Books You Might Like:

 

Westerns

 

 

Dances with wolves by Michael Blake.

Dunbar became more Indian every day, but when his past came back to haunt him, he discovered who the real savages were and where his loyalty lay.

 

Law for hire : protecting Hickok by Bill Brooks.

In this first blazing installment in an all-new western adventure series, novice Pinkerton private detective Teddy Blue must protect legendary pistoleer Wild Bill Hickok.

 

Law for hire : Defending Cody by Bill Brooks.

Teddy Blue, the young Pinkerton agent with razor-edge instincts and dead-on aim is once again called in to service - this time heĠs caught in a deadly tangle that may be too much for one hired guardian.

 

Law for hire : saving Masterson by Bill Brooks.

The Pinkerton agent has built a reputation as a useful man with a gun, having already saved the famous skins of Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill  Hickok.  But keeping Masterson breathing could prove to be the most difficult assignment of all.

 

This vast land : a young man's journal of the Lewis              and Clark expedition : a novel by Stephen E. Ambrose.

Recounts the 1803 expedition of Lewis and Clark through the words of a young boy who is forced to choose between a woman he meets on the expedition and the life he left behind.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level - 6.6

 

Hey, Cowboy, wanna get lucky? by Baxter Black.

Cowboys Lick and Cody are on a quest to qualify for the rodeo national finals - and their wildly entertaining, often hilarious adventure includes a smattering of sex, violence, intrigue, and the occasional philosophical rumination.

 

Down the long hills by Louis L'Amour.

As the only survivors of an Indian attack on their wagon train, young Hardy Collins and little Betty Sue struggle to survive and find help on the deserted prairie.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level - 5.8       

 

More titles by Louis LĠAmour

Jubal Sackett       

Ride the river 

 

Cloudy in the West by Elmer Kelton.

Twelve-year-old Joey Shipman becomes the target of a murder plot when his father dies and leaves him the family farm, thwarting the plans of his cold-hearted stepmother.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level - 5.8

 

All the pretty horses by Cormac McCarthy.

The story of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers, who, along with two companions, sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level - 4.9

 

The crossing  by Cormac McCarthy.

Billy and Boyd Parham embark on a journey to return a she-wolf to the mountains of Mexico, only to find their destiny and fate.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level - 5.6

 

Cities of the plain by Cormac McCarthy.

The third of a three-part saga, following the lives of John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, cowboys and friends in 1952 who must find a way to cope with their changing world.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level - 4.0

 

Riders of the purple sage by Zane Grey.

Lassiter was a gunman with a reputation as black as his clothes and a mighty vengeance to fulfill.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level - 7.2