Jason Culp
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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When Flagon and Gallaway Sackett went to the town of Tazewell, Tennessee to pay a debt their father had incurred, they were not looking for trouble. Black Fetchen and his clan had other ideas, but they let the Sacketts get the drop on them. Humiliated, Fetchen swore to get even. He thought he saw a chance to do that when the two men agreed to escort sixteen year old Judith Costello, who had a crush on Fetchen, to her father's ranch in Colorado. With...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Clay Bell spent the last six years fighting Indians, rustlers, and the wilderness itself to make the B-Bar ranch the prize of the Deep Creek Range. But Jud Devitt, a ruthless speculator from the East, now threatens everything Clay has worked for. Devitt, holding a contract with the Mexican Central to deliver railroad ties, wants to harvest timber off the land where Clay grazes his cattle. Backing Devitt are shady politicians, a dishonest banker, and...
3) Galloway
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English
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Louis L’Amour tells the story of two brothers who must struggle to survive in a wild and beautiful land to build themselves a ranch and a future.
Trouble was following Flagan Sackett with a vengeance. Captured and tortured by a band of Apaches, he escaped into the rugged San Juan country, where he managed to stay alive until his brother Galloway could find him. But the brothers were about to encounter worse trouble ahead. Their...
Trouble was following Flagan Sackett with a vengeance. Captured and tortured by a band of Apaches, he escaped into the rugged San Juan country, where he managed to stay alive until his brother Galloway could find him. But the brothers were about to encounter worse trouble ahead. Their...
4) Radigan
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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When beautiful Angelina Foley presents Tom Radigan with a Spanish grant and claims ownership of his land, he realizes he’s up against a cunning and deadly opportunist. Foley wants him off Vache Creek immediately, and with three thousand head of cattle, an outfit of hardcase gunfighters, and winter coming on, she is unwilling to take no for an answer.
But Radigan has worked four hard years building up his ranch. Fighting for it—and,...
But Radigan has worked four hard years building up his ranch. Fighting for it—and,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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The broken gun hid the torn remnants of an old diary, a fragmented account of a cattle drive from Texas to Arizona in the 1870's. Nothing extraordinary, except that John and Clyde Toomey, with their 4,000 head of cattle and twenty-seven men, had never arrived-they seemed to have vanished off the face of the Arizona desert. Jacket.
7) Conagher
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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In this classic L'Amour adventure, a dark-eyed drifter wages a war against a murderous band of rustlers. As far as the eye could see was a vast, lonely horizon. And Evie Teale and her two children were all alone here now, alone in an untamed country where the elements, the Indians, and the thieves made it far easier to die than to live. But soon a man named Conagher would drift into her life -- and together they would have the courage to make a stand....
8) Taggart
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English
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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 out...
9) Fallon
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English
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A gambler of the Old West turns his back on saloons and dance halls when he falls in love.
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Saturday Review Press
Pub. Date
[1975]
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English
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The abandoned cabin seemed like a good place to settle down, except for the dead man in the front yard. But Doby Kernohan and his father had traveled a long way seeking a new start, and they were in no position to be choosy. Unfortunately, the mysterious man's violent end was an omen of darker events to come, for a cycle of violence that had begun long ago was about to reach an explosive conclusion. Caught in a tangle of murder, greed, and blood vengeance,...
11) Passin' through
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Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[1985]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Narrowly escaping an unjust lynching, a hard-riding, solitary drifter known only as Passin' seeks vengeance on the good citizens who framed him.
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English
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Barnabus Pike is no gunfighter and not much of a street fighter. Eddie Holt is a black boxer in a white man's world. They've both taken their share of hard knocks. Now they're looking to survive a brutal winter in a remote Montana line shack, collect their pay, and settle down for good. Then they cross paths with a hardworking Irish immigrant and his beautiful, spirited sister, who've been burned off their land. It's a fight Pike and Holt don't want,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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When Duncan McKaskel decided to move his family west, he knew he would face dangers, and he was prepared for them. He knew about the exhausting terrain, and he was expecting the punishing elements. What he worried about was having to use violence against other men—men who would follow him and try to steal the riches that he didn’t even possess.
Yet bandits were only part of McKaskel’s worries. For a mysterious stranger, Con Vallian,...
Yet bandits were only part of McKaskel’s worries. For a mysterious stranger, Con Vallian,...
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It was the only water for miles in a vast, sun-blasted desert where water meant survival. So Logan Cates naturally headed for Papago Wells. But he wasn’t the only one. Fleeing the fierce Churupati and his Apache warriors, other travelers had come there too. And when the Apaches found them, they began a siege as relentless and unforgiving as the barren land…and just as inescapable.
The last thing Cates wanted was to be responsible...
The last thing Cates wanted was to be responsible...
15) The key-lock man
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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He had led the posse for miles through the desert, but now Matt Keelock was growing desperate. He was worried about Kristina. His trip to the town of Freedom for supplies had ended in a shootout. If caught he would hang. Even though Kris could handle a horse and rifle as well as most men, the possibility of Oskar Neerland’s finding her made Matt’s blood run cold. He knew the violent and obsessive Neerland, publicly embarrassed when Matt...
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Trent came to Idaho seeking solitude. He built a cabin, broke a few wild horses, and quietly put his past behind him. Then King Bill Hale began laying claim to all the land around Cedar Bluff. When Hale’s son kills one of Trent’s neighbors, Trent quickly steps forward to lead the fight. Their property had been legally filed on, but Bill Hale has the men, money, and political power to steal it from them. What Hale doesn’t realize...
17) The high graders
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English
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The story was that Eli Patterson had died in a gunfight, but Mike Shevlin knew it couldn’t be true: the man who’d been like a father to him had been a Quaker. But when Shevlin rides back to Rafter Crossing to uncover the truth, he finds that the quiet ranching community has become a booming mining town. Newfound wealth has not made Rafter a peaceful place, however, and the smell of fear and greed is thick in the air. As Mike Shevlin tries...
19) Crossfire trail
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English
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Rafe Caradec promises a dying man that he will save the Long Valley ranch for the man's wife and daughter. But the daughter does not trust him and plays into the greedy hands of enemy ranchers.
20) Comstock Lode
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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It was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vultures -- they were lured by the glittering promise of instant riches and survived the brutal hardships of a mining camp to raise a legendary boom town. But some sought more than wealth. Val Trevallion, a loner haunted by a violent past. Grita Redaway,...