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Lonesome Dove saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 58
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A love story and an epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last, defiant wilderness of America. Richly authentic, beautifully written, Lonesome Dove is a book to make readers laugh, weep, dream and remember. Now a blockbuster television event.
2) Cowboy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Text and photographs trace the history and lore of cowboys around the globe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 21
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The Virginian is the quiet, noble foreman of a Wyoming cattle ranch in the 1870s. More comfortable keeping company with his trusted horse than with other people, he nevertheless falls for pretty schoolteacher Molly Wood, who helps him develop an appreciation for Shakespeare, Keats, and the finer things. But when a rival suitor challenges his honor, the Virginian struggles to make his beloved Molly understand the harsh justice of the West.
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Adventures of a young cowboy volume 5
Pub. Date
[2015]
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Honey is busy doing the cowboy thing - breeding and branding cattle, horse training, and taking care of the dudes ... that is, the ranch guests. Sally and Honey take over management of the ranch due to Buds worsening condition and do a good job of booking guests for the summer and keeping the ranch running smoothly. Honey is growing up fast ... and Sally has a big surprise for him.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance.
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Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Saddle up for this first volume in a spin-off series starring favorite characters from DiCamillo's "New York Times"-bestselling Mercy Watson books. Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse--until he meets Maybelline, and then it's love at first sight.
9) "Nevada"
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He was called Nevada, a name he took to lose his past. As a boy he had been thrown among brutal and evil men. He had worked himself above their influence time and again, only to be thrown back, by his own desire for justice or vengeance, into the midst of strife. With a new identity he made a new reputation, but old troubles and old enemies haunted him wherever he went. Nevada was the quiet type who would rather work hard and plan for better days....
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Adventures of a young cowboy volume 7
Pub. Date
[2016]
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The Wilson Ranch continues to be a successful working ranch and guest ranch, and all hands keep busy with the cows, horses and "dudes." Thoughts of building a house in town so Ginny can go to school and another cabin for guests are being considered. --back cover
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Adventures of a young cowboy volume 6
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Honey meets his brand new daughter for the first time! Enjoy the antics at the ranch while everyone settles in with the new baby, including Grandpa Bud getting a baby carrier for his four-wheeler, and Honey's sister, Betty, becoming a nanny for the little one. --back cover
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Adventures of a young cowboy volume 8
Pub. Date
[2016]
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All the ranch hands stay busy with the new teams of horses, used to help feed during the long winter, and halter breaking the young colts. One of the colts gets the best of Honey, who ends up with broken ribs and a torn rotator cuff. --back cover
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Adventures of a young cowboy volume 9
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Ginny, Sally and Honey's daughter, is growing up quickly and becoming quite the little cowgirl. She helps to take the dudes out on horse rides on her Welsh pony named Pumpkin. Grandpa Bud lets her choose her very own colt, which she names Pumpernickel. --back cover
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Adventures of a young cowboy volume 4
Pub. Date
[2015]
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"Ranching is hard work, and it gets harder for Honey as he becomes foreman. There are cows and horses to feed and calves to be taken care of -- especially during the hard winter. And with Bud's illness everyone has to take on more work. From horse thieves to bears to poachers -- Honey has his hands full. But he keeps in mind the old saying ... things always work out the way they're supposed to. Not to mention the big day -- he and Sally get married!"--...
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2023.
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"1916. The two-street town of Wallace is not exactly what Ellen Webster had in mind when she accepted a teaching position in Wyoming, but within a year's time she's fallen in love -- both with the High Plains and with a handsome cowboy named Charlie Bacon. Life is not easy in the flat, brown corner of the state where winter blizzards are unforgiving and the summer heat relentless. But Ellen and Charlie face it all together, their relationship growing...
17) Western Union
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New Englander Wayne Cameron longed for the wide open spaces. He heard of the daring feat proposed by Western Union to join the two oceans by telegraph wire. He siezed the chance to work for them and to explore the Wild West. Soon the savagery of the Indians, the raging torrents and devastating prairie fires, the stampeding beasts and the bloody fueds betweent the ranchers and the settlers almost sent him packing.
19) The Virginian
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 21
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In the thousands of miles of rugged rangeland around Medicine Bow, Wyoming, the only law that rules is the law of the gun. A man has to have an iron jaw and a fast trigger to stay alive. And no one is tougher than the ranch foreman known only as the Virginian. A peaceable man by nature, slow to anger and soft-spoken, fair and just, nonetheless he brooks nonsense from no man. Once wronged, he is a judge with a gavel forged of cold steel. Frontier justice...
20) Wilderness trek
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American cowboy, Stirling Haselton, taking the blame for a shooting committed by a friend, is exiled to Australia and with one loyal follower, joins a party of ranchers and drovers making the long wilderness journey to the Elaberleys. Along the way come dust storms, drought and numerous other adventures.