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Mormon elders in the town of Cottonwoods pressure the widow Jane Withersteen to remarry so that her lands and herds will remain in their control. Gradually they frighten away most of her cowboys, and rustlers steal away her cattle, but the gunfighter Lassiter stands by her as the inevitable confrontation draws near.
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
A woman stands accused and a man is sentenced to whipping. Into this travesty of small-town justice rides the one man whom the town elders fear. His name is Lassiter, and he is a notorious gunman who's come to avenge his sister's death. It doesn't take Lassiter long to see that this once peaceful Mormon community is controlled by the corrupt Deacon Tull, a powerful elder who's trying to take the woman's land by forcing her to marry him, branding her...
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2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
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Maximilian finds himself in a wagon traveling west with a prairie dog named Madeline, and witnessing the driving of the "golden spike" and the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869--and incidentally preventing a pair of thieves from making off with a nice couple's wagon and supplies.
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Series
Fire and steel volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
In 1884, the Westland family arrives to settle in the harsh country of San Juan County, Utah, and works hard to make a life as the 19th century comes to a close. In 1908, the Schutze family raises their children and milks their cows in Graswang Village, Germany. For both families, although they don't know it, events are moving them and their world toward World War I.
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