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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 17
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Hold on to your hats: The authors who brought you the New York Times bestseller My Plain Jane, which Booklist praised as delightfully deadpan (starred review) and Publishers Weekly called a clever, romantic farce (starred review), are back with another irreverent historical adventure. Welcome to 1876 America, a place bursting with gunslingers, outlaws, and garou -- better known as werewolves. And where there are garou, there're hunters: the one and...
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2021.
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"Martha Jane Cannary ran through names like whiskey, but one moniker stuck-Calamity Jane. Stranded in a Virginia City mining camp, this orphan blasted through the 1860s West, determined to be noticed and tell her own story. The Not So Quiet Life of Calamity Jane shatters the veneer of legends to reveal her tenacious heart. Rowdy and seemingly hell-bent on her own destruction, this devoted friend, jilted lover, sometime wife, and heartbroken mother...
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What are the true hidden stories behind the mythical and most notorious women of the Wild West days, including Calamity Jane, Cattle Kate, Belle Starr, Lola Montez, Pearl Hart, Madame Moustache, Carrie Nation, and Bridget Grant?
In his 1927 book, "Calamity Jane and the Lady Wildcats," journalist Duncan Aikman (1889-1955) through meticulous research has uncovered the often-amazing hidden stories behind the glamorous myths of these matrons of the Old...
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Oklahoma western biographies volume 29
Pub. Date
[2014]
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Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. This concise, and exhaustively researched biography traces the real person from the Missouri farm where she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine.
11) Calamity Jane
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Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
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A biography of one the West's wildest women known for her outrageous behavior and claims of scouting for the Army and fighting off Indians.
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Pub. Date
[2005]
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"This book is a definitive biography of Martha Canary, the woman known as Calamity Jane. Written by one of today's foremost authorities on this notorious character of the Old West, it is a meticulously researched account of how an alcoholic prostitute was transformed into a Wild West heroine, correcting previous depictions as it traces the making of the legend. James D. McLaird has sorted through conflicting accounts of her life and adventures to...
14) Calamity Jane
Pub. Date
1953.
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Calamity Jane is a calamity at love--she's too busy cracking a bullwhip to pay much mind to such girlie what-alls as dresses and perfume. But when an actress arrives in Deadwood and uses her feminine charms on Jane's secret love, Wild Bill Hickock, Jane tries to mend her ways.
15) Ranch War
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Pub. Date
[2006]
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A quintet of stories, most dating from the 1930s. They include The Devil's Brand, on a cowboy who wins a ranch in a poker game which brings him nothing but grief, and Wild Wind, Brave Wind, on a range war between cattlemen and sheepmen. By the author of the short story, The Man from Laramie.
19) Calamity Jane
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Pub. Date
2022.
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The delightfully tall tale of how Martha Jane Cannary came to be known as Calamity Jane, the toughest woman in the old wild West. Additional features to aid comprehension include background information and historical context of the tale, and an introduction to the author and illustrator. Author/Illustrator biography Educational front/back matter Tall tales thrive on exaggeration and embellishment, making them some of our nation's most cherished creative...
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Pub. Date
2007
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The town of Deadwood, South Dakota is a lawless sinkhole of crime and corruption. Into this uncivilized outpost ride a disillusioned and bitter ex-lawman, Wild Bill Hickok, and Seth Bullock, a man hoping to find a new start for himself. Both men find themselves quickly on opposite sides of the legal and moral fence from Al Swearengen, saloon owner, hotel operator, and incipient boss of Deadwood. The lives of these three intertwine with many others,...