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Author
Series
Meg's diary volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In her diary for 1856, nine-year-old Meg describes the long, dangerous journey she and her younger brother make from Missouri to Kansas, as well as the new life they find there.
Author
Series
Plainsmen volume 12
Publisher
Otis Audio
Pub. Date
℗2005, ©1997
Language
English
Description
For Semus Donegan, with a wife and infant son back in Fort Laramie, the campaign following the Army's defeat at the Little Big Horn is a frozen trek through an unforgiving land to face a battle to capture or kill the Lakota Chief Crazy Horse and his one thousand braves.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In 1857 a young midwife braves the perilous journey west from New York City to Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory in this captivating epic from Sara Donati, the international bestselling author of Where the Light Enters. Carrie Ballentyne's life was upended in 1845 when she had to leave the only home she'd ever known in the mountains of upstate New York. With her are her widowed mother and younger brother Nathan, but the separation from Bonner, Ballentyne,...
12) The covenant
Author
Series
McCain chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It was a time of uncertainty in the infancy of the growing nation. The Wild West was open and beckoning to displaced men and families, and many chose to travel to the unsettled frontier, dreaming of new homes, land, and even riches. But few reckoned on those that had lived in those lands for centuries, the native peoples: Blackfoot, Crow, Sioux, and more. Elijah McCain, fresh from the Union army -- where he had attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel...
13) One big open sky
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--
14) The rock
Author
Series
Sisters of the porcelain doll volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The one thing she wants is the thing most out of reach -- a place to call home. After a whiskey still explosion destroys her home and nearly her life, Rebecca Packwood and her father must leave Missouri and her dear friends behind. Crossing the Oregon Trail, she sets out to discover her family's secret history and to forge a home and community out of the raw farm land of Eagle Creek, Oregon Country, never suspecting a ruthless enemy is seeking to...