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After an attempted horse theft goes tragically wrong, sixteen-year-old Caleb Bentley is on the run with his mean-spirited older brother across the American Southwest at the turn of the twentieth century. Caleb's moral compass and inner courage will be tested as they travel the harsh terrain and encounter those who have carved out a life there, for good or ill. Wealthy and bookish Randall Dawson, out of place in this rugged and violent country, is...
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2016.
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Outlaws are made, not born, and such is the case of the aged Joe Brown, aka Einer, and his young cohort, horse thief and possible murderer John Paul. After meeting in odd circumstances, the two pair up to steal a herd of Mexican horses to sell across the border. Even outlaws have hearts, and each wants the stolen horse money for the love of a woman. But both are unaware that a Texas Ranger investigating the fiery deaths of a brother and sister is...
5) The wild gun
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2014
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When ranchers have a problem with horse thieves or claim jumpers, they send for the Wild Gun - Cordwainer Wild. Cord always tries to apprehend his charges peaceably, but more often than not he's forced to bring them in boots first. When he tracks down a pair of horse thieves and kills them in self-defense, Cord finds himself facing down a powerful enemy from his past. The two thieves worked for Horace Weatherall, an outlaw closely tied to the murder...
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Will Summers is a horse trader with a reputation that intimidates the most lawless of men. The cold-blooded Bendigo Brothers make off with Summers' horses, but they don't know what they're in for. Original. Annotation: Will Summers is a horse trader with a reputation that intimidates the most lawless of men. The cold-blooded Bendigo Brothers make off with Summers' horses, but they don't know what they're in for.
7) Horse thief
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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In 1938, with the help of a lady doctor and an aging, card-cheating, dice-rolling horse thief, a seventeen-year-old orphan steals thirteen horses from Chickalookee, Florida's doomed rodeo, and finds a family in the process.
8) Horsenapped!
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[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
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Bree has decided to give up riding after a bad fall at home, but she still enjoys summers at Storm Cliff Stables with her close friends, and learning how to care for the horses and other animals--but when the animals start disappearing one by one Bree is determined to solve the mystery.
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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...
10) Texarkana
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"JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. RUSTLERS' PARADISE. At first, the job sounds easy: lead a small herd of horses across the Arkansas-Texas border to the Double-D ranch near Texarkana. No problem--at least not for a man like Perley Gates. In fact, he's looking forward to the 150-mile journey with his old sidekick Possum Smith and young Sonny Rice, and doesn't expect any trouble along the way. Unfortunately, trouble has a way of finding Perley Gates. This time, it's...
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Mountain Man: Matt Jensen volume 11
Matt Jensen the last mountain man volume 11
Mountain Man Matt Jensen volume 11
Wheeler large print western
Matt Jensen the last mountain man volume 11
Mountain Man Matt Jensen volume 11
Wheeler large print western
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"On the lawless frontiers of the American West, there is one rule every outlaw should remember--Never cross a mountain man like Matt Jensen. Not if you want to keep breathing. No gun. No horse. No water or food. And worse yet: no idea how he ended up in the middle of a desert with a bullet in his leg and a bump on his head. That's the sorry situation Matt Jensen wakes up to--dazed and confused--until he slowly pieces together what happened. The last...
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Sugarcreek Amish mysteries volume 22
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[2017]
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Horses all across the county are disappearing, including Cheryl's Ranger and the Millers' Samson. So she and Levi join forces to find the thieves and recover their animals. In the meantime, Cheryl stumbles across an old diary of a recently deceased Sugarcreek resident, Emmaline Draper. Apparently, when the author was young, she had fallen in love with an Amish man. But because she was an Englischer, the couple never acted on their feelings. The words...
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There's no taming Billy Blanchard. He's cut from the same rough cloth as his father, Jacob, the man who built the town of Black Horse Creek from nothing. Jacob takes pride in Billy's lawless, wild ways. But when the boy returns home with a stolen horse, having just killed a U.S. Marshal, Jacob knows trouble will follow. Called in on special assignment, enigmatic former deputy marshal Grayson is asked to find Billy and bring him in alive. But Grayson...
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"Sheriff Jack Allen had a twin brother, known as Jim-twin Allen, also as the White Wolf. Some said Jim was the fabled Lone Wolf -- outlawed by his pack and condemned to travel alone because his kind feared and would not trust him. Others swore that he was the White Wolf of Indian lore, who brought good luck, and that none but the evil need fear him! That was the reputation of Jim-twin Allen. Branded as an outlaw, with a big price on his head, the...
18) Cimarrón
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2023, [2022]
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"Cimarrón meant wild. Untamed. That's how Calvin Taylor, the young man they called 'Choctaw,' saw himself. As free of restraint as the raw new land he wandered, where the only law was lynch law. Someone who couldn't be broken to the plow. Choctaw's stamping ground was the Arizona Territory of 1873. He worked as a mustanger, catching and breaking wild horses; for the army scouting against Apaches; as a cowboy trailing horse thieves. Each adventure...
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2023.
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"For generations Arizona's Picture Rocks -- magnificent and virtually inaccessible cliffs -- sheltered the Jores from the long arm of the law. The Jores have recently come into the possession of Black Wing, one of the finest stallions ever bred in America. When three race-track fanatics -- a melancholy, saddle-born cowboy, the Reno Kid; the flashy gambler, Race Coulter; and the shrewd race horse breeder, Luke Chartres -- enter that stronghold determined...
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2021
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Young Daniel Boone Trewick, caught with a young woman, flees Missouri believing he has killed the girl's father in a fight. He joins a freighting outfit on the Santa Fe Trail, and in Taos he meets Thomas L. "Pegleg" Smith and is invited to join an expedition to California to steal horses and mules. Meanwhile in California, Juan Medina, a young vaquero in trouble for consorting with the ranch owner's daughter, is framed and jailed. After the ladrones...