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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Boone McCallister was interviewed in 1937 for the American Legends Collection, a part of the Federal Writer's Project. Speaking into an Edison Dictaphone, he narrated the events concerning a dangerous cattle drive in Florida back when the state was still largely unsettled. Here is the story of a young man's first cattle drive in 1864 and the legend of David Klee and an encounter with an alligator.
Author
Series
American Legends Collection volume 7
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"When a decades-old feud between a wealthy plantation owner named Watson and a mixed-blood Chickasaw family explodes in violence, Elijah Two-Buck finds himself homeless and on the run. Locating his brother, the infamous Kid Jace, and his gang of cattle rustlers, Lige reluctantly joins the band of thieves. But when a Watson-led raid on the Two-Buck family farm results in the loss of innocent lives and the law refuses to intervene, the brothers realize...
32) Annie Oakley
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Annie Oakley was a real woman who became a legend through her extraordinary life and skills. She was a crack shot with a rifle and became a star attraction of Buffalo Bills Wild West Show. She also became a symbol of Americans indomitable spirit and the thirst for adventure and opportunity that drove people to expand westward into unknown territory.
35) Pecos Bill
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Relates the remarkable exploits of legendary hero Pecos Bill, who was raised by coyotes, lassoed a tornado, and wrestled the Loch Ness monster.
37) John Henry
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Ms. Becker teaches her class about John Henry, who, legend says, competed against a steam drill in tunneling through a mountain while helping build a railroad across the United States.
39) Rip Van Winkle
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains awakes to a much-changed world.
40) The Bell Witch
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In the early 1800s, after John Bell shoots at a strange animal in his cornfield near Tennessee's Red River, he and his family fall victim to malicious attacks by an entity called the Bell Witch.