Central Kansas Library System

When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.

Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead. The fifth in the Laura Ingalls Wilder series stories of a family growing up in the new west.

When a novel like Huckleberry Finn, or The Yearling, comes along it defies customary adjectives because of the intensity of the respouse it evokes in the reader. Such a book, we submit, is Old Yeller; to read this eloquently simple story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country is an unforgettable and deeply moving experience. Set in the rough wilderness of early frontier Texas, "Old Yeller" is a timeless coming-of-age tale. Travis is left to...

A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.

A marriage of convenience blossoms into heartfelt love in a pioneer setting in the Old West. Fiction in the Little-House-on-the-Prairie tradition.

"A Woman For The Winter. Montana Territory and a band of Assiniboine Indians give Preacher shelter for the winter. A beautiful woman named Ravens Wing makes the sheltering even betteronce he gets things straight with a jealous brave who wants to lift Preachers scalp. A Fire In The Night. Across the border is another wanderer and another tribe. Preachers old enemy, Willie Deaver, plies a band of Indians with the deadliest combination possible: whisky,...

Story of farm life before farms were mechanized and electrified. "This farmer boy lived in northern New York about 1868. School days, beginning when he was nine years old, work on the farm and some innocent pleasures rounded out his life." Wis. bul.

Young Matt Brennan is left as owner of the Two-Bar Ranch which lies right in the middle of an ongoing range war.

Tells what life was like on the frontier trail through a series of imagined letters written by Deborah Pieratt, a woman who traveled from Kentucky to Kansas in 1854, taking care of her family of six young children and protecting them from the perils of the road.