Louis L'Amour
Author
Series
[Talon and Chantry] volume 3
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
�2013, �1973
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
It began with gold that had once belonged to Montezuma. Stolen and cached in a church in Mexico, it was recovered by two army officers who fled north for the French settlements. Along the way, one stabbed the other to death. The remaining officer was eventually killed by Plains Indians, but he buried the treasure just before he died. Now Ronan Chantry, a handful of trappers, and an Irish girl whose father was killed after telling her a few vague landmarks...
Author
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In a remote corner of Utah lies the secret outlaw kingdom of Ben Curry. For fifteen years Curry has ruled supreme, as his men have pulled jobs from Canada to Mexico. But the king is getting old. He wants to turn his legacy over to someone younger, tougher. Mike Bastian is Ben's adopted son -- a young man who can handle a knife, a gun, and his fists, but a man who has never broken the law. Now, Mike must choose...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Trent came to Idaho seeking solitude. He built a cabin, broke a few wild horses, and quietly put his past behind him. Then King Bill Hale began laying claim to all the land around Cedar Bluff. When Hale’s son kills one of Trent’s neighbors, Trent quickly steps forward to lead the fight. Their property had been legally filed on, but Bill Hale has the men, money, and political power to steal it from them. What Hale doesn’t realize...
44) The empty land
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1971, c1969
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Matt Coburn was going to bring law and order to Confusion, even though he had to face every kind of gunman, knife artist, and dry-gulcher there was.
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[1986, c1957]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Rock Bannon rode a steel-dust stallion that was as stubborn and leather-tough as he was. Scouting for a wagon train full of high hopes, Rock saved the Eastern-bred settlers from a brutal Indian attack. But they paid him back with scorn when he advised against following a fast-talker named Morton Harper. Rock Bannon followed no man, so he left the settlers to their promised milk and honey-until they realized their mistake and had no one else to turn...
48) War party
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1975
Language
English
Description
Bud Miles was a boy when he crossed the Mississippi. But Bud buried his father after an Indian attack, and as the wagon train pushed on through Sioux country, the boy stood as tall as any man. . . .
Tell Sackett killed cougars at fourteen and fought a war at fifteen. Now Tell was hauling dangerous freight—a soldier's wife and a fortune in gold—knowing that someone wanted him dead. . . .
Laurie...
Tell Sackett killed cougars at fourteen and fought a war at fifteen. Now Tell was hauling dangerous freight—a soldier's wife and a fortune in gold—knowing that someone wanted him dead. . . .
Laurie...
49) Shalako
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1962
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
50) With these hands
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print in association with Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
This collection, presented in a wood gift box, gathers seven popular Louis L'Amour stories, performed by a star-studded cast. Willie Nelson reads six and one is fully dramatized by Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and the late Waylon Jennings, who together were known as The Highwaymen. The collection includes:Riding for the Brand, The Black Rock Coffin Makers, Dutchman's Flat, The Nester and the Piute, Mistakes Can Kill You, Trail to Pie...
53) To tame a land
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IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Rye Tyler was 12 when he saw his father cut down in an Indian raid. Taken in by a mysterious stranger with a taste for Shakespeare and an instinct for survival, Rye is schooled in the lessons of a hard country.
54) Silver Canyon
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1956, 1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fueled by youth, courage, and quickness with a gun, Matt Brennan rode into Hattan's Point ready to live or die at a single challenge. But in one day he was a changed man. A beautiful woman had dared him to stay alive. A powerful landowner had set him up for a beating. And a good friend had died in his arms. Suddenly Matt found himself owner of the Two-Bar Rancha̮nd the odd man out in a vicious range war. With enemies everywhere, Matt knew that the...
56) Passin' through
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
©1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Narrowly escaping an unjust lynching, a hard-riding, solitary drifter known only as Passin' seeks vengeance on the good citizens who framed him.
Author
Publisher
Saturday Review Press
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
English
Description
The abandoned cabin seemed like a good place to settle down, except for the dead man in the front yard. But Doby Kernohan and his father had traveled a long way seeking a new start, and they were in no position to be choosy. Unfortunately, the mysterious man's violent end was an omen of darker events to come, for a cycle of violence that had begun long ago was about to reach an explosive conclusion. Caught in a tangle of murder, greed, and blood vengeance,...