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Takini is a special boy, adopted by Chief Sitting Bull, and gifted with special powers. He discovers a plan for the 'bluecoats'- United States Government soldiers - to attack Indian villages. Will he live to warn his tribe?

Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid-19th century who is thrown out of her parents' home after being seduced by the family's portrait photographer and giving birth to an illegitimate child. Josephine quickly learns that young, female, pretty, and alone are a bad combination for life in the wild west. In her desperation to survive, Josephine disguises herself as "Jo", a young man, and struggles to...

"'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...

The mountain men were the trappers of the Rocky Mountain fur trade in the years following Lewis and Clark's Expedition of 1804 - 1806. With their bold journeys peaking during the period of 1830 - 1840, they were the first white men to enter the vast wilderness reaches of the Rockies in search of beaver "plews," as the skins were called. They feasted on abundant buffalo, elk, and other game while living the ultimate free-spirited wilderness life -...

Legend of the Ruby Silver: A mother and son are hired to lend a hand at a mining site. When the mine doesn't produce as expected, dangers become more and more real. Young pioneers: Molly and David Beaton are young newlyweds who head out for the vast wilderness of the newly opened Dakota territory to start a new life. They secure a large track of land as "homesteaders" and build a sod house to try to get through the long, difficult winter. Prairie...

A very Mary Christmas: A pregnant teen named Mary runs away from her un-supportive mother and finds help along the way from an eccentric cast of characters. Beyond tomorrow: Three wealthy men decide to share their Christmas with some less fortunate people. They settle on two down-and-outers, a man and a woman who then fall in love. Angel in the family: Sisters, separated by a lifetime of misunderstanding, find themselves brought back togehter for...

This is a pleasantly written study of rural life in Sangamon County, Abraham Lincoln's neck of the woods. Concentrating on the first half of the 19th century, Faragher skillfully interweaves social, economic, and cultural history into a whole that is local history at its best, but, because of multiple implications, is much more than the history of a locality. Using many sources, he covers Indian-white relations, the establishment of towns, childbearing...