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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous Overland Trail "If you are an adventuresome young woman of high moral character and fine health, are you willing to travel to California in search of a good husband?" It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees the postings soliciting "eligible women" to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter...
22) Dakota dream
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English
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The wide-open plains of the Dakota Territory form the setting for the lives and loves of women making their way in the new world. Armed with a water-stained letter, a faded photograph, and a ticket from Norway to America, Clara Johnson journeys to Soldall ready to fall into the arms of her Dakota Dream. But who she meets instead is a rough and rugged blacksmith named Dag Weinlander.
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English
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A classic historical western of the eighteenth-century American frontier by the celebrated author of Riders of the Purple Sage.
First published in 1906, The Spirit of the Border is a vivid and brutal tale based on true events as chronicled in the journals of Zane Grey's ancestor Col. Ebenezer Zane. It tells the story of Moravian Church missionaries and their efforts to bring peace to the Ohio Valley-efforts that met a tragic end in the destruction...
26) Beloved hope
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Series
Heart of the frontier volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
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Hope Flanagan survived the massacre at the Whitman Mission, but at terrible personal cost. Safe now in Oregon City, she lives with her sisters, Grace and Mercy, and Grace's new husband, Alex. As she spends her days tending their flock of sheep, Hope's mind and soul are slowly healing. Yet, though she was once surrounded by suitors, she has no interest in giving her heart again after the man she loved died in her arms. Hope's precarious new peace is...
27) Cherished mercy
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Heart of the frontier volume 3
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English
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The Inspiring Conclusion to Tracie Peterson's Heart of the Frontier Series Mercy Flanagan survived the Whitman Massacre as a child, and now her heart's cry is for peace between the native peoples and the white settlers inhabiting Oregon Territory. Unfortunately, most of the settlers would rather the tribes were removed from the land completely, one way or the other, and tensions are rising. Mercy has grown tired of Oregon City and feels that she has...
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Yukon quest volume 1
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English
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Driven by desperation, Grace Hawkins must forsake the affluent comfort of her upbringing to save herself from an arranged marriage. Disillusioned by her father's insistence, she forges a daring plan to escape the sinister hand of her intended. Peter Colton sees the Alaskan gold rush as an opportunity to establish his family's fledgling shipping business. An unexpected partnership enables him to pursue those dreams and opens the door to an acquaintance...
29) Hattie Big Sky
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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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.
30) My Antonia
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation of the immigrant.
31) Logan's lady
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English
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"Rediscover this classic romance from bestselling author Tracie Peterson. Journey to Colorado with Lady Amelia Amhurst, who leaves her regal home in England to discover the beauty of America in 1875. Traveling with her father, sisters, and intended fiance, spoils the joy and adventure, until Amelia meets rugged Logan Reed, the party s guide to Estes Park, Colorado. Will the man and the land change Amelia s beliefs about life and love? Also included...
32) Many sparrows
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When settler Clare Inglesby is widowed and her young son, Jacob, captured by Shawnees, she'll do anything to get him back. Frontiersman and adopted Shawnee, Jeremiah Ring, promises to help her recover Jacob. Once they reach the Shawnees and discover Jeremiah's own Shawnee sister has adopted Jacob, keeping his promise becomes far more complicated"--
33) River of blood
Author
Series
Frontiersman series volume 2
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Breck Wallace was tuning into a true mountain man on the American frontier. As a teenager in Tennessee he killed in self-defense, then left behind a woman he loved. With a gun and trap lines he is learning how to survive in the Rockies, braving the punishing elements, ruthless outlaws, and forging an uneasy peace with the Indians. But as dangerous as life is, nothing is worse than a powerful man with a murderous grudge. Breckenridge has left two such...
34) The long winter
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Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A severe blizzard isolates the Dakota town in which Laura and Mary live. A desperate need for food sends Almanzo and another boy on a dangerous trip across the prairie. In May the snow melted and brought the Ingalls' Christmas barrel and the gayest celebration ever.
36) A Hill of Beans
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English
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"Mac Mackenzie has enough problems on his plate. He's got bounty hunters on his tail, no one on his side, and no place to hide. Just when he thinks it can't get any worse, he hears the rumbling of a cattle stampede--heading straight for his camp. Mac's got two choices: Get trampled like a weed or saddle up and help get the herd under control. At first, the traildrivers ain't too pleased to have a stranger help them out. But once they realize Mac's...
37) Dark Territory
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Series
Sheriff Aaron Mackey Westerns volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"In the boomtown of Dover Station, Montana, tracks have been laid and everyone's looking to make a fortune, lawfully or not. And the law has something to say about it--one bullet at a time"--
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Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
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Series
Family Jensen volume 6
Language
English
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"America's fearless frontier clan is about to take on an enemy as cold and relentless as evil itself -- a mad, sadistic surgeon skilled with knives. He and his gang are gunning for the Jensen Sugarloaf ranch to ravage Jensen women, and spill an ocean of Jensen blood ..."
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