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Return to the Canadian West volume 1
Language
English
Description
"In the early 20th century, new schoolteacher Beth Thatcher is assigned a post in a remote mining community in Western Canada. There her courage--and her heart--will be tested in unexpected ways"--
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 11
Language
English
Description
A teenaged girl kidnapped by outlaws, the mysterious wedding dress and the young man she comes to love.
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Language
English
Description
Sixteen Civil War widows living in St. Louis respond to a series of meetings conducted by a land speculator who lures them west by promising "prime homesteads" in a "booming community." Unbeknownst to them, the speculator's true motive is to find an excuse to bring women to the fledging community of Plum Grove, Nebraska, in hopes they will accept marriage proposals shortly after their arrival! Sparks fly when these unsuspecting widows meet the men...
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English
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"Abigail Stanton's whole life was rooted in her faith, which she clings to solely to survive. After losing her husband and son, Abby sets out alone, bereft and heartsick, to discover what God wants her to do. When He leads her to Conor MacKay's doorstep, though, the very foundation of her beliefs shift."--Page 4 of cover.
5) O pioneers!
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Language
English
Description
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.
7) My �Antonia
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Language
English
Description
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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Sarah Agnes Prine novels volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Draws on the true stories of the author's grandmother to continue the tale of turn-of-the-twentieth-century pioneer Sarah, whose efforts to survive in the Arizona Territory are challenged by drought before a stagecoach accident puts her in the path of three strangers.
9) The homesman
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English
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Description
Four women in the isolated frontier territory go mad, and it is up to the unlikely combination of homesteader Mary Bee Cuddy and ne'er-do-well Briggs to escort them east to safety.
10) Buffalo girls
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English
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Tells of the life and times of Calamity Jane and others whose pasts embrace the violent history of the West.
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Publisher
Hawkshadow Pub. Co
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
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.
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Series
Angel of mercy series (Al Lacy) volume 6
Publisher
Multnomah Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
14) Not by might
Author
Series
Angel of mercy series (Al Lacy) volume 8
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Author
Series
Wildrose series volume 1
Publisher
Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Worth and Abbie Rooney leave their comfortable big city life for the promise of land and a new life in Saskatchewan at the turn of the century.