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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...
64) 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...
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
1998
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204 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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While traveling in 1883 with her Italian American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.
67) Tucket's home
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Tucket adventures volume 5
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2000
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93 p. : map ; 22 cm.
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Francis, Lottie, and Billy survive a series of hair-raising adventures while on their way west, held together by their goal to find Francis' family on the Oregon Trail.
68) The deerslayer
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Follows the adventures of the brave and bold frontiersman Natty Bumppo.
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Journey to the white clouds volume Prequel
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Five Star Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2016]
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359 pages ; 23 cm
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Dirt-poor farmer, Paul Steele, is tested in Nebraska of the 1850's. He and his wife meet adversity head-on and overcome it while teaching their children honesty, loyalty and dedication. As the adults begin to overcome their challenges, the story centers more around their eldest son Simon's friendship with his best friend, Buell. Though these boys have dramatically different personalities, their loyalty to each other is unwavering, and each one takes...
70) Boom town
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Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1997
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After her family moves to California where her father goes to work in the gold fields, Amanda decides to make her own fortune baking pies and she encourages others to provide the necessary services--from a general store to a school--that enables her town to prosper.
71) Follow the river
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Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
2005
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Mary Ingles is a Virginia homesteader whose family is suddenly attacked by a Shawnee war party. After Mary is taken captive, the leader of the war party is impressed by her courage and strength, and decides to make her his mate. Mary then makes the dangerous decision to escape the Shawnee village with another captive woman. Together they embark on a harrowing journey through the Virginia wilderness toward freedom and home.
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From one of the bestselling western novelists of all time, comes another classic story.
Templeton Lambeth had so desperately wanted a son- an heir to ride by his side through the vast, wild ranges just west of the Pecos River. But to his disappointment, his wife bore a girl. His hopes crushed and in denial, he decides to raise his daughter as if she were a boy. In honor of Lambeth's more successful brother, they named her: Terrill.
Upon the arrival...
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Little house chapter books. Laura volume 9
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HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c1998
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72 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
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Laura Ingalls shares adventures and good times with her friends while growing up on the western frontier.
74) The simple wild
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2018.
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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...
75) For this land
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
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107 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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Meg records in her diary the events from July to November of 1856, when her family is reunited and must face challenges from fires to pro-slavery border ruffians who are trying to take over Kansas Territory.
78) Dust devil
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Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
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Having moved to Montana from Tennessee in the 1830s, fearless Angelica Longrider--also known as Swamp Angel--changes the state's landscape, tames a wild horse, and captures some desperadoes.
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
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350 pages cm
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Describes the adventurous prospectors who traversed the United States in 1848 in response to rumors of gold in the Sacramento Valley, detailing the rough and rowdy cities that popped up, seemingly out of thin air, to accommodate the treasure-seekers.
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