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Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD(approx. 93 min.) : digital, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This classic story tells of life in post-Revolutionary America in which a man reluctantly leaves his 13-year-old son to guard their cabin in the wilderness while he returns to bring back the rest of the family and their possessions.
62) Sons of thunder
Author
Series
Slash and Pecos volume 5
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Description
It sounds like an easy job: track down the lady friend of notorious outlaw Duke Winter and bring her in for questioning. There’s just one problem: Slash and Pecos have never met a woman like Miss Fannie Diamond, a glamorous showgirl who’s prettier than a French poodle, slicker than a Dodge City gambler, and more slippery than a Mojave rattlesnake. She knows that Slash and Pecos are coming for her and has no intention of being caught—not without...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
332 pages : map ; 24 cm
Description
AIn 1886, Gretta Pope wakes one morning to discover that her husband is gone. Ulysses Pope has left his family behind on the far edge of Minnesota?s western prairie with only the briefest of notes and no explanation for why he left or where he?s headed. It doesn?t take long for Gretta?s young sons, Eli and Danny, to set off after him, following the scant clues they can find, jumping trains to get where they need to go, and ending up in the rugged...
Publisher
Goodtimes Home Video
Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (49 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The collection" guest-stars Johnny Cash as Caleb Hodgekiss, a down-on-his-luck con man who poses as a minister to take advantage of the good people of Walnut Grove. His real-life wife, June Carter Cash, plays Mattie Hodgekiss, who warns her husband he's going to get in trouble again when he collects donations for the victims of a fire, intending to take them for himself.
67) Desolation Creek
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Series
Smoke Jensen novels volume 5
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Description
Smoke Jensen settled in Colorado to build a legacy for his wife Sally and their family. In the days before their Sugarloaf Ranch would become legendary across the western frontier, the Jensens fought not only to succeed but to survive in an untamed land full of wild, often barbaric men who sought fortune and glory while killing with violent glee… Building a ranch takes heart and grit. Smoke and Sally Jensen are more than capable of meeting the challenges...
68) A good man
Author
Series
Western trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
464 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"The final installment in his nationally best-selling trilogy, Guy Vanderhaeghe's A Good Man returns to the nineteenth-century Canadian and American West to explore the waning days of one of the world's last great frontiers. Wesley Case, a former soldier and the son of a Canadian lumber baron, sets out into the untamed borderlands between Canada and the United States to escape a dark secret from his past. He settles in Montana where he hopes to buy...
69) Killer take all
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"Scotsman-turned-cowboy Duff MacCallister traveled far and worked hard to start a new life in America. And anyone who tries to mess with his dream is in for some serious Highland justice...The cattle town of Chugwater may not look like much to outsiders. But for Duff MacCallister and the determined settlers who've staked their futures here, it's a land of opportunity. That's why the whole town is fired up by the latest news. Young railroad developer...
70) Firestick
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"In his mountain-man days, Elwood "Firestick" McQueen was practically a living legend. His hunting, tracking, and trapping skills were known far and wide. But it was his deadly accuracy with a rifle that earned him the Indian name "Firestick." His two best buddies are Malachi "Beartooth" Skinner-whose knife was as fatal as a grizzly's chompers-and Jim "Moosejaw" Hendricks, who once wielded the jawbone of a moose to crush his enemies in the heat of...
Author
Series
Sarah Agnes Prine novels volume 1
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
11 CDs (14 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author's own family memoirs, these words belong to Sarah Prine, a woman of spirit and fire who forges a full and remarkable existence in a harsh, unfamiliar frontier. Scrupulously recording her steps down the path Providence has set her upon-from child to determined young adult to loving mother-she shares the turbulent events, both joyous and tragic, that molded her, and recalls the enduring...
73) Vengeance Road
Author
Series
Vengeance road volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
327 pages : map ; 22 cm
Description
"When her father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal that reveals the secret location of a gold mine, eighteen-year-old Kate Thompson disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers--and justice"--
76) West: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
149 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When widower John Cyrus Bellman learns of colossal animal bones found in Kentucky, he leaves his daughter on their Pennsylvania farm and heads west in search of the unknown animals.
Author
Series
American girls collection volume Kirsten 4
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Description
A tough Minnesota winter brings many changes to Kirsten's frontier life, including the new responsibility of helping her brother Lars set his traps and a move into a new house for her family.
Author
Publisher
Olive Collins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"In 1865, Goldie O'Neill was nine years of age when she trekked across the unclaimed American West with her family to form their own Irish catholic Colony. Their new community had dreams of self-governance and prosperity far removed from the anti-Irish sentiment and prejudice of the ruling classes. They soon learned about the extremes of the American West and the ongoing Indian war. A year after their arrival, Goldie blames herself for her sister's...
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
39 p. : col. ill. ; 15 cm.
Description
Nine-year-old Kirsten keeps her friendship with a Sioux Indian girl a secret until Kirsten's little brother becomes lost in the woods. Includes a section on Sioux Indians and a project related to the story.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her mind. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather, she has come to claim an inheritance from the uncle she never knew: a defunct newspaper office on a main street overflowing with brothels and saloons, and a seemingly worthless mine. Moved by the oppression of the local miners and their families, Kathryn...
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