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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A true story expanded from Krakauer's article about a young man who starved to death in Denali National Park in Alaska. In a compelling book that evokes the writings of Thoreau, Muir, and Jack London, Krakauer recounts the haunting and tragic mystery of 22-year-old Chris McCandless who disappeared in April 1992 into the Alaskan wilderness in search of a raw, transcendent experience. His emaciated corpse was discovered four months later.
2) True grit
Series
Language
English
Description
Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshal with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Landscapes and legends draw adventurers to the West, where a good day includes locavore dining, vineyard wine-sipping, wildlife-watching, Native American history and outdoor adventure. This guide includes planning features and top itineraries to give you the freedom to create your ideal trip.
Author
Language
English
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Description
The world’s bestselling cowboy poet and author of Cactus Tracks & Cowboy Philosophy is back in the saddle with a hilarious roundup of essays, commentaries, and campfire verse that speaks to the cowboy soul in each of us.
“Baxter Black is Mark Twain served up with a little Groucho Marx.”—The Weekly Standard
Share in the wit and wisdom of Baxter Black, public radio’s...
“Baxter Black is Mark Twain served up with a little Groucho Marx.”—The Weekly Standard
Share in the wit and wisdom of Baxter Black, public radio’s...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Brown's meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. This edition includes illustrations, essays, and excerpts from firsthand accounts and memoirs, that add depth and reflection to this momentous work.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Smoky is born in the wild, captured and trained by Clint, and becomes known as the best cow horse. Then a horse thief steals Smoky and beats him repeatedly. Smoky eventually attacks and escapes from the abusive thief. When Smoky is eventually captured, his new violent demeanor results in him being used as a bucking bronco in rodeos.
Author
Series
Hank the cowdog volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, is framed for the murder of a chicken and becomes an outlaw with the coyotes.
Author
Series
Hank the cowdog volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hank the Cowdog almost loses his job as Head of Ranch Security when he develops a case of Eye-Crosserosis.
Publisher
Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In a time of outlaws, seven young heroes, each with unique talents and abilities, band together to help tame the Wild West and protect the citizens of a small frontier town from lawlessness, vigilantism, corruption and injustice.
13) A reason to die
Author
Series
Perley Gates western volume 2
Language
English
Description
When his dying grandfather gives him clues to a buried fortune in gold, Perley Gates goes up against ruthless lowlifes, kill-crazy prairie rats, gunfighters, outlaws, and Indians in order to claim the treasure.
14) The West
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the history of the American West beginning before the European settlers and continuing into the 20th century. Includes the peoples, the wagon trains, the Gold Rush, the Civil War, the transcontinental railroad and the destruction of the buffalo, wars against the Indians, settlers in the West, the Wounded Knee massacre, and beginnings of the new West.
15) Western USA
Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Highlights the western U.S.'s top travel experiences, providing a monthly calendar of popular events, road trip and scenic drive ideas, and information on sights, dining, accomodations, and entertainment in each area profiled.
16) Shiloh Falls
Publisher
Vivendi Visual Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
After finally catching up to a gang he has been pursuing, a sheriff in the Old West must fight with the criminals against a powerful force that has come to town.
Author
Series
Francis Tucket volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having separated from the one-armed trapper who taught him how to survive in the wilderness of the Old West, fifteen-year-old Francis gets lost and continues to have adventures involving dangerous men and a friendly mule.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the actions of both whites and Comanches during a 40-year war over territory, in a story that begins with the kidnapping of a white girl, who grew up to marry a Comanche chief and have a son, Quanah, who became a great warrior.
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