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4) Gene Autry
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Four western films featuring Gene Autry. The man from music mountain: When Gene Autry is swindled into buying worthless plots of land he attempts to trick the land developer into buying them back; Oh, Susanna!: A western musical in which Gene Autry is robbed and thrown from a train; The old barn dance: Autry outsmarts the land connoisseur who seems to possess every major company in town; The old corral: Sheriff Autry protects a witness to a murder...
5) El Dorado
Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
A sheriff fights cattlemen and empire builders as he tries to tame the West.
Pub. Date
2004
Description
The trail beyond: Rod Drew is on the hunt for an old family friend's long-lost miner brother and his niece. Drew takes a train to northwestern Canada where he runs into an old buddy, Wabi, on the run after being framed for murder. The pair, hiding from the law, stumbles onto a map leading to the missing Ball family's cabin and a fortune in gold. -- "Riders of destiny: Villain James Kincaid is forcing farmers off their land by charging outrageous prices...
12) The Virginian
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
After his parents were killed, South (also known as "The Virginian") was raised by a powerful cattle baron to uphold the "code of the West" as a ranch enforcer. But when South begins to investigate the latest string of rustling, he finds his convictions questioned and discovers his mentor may have had ulterior motives for taking him in.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
The rare letters Tell Sackett received always had trouble inside. And the terse note from his cousin Logan is no exception. Logan faces starvation or a hanging if Tell can’t drive a herd of cattle from Kansas to British Columbia before winter. To get to Logan, he must brave prairie fires, buffalo stampedes, and Sioux war parties. But worse trouble waits, for a mysterious enemy shadows Sackett’s every move across the Dakotas and the Canadian Rockies....
15) The Homesman
Pub. Date
2015
Description
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs to join her.
Description
Three Civil War veterans team up with a train robber's widow to recover the loot from her husband's last job--a cool half-million in gold which is hidden somewhere south of the Mexican border. For backup they've got two nervous young gunslingers and a balky mule packing enough dynamite to blow up the Alamo.
Description
You know my name: Bill Tilghman, a lawman and former partner of Wyatt Earp, confronts a new era when outlaws run whiskey instead of cattle and are as likely to tote a tommy gun as a six-gun ; The desperate trail: A relentless marshal obsessed with serving justice trails an outlaw couple who are just as bent on freedom ; Rough Riders: A fact-based, rough and tumble western depicting a young and energetic Theodore Roosevelt leading his legendary Rough...
Description
This time, the legendary Zorro fights against evil-doers with the help of his beautiful wife, Elena, and their precocious young son, Joaquin. Alejandro De LaVega is torn between two worlds: his life as Zorro and his life as a family man. After Alejandro once again breaks his promise to stop wearing the mask, Elena leaves him, and she soon begins seeing Armand, a haughty French Count. But a mysterious explosion in the desert leads Zorro to believe...