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1) Dark canyon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Gaylord Riley, former member of the Coburn gang, has made a new life for himself on a range borndering Dark Canyon. When he is falsely accused of rustling and murder, his old friends return to lend him a hand. They will have to plan well and move fast to help Riley and keep themselves out of jail.
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The Carsons of Mustang Creek volume 1
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English
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"Offering a troubled boy a job on the ranch he shares with his younger siblings, Wyoming businessman Slater Carson falls for the youth's beautiful guardian, Grace, a resort manager whose busy life is threatened by dangers from her past."--
3) Black mesa
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When Paul Manning set out in search of adventure, he didn't realize what was in store. He'd never been in a blistering hellhole like Bitter Seeps or met a man as crooked as Belmont. And he'd never laid eyes on a woman as good as Belmont's wife, Louise. Manning had an awful lot of growing up to do if he wanted to stay alive.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Dan Sheridan, Vietnam veteran and writer of Westerns and history, had come to Arizona to research the Toomey brothers, who had vanished there 90 years earlier with 4,000 head of cattle and 27 hands. He was about to give up and go home when someone was killed. Then someone tried to kill him, which, naturally, got his attention and riled his curiosity. Now he wouldn't go until he found the truth...
Ninety years ago the Toomey brothers, along with...
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Dodge Mercer has lead the life of a gunslinger. Hungry for the quiet life, he drifts west looking for a chance to build a spread of his own. He decides on the rugged, dangerous Tonto Basin country of Arizona, and is welcomed to stay and work with the Lilley clan. Nan Lilley is the most beautiful woman Dodge has ever seen. In his quest for her love, he runs up against tough, two-fisted Buck Hathaway, who claims Nan for his own. When Nan chooses
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Bill Canavan rode into the valley with a fast Appaloosa and only three dollars in his pocket. All his life he'd worked for other men. Now he's ready to settle down and he's found the perfect place. Bur rustlers turned ranchers rule the valley he's chosen. --Book Jacket
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American cowboy, Stirling Haselton, taking the blame for a shooting committed by a friend, is exiled to Australia and with one loyal follower, joins a party of ranchers and drovers making the long wilderness journey to the Elaberleys. Along the way come dust storms, drought and numerous other adventures.
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Pinnacle's ISBN is 9780786013231 Synopsis:Born out of the grit, sweat, and drive of a cattle ranching empire, U.S. Marshal Chet Byrnes is turning the savage and lawless Arizona desert into a homeland. To some he's the hero that the West needs. To others, he's a moving target. Chet is spearheading a stage line from Gallup to the Colorado River. It?ll be a boon to Navajo trading posts, and lay out the territory for new settlements. Unfortunately, it's...
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The Carsons of Mustang Creek volume 2
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English
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Drake Carson is the quintessential cowboy. In charge of the family ranch, he knows the realities of this life, its pleasures and heartbreaks. Lately, managing the wild stallions on his property is wearing him down. When an interfering so-called expert arrives and starts offering her opinion, Drake is wary, but he can't deny the longing - and the challenge - she stirs in him. Luce Hale is researching how wild horses interact with ranch animals - and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, in Jeannette Walls's magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hard working, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town -- riding five hundred miles on her pony, all alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car ("I...
11) Rustler's moon
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"If there's any place that can convince Angela Harold to stop running, it's Ransom Canyon. And if there's any man who can reveal desires more deeply hidden than her every fear, it's Wilkes Wagner. Beneath the rancher's honorable exterior is something that just might keep her safe or unwittingly put her in danger's path. With his dreams of leaving this small Texas town swallowed up by hard, dusty reality, all Wilkes has to show for his life is the...
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When she moves into her family's ancestral ranch in 2006, single mother Sierra McKettrick is disconcerted by the Triple M's handsome caretaker, Travis Reid. In 1919, widowed Hannah McKettrick lives at the ranch with her son and brother-in-law, Doss. This story follows the parallel lives of these two McKettrick women, living in the same house but generations apart, each with a special son and an unlikely romance.
13) Heartless
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Jason and Gracie have been inseparably good friends until a moment of sudden passion pulls them asunder, and Gracie comes to realize that Jason will never see her as anything more than a younger step-sibling. It takes Gracie being kidnapped, Jason saving her, an interferring other woman and Jason almost dying before the two lovers conquer their fears of intimacy and admit their total love for each other.
14) Texas tough
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Tylers of Texas volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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He's everything she doesn't need. The quiet horse whisperer whose touch still ignites her dreams--and is everything wealthy Lauren Prescott is not. She can think of a million reasons why she should never ever fall into Sky Fletcher's sure embrace again. Until she clashes head-on with the dangerous complications of her privileged life and needs his protection like air to breathe... She's more than he can resist. The heiress Sky can't get out of his...
15) The dude ranger
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The Dude Rancher, as Ernest Selby is a greenhorn from Iowa who inherits an Arizona ranch from his uncle, only to find himself pitted against a crooked foreman and his band of outlaws. Many are his trials and tribulations. He find himself pitted against a crooked foreman and his band of outlaws.
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The sudden death of the town marshal leaves Blue River, Texas, without a lawman and twenty-five-year-old Dara Rose Nolan without a husband. As winter approaches and her meager seamstress income dwindles, she has three options and none that suit her. She won't give up her two young daughters; she won't join the fallen women of the Bitter Gulch Saloon; and she doesn't want to condemn herself to another loveless marriage. Whatever Dara Rose decides,...
17) Paradise peak
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New Americana volume 5
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English
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"A desire for absolution brought ex-con Travis Alden to Paradise Peak, Tennessee. But when he finds honest work, along with a keen sense of belonging, he shelves his plan to unburden his guilty secret, instead working to rehabilitate a ranch alongside the very people his transgressions hurt the most. With the chance to create a haven for wildfire refugees, Travis seizes the opportunity to do good, to earn the respect his new boss shows him. Only Travis...
18) Texas true
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Tylers of Texas volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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He's the one who got away. The cowboy who claimed her heart before taking off on a tour of duty, planning never to return. But Beau Tyler is back, and Natalie Haskell feels defenseless against the powerful pull of the soldier. Especially when she finds herself suddenly widowed. Natalie is the real reason Beau is staying on at the ranch, despite rumors that he's finally ready to take on his late father's bequest. Because something in Beau has stirred...
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He comes to the Belllounds ranch the Mysterious Rider no one knows from where; a man of middle age, gentle, kindly, but so terrible a gun fighter that they call him Hell Bent Wade. He plays the part of fate in all their lives, and only when the inevitable tragedy come and the Mysterious Rider makes the great sacrifice, do they know. Then out of the shadow of this tragedy, Columbine comes into the sun shine of love. This is a novel written with that...
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Calder saga volume 1
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Chase Benteen Calder was bound to wrest a fortune from Montana land. With Lorna at his side, he would breathe life into his dream. Through the treacherous Texas prairie, the perils of the Indian country, and Dodge City, they forged their way to Montana, where they would harvest their fortune.