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Series
Lonesome Dove saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 58
Language
English
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A love story and an epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last, defiant wilderness of America. Richly authentic, beautifully written, Lonesome Dove is a book to make readers laugh, weep, dream and remember. Now a blockbuster television event.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
In the thousands of miles of rugged rangeland around Medicine Bow, Wyoming, the only law that rules is the law of the gun. A man has to have an iron jaw and a fast trigger to stay alive. And no one is tougher than the ranch foreman known only as the Virginian. A peaceable man by nature, slow to anger and soft-spoken, fair and just, nonetheless he brooks nonsense from no man. Once wronged, he is a judge with a gavel forged of cold steel. Frontier justice...
5) Cowboys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Follows a cowboy from sunup to bedtime as he rounds up cattle, kills a rattlesnake, and plays cards in the bunkhouse after dinner.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Virginian is the quiet, noble foreman of a Wyoming cattle ranch in the 1870s. More comfortable keeping company with his trusted horse than with other people, he nevertheless falls for pretty schoolteacher Molly Wood, who helps him develop an appreciation for Shakespeare, Keats, and the finer things. But when a rival suitor challenges his honor, the Virginian struggles to make his beloved Molly understand the harsh justice of the West.
11) Cowboy
Author
Publisher
Crowell
Pub. Date
1966
Language
English
Description
The lore and lingo of the cowboy from the days of the open range to the present. Grades 5-8.
12) Sand
Author
Series
Publisher
Mountain Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Tilden fails to reboard the train on time, he is stranded in Montana, and he meets a group of cowboys who tell him about a wild black stallion. He becomes determined to catch the horse in order to impress Rita, the daughter of a rancher.
13) The cowboy
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Anna pretends to teach her toy dog, Toto, to swim, he is carried too far out by a big wave but a boy in a cowboy hat comes to the rescue.
14) Misty's miracle
Author
Publisher
Ozark Pub
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sally gets a peek at the world of range horses and finds Misty, the cow pony, with her new baby, a filly foal.
16) Cowboy
Author
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs trace the history and lore of cowboys around the globe.