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41) Going west
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1991]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
Description
Follows a family's emigration by prairie schooner from the East, across the plains to Kansas.
43) Dandelions
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.
Description
Zoe and her family find strength in each other as they make a new home in the Nebraska territory.
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Series
Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 7
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Responding to an Advertisement, She Crossed an Ocean to Meet a Total Stranger and Became a Mail-Order Bride...Kathleen O'Malley stood on the deck of the Barreth Lily and watched the land she'd called home for more than a dozen years slip from her view. She had thought she would be glad to see the last of it, but she was not. Emotions in turmoil, her whole being yearned to slip from the ship and return to what she knew. Even though Kathleen had not...
45) 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...
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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,...
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.
52) Jubal
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Found grievously injured by rancher Shep Horgan, Jubal Troop, a man who's life has been dogged by bad luck, is offered a job as a cowhand.
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Sold into prostitution as a child, Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Then she meets Michael Hosea, a man who obeys God's call to marry Angel and lover her unconditionally. Set in California's gold country in 1850, Redeeming love is a retelling of the story of Gomer and Hosea, a life-changing story of God's unconditional, redemptive, all-consuming love.
55) Best of the West
Author
Publisher
Publications International
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
312 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
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...
58) Betty Zane
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Zane Grey's debut novel, which he self-published in 1905, "Betty Zane" is the first book in Grey's "Frontier Trilogy" and tells the true biographical story of Elizabeth "Betty" Zane, a hero of the American Revolutionary War and direct ancestor of the author. While under siege at Fort Henry by American Indian allies of the British Army and faced with dwindling supplies, the lovely and sixteen-year-old Betty bravely volunteers to venture out of the...
59) Paradise Valley
Author
Series
Daughters of Caleb Bender volume 1
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Description
In 1921, a new law about public school attendance prompts Caleb Bender to move his family from Ohio to a new settlement in Mexico, where they struggle to make a home in the wilderness and protect themselves against bandits.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 25 cm.
Description
Describes the discovery of gold in California, the rush to California to look for gold, establishment of mining towns, the outbreak of criminal activity, and other aspects of this volatile period in California history.
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