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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
Loner Western volume 6
Publisher
Ulverscroft, Linford Western
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
It all started with the discovery of three dead men, ambushed and shot. Blake Durant did the decent thing and buried them, and that should have been the end of it. But then he ran into Ben Adamson, discovered that the men had been working for him, and decided to help the old-timer continue driving his cattle down the trail. Yet all hell broke loose once they reached Outcast County, with Durant accused of cold-blooded murder and sentenced to hang......
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Do you know the story of Johnny Appleseed? The history stories you think you know may not be what they seem. In this deep-diving series, readers of How FACT Became FICTION are invited into the truth beyond the stories people tell about history. It includes investigations into what really happened and how the truth was hidden over time. Readers explore primary sources as they develop historical inquiry and media literacy skills and learn the ins and...
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.
12) Home to Texas
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From the time she crossed the Rio Grande, it was plain that Ann Royer was going to cause some changes in Del Rio, Texas. Bringing the news of her parents' murder and the destruction of their ranch in Mexico, she had ridden alone all the way to Texas to lay claim to the giant Twin R ranch ostensibly belonging to her uncle Phil. Ann wasn't alone in wanting the Twin R. Old man Pease, owner of the neighboring Lazy P, was anxious to double the size of...
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,...
15) 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...
16) West of Railhead
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"'WELCOME TO EDEN GROVE -- FASTEST GROWING CITY IN THE WEST.' That was the message that greeted newspaperman Clark Tanner as he rode into the raw, new town in the summer of 1872. A lot of people, Tanner included, were putting all their hopes and dreams into founding the town and making a fresh start of things. Perhaps no one of them wanted to wipe the slate clean more than Clark Tanner, whose crusade against the corruption of a powerful block of Nebraska...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Some men called Martin Joliffe the Cattle King, others called him the Sheep Slayer. But Mart was just a hardworking cattleman who believed in fair play and protecting his own. That's just what he did when he chased John Robineau's sheep off his spread. The Tincup Ranch was cow country and it was going to stay that way. Joliffe didn't think he would push Robineau to take his own life -- or make Robineau's daughter crazy enough to hire the territory's...
18) 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"--
Author
Series
Wilderness brides volume no
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Mail-order bride Judith Jones has barely arrived in Pepin, Wisconsin, before she's whisked away to prepare for her wedding to Asa Brant. Though something about Asa seems so familiar, how do two strangers become husband and wife? Especially when Judith senses Asa's hidden sorrow. His kindness in helping two young orphans could win her heart . . . if only he'd open up to her. Determined to start over after four years of brutal war, Asa moved away and...
20) 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...