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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 21
Formats
Description
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.
Series
Lonesome Dove volume 2
Pub. Date
[2003], c1993
Description
After returning the body of Gus McCrae to Lonesome Dove, Woodrow Call takes on the challenge of driving a herd of wild mustangs 2500 miles north of the Hat Creek Ranch in Montana. But tragedy, despair and deceit will greet him before he ever gets there.
3) The Cowboys
Pub. Date
c1972
Description
A tough rancher, deserted by his regular help, hires 11 schoolboys for a 400 mile cattle drive.
4) Broken trail
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Set in 1897, a man and his nephew are trying to deliver a herd of horses when they become the reluctant guardians of five abandoned Chinese girls.
Description
Crossfire Trail: "A mysterious drifter is determined to keep a promise that he'll protect a man's widow and Wyoming ranch. But the widow doubts the man's motives. And an unscrupulous land grabber and his gunmen are sizing up the ranch for a takeover."--container
Last stand at Saber River: "An ex-Confederate cavalryman turned homesteader thinks he'll resume a quiet life in Arizona with his wife and children. But one more battle looms when he finds...
7) The cowboys
Pub. Date
1998
Description
A tough rancher, deserted by his regular help, hires schoolboys for a 400 mile cattle drive.
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
In this unusual take on the Old West, an innocent cowboy, Luke, with his reluctant new partner, Elmer, fleece a crooked sheriff and attempt to disappear into the desert. Only Geronimo's smart and beautiful niece, Sue, can help them break a mysterious Indian curse and escape from Sheriff Zombie's bloodthirsty posse. Will romance between Luke and Sue blossom, or will the undead permanently keep them apart?
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Lonesome Dove (widescreen, 1989, 374 min.): A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana.
Return to Lonesome Dove (1993, 346 min.): This gripping adventure follows three ex-Texas Rangers and chronicles...
12) The Virginian
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Codes of honor, murderous greed, swift retribution, and a loner's impact on an untamed land. The greatest themes of Western movies ride with new vitality in this stirring and poignant saga of The Virginian.
17) Blue steel
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Description
A US Marshall learns of a plot to steal a huge amount of gold.
Pub. Date
2010
Description
The story of the three Sackett brothers, Tye, Orrin, and Tell, who leave Tennessee to start new lives in the West; not being a man to settle down, cowhand Conn Conagher drifts in and out of widow Evie Teale's life; career outlaw Catlow attempts to take some Confederate gold, with his friend, a U.S. marshal, and a ruthless bounty hunter on his tail.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers...
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