she was a failure...
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They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endless distances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the Sierra Nevada. They were men like Linus Rawlings, a restless survivor of Indian country who'd headed east to see the ocean but left his heart--and his home--in the West. They were women like Lilith Prescott, a smart, spirited beauty who fled her family and fell for a gambling man in the midst of a frontier gold boom. These pioneering...
10) The haunted mesa
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
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"The Navajo called them the Anasazi: an enigmatic race of southwestern cliff dwellers. For centuries, the sudden disappearance of this proud and noble people has baffled historians. Summoned to a dark desert plateau by a desperate letter form an old friend, renowned investigator Mike Raglan is drawn into a world of mystery, violence, and explosive revelations. Crossing the border beyond the laws of man and nature, he will learn the astonishing legacy...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Lance Kilkenny's is believed to be the fastest gun in the West, but once the gunfight is over, he disappears. Most folks don't even know what he looks like. Some time back, Mort Davis saved Kilkenny's life after he was shot up. Now Davis needs Kilkenny's help. He has filed a claim on a water hole near Lost Creek in the live oak country. The district is dominated by two wealthy cattlemen, Webb Steele and Chet Lord, each one claiming for himself the...
12) Bendigo Shafter
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
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At what point does a group of strangers become a community? When young Bendigo Shafter and a ragtag bunch of travelers settle in the rugged Wyoming mountains, they quickly come to depend on a toughness and wisdom many of them never knew they possessed. Led by the beautiful and resourceful widow Ruth Macken, the settlers battle harsh winters, renegade opportunists, and the destructive lure of gold. Through these brutally demanding experiences, young...
13) Reilly's luck
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Val Darrant was four years old when he was abandoned on a cold, snowy night. But he did not die: he met Will Riley. A gentleman and a gambler, Reilly knew the odds and played them. But what were the odds in taking on a frightened young boy?
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Brothers Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to New Orleans to unravel the mystery of their father's disappearance twenty years before. To uncover the truth, they enlisted the aid of a trailwise gypsy and a voodoo priest as they sought to recreate their father's last trek. But Louisiana was a dangerous land, and with one misstep, the brothers could disappear in the bayous before finding whatever legacy their father had left behind.
15) Taggart
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His name was Taggart and he rode with a price on his head through the bloodred canyons of Apache country. Behind him was a ruthless bounty hunter--the deadliest lawman in the West. In front of him was a fortune in gold--and a pretty young woman hell-bent on carrying that fortune to safety. Suddenly Taggart was faced with a choice. He could either keep riding and leave the stubborn lady to fate and the Apaches. Or he could stay and help her make it...
16) Hondo: a novel
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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While on his way to deliver information about an imminent Apache raid, Honda Lane comes upon an isolated ranch occupied by Angie Lowe. Together, they must protecting themselves against an uprising led by the Apache warrior, Vittoro.
17) Catlow
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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"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 of the border, Ben meets Rosita Calderon. Intelligent and beautiful, her presence further complicates what is already a dangerous situation. While...
18) 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...
19) Mustang man
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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It is almost too much for even a Sackett to handle! He could outride and outshoot any five men, but he was a fool for a lady in distress. The posse was hot on his trail for murder when he took time out to rescue Sylvie from a gang of desperados. it wasn't til she bushwhacked him with a shotgun, and tried to poison him that he realised she was up to no good. After he'd heard her sad story, he should have cut and run, but somehow Sackett never seems...
20) Sitka
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IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
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Jean LaBarge always felt drawn by the strength and beauty of Sitka, the majestic gateway to Alaska. Now a battle-hardened adventurer, Jean decides to take on the dangers of this distant land himself. But the men who control Sitka have other--more sinister--plans for him, as they move swiftly to destroy Jean. Fired by the call of his country, Jean is ready for a fight--to win Alaska for America.