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Pub. Date
2023.
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Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It's locked at all times. Because when the trunk is opened, people around her start to disappear... The year is 1914, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, and forced her to flee her hometown of Redondo, California, in a hellfire rush, ready to make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will be one of...
Author
Series
Little house chapter books. Laura volume 9
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
72 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Description
Laura Ingalls shares adventures and good times with her friends while growing up on the western frontier.
43) One big open sky
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
296 pages : black and white illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Description
In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska.
Author
Publisher
Shiloh Run Press, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"On the run from a brute of an aristocratic employer, Eleanor Morgan escapes from England to America, the land of the free, for the opportunity to serve an upstanding Charles Town family. But freedom is hard to come by as an indentured servant, and downright impossible when she's forced to agree to an even harsher contract--marriage to a man she's never met."--page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Twelve-year-old Colton, son of a black mother and a white father, takes a job with the Pony Express in 1860 after his father abandons the family on their California-bound wagon train, and risks his life to deliver an important letter that may affect the growing conflict between the North and South.
Author
Pub. Date
[1826]
Description
While guiding a small party of English settlers to the protection of a fort during the French and Indian War, Hawkeye, a frontier scout, and his two Indian friends, the remaining braves of the Mohican tribe, struggle against the evils of Uncas who desires a white maiden for his wife.
Author
Series
Western frontier library volume 4
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"The first national bestseller ever to be written by a San Franciscan." -San Francisco Examiner, Sept. 15, 1981
"We think it is doubtful that Joaquin can be taken...they have got a stronghold in the chapparal, whence they can commit great destruction." - NY Times, March 29, 1853
"Captain Harry Love met with the notorious murderer and robber Joaquin, and six of his equally infamous band, at Panocha Pass... a desperate running fight." - The Brooklyn...
50) Hattie Big Sky
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.
51) Thirteenth child
Author
Series
Frontier magic volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Eighteen-year-old Eff must finally get over believing she is bad luck and accept that her special training in Aphrikan magic, and being the twin of the seventh son of a seventh son, give her extraordinary power to combat magical creatures that threaten settlements on the western frontier.
53) The simple wild
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
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Description
Calla Fletcher was two when her mother took her and fled the Alaskan wild, unable to handle the isolation of the extreme, rural lifestyle, leaving behind Calla's father, Wren Fletcher, in the process. Calla never looked back, and at twenty-six, a busy life in Toronto is all she knows. But when her father reaches out to inform her that his days are numbered, Calla knows that it's time to make the long trip back to the remote frontier town where she...
54) Triple play
Author
Series
Triple play volume 1
Publisher
Five Star Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Baseball, brush popping cows, burglaries, and a big earthquake all work together to keep Tucker moving as he tries to retrieve stolen cattle and avenge the murder of his father. He returns after an absence of two years to find his sweetheart married to his best friend and himself falsely accused of murder.
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A prairie wedding and then a funeral bring together extended family and friends in the fifth and final volume in the historical fiction series that started with the exquisite Newbery Medal Book Sarah Plain and Tall (1985). Once again, heartwarming is the word for the story, which is always true to a child's viewpoint. The narrator here is Sarah's daughter, Cassie, a fourth-grader in the prairie school of six pupils, and the core drama is the close,...
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Frank Rivers had served four years in the penitentiary for the murder of his father in the commission of a stagecoach robbery. There had been a witness that could not be found at the time of the trial but whos testimony four years later was sufficient for Rivers to receive a full pardon. But for Rivers the matter is scarcely ended. He wants to find the real culprits behind the crime. His search leads him to Ute Springs where he immediately comes to...
57) Lawless town
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
6 CDs (6 hrs., 30 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In two western stories, a reluctant gunfighter and a former buffalo hider must stand alone against lawless men to make their chosen towns safe.
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"Synopsis : In 1885, young Rose Edwards is widowed by Montana vigilantes who hang her husband for an alleged theft, then burn her Yellowstone Valley cabin to the ground as a warning for her and others of her kind to quit the territory. Penniless and illiterate, yet fiercely independent, Rose begins a two-year odyssey to revisit the land of her childhood, a land she once traveled with her father, an itinerant robe trader among the Assiniboines and...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Barbie's family sets up a backyard campsite to try living like pioneers, but when her mother needs to get an important project to work and there is too much traffic for her to get it there on time, the girls come up with a way to save the day.
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