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Author
Series
Caleb Marlowe novels volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The first in a riveting new historical western series from author Nik James. It will take all this lone frontiersman's skills to save his only friend from murderous outlaws." --Amazon.com.
Caleb Marlowe carved out his own legend as a frontier scout and lawman before arriving in the Colorado boomtown of Elkhorn. Famous for a lightning-quick draw and nerves of steel, he is mysterious, guarded, and unpredictable. Now, he wants to leave the past behind....
Author
Series
Frontiersman series volume 3
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
While back on the trail, Breck Wallace, exiled from the Smoky Mountains for gunning down a man in self-defense, must evade a vicious gang of trappers who are after his goods and who force him to ride deeper into the mountains than he has ever gone.
Author
Series
Little house chapter books. Laura volume 9
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Laura Ingalls shares adventures and good times with her friends while growing up on the western frontier.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1860s Lake Tahoe, Cameron Scott reunites with his daughter and nephew but has lost their trust. When he's hurt protecting them, the stubborn but beautiful Gwen Harkness is his caretaker. As she helps him win back their hearts, he finds himself wanting to win hers as well"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the High Sierras. But Smoke Jensen and his children, Louis and Denise, won't let a little snow stop them from heading to Reno for the holidays. There are two ways for them to get there: the long way, going around the Sierra Nevada Mountains, or the short way, going right through them. Smoke decides to take a gamble. They'll follow the trail that, decades earlier, brought the legendary Donner Party to...
68) Slater's way
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Driven from home by gunfire and fear of the law, young John Slater Engels seeks refuge in the mountains of Montana. He meets Teddy Lightfoot, who invites the boy to live with him and his wife in a small Crow village nestled in the Absaroka Mountains. For safety, he goes only by his middle name. As Slater grows into manhood, he becomes an excellent scout and is hired to assist the soldiers at Fort Ellis. But just when the future begins to look bright,...
69) Farmer boy
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the end of the nineteenth century, nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State where he raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.
Author
Series
Red Ryan volume 5
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
©2022.
Language
English
Description
According to local legend, the stagecoach known as the Gray Ghost is either haunted, cursed, or just plain unlucky. Each of its last three drivers and three more riding shotgun came to a violent, bloody end. And now it’s Red Ryan’s turn to guard five foolhardy passengers on the stage’s next-and possibly last-trip. The travelers are a small troupe of performers with dark histories of their own: a song-and-dance man with a drinking problem, a...
71) The backstabbers
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Red Ryan should've known this job would be trouble. The first stop is a ghost town--in a thunder storm--and the cargo is a coffin. But things start to look a little brighter when Red and his stage guard Buttons Muldoon deliver the corpse to a ranch run by the beautiful Luna Talbot--and her gorgeous crew of former saloon girls. Luna asks the boys to help them find the Lucky Cuss Gold Mine, using a map tucked inside the dead man's pocket. Buttons can't...
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Laura learns that living away from home and teaching school can be a bit frightening when most of the students are taller than she is, but every week Almonzo Wilder arrives to take her home for the weekend.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to the Wild West, where they experience excitement and danger and try to solve a riddle.
Author
Series
Little house chapter books. Laura volume 13
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Laura and her family move from Wisconsin to Kansas, they make friends with a helpful neighbor who comes to their aid later when they settle in the Dakota Territory.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Seattle, 1897. Anna Denton is not like the other prospectors traveling to the Yukon on the promise of riches. It's duty - not profit - that calls her into the wild unknown. With her family nearing financial ruin, Anna has agreed to marry Henry Bradwell, the wealthy King of the Klondike. She meets Will and Silas, childhood friends, on the steamer north. After the ship docks in a lawless Alaska town, Anna's chaperones run afoul of local criminals, leaving...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In 1794, when Kate Gruener's father is ready to move the family farther west into the wilderness, Kate is eager to live out her own story of adventure. And she sets her sights on learning more about their scout, Thomas Bledsoe. Thomas's job is to get settlers safely across the Kentucky Wilderness Road to their destination while keeping an ear open for news of Shawnee unrest. But naïve Kate's inquisitive nature could put them both in the middle of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Red Ryan is one of the fastest guns in the West. But this time, he's in for the longest, hardest ride of his life. Where danger lurks around every turn--and all roads lead to hell . . . Gold. Silver. Cold hard cash. Stagecoach guard Red Ryan and his driver Buttons Muldoon have ridden shotgun on some pretty valuable cargo in their day. But they're about to learn--the hard way--that the most dangerous cargo of all is human. They've been hired to escort...
Author
Series
Little house chapter books. Laura volume 14
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the maple syrup party at her grandpa's house in the Big Woods in Wisconsin to parties with her school friends in Plum Creek and her first co-ed party in De Smet, Dakota Territory, Laura enjoys all kinds of gatherings.
79) Brimstone
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole track down Virgil's sweetheart Allie and the three head north to start over in the town of Brimstone. Given their reputations as guns for hire, Everett and Virgil are able to secure positions as the town's deputies. But a sanctimonious leader of a local church stirs up trouble at the local saloons, and as the violence escalates into murder, the two struggle to keep the peace.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
James Goodenough, whose family had originally settled in Connecticut from England brings his family to Ohio to carve out a new life for them in the Black Swamp in 1838. As swamp fever gradually picks off their children and they wrestle daily with survival. This course will see their family engulfed in tragedy and fifteen years later we pick up with their youngest son, Robert who has been running west since the trying to escape his memories of what...
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