A. B Guthrie
1) The big sky
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Western saga (A.B. Guthrie, Jr.) volume 1
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The Big Sky is the first of A.B. Guthrie's epic adventure novels of America's vast frontier. It is a story as great as the land that inspired it, sweeping westward from Kentucky, up the Missouri River into Indian Country. Towering above the novel is Guthrie's unforgettable hero, Boone Caudill, a true mountain man driven by a raging hunger for life and a longing for the blue sky and brown earth of the big, wild places. A legend before he turns 20,...
2) The Way West
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THE WAY WEST brings to life the adventure of the western passage and the pioneer spirit. The sequel to THE BIG SKY, this celebrated novel charts a frontiersman's return to the untamed West in 1846. Dick Summers, as pilot of a wagon train, guides a group of settlers on the difficult journey from Missouri to Oregon. In sensitive but unsentimental prose, Guthrie illuminates the harsh trials and resounding triumphs of pioneer life. With THE WAY WEST,...
3) Wild pitch
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1973
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"After Buster Hogue is shot at the annual town picnic, plenty of motives appear, but no clues point to the sniper. A lot of people had reason to dislike Hogue or even to wish him dead because of personal and unhappy experience; but grudges don't count in the absence of evidence. Chick Charleston, the small-town sheriff, has had no experience with this kind of case, the county not having been inclined to homicidal endeavors. Neither has his county...
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This vivid American saga conjures up the world of cattle ranchers in the 1880's, focusing on a Montana community's boisterous, wanderlusting eccentrics as they chase after love and unbridled ambitions. At its center is Lat Evans, a good hearted cowboy who strikes out from Oregon to Montana on a cattle drive, determined to succeed as a rancher. Gradually though, he discerns how the perils of the world, especially human nature, can conspire to frustarate...
6) Arfive
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Western saga (A.B. Guthrie, Jr.) volume 5
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Novel in which the problems and hardships of life in the West areseen through two of its inhabitants, a schoolteacher and a rancher.
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Western saga (A.B. Guthrie, Jr.) volume 3
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1982
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A novel of the early-day West in the period between 1845 and 1870 in which Dick Summers, a conservationist, seeks retribution from his former countryman Boone Caudill and companionship with Teal Eye.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
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"James Fenimore Cooper's romantic adventure brings the wilds of the American frontier and the drama of the French-Indian War vividly to life. The most popular of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, The Last of the Mohicans portrays the inevitable conflict of opposed cultures and stands as a testament to the ways in which this struggle has been mythologized. Featuring the well-loved noble woodsman Natty Bumppo, or "Hawk-eye," Cooper's novel is a memorable...
14) The Kentuckian
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[2001]
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Follows Kentuckian Big Eli Wakefield as he and his son travel to Texas in 1820 to start a new life. Includes original theatrical trailer.
17) Shane
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A retired gunfighter defends frightened homesteaders from a greedy landowner. On AFI's 100 Movies list. Adapted from the novel by Jack Schaefer.
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c2010
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Lawman: A lawman defies the odds when he single-handedly confronts a gang of killers.
The Kentuckian: Big Eli Wakefield and his son Little Eli are Kentucky adventurers looking for an exciting life on the Texas frontier. They meet challenges along the way when they are cought in a bitter family fued, run into a madman, and fall in love with a beautiful woman.
The unforgiven: Indian by birth, but secretly adopted by whites, Rachel Zachary soon becomes...
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