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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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Six-time winner of the Golden Spur Award, Elmer Kelton crafts stories that carry listeners into some of the most vivid years of the American West. Texas Rifles is an action-filled tale of courage in the face of divided loyalties. In 1861, men are enlisting in the Texas Mounted Rifles to keep the land free from Indian raids. There are larger conflicts, however. Texas has seceded from the union while war brews between the North and the South. Sam Houston...
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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A novel on the early days of the Texas Rangers when they were merely groups of low-paid cowboys, without badges, protecting ranches from Indians. The hero, Rusty Shannon, runs into a band of Indians which killed his family when he was a child.
3) Badger boy
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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The Texas frontier. The Civil War is over and Texas is reluctantly yielding to the Union soldiers spreading across the state, even into the dangerous Comanche country. David "Rusty" Shannon, proud member of a "ranging company" attempting to protect Texas settlers from Indian depredations, finds that the rangers are being disbanded.
6) The cabin
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"Packing up the girls and her grandmother, Susanna heads to a cabin in the Adirondacks, trying to escape her fears, her secrets ... and maybe even the man she loves. Little does she realize they are being followed, only this time by her husband ... and a murderer."--P. [4] of cover.
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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In the spring of 1874 the Ranger companies that protext settlers agains Indian raids and outlaw bands are being reorganized, and David "Rusty" Shannon is the most sought-after veteran for reenlistment. But Shannon has new goals for his life.
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 5
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Ranger privates Andy Pickard, the onetime Comanche captive called Badger Boy, and the war-anguished Farley Brackett, are assigned to deliver a prisoner to the sheriff of a county some distance from the ranger camp on the San Saba River. The prisoner, Jayce Landon, has recently killed a man named Ned Hopper and is to stand trial for murder. The rangers quickly learn that the Landon and Hopper families are involved in a blood feud and that Jayce Landon...
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"Former Texas Ranger Andy Pickard ("Badger Boy" as he was known as a youth living among Comanches), leaves his fiancées farm in north central Texas. He begins to track the man, Luther Cordell, who he believes killed his friend, Sheriff Tom Blessing. Pickard is mistaken. But although Cordell did not kill Blessing, the robber-ringleader must be brought to Ranger justice and the rest sorted out later."--Publisher website: http://us.macmillan.com/hardtrailtofollow...
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"Nothing stirs up emotions in Texas like men stealing other men's horses. Texas Ranger Andy Pickard is assigned what appears to be a routine duty. West Texas horse trader Donley Bannister has killed Cletus Slocum for stealing one of his horses. Ranger Pickard is to find and arrest Bannister and bring him to trial. But the case turns out to be anything but routine. When Pickard picks up on Bannister's trail, he finds him holed up with some cohorts...
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c2010
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Starting your life over in a big city like Austin, Texas, is no easy task, especially for a man raised in the country like Texas Ranger Josiah Wolfe. Now, after uprooting his son to the state's capital, Josiah must leave Austin to meet up with the rest of the Texas Ranger Frontier Battalion. But before he can get to work, Josiah has to make a quick stop to check on his old friend Juan Carlos, who's no stranger to trouble.
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In Texas Standoff, Ranger Andy Pickard and his partner, Logan Daggett, are sent to central Texas to investigate a series of killings and cattle thefts. The two biggest cattlemen in the area blame each other for the violence, but it seems to Andy that neither man may be guilty. The case is complicated by the rise of a gang of "regulators"-masked vigilantes-and the arrival of a notorious hired gunman whose employer is unknown. The murder of a captured...
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2011
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Tracking an Indian raiding party, Texas Ranger Josiah Wolfe and his compatriots run afoul of a notorious gang leader known as the Badger. As they are led to where the Badger is waiting, Josiah knows that time is running out. But luckily, Texas Rangers are hard men to kill.
18) Body of evidence
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2011
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New York Times–Bestselling Author: An undercover lawman must win a woman's trust in this novel from a RITA and Carol Award finalist.
When Texas Ranger Anderson Michaels goes undercover at an animal rescue farm in Texas Hill Country, he lands right in owner Jennifer Rodgers's path. Before long, he realizes that tracking down his target-a deadly drug-trafficking ring that was responsible for the murder of his captain-may be easier than winning...
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2011
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Assuming a secret identity, Josiah Wolfe investigates a slew of thefts that are leaving the local ranchers of Corpus Christi angry as hell. After four long months away from home, Josiah will have to bring the leader of the raids to justice if he ever wants to return home to his family.
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Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger novels volume 5
Josiah Wolfe Texas Ranger novels volume 5
Joshiah Wolfe Texas Ranger volume 5
Josiah Wolfe Texas Ranger novels volume 5
Joshiah Wolfe Texas Ranger volume 5
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2012
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After a prostitute is murdered at the local Saloon, Ranger Josiah Wolfe finds his friend, Scrap Elliot, wrongly accused. A familiar horse and a mysterious code are the only clues Josiah has to prove his friend's innocence. With a new railroad line blazing into town, everyone is determined to clean up Austin. Faced with the ticking clock, Wolfe must find out who it was that went one step too far.