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"Necktie Party" they called it-a quick and easy form of frontier justice. The hard-eyed cattleman named Price, leader of the lynch party, looked up at the hanging tree and knew it would serve his murderous purpose. He jerked the lasso tight around the boy's neck. The two other riders, younger even than the one they were about to hang, looked sick. "Get set to kick his horse out from under him," Price ordered. Then Laramie stepped out of the willows,...
2) Texas Free
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2018.
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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?
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Brazos Keene is a cowboy with an honorable streak. When he stumbles into an unjust situation he just can't walk away. A man has been killed and the dead man's twin sisters are being forced off their ranch. Brazos decides to help them find the killers and get their ranch back.
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Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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A ranching family in Montana must fight off others who are trying to take over their land.
Follows the Dutton family, led by John Dutton, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States, under constant attack by those it borders--land developers, an Indian reservation, and America's first National Park. It is an intense study of a violent world far from media scrutiny--where land grabs make developers billions, and politicians are...
8) Rising Fire
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Jensen brand (William Johnstone) volume 3
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English
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"When the Jensen family sends a new generation out into the world, they always keep the homefires burning - and rifles loaded - just in case they bring trouble back with them. Smoke Jensen's daughter Denny can outride, outrope, and outshoot any man who gets in her way. But being a pretty woman, Denny sometimes attracts the attention of unsavory suitors. Like the lecherous Count Malatesta. Denny met the seductive Sicilian on her trip to Europe - and...
9) Lone Creek
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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"After a failed career and marriage in California, Hugh Davoren is back in Helena, Montana, as a construction hand at the old Pettyjohn Ranch, home of many childhood memories - including the seemingly accidental death of his teenaged first love, Celia." "Hugh is just trying to get through another long workday on the ranch when he discovers two dead stallions. A further probe into the matter only pushes Hugh into dangerous corners, as he finds that...
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The author draws on her travels and homestead life in the Colorado Rockies in an essay collection on her ties to nature that explores the symbiotic relationship between humans and the earth. "'How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us,' Pam Houston writes. On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, this beloved writer learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves...
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Miscellaneous volume no. 113
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Colorado Experiment Station
Pub. Date
1941.
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English
12) Little Ree
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Little Ree volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Little Ree leaves her home in the city to move to her grandparents' ranch, where she learns to ride horses, swim in the pond and help her grandmother in the kitchen. Includes special pancake recipe.
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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...
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Porter family novels volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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"When Meg inherits her father's thoroughbred Texas farm, she's determined to shut it down, despite Bo, the handsome manager. Can he--and love--change her mind?"--Provided by publisher.
15) Open range
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Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
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English
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Boss Spearman, a rugged old-timer, free grazes cattle. He and Charley have been partners for ten years. The pair and their employees, Mose and Buttons, are driving their cattle across the West. Mose is attacked and thrown in jail during a visit to a town. The local cattle rancher, Baxter, wants the free grazers off his land and when Boss and Charley retrieve Mose, they are warned that they have until the next day to be out of the area. Charley confesses...
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Byrnes family ranch westerns volume 2
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English
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With blood and tears, Chet Byrnes built a life in Texas, only to have it shattered by an ill-fated cattle drive and a deadly family feud. Realizing he and his family need to start over in a new territory, Chet and his young nephew set out for Arizona, hoping to find a new home. Chet and Heck cross over New Mexico and ride into Arizona. Encountering killers, bandits, a punishing climate, and a harsh daunting land, they search for the perfect place...
17) Sundown
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Sky King Ranch volume 3
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English
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"Former Delta Operative Colt Kingston knows when someone is lying. He may not know the truth, but he sure doesn't trust Tae, the mysterious woman his family rescued from an Alaskan blizzard. Behind those beautiful blue eyes, Colt can tell there is a troubled -- and smart -- woman. A few of her stories prove true -- they found the crashed plane and the dead body inside. Still, her tale of survival seems too incredible to believe . . . until the thugs...
18) Heartbreaker
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Severn House
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Michelle Cabot has inherited her father's Florida cattle ranch -- and a pile of debt, most of which is owed to her neighbouring rancher and arch-nemesis, John Rafferty. But while John thinks he now holds the cards over the spoiled rich girl he once despised, Michelle, desperate to run the Cabot ranch -- the only thing she has left -- all by herself, has other ideas... They may be locked in battle, but are the tough rancher and feisty beauty losing...
19) Stroke of luck
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Sterling's Montana volume 1
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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The Sterling Ranch's season opening isn't going so smoothly. With the ranch's lodge full of guests and a Montana blizzard threatening, Will Sterling needs help - and he needs it fast. So when his childhood friend Poppy Carmichael agrees to lend a hand, he's grateful for a second chance... and more enticed by the woman she's become than he cares to admit. For Poppy, it was supposed to be a retreat full of horse rides and hoedowns - with a side of showing...
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Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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In the most explosive season of Yellowstone yet, John Dutton and his family must protect their land from new and old enemies, led by Wall Street maverick Roarke. Threatened by betrayals, bad blood, and lucrative business deals, the Duttons form unexpected alliances and confront dangerous measures to safeguard their legacy. This season includes extended content and bonus features, making-of featurettes, behind the scenes clips, never-before-seen interviews...