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"Considine and Pete Runyon had once been friends, back in the days when both were cowhands. But when Runyon married the woman Considine loved, the two parted ways. Runyon settled down and became a sheriff. Considine took up robbing banks. Now Considine is planning a raid on the bank at Obaro, a plan that will pit him against Runyon ... and lead to riches or suicide. The one thing he never counted on was meeting a strong, beautiful woman and her stubborn...
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A pivotal piece of nineteenth-century Native American history from a tireless warrior seeking justice for his people.
Storied leader of the Bedonkohe band of the Chiricahua Apache tribe, Geronimo led resistance against Mexican and American troops seeking to drive the Apache from their land during the 1850s through the 1880s. In 1886, he finally surrendered to the US Army and became a prisoner of war. Although he would never return to his homeland,...
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910L
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English
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Tell Sackett has a healthy respect for the Apaches as warriors, but that doesn't stop him from crossing the border into the Sierra Madres to rescue his nephew. What bothers Tell more is the boy's mother. Could she be inventing a rescue mission that is really intended to deliver her husband's brother into an Apache ambush? Tell knows the only things he can depend on are his wits and cold steel, but this time, that may not be enough.
5) Apache
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1040L
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English
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"A history of the people and events that influenced the North American Indian tribe known as the Apache, including warrior Geronimo and conflicts such as the Camp Grant Massacre"--
6) Dead river
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"On the wild western frontier, the three men known as the Jackals stand between the law and the lawless-delivering their own brand of justice with a fast draw, dead aim, and enough bullets to populate Boot Hill. Johnstone Territory. Where Death Rides Hard. Apache renegade Bloody Hand plays a role in each of the Jackals' lives. To bounty hunter Jed Breen, he is man with a price on his head. To retired cavalry segeant Sean Keegan, he is a cellmate after...
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Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
960L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps.
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English
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Presents photos, illustrations, and information about Geronimo, the Apache warrior. Discusses his childhood, harmful effects of white settlement, moving to a reservation, and Geronimo in battle. Includes a timeline, glossary, index, Common Core connection, and resources for further information.
9) Lawless
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Half-Apache Jake Redman was more than a match for the wild Arizona Territory. Sarah Conway was an Eastern lady who belonged anywhere else but on the rugged land Jake loved. Annoyed to find himself playing guardian angel to an innocent, Jake was even more disgusted to find that he liked it.
11) Canyons
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930L
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English
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Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s.
12) Dead man's map
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Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
650L
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1 online resource (105 pages) : illustrations.
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English
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While in Phoenix to work for his uncle's construction firm in hopes of earning money to save his family's Texas ranch, Josh finds a map that might lead to a legendary lost mine and asks his twin cousins to help him find it, despite bad omens.
14) Hondo
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Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Special collector's ed. ; full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Hondo Lane, a dispatch rider for the cavalry, encounters Angie Lowe, a woman living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory. She presumes she is safe because the Apaches, under their chief Vittorio, have always left them alone. Later Hondo has a run-in with Angie's good-for-nothing husband and is forced to kill him. When Vittorio captures Hondo to save his life, Angie tells the Apache chief that he is her husband. In order...
15) Hondo
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740L
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English
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The year is 1874, and the whites have broken their treaty with the Apache Nation. Hondo, a U.S. Cavalry dispatch rider, encounters a woman and her son living alone in Apache territory, and leads them to safety, falling in love along the way.
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Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 362 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
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English
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Based on the life experiences of his great-great-great-uncle and his extensive research, Scott Zesch paints a vivid portrait of life on the Texas frontier in The Captured and offers one of the few nonfiction accounts of captivity.
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"It starts with an unusual request: 'On this trip there will be no cussing, no drinking, no gambling, and no loose women.' No problem. Or so Red Ryan thinks--until he meets the passengers. They include four holy and silent monks, one beautiful lady tutor, and a drunken, washed-up gunfighter. Even worse, they're crossing the wild Texas hill country where bloodthirsty Apaches are on the loose and a mad-dog killer is on the prowl. But that can't compare...
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Pub. Date
2006
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287 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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They rode into the heat and the blistering wind of the Arizona badlands, two young men bonded together by a Cheyenne ritual that made them as one. Know as brothers of the Wolf, Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves were hard on a trail that leads them deeper and deeper into the Apache territory toward the Mexican border where desperados were operating a gunrunning dodge and white slavery ring of kidnapped children. Matt and Sam hook up with two others along...
20) Riding shotgun
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Red Ryan must protect the passengers, including an army major's beautiful but stubborn wife, on a stage bound from Fort Concho, Texas, to Fort Bliss, as they face bloodthirsty Apaches who are on the warpath.
If anyone knows the road to purgatory, its Red Ryan. As a stagecoach guard, hes faced holdups, ambushes, and all-out attacks from every kill-crazy outlaw, Indian, and prairie rat. But even hes a bit reluctant to take on his next job: riding shotgun...