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1) Sod and stubble: the story of a Kansas homestead

Author

Ise, John

Series

A Bison book

Language

English

Formats

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An account of the lives of the author's parents.

2) Riddle of the prairie bride

Author

Reiss, Kathryn

Series

American Girl history mysteries volume 12
Mysteries Through History

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead, but Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the woman with whom Papa has corresponded.

3) Pioneer women: voices from the Kansas frontier

Author

Stratton, Joanna L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Reference

4) Twister on Tuesday

Author

Osborne, Mary Pope

Series

Magic tree house. Original series volume 23

Language

English

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When the magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie back to the 1870's, the land on a prairie near a one-room schoolhouse. They meet a teenage schoolteacher, some cool kids, and one big, scary bully. But just when they think their mission is over, a twister sweeps across the prairie! Can Jack and Annie help their new friends? Or will the twister blow them all away?

5) West of Wichita: settling the high plains of Kansas, 1865-1890

Author

Miner, H. Craig

Publisher

University Press of Kansas

Language

English

Formats

Book, Reference

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"Regional history at its best ... Many of the traditional tales of early hardships- grasshopper plagues, Indian attacks, the stress of loneliness and isolation, drought, blizzards, prairie fires, and the unaccostomed hazards of nature- are retold with vigor and a sense of immediacy. These gritty tales of pioneer persistence and stubbornness are used to illustrate the region's cyclical history of hope and despair ... Not the least is Miner's talents...

6) Butter in the well: a Scandinavian woman's tale of life on the prairie

Author

Hubalek, Linda K

Series

Butter in the well volume 1

Pub. Date

c1992

Language

English

Description

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This is a fictionalized account of Kajsa Svensson Runeberg's first 20 years on her Kansas farm.--Pref.

7) A matter of chastity: the High Plains saga of a woman's revenge

Author

Yocom, Douglas

Publisher

Dusty Cover Books

Pub. Date

2005

Language

English

8) Wolf Springs Place: growing up there

Author

Mog, Hubertine Mary

Publisher

Partnership Book Services

Pub. Date

1997

Language

English

9) Promised land on the Solomon: Black settlement at Nicodemus, Kansas

Pub. Date

1986

Language

English

Formats

Book, Reference

10) Sod And Stubble

Author

Ise, John

Language

English

Formats

Book, Reference

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Deeply moved by his mother's memories of a waning era and rapidly disappearing lifestyle, John Ise painstakingly recorded the adventures and adversities of his family and boyhood neighbors—the early homesteaders of Osborne County, Kansas. First published in 1936, his "nonfiction novel" Sod and Stubble has since become a widely read and much loved classic. In the original, Ise changed some identities and time sequences but accurately retained the...

11) Pioneer plows & steel rails: outriders of civilization in the valley of the Solomon

Publisher

Downs News & Times

Pub. Date

1961

Language

English

12) South wind

Author

Coldsmith, Don

Series

Great Plains saga volume 2

Publisher

Bantam Books

Language

English

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In the 1800s Kansas struggled to unite in a bid for statehood, while the nation was torn apart by a civil war. This story of hope, hatred, and hardship brings to life the farmers and soldiers, the outlaws and opportunists, the immigrants and orphans who came from all corners to call Kansas home.

13) Petticoat pioneers of the Midwest: an account of the lives and times of women who helped make history in the Great Plains area

Publisher

Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs

Pub. Date

[1975 or 1976?]

Language

English

Formats

Book, Reference

14) Wild, woolly & wicked; the history of the Kansas cow towns and the Texas cattle trade

Author

Drago, Harry Sinclair

Language

English

15) True Tales of Old-Time Kansas

Author

Dary, David

Language

English

Formats

Book, Reference

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"Rollicking, adventurous, touching. Whether the reader invests only a few minutes at a time or finishes the book at one sitting, he is in for a lot of fun."--American West'Fascinating tales set down succinctly and excitingly. There are stories of lost treasure and sudden riches, of outlaws and sheriffs, of massacres and heroics. Over the trails: Milt Bryan's adventure on the Santa Fe Trail; The massacre on Walnut Creek; A ride for life; The crazy...