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1) Texas Rifles
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six-time winner of the Golden Spur Award, Elmer Kelton crafts stories that carry listeners into some of the most vivid years of the American West. Texas Rifles is an action-filled tale of courage in the face of divided loyalties. In 1861, men are enlisting in the Texas Mounted Rifles to keep the land free from Indian raids. There are larger conflicts, however. Texas has seceded from the union while war brews between the North and the South. Sam Houston...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
This is a story of the early days when...
An intense, red-haired young man named Rusty Shannon rides into Fort Belknap on the Brazos River and joins the Texas Rangers. Years before, Mike Shannon rescued Rusty from a Comanche war party and became his adoptive father. Not long ago, Mike Shannon, was bushwhacked and killed, and his death still haunts Rusty. Rusty thinks he knows the identity of Mike's killers. But with Texas now in the throes of seceding...
3) Badger boy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
The Texas Frontier 1865. The Civil War is over and Texas is yielding to the Union soldiers spreading across the state, even into the dangerous Comanche country. Rusty Shannon finds that the Rangers are being disbanded. He makes his way home to find his girl married.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
301 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Andy, a young Texas Ranger, joins forces with Farley, a Confederate soldier turned ranger, to deliver a prisoner to stand trial for murder, but the two lawmen soon find themselves in the middle of two warring families.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hard Trail to Follow is the seventh novel in Elmer Kelton's acclaimed "Texas Ranger" series from Elmer Kelton
Former Texas Ranger Andy Pickard, called "Badger Boy" when he lived with Comanches as a child, is following the plow on West Texas land until he learns that his friend, Sheriff Tom Blessing, has been killed during a jailbreak. The escaped bank robbers are led by a man calling himself Cordell. Andy gets reinstated as a Ranger so he can catch...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
268 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Other Men's Horses, newlywed Texas Ranger Andy Pickard must track down Donley Bannister, on the run after killing a notorious horse thief. But when outlaws ambush Ranger Pickard, Bannister risks his life to rescue his pursuer-giving the injured young ranger reason to pause.
Author
Series
A novel of the Texas Rangers volume 9
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
284 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having finished Texas Standoff, seven-time Spur Award winner Elmer Kelton-the Western Writers of America's "Best Western Writer of All Time"-took his leave with 50 notches on his gunbelt of classics. When Ranger Andy Pickard is sent to central Texas to investigate a series of killings and cattle thefts, two prominent cattlemen are prime suspects. But the rise of a gang of masked vigilantes and the arrival of a notorious hired gunman complicate matters....
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
479 p.
Language
English
Description
"Lara Church has only hazy memories of her long-ago attack. What she does have is a home in Austin, a job, and a chance at a normal life at last. Then Texas Ranger James Beck arrives on her doorstep with shattering news: The Strangler is back. And this time, he's in Austin"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
550 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ranger's trail: Spring of 1874, Ranger companies are being reorganized and David "Rusty" Shannon is the most sought-after veteran. But he has a new goal, to marry Josie Monahan. He also feels responsibility for Andy Pickard, who he rescued from the Comanche. But tragedy changes Rusty's plans and bent on revenge, he pursues Josie's killer. But the trail he follows may lead him astray.
Texas vendetta: Young Andy Pickard is in the midst of a bloody...
14) You're not safe
Author
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the body of Greer Templeton's ex-boyfriend is found hanged near her vineyard, Texas Ranger Tec Bragg initially suspects Greer, but soon realizes that a killer is targeting people connected to a center for troubled teens.
16) Buzzard's Bluff
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Johnstone County. Wilder than ever. Welcome to the Lost Coyote Saloon. Saddle up to the bar and order a whiskey. Play a few hands of poker. But don't make any trouble. The new owner is savage. Ben Savage. Once a Texas Ranger, he's always cocked and ready for some fool to come looking for payback . . . Eat, drink, and be wary. When Ben Savage receives a telegram informing him that an old friend died--and left him his saloon--he's not sure what to...