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1) War party
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Accelerated Reader
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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"Ross Hardy had made his decision. He sat in the middle of all he owned, a splendid Appaloosa gelding, a fine California saddle, a .44 Winchester rifle, and two walnut-stocked Colt .44 pistols. These were his all. It was a life that had left him rich in experience but poor in good of the world. The experience was the hard-fisted experience of cold winters, dry ranges, and the dusty bitterness of cattle drives. He had fought Comanches and rustlers,...
3) 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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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 22
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The author chronicles his 1846 exploration of the American West, describing his traveling hardships, the region's landscapes and wildlife, Mormons traveling to Utah, others emigrating to Oregon and California, the daily lives of Plains Native Americans, and the summer migration of a Native American village.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Rival Indian tribes are threatening war and ruthless white men, hoping to exploit the tensions, kidnap a settler's beautiful daughter. Kin and Yance Sackett journey along the Warrior's Path to rescue the girl from her captors.
6) Fallon
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Fallon thinks all he needs is a gun, a deck of cards, and a fast horse until he finds himself ready to defend a reclaimed mining town that has become his home--even if it costs him his life.
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Bobby Hale is a Union veteran several times over. After the war, he sets his sights on California, but only makes it to Montana. As he stumbles around the West, from the Wyoming Territory to the Black Hills of the Dakotas, he finds meaning in the people he meets and the violent history he both participates in and witnesses. This is the story of life in a place where every minute is an engagement in a kind of war of survival, and how two people--a...
8) 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: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Flagan and Galloway Sackett are heading west when they meet an old Irish horsetrader who offers them two fine horses if they escort his granddaughter, Judith, to her father's ranch in Colorado. Unfortunately, the girl was being courted by the outlaw James Black Fetchen, who doesn't want to let her go. Fetchen and his gang leave a trail of robbery and murder behind as they race the Sackett brothers and Judith to the ranch.
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Peterson field guide volume 2
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1961.
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On title page : Field marks of all species found in North America west of the 100th meridian, with a section on the birds of the Hawaiian Islands.
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Flintlock (William W. Johnstone) volume 1
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$10,000. That's bounty on the head of the most hated man in Texas--the man that Flintlock has been hired to guard. The crime was the brutal murder of a young schoolteacher. The verdict was not guilty for lack of evidence. And the suspected killer's first guard was murdered by a shotgun blast. What makes Flintlock believe in this man's innocence? Call it a gut instinct. Or maybe just a hankering for a fight. Because Flintlock knows that some very powerful...
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Accelerated Reader
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.
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Twenty-eight wagons packed with families, supplies, and tough-as-nails Texans circle up and fight for their lives against relentless hostile Indian attacks in this action-packed adventure. The hero, Buff Belmet, had to grow up fast after his mother and father are killed in Comanche raids. But aided by Kit Carson he delivers the goods over the trail.
16) The Gunfighters
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An account of the outlaw gunfighters of the frontier American West, including the Clanton brothers, Billy the Kid, the James gang and the Dalton brothers.
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Holed up in a cabin in the Idaho hills, the mysterious man who called himself Trent wasn't looking for trouble. It came looking for him. A trigger-happy kid named Cub Hale emptied his gun into an unarmed man. Then he came swaggering after Trent. The girl who ran the gambling hall tried to get him to hightail it. But Trent wasn't buying. Even in that forsaken back country, he knew when a man had to speak with his shooting iron. distributed by Syndetic...
18) Sackett's land
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
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This is the first half of the story of Barnabus, the patriarch of the Sackett clan, and his migration to North America in 1600. His saga begins when he discovers a purse of gold coins in the mud of Devil's Dyke in Finland. On the run from English authorities, he meets and marries Abigail Tempany, the daughter of a sea captain. Nick Bardle, the master of a merchant vessel, the Jolly Jack, is half pirate, ready to take any advantage of any activity...
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Hank the Cowdog volume 29
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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Marauding trespassers are threatening to stampede the cattle. It's Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, to the rescue as he: tracks down the enemy agent, ""Mysterious Esther"", escapes the relentless Vampire Vacuum Sweeper, and confronts Buster and his gang. Will Hank prevail and save the ranch? Find out in this action-packed episode
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