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1) O pioneers!
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Cather presents the story of the Nebraska prairie. Alexandra Bergson, daughter of Swedish immigrant farmers, is devoted to the land and suffers the hardships of prairie life.
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Heirs of Montana volume 1
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When Diane Chadwick urdges her family to move west to her uncle's ranch in Montana Territory, she imagines an idyllic adventure. Inexperienced but determined. Diane must face the reality of an arduous wagon journey and an unforgettable land. But when tragedy rends the very fabric of her family, she fears for her future in the wild country where love and loss seem to walk the mountain paths hand in hand.
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Men of the saddle volume 4
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Trey McAllister returns from the war to find himself tied up in a battle against the most powerful man in Sassy Gap, Louisiana. If only he hadn't stopped to help a few women in need. But now that he's laid eyes on Mira Dupree, there's no turning back. Loving her just might ruin his life.
4) My �Antonia
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My Antonia is a straightforward narrative, written in a limpid prose of uncanny descriptive accuracy, about the struggles endured by a family of immigrant pioneers and the small community that surrounds them on the unsettled Nebraska plains.
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Heirs of Montana volume 3
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Through sheer determination, the diamond V ranch has flourished in the hands of Dianne and Cole Selby. But when a new family settles in the area with ambitions to establish an empire in Montana, it quickly becomes apparent that they will stop at nothing to uproot Dianne's family.
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Lone Star legacy (Judith Pella) volume 1
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Deborah escapes the Civil War to Texas only to find herself running again to the Kansas territory.
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Westward chronicles volume 1
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Jeffery O'Donnell is captivated by the mysterious Simone, who arrives at his office hoping to acquire a position as a Harvey Girl at the popular way-stops along the frontier rail line. Jeffery is torn, however, when he suspects that Simone may harbor a disturbing secret. Westward Chronicles Book 1.
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Pine Ridge portraits volume 1
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In 1878 Nebraska, widowed soldier Nathan Boone rescues young Laina Gray, raped, half-crazed, and left for dead, and struggles with painful memories and his lapsed faith in God as his feelings for her grow.
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California's gold country, 1850. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. Then she meets Michael Hosea, a man who seeks his Father's heart in everything. He obeys God;s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Defying Angel's every bitter expectations, despite her resistance her frozen heart begins to thaw. But overcome by feelings of unworthiness and fear,...
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Change and cherish volume 2
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Emma and her husband leave a close-knit religious community to work in Washington Territory, but when Emma finds herself alone and pregnant with her third child, she is left wondering if an angry God has abandoned her to the consequences of her willfulness.
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"Young Emma Wagner chafes at the constraints of Bethel colony, an 1850s religious community in Missouri that is determined to remain untainted by the concerns of the world. A passionate and independent thinker, she resents the limitations placed on women, who are expected to serve in quiet submission. In a community where dissent of any form is discouraged, Emma finds it difficult to rein in her tongue and often doesn't even try to do so, fueling...
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Westward chronicles volume 3
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Jillian struggles to fill the shoes--and identity-- of her identical twin sister amid the strict rules and routines of the Arizona Harvey House. When the local doctor inadvertently discovers her ruse, he creates a plan of his own. Westward Chronicles Book 3.
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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...
14) Aiming for love
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Josephine Nordegren is one of three sisters who grew up nearly wild in southwestern Colorado. She has the archery skills of Robin Hood and the curiosity of the Little Mermaid, fascinated by but locked away from the forbidden outside world--a world she's been raised to believe killed her parents. When David Warden, a rancher, brings in a herd much too close to the girls' secret home, her older sister especially is frightened, but Jo is too interested...
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Pine Ridge portraits volume 2
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Charlotte Valentine Bishop struggles to trust God to heal the wounds of her past when she returns to Fort Robinson, Nebraska, with her child, in search of a safe haven, and is confronted with a number of surprises, including the appearance of two former suitors.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 2
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A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, sink a well, and fight a prairie fire.
A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
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Hawkshadow Pub. Co
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Orphaned by the untimely deaths of her parents, Emma Jorden has to abandon her Kansas home. Lost on the featureless prairie and near death, she is rescued by Shea Hawkshadow, a half-breed Cheyenne warrior. Her impulsive marriage to Shea propels them both into a precarious and treacherous existence. Fleeing brutal persecution for their interracial marriage, they embark on a risky journey across the frontier.-Cover.
19) Sod And Stubble
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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...