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Dime novels had featured some rather scrawny horse-bound tenders of cattle, but not until 1902 did the cowboy become a fully realized article of American culture. That year Owen Wister, a native of Philadelphia, published the novel that established the conventions of the western.
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The Virginian is a 1902 debut novel set in the Wild West by the American novelist Owen Wister. Describing the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch in Wyoming, it helped establish the western novel as a literary genre. The unnamed protagonist in The Virginian, who courts a local schoolteacher and defers personal revenge while meting out justice to a cattle thief, set the tone for the rough but civilized cowboy, a prototype for scores of ensuing books,...
4) The wild gun
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Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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When ranchers have a problem, they send for Cordwainer Wild. Cord always tries to apprehend his charges peaceably, but often he's forced to bring them in boots first. And when he kills a pair of horse thieves in self-defense, Cord finds himself facing down a powerful enemy from his past. The two thieves worked for Horace Weatherall, an outlaw closely tied to the murder of Cord's father. And Horace is determined to see Cord go the same way.
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Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose help catch the thieves who have stolen gold from Sammi's parents, the king and queen of Costra
Reading level: Grades 2-4 ; RL: 2.8. ; Ages: 6-9
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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An everyday kid with a talent for predicting baseball pitches is caught stealing baseballs from his favorite New York Yankees player, who agrees not to press charges if the boy will help him recover from a difficult batting slump.
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Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Chancy Gantry and Ollie Teal are honest cowpunchers, riding herd on fifteen hundred longhorns from Texas to Kansas. Their trail boss, Lucas Stout, is tough but fair. He's never lost a hand on a drive and doesn't aim to start now. So when a cowhand needs a sawbones bad, Stout sends Chancy and Ollie to escort the man to a town called Prosperity, which none of them has ever heard of. At first glance, the town looks deserted -- but the saloon is full....
9) Texas free
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Tylers of Texas volume 5
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English
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Rose Landro is on the run. Seeking refuge at the Rimrock Ranch, she is finally ready to claim the land her granddaddy left her and make a fresh start. But her return is rife with controversy when cattle begin disappearing - and a handsome menace named Tanner McCade starts watching Rose a little too closely. Could the new cowhand be connected to the men she's hiding from? Or is there another reason the rugged stranger is shadowing her every move?
11) Framed
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Swindle volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Griffin Bing is in big trouble when a Super Bowl ring disappears from his middle school's display case, replaced by Griffin's retainer, and the more he and his friends investigate, the worse his situation becomes.
12) Stolen bases
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IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Someone is stealing the equipment from Eva and Becca's softball team"--Uncredited summary from book.
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English
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Claude Duval thought he was through with rustlers and killers when he left Texas for Wyoming. But, the retired livestock detective soon finds ranch hands turning up dead and cattle missing. It looks like the work of Lone Wolf Wolverton, who murdered Duval's partner years ago.
But Lone Wolf, who's done his time and gone straight, rides to Duval's ranch looking for a chance to prove he's being framed. Out of leads, the lawman reluctantly accepts help...
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All the wrong questions volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Lemony Snicket begins his apprenticeship with S. Theodora Markson of the secretive V.F.D. in the tiny dot of a town called Stain'd By The Sea, where he helps investigate the theft of a statue.
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Scholastic Incorporated
Pub. Date
2016.
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IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Eva's teacher, Miss Featherbottom, is getting married, but when her special necklace disappears, Eva and her friends set out to track down the thief and return the necklace before the wedding.
16) Rhyme Crime
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Will Tanner U.S. deputy marshal volume 4
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English
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"Hes the most notorious cattle rustler in all of Texas. His name--Jebediah Cotton--strikes fear into the hearts of every rancher in the territory. So its more than a little strange that someone would shoot Cottons youngest son in the back. Whoever did it is either a coward, a fool, or a crazy man. Whoever did it must die. Even if hes a U.S. deputy marshal named Will Tanner...So begins not one, but two of the deadliest manhunts in frontier history....
18) Nightwork
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English
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"Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head, slipping into luxurious, empty homes at night to find items he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer, he left Chicago--but kept up his nightwork. Wandering from the Outer Banks to Savannah to New Orleans, he dons new identities and stays careful, observant, distant. He can't afford to attract attention--or get attached. Still, he...
19) Pray for death
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Will Tanner U.S. deputy marshal volume 6
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English
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"There's serious trouble brewing in the Choctaw nation, and it goes by the name of Tiny McCoy. This small-time cattle rustler is expanding his brand by brewing batches of whiskey in the Chocktaw territory of Muddy Boggy Creek. Tiny and his partner have also turned the illegal brewery into a robber's roost for outlaws, cutthroats, and killers of every bent. Local lawman Jim Little Eagle is under attack and out-gunned. But when he sends a wire to Fort...
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