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Tennessee frontier trilogy volume 1
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English
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The first in a trilogy set in the untamed colonial American wilderness.
Joshua Colter was born of the wild frontier. As a young boy living with his family on the edges of civilization during the French and Indian War, he witnessed firsthand the bloodshed and brutality men were capable of-from the deception and depredations of whites like his own vile father to the merciless vengeance of the native tribes. Forced by cruel fate to set out on his own,...
2) Westward!
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1992
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English
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In the fertile Ohio Valley, brothers Clay and Jefferson Holt are forced into a blood feud with a clan bent on murder and revenge. To end it they strike out for a new beginning.
3) Expedition!
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Wagons West. Frontier Trilogy volume 2
Wagons West.Frontier trilogy volume 2
Wagons West the frontier trilogy volume 2
Wagons West.Frontier trilogy volume 2
Wagons West the frontier trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
While Clay and his band lead an expedition up the Yellowstone River, brother Jeff Holt heads back east on a treacherous quest ; impetuous young cousin Ned takes to the high seas ; and in the east, Melissa Holt struggles against the unscrupulous business man who means to have her.
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Originally published in 1996, The Englishman's Boy is the first in a Guy Vanderhaeghe trilogy that includes the nationally bestselling novel The Last Crossing, with the third book due to be published next year. By far his most successful book in his native Canada, The Englishman's Boy expertly depicts an American West where greed and deception act side by side with honor and strength. In 1920s Hollywood, elusive movie studio owner Damon Ira Chance...
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The author of The Overmountain Men and The Canebreak Men continues his Tennessee Frontier Trilogy as the American Revolution rages in the wilderness.
Two years after the colonies declare their independence, the American and British armies fight a seemingly endless series of bloody battles in the east. But on the Tennessee frontier, the war is fought by far fewer rules of engagement. In the wilderness, those who strike silent and swift win the day,...
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The Last Crossing is a sweeping tale of breathtaking quests, adventurous detours, and hard-won redemption. Englishmen Charles and Addington Gaunt are ordered by their tyrannical industrialist father to find their brother Simon, who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West. Charles, a disillusioned artist, and Addington, a disgraced military captain, set off to remote Fort Benton on the edge of the Montana frontier. The brothers hire the...
10) One more sunrise
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Frontier doctor trilogy volume 1
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English
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Countless perils menaced the early settlers of the Wild West -- and not the least of them was the lack of medical care. Dr. Dane Logan, a former street waif who has been adopted by a doctor's family in Cheyenne, puts his lifelong dream to work filling this need. His renown as a surgeon spreads throughout the frontier, even while his love grows for the beautiful Tharyn, an orphan he lost contact with when he left New York City as a child. Will happiness...
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Son of a Canadian lumber baron, Wesley Case is a former soldier who sets out into the untamed borderlands between Canada and the United States to escape a dark secret from his past. He settles in Montana, where he hopes to buy a cattle ranch, and where he begins work as a liaison between the American and Canadian militaries in an effort to contain the Native Americans' unresolved anger in the wake of the Civil War.
Amidst the brutal violence that...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Western Missouri. Army scout Jack Gregory returns from battle to a homestead in ruins. A wanted man with no place to go, he becomes a scout for General George Armstrong Custer. Under a new name, Jack serves bravely in the Seventh Cavalry. But when Custer's disastrous leadership ends in devastating slaughter. Winning a small ranch in a card game, he hopes to settle down and live a peaceful life. But the Cheyenne nation is rising up to defend their...
13) Sky High
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2314. Humanity has failed to colonize space. After expanding horizontally for centuries, all of Earth is covered in one giant city. The only way left to go was up, so they built towards the sky. Then, one hundred years ago, a meteor hit Earth, annihilating a region formerly known as Europe. The death toll was staggering, but that was not all. That was when the changing began and the first Evos appeared.
With limited space for humans to live, Earth's...
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Tennessee frontier trilogy volume 3
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English
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Finalist for the Spur Award: The author of The Overmountain Men and The Border Men concludes his epic adventure of Tennessee's early history.
The United States of America has just been born from the fires of revolution. But in the wilds of Tennessee in the Southwest Territory, a fire still burns-especially in the heart of fifteen-year-old Owen Killefer.
For Owen witnessed the massacre of his family by Tom Turndale-a depraved marauder who deserted...