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Taylor Trade Publishing
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This well-researched biography of the life- and controversial death- of Robert LeRoy Parker, aka Butch Cassidy, is a journey across the late nineteenth American West as we follow Cassidy's exploits in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, where he made his name as a surprisingly affable outlaw. More importantly, this book answers the following question: did Butch Cassidy, noted outlaw of the American West, survive his alleged death at the hands of Bolivian...
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English
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In Other Men's Horses, newlywed Texas Ranger Andy Pickard must track down Donley Bannister, on the run after killing a notorious horse thief. But when outlaws ambush Ranger Pickard, Bannister risks his life to rescue his pursuer-giving the injured young ranger reason to pause.
Publisher
Distributed by Gaiam Americas
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
John Wayne: American hero of the movies: "This exciting documentary of rare movie previews features The Duke--Hollywood's toughest, two-fisted, no-nonsense star--in the most action-packed, adventure-filled scenes from two dozens of his most famous films"--Container.
Dawn rider: "John Wayne hits the vengeance trail after the bandits who shot his father in this 1935 film from Robert N. Bradbury, who directed most of the Duke's many early Lone Star...
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Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"It was supposed to be a simple robbery. A fortune in gold for the taking. What Hack Long and his outlaws hadn’t figured on was the Texas Rangers pouncing on them like a pack of rabid wolves. Desperate to escape, Long led his men south of the Rio Grande where they ran afoul of Mexican Rurales and were imprisoned. Unwilling to die behind the bars of the hellish prison where life is worth less than a peso, Long’s band of desperadoes break out of...
5) Nightwork
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English
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"Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head, slipping into luxurious, empty homes at night to find items he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer, he left Chicago--but kept up his nightwork. Wandering from the Outer Banks to Savannah to New Orleans, he dons new identities and stays careful, observant, distant. He can't afford to attract attention--or get attached. Still, he...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"For a century Butch Cassidy has been the subject of legends about his life and death, spawning a small industry of mythmakers and a major Hollywood film. Charles Leerhsen sorts out fact from fiction to find the real Butch Cassidy, who is far more complicated and fascinating than legend has it"--
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Young and pretty with a soul of pure steel, Jane Hammond is a good girl married to one of the worst baddies in town. When her husband Bill turns against his own gang, the vicious Bishop Boys, and returns home barely alive with eight bullets in his back, Jane knows it's time to ditch the dress for a pair of pants and strap on her own gun.
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Chickens makes his friend Cat a partner in his housecleaning business, but, after his business suffers when Cat turns out to be too clumsy to help, Cat unexpectedly saves the day when he apprehends a mouse trying to rob a ladybug on the street.
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English
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"These five stories range from the surreal to the tear-jerker, as the Old West is held upside down by its boots and shaken until all common sense falls out into the crucible of parody. In Rumors from the Edge of the World, Kid Concho and his Arizona outlaw gang of misfits stumble upon a prophetic Apache spring. Too Long in the Saddle follows the exploits of a Boston newspaper reporter who is ordered on assignment to frontier Kansas. Code of the Ranger...
10) Ace of shades
Author
Series
Shadow game trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin Books Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the City of Sin, where casino families reign, gangs infest the streets...and secrets hide in every shadow Enne Salta was raised as a proper young lady, and no lady would willingly visit New Reynes, the so-called City of Sin. But when her mother goes missing, Enne must leave her finishing school--and her reputation--behind to follow her mother's trail to the city where no one survives uncorrupted. Frightened and alone, Enne has only one...
11) Robin Hood
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
An action-packed retelling of the classic legend filled with battle sequences, fight choreography, and epic adventure. Returning home from the Crusades, Robin of Loxley finds his country oppressed by the evil Sheriff of Nottingham. With the help of Moorish warrior Little John, Robin transforms into the heroic outlaw Robin Hood, taking up arms to fight the sheriff and win the heart of his love, Maid Marian.
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Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"As Jared Delaney rides home from a cattle drive to Colorado, he is haunted by a nightmare of menace and impending change, signified by the moon encircled by a hazy band of light . . . a halo moon. When he arrives in Cimarrón, he is shocked to discover that his friend and mentor, Sheriff Nathan Averill, has been murdered. Against his wifes wishes, he agrees to seek vigilante justice to avenge Nathans death. Estranged from his family and friends,...
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Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"When word of the Pony Express being formed reached Texas, Clay Roswell decided to get a job as an express rider. At a way station in Kansas, he was told his best chance for such a job was along the desert stretch in Nevada Territory, so that was where he headed. Along the trail, he caught up with two brothers, Jess and Hoke Pickard. That night, when Roswell was in his blankets, the Pickards jumped him and set out to club him to death. They stole...
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A fate worse than death . . . Bastien Cabarro survived the brutal slaughter of his entire family only to have his wife pin their murders on him. Made Ravin by The League, he is now a target for their assassins-in-training to hunt and kill. The average life expectancy for such beings is six weeks. But defying the odds is what this Gyron Force officer does best, and Bastien won't rest until he lays his betrayers in their graves. Ten years later, he...
16) Inland: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman, alone in a house abandoned by the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her two older sons, who have gone in search of their father after his return is delayed. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, a boy with a bad eye who is convinced that a...
17) Shotgun Johnny
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English
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"Armed with his weapons of choice--two sawed-off, double-barreled shotguns in custom-made holsters for pistol-quick draws--Shotgun Johnny ain't stopping for no one . . . not unless they want to die. Johnny Greenway was once a family man. A well-respected marshal who always played fair. Then his wife and son were killed by cutthroats. Johnny killed the killers. Then he hung up his badge and picked up a bottle. Now a shadow of his former self, he has...
Author
Series
Last Mountain Man series volume 50
Language
English
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A cold day in hell descends upon Texas when mountain man sharpshooter Smoke Jensen pins on a tin star to tackle a wild bunch of bloodthirsty outlaws.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1887, deep in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. William Drayton, once a crack sharpshooter in the Civil War, has lost his wife and home. He has ascended to the high country, wanting never to be heard from again. But his daughter, whom he thought was dead, is trying to find him. Meanwhile, banker turned robber baron Horace Scarsdale has mustered an army of cutthroats and guns for hire to help him build his railroad empire. Drayton, though, plans...
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