Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
89 p. : coll. ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
A collection of stories which describe the experiences of a pioneer girl and her family as they celebrate various Christmases In the Big Woods in Wisconsin, on the prairie in Indian Territory, and on the banks of Plum Creek.
Author
Description
"1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck - in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly to tame their patch of land, buying saplings from a local tree man known as John Appleseed so they can cultivate the fifty apple trees required to stake their claim on the property. But the orchard they plant sows the seeds of a long battle. James loves the apples, reminders of...
25) My Ántonia
Author
Series
Formats
Description
The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly concerning a young Bohemian girl named Ántonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation of the immigrant.
27) Caddie Woodlawn
Author
Series
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Chronicles the adventures of eleven-year-old Caddie growing up with her six brothers and sisters on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
28) Little Big Man
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jack Crabb is 121 years old. And he's done it all. He's been a full-fledged Cheyenne, an Indian fighter, a snake oil merchant, master gunman, drinking buddy of wild Bill Hickok, colleague of Buffalo Bill, and is the only survivor of Custer's Last Stand. Crabb is either the Old West's most neglected hero or the biggest liar ever to cross the Mississippi. Little Big Man is Jack Crabb's story.
31) Shane
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A drifter and retired gunfighter assists a homestead family terrorized by an aging cattleman and his hired gun.
32) Going to town
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
A little pioneer girl and her family, living in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, make their first trip into town to visit the general store.
Author
Formats
Description
This is the story of reluctant Oregon pioneer Jennie Haviland, who must give up study at her academy in New York when her father takes the family west over the Oregon Trail. In Oregon Jennie meets two young men, American mountain man Jake Johnston and British Hudson's Bay Company clerk Alan Radford. The two men vie for Jennie, as their nations vie for the contested territory of this rich western frontier. But Jennie wants choices of her own.
Author
Formats
Description
A freak cattle stampede throws a young girl visiting her uncle's ranch into a life-or-death struggle with a local outlaw gang!
Young Hope Farman has arrived from the East for a visit with her uncle Nate at his Rancho del Encanto. She is being driven to the ranch when a cloud of dust appears on the horizon, filled with thundering hooves, as a cattle stampede storms toward them! In the chaos that ensues, Hope is thrown from her seat and into the path...
Author
Series
Daughters of Caleb Bender volume 2
Formats
Description
As a displaced Amish community struggles in a lawless Mexico, a forbidden love blossoms, and one man is pushed to the limits of his convictions.
Publisher
Imavision Distribution
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The television movie that started the Little house on the prairie series takes viewers "from the woods of Wisconsin to the plains of Kansas, where the Ingalls struggle to build a new life"--Container.
Author
Series
Return to Red River volume 1
Formats
Description
It is 1893 and the first generation of immigrants who came to America for the promise of free land and a good life for their children have finally achieved their dreams. They labored hard on the land and now have a bountiful heritage to pass on to the next generation. However, many of the young people aren't interested in becoming farmers--they have aspirations of their own. Thorliff Bjorklund has been writing stories and plays since he was a young...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Let us know! Suggest a Title