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Author
Series
[Holland Family Saga volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s"--
4) The wrecker
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Investigating a series of attacks on the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express lines, Detective Bell learns of the existence of an elusive saboteur who recruits and murders his own accomplices while engineering schemes of maximum havoc.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1911, Carrie Strahorn wrote a memoir entitled Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, which shared some of the most exciting events of 25 years of traveling and shaping the American West with her husband, Robert Strahorn, a railroad promoter, investor, and writer. That is all fact. Everything She Didn't Say imagines Carrie nearly ten years later as she decides to write down what was really on her mind during those adventurous nomadic years.
Author
Publisher
Messner
Pub. Date
c1963
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
608 p. : illus. (part col.) plates (part col.) ports., fold col. maps, facsims. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents folklore and legends, heroes and villains, wars and important events in the history of the Old West. Includes also examples of Western art and music.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's documentary television series Legends and Lies: The Real West, a fascinating, eye-opening look at the truth behind the western legends we all think we know : How did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's life only to end up dying at the Alamo? Was the Lone Ranger based on a real lawman--and was he an African American? What amazing detective work led to the capture of Black Bart, the "gentleman bandit" and...
8) Rango
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The setting is New Mexico. The story opens with nester Dick Moffitt lying dead, killed by King Bill Hales' riders. Hale has decided that he wants the graze in the high country for his cattle and to get it he must drive out the nesters. Cub Hale, King Bill's son, is a killer who has been running rough-shod ever since he became old enough to carry a gun. But King Bill and his murderous son don't know that the man calling himself Trent, who has joined...
10) Dragon teeth
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous...
13) Wayward Son
Author
Series
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED SEQUEL TO THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER CARRY ON Simon Snow is back and he's coming to America! The story is supposed to be over. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after... So why can't Simon Snow get off the couch? What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. He just needs to see...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The cattle drive adventures of Josh McNabb and Davy Bartlett. Recounts events of an 1877 cattle drive from southern Texas to Ogallala, Nebraska, through the letters and journals of two boys and an older member of the crew.
Author
Series
Leah's garden volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Larkspur Nielsen is ready for a change. Her parents have passed on, and her older brother is successfully running the family business. She bristles at the small-mindedness that permeates life in her small Ohio community, and she sees little chance of a satisfying future there. She has a little money saved, and after turning the tables on a crooked gambler who had fleeced several locals, including her younger brother, she can stake a new start for...
Author
Language
English
Description
One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial "Brides for Indians" program, launched by the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, is intended to help assimilate the Indians into the white man's world. Toward that end May and her friends embark upon the...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the Clearwaters travel west, fearless Granny and Little Critter are jolted from the horse-drawn wagon and have many exotic adventures before being reunited with the rest of their family.