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Lance Kilkenny's gun is believed to be the fastest in the West, but once the gunfight is over, he disappears. Most folks don't even know what he looks like. Some time back, Mort Davis saved Kilkenny's life after he was shot up. Now Davis needs Kilkenny's help. He has filed a claim on a water hole near Lost Creek in the live oak country. The district is dominated by two wealthy cattlemen, Webb Steele and Chet Lord, each one claiming for himself the...
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Early in Louis L'Amour's career, he wrote a number of novel-length stories for "pulp" Western magazines. "I lived with my characters so closely that their lives were still as much a part of me as I was of them long after the issues in which they appeared went out of print," he said. "I wanted to tell the reader more about my people and why they did what they did." So he revised and expanded these magazine works to be published again as full-length...
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The Sacketts volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
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Barnabas Sackett flees Elizabethan London, and comes face-to-face with peril in the American wilderness.
4) Lando
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The Sacketts volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
910L
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English
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In LANDO, Louis L’Amour has created an unforgettable portrait of a unique American hero.
For six long years Orlando Sackett survived the horrors of a brutal Mexican prison. He survived by using his skills as a boxer and by making three vows. The first was to exact revenge on the hired killers who framed him. The second was to return to his father. And the third was to find Gin Locklear. But the world has changed a lot since Lando...
For six long years Orlando Sackett survived the horrors of a brutal Mexican prison. He survived by using his skills as a boxer and by making three vows. The first was to exact revenge on the hired killers who framed him. The second was to return to his father. And the third was to find Gin Locklear. But the world has changed a lot since Lando...
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A collection of two stories by beloved Western writer Louis L'AmourIn "The Sixth Shotgun," Leo Carver has been sentenced to hang for holding up a stage, killing the driver and the guard, and stealing the gold they were transporting. He is convicted despite his protests of innocence, but questions soon arise over what really happened."The Rider of the Ruby Hills" is the story of Ross Haney, who rides into Ruby Hills country hoping to settle down. What...
6) Taggart
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Adam Stark had found gold. In the confusion of the mesas and canyons near Rockinstraw Mountain, Stark, his wife, Consuelo, and his sister, Miriam, were quietly working a rich vein while keeping their presence a secret from raiding Apaches. Worried that his wife might leave him, Stark wanted to make enough money to take her to San Francisco, where she could enjoy the style of life she craved.
But when Taggart, a stranger on the run from a vicious
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Hopalong Cassidy novels volume 1
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English
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Hopalong Cassidy helps to free his friends held by trigger-happy outlaws and bring these men to justice.
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No one tells tales of the frontier better than Louis L'Amour, who portrays the human side of westward expansion-the good and the bad, before the days of law and order-in these seven stories.
In "The Black Rock Coffin Makers," two men in the isolated town of Tucker want the XY ranch: Jim Walker and the ruthless Wing Cary-and one of them wants it badly enough to kill for it.
In "Grub Line Rider," Kim Sartain is an easygoing, peace-loving drifter....
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They tried to tell him that his father had killed himself, but Kearney McRaven knew better. No matter what life had dealt him, his father would go down fighting. And as he delved deeper into the mystery, he learned that just before his father died, the elder McRaven had experienced a remarkable run of luck: he'd won nearly ten thousand dollars and the deed to a cattle ranch.
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Hopalong Cassidy novels volume 2
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860L
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Hopalong Cassidy tries to save the Rocking R Ranch, only to find himself accused of murder and the target of a ruthless gunman.
13) Radigan
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Radigan must defend his land from beautiful Angelina Foley, her hired gunfighters, and the old Spanish grant to his land that she somehow acquired.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
810L
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English
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Bill Canavan rode into the valley with a dream to start his own ranch. But when he managed to stake claims on the three best water holes, the other ranchers turned against him. No one is more determined to see Canavan dead than Star Levitt. Levitt is an unscrupulous businessman who has been accumulating cattle at an alarming rate. Suspicious after witnessing a secret meeting between the riders of warring ranches, Bill begins noticing other dubious...
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[2019]
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"In this second volume, Beau L'Amour examines how his father made the transition from struggling pulp writer to successful novelist and uses his father's notes, journal entries, and correspondence to continue the process of seeking out how and why many of these never-before-seen manuscripts were written as well as speculating about the ways they might have ended. These selections include the beginnings of a post-apocalyptic science fiction tale,...
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"It seemed the perfect place to lie low. The owner of the ranch was an attractive, gray-haired lady who had once been an actress. The other woman was a beautiful, fragile-seeming blonde. They needed repairs done, and he needed to disappear for a while. The first sign that things were not as they should be was when a Pinkerton man questioned him about a missing woman. Then he accidentally found a will belonging to the previous owner of the ranch. After...
20) The broken gun
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Writer/historian Dan Sheridan is invited to the old Toomey ranch, but when he starts investigating the 90-year old masacre of the Toomey brothers along with twenty-five other men and the loss of four thousand head of cattle, he finds himself being tracked by vicious killers straight out of his most violent stories.
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