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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 10
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A young woman overshadowed by a better-looking, more-charming sister, loses out in the affections of a man they both want. The novel chronicles how she finds peace with the help of religion. By the author of Love Comes Softly. The heartwarming story of sisters whose relationship is threatened when both are attracted to the same man.
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 11
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Ariana loves her life-her parents, her little town, her job as the town's schoolteacher, her students. But one evening after classes are done and she prepares to hurry home before a blizzard hits, her whole life changes in an instant.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 10
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Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to the Wild West, where they experience excitement and danger and try to solve a riddle.
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As wild as the Wyoming frontier and a terror when spurned, Jessie Blair is furious when she over hears Chase Summers refusing her hand — and vows to seduce the handsome drifter out of spite.
Enraged by Jessie's arrogance yet haunted by her beauty, Chase is irresistible drawn to the headstrong miss — and into her troubles with the land-hungry villains who murdered her father. For his pride insists he tame the fiery temptress who
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First mountain man series volume 10
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Employing his survival skills, Preacher, the first mountain man, leaves his home in the Rocky Mountain range to avenge the death of a woman from his past, in this thrilling novel that details the origins of the legendary Preacher.
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An Essential Compendium for Any Firearms or Old West Aficionado, richly and comprehensively illustrated. Written by one of the foremost firearms experts of the twentieth century, Charles Edward Chapel's Guns of the Old West is an exhaustively researched document that not only boasts a significant collection of antique Western guns, but also categorizes the firearms into easy-to-reference sections. Starting with an introductory chapter on the origins...
7) Revealed
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Fountain Creek chronicles volume 2
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Pursued by a Texas bounty hunter, Matthew returns to Fountain Creek, Colorado, to apologize to his brother for insulting his wife Annabelle and to share his Idaho homestead. Learning that his brother has left already, he answers an ad for someone to guide a widow to Idaho. But he's shocked to see the widow is Annabelle--a woman whose sordid past repulses him.
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Eagles series volume 3
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Finding himself called by both the Union and Confederate armies to serve, Shawnee-raised mountain man MacCallister is devastated when his sons are forced to fight on opposing sides, and, when the war is over, he becomes a revenge-seeker's target.
9) Mr. Tucket
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In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild. Fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is heading west on the Oregon Trail with his family by wagon train. When he receives a rifle for his birthday, he is thrilled that he is being treated like an adult. But Francis lags behind to practice shooting and is captured...
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House of Winslow volume 13
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Thomas Winslow fought bravely in the Civil War and was fortunate to survive the grim carnage. But the final defeat on the field of battle was far less painful than the personal defeat he encountered upon his return home. Betrayed by his wife and best friend, the only remnant of his marriage and love was a newborn daughter. Despite the difficulties, Tom remained adamant against giving Laura up. He eventually took a job with the Department of Indian...
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Tucket adventures volume 2
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Having separated from the one-armed trapper who taught him how to survive in the wilderness of the Old West, fifteen-year-old Francis gets lost and continues to have adventures involving dangerous men and a friendly mule.
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"The novel follows the Cecil family's arduous journey by riverboat and wagon from Boone's Lick, Missouri, to Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming. Fifteen-year-old Shay narrates, describing the journey that begins when his Ma, Mary Margaret, decides to hunt down her elusive husband, Dick, to tell him she's leaving him. Without knowing precisely where he is, they set out across the plains in search of him, encountering grizzly bears, stormy weather, and hostile...
13) Follow me down to Nicodemus town: based on the history of the African American pioneer settlement
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When Dede sees a notice offering land to black people in Kansas, her family decides to give up their life of sharecropping to become homesteading pioneers in the Midwest. Inspired by the true story of Nicodemus, Kansas, a town founded in the late 1870s by Exodusters—former slaves leaving the Jim Crow South in search of a new beginning—this fictional story follows Dede and her parents as they set out to stake and secure a claim, finally allowing...
14) Resolution
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When greedy mine owner Eamon O'Malley threatens the loose coalition of local ranchers and starts buying up Resolution's few businesses, Hitch and Cole find themselves in the middle of a makeshift war between O'Malley's men and the ranchers. In a place where law and order don't exist, Hitch and Cole must make their own, guided by their sense of duty, honor, and friendship.
16) End of the drive
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The Sacketts volume 7
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A novella and stories. In the novella, Rustler Roundup, the lone hero outwits a gang of cattle rustlers, Desperate Men is on a prison break during an earthquake, and in the title tale a cowboy finds women more of a challenge than a cattle drive.
18) Hondo
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The story of lonely, harsh Hondo Lane, yet beneath the harshness and the necessary violence, he was a kind and just man who had come to terms with the land in which he lived.