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Sisters of Mercy Flats volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"The three wily and beautiful McDougal sisters can swindle a man faster than it takes to lasso a calf. But their luck is running out, and they're about to be hauled off to jail. When the wagon carrying them falls under attack, each sister is picked up by a different man. Anne-Marie, the middle sister, is saved by Creed Walker, a Crow warrior. It's loathing at first sight, but with bandits on their tail and a cache of gold to hide, Creed and Anne-Marie...
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Cam Sutton is ready to make his name prospecting for gold in the Black Hills. But his quest for riches is interrupted when he happens upon a stagecoach holdup and ends up rescuing Mary Bishop and her two young daughters. Before striking out on his own, Cam decides to help Mary search for her husband, who disappeared while mining. Turns out Mr. Bishop was murdered--but not before finding enough gold to make Mary a very wealthy woman. Unwilling to leave...
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
During the 1800s trains carried the nation's wealth throughout the east, but no one thought to rob a speeding train until 1866. In 1870 the first western train was robbed in Nevada and within hours a second train was robbed. Railroads made every alteration to their cars and changed every procedure they could imagine to thwart the robbers, but to no avail. Robbing trains became epidemic over the next five decades, even when the legislatures made train...
64) The swamp robber
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Series
Sugar Creek Gang volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
The boys catch a thief who has been hiding in the swamp and rescue Old Man Paddler.
65) Into the trap
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Twelve-year-old Eddie Atwell accidentally learns who has been stealing lobsters from Fog Island lobstermen and enlists thirteen-year-old Briggs Fairfield, a summer visitor, to help foil their plans.
67) 3 Godfathers
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Fugitive bank robbers care for the newborn of the woman they just buried, knowing it ruins any chance of escape. Director John Ford's western retelling of the Biblical Three Wise Men tale remains a scenic and thematic masterpiece.
68) Home remedy
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"It is 1866. Nineteen-year-old Jason Collins is sent from New Orleans to the Colorado Territory with instructions for his father's friend to either make him a man or break him totally. Kidnapped off the stagecoach by highwaymen, abandoned in the middle of the untamed prairie, and alone in a land he doesn't know, Jay must survive buffalo stampedes, Indians, and the Colorado winter. But what is the real reason his father shipped him west? Is it actually...
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Trixie Belden volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When Trixie Belden and Honey Wheeler find a cut diamond embedded in the dirt floor of the old abandoned gatehouse, they set out to find whoever left it there.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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One night at the St. Nicholas: To escape her stepmother's plot to marry her off, Texas heiress Jacqueline Hartman spends Christmas Eve sharing a hideout with an accused bank robber. After a night in Nathaniel Ward's arms, Jacqueline is certain she has met her match after all. But will his heartfelt promise of love lead to his demise at the hands of the law?
Birdie's flight: Seamstress Birdie Flanagan gets the surprise of her life when she receives...
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Stagecoach robbers evolved as a consequence of the discovery of gold or silver, or some other mineral treasure, and a town would "spring forth from the earth" overnight. Roads were soon built and stage lines began operating. A "pitching Betsy" would take out bullion and dust and bring in payrolls, always through country that was rough and isolated. The temptation to get rich quickly was too great for some, and the demand, "Hold! Throw out that treasure...
72) Shield of stars
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Series
Shield, sword, and the crown volume 1
Shield the sword and the crown volume 1
Shield sword and the crown volume 1
Shield the sword and the crown volume 1
Shield sword and the crown volume 1
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
When the Justice he works for is condemned for treason, fourteen-year-old and semi-reformed pickpocket Weasel sets out to find a notorious bandit who may be able to help save his master's life.
Author
Pub. Date
1998, c1997
Description
Two boys find a suitcase full of cash in the attic of their apartment building. They decide to use the money to help some needy neighbors. But the suitcase belongs to a bank robber. Can the young heroes find a way to capture the criminal and return the money while saving their neighbors one last time?
74) Cloudmaker
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"In 1937 Montana, fourteen-year-old Houston "Huck" Finn finds a dead body in a local creek and steals the man's rare Lindbergh flight watch. Huck is an aspiring aviator, working to build his own airplane--a secret he has kept from his God-fearing mother. His cousin, Annelise, arrives from Los Angeles for a long stay with his family, and Huck is initially wary until he learns she has had flight lessons. As his airplane takes shape, and the young cousins...
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Series
Will Tanner U.S. Deputy Marshal volume 6
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"There's serious trouble brewing in the Choctaw nation, and it goes by the name of Tiny McCoy. This small-time cattle rustler is expanding his brand by brewing batches of whiskey in the Chocktaw territory of Muddy Boggy Creek. Tiny and his partner have also turned the illegal brewery into a robber's roost for outlaws, cutthroats, and killers of every bent. Local lawman Jim Little Eagle is under attack and out-gunned. But when he sends a wire to Fort...
Author
Series
A to Z mysteries. Super editions volume 6
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
77) Zama
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town in which he is stagnating, to a better place. His situation is delicate. He must ensure that nothing overshadows his transfer. He is forced to accept submissively every task entrusted to him by successive Governors who come and go as he stays behind. The years go by and the letter from the King never arrives. When Zama...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Henry Myers lives a hard life. Getting through life on the frontier however he can... even if it means robbing a bank. After his latest heist goes wrong and his partners betray him and leave him for dead, Henry is surprised to find extraordinary kindness from a widow and her children. With the influence of this family, Henry begins to question the choices he's made in his life. Just when things begin to make sense again, it's all ripped away from...
79) Three amigos
Pub. Date
1999
Description
The Three Amigos, a silent screen comedy act, arrive in a remote Mexican hamlet for what they think is a lucrative personal appearance, only to discover that they are expected to save the village from a terrorizing gang of bandits.
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"When word of the Pony Express being formed reached Clay Roswell in Texas, he decided to get a job as a rider. 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 met two brothers, Jess and Hoke Pickard, and agreed to team up with them, at least as far as Salt Lake. They made camp one night in Weber Cañon, east of Salt Lake, but as Roswell lay in his blankets,...