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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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Rafe Caradec - gambler, wanderer, soldier of fortune - was as hard a man as the battlefields and waterfronts of Latin America could fashion, but he was as good as his word. As Charles Rodney lay dying in a dank ship's fo'c'sle. Rafe swore to make sure that Rodney's Wyoming ranch went to his daughter, Ann. In Painted Rock, Wyoming, Caradec found land for a man to love, miles of rolling grasslands and towering mountains. He also found that one of the...
3) Free fire
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
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Joe Pickett, recently fired from his job as a Wyoming game warden, is working on his father-in-law's ranch when he receives a visit from the governor. Governor Rulon - a devious but down-home politico - has a special request, one Joe knows he can't refuse. For weeks, the headlines have been abuzz with the story of Clay McCann, a lawyer who slaughtered four campers in cold blood in a far-off corner of Yellowstone National Park, then turned himself...
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Pub. Date
2010.
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Nationally award-winning guidebook author Douglas Lorain details both the famous and the hidden treasures in his picks of the Cowboy State's 28 most enjoyable and beautiful backpack trips in and around Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, the Beartooth and Bighorn Mountains, the Absaroka and Snowy Ranges, the Wind River Range, Gros Ventre, Bear Lodge, and Salt River Mountains. A detailed trail map and photographs accompany each trip.
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Pub. Date
2018.
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The Bridger-Teton National Forest contains a rich resource of fen wetlands. This report and associated dataset provides the BTNF with a critical tool for conservation planning at both a local and Forest-wide scale. These data will be useful for the ongoing BTNF biological assessment required by the 2012 Forest Planning Rule, but can also be used for individual management actions, such as planning for timber sales, grazing allotments, and trail maintenance....
8) Chancy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Poor, orphaned at thirteen, Otis Chancy left the Tennessee mountains with nothing but a will to work, a drive to succeed, and the backbone for a fight. So when a fight comes his way, along with a chance to buy a herd of cattle and start his own spread, nineteen-year-old Chancy doesn't hesitate. He guns down a man who'd been using a sheriff's badge to justify cattle thieving. But when a mysterious woman betrays him, he will find himself stalked by...
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A guide to hiking in the Denver, Boulder, and Front Range communities of Colorado that includes more than 170 hikes, ranging from simple day hikes to more complex mountaineering adventures, with information on each hike's difficulty level, notable sites, distance, elevation gain and loss, maps, and more.
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Trail drive series volume 2
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Benton McCaleb and his band of cowboys brave over a thousand miles of trail to drive cattle into Wyoming's Sweetwater Valley.They are setting up a ranch just north of Cheyenne where a ruthless railroad baron and his hired killers try to force them off the land.
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Pub. Date
c2009
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"Dianna Kouris grew up in a tough family, pioneers in a remote valley touching Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado, along the Green River....with photographs leading the reader through the stories, showing the high expectations and love that created responsible adults, the people, livestock, and land depended on one another, trusted one another, and reinforced one another"--Linda M Hassletrom (author).
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This is a comprehensive guide to every site and swath of landscape in the U.S. National Park system, from coast-to-coast and world famous National Parks to lesser known sites of historical or natural significance including national trails and affiliated areas. Includes practical advice on how to reach each park, when to go and what to do there.
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When, at age sixty-seven, backpack guru Colin Fletcher decided to make a six-month, single-handed, foot-and-raft expedition down the full length of the Colorado River, it was not only for adventure but because he needed "something to pare the fat off my soul...to make me grateful, again, for being alive"..