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2501) Buffalo days and nights
Author
Series
Publisher
Fifth House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
"Born in 1833, Peter Erasmus was a colourful and important character in the events that marked western Canada's transformation from the open buffalo plains of Rupert's Land into townsites and farmsteads. He was a remarkable and highly educated man, fluent in six Native languages as well as English, Latin and Greek, and respected by Native peoples, white settlers and explorers. Trained by the church for missionary work, Erasmus instead became one of...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
An account based on the experiences of historical cowhands follows the experiences of a 15-year-old rider on the famous Chisholm Trail, who good-naturedly describes his fortune-seeking efforts to drive cattle despite numerous dangerous obstacles.
Series
The Great American Western volume 1
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
The fighting Westerner: Zane Grey adaptation in which a mining engineer teams with a crusty, deputy sheriff to investigate a series of murders at a radium mine.
Rage at dawn: A federal agent from Chicago is sent out West to round up the notorious Reno brothers' gang.
Abilene town: The Abilene, KS town marshal tries to stop homesteader conflicts in the years following the Civil War. Based on the novel by Ernest Haycox.
To the last man: Zane Grey...
2504) The Oregon Trail
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Describes the Oregon Trail, a nineteenth-century path across the American frontier taken by many settlers traveling West, and explains the reasons for immigration, the conditions along the trail, and the impact it had on American history.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Nestled amongst the pines above the shores of Lake Tahoe is the Ponderosa, the thousand-square mile home of Ben Cartwright and his sons, Adam, Hoss and Little Joe. The sixth season's adventures include Ben's kidnapping, Hoss' renowned appetite, a gripping murder trial, Little Joe's greatest fear, Adam's King Arthur encounter, and a problem of Shakespearian proportions.
Author
Publisher
[C.S. Ream]
Pub. Date
[19--?]
Language
English
Description
The author recalls her childhood, especially in Smith County, Kansas. People, places, and events from the late 1800s and early 1900s are shared. The Skinner family lived in Ohio and Indiana before coming to Brown County, Kansas. They homesteaded in Smith County, Kansas, near what later became the town of Gaylord.
2509) The California Gold Rush
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2008], c2008
Language
English
2510) Davy Crockett
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications Company
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and accomplishments of David Crockett, the famous frontier settler, congressman, and defender of the Alamo.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Abigail ushers in a new era by bringing the latest technology to Hope Valley, while Elizabeth juggles her responsibilities to her students and home life. Meanwhile, a new saloon owner tries to impress the town with a grand reopening but meets his match with Elizabeth, who is immune to his charms. Rosemary sees a potential romance which she takes upon herself to foster.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The ghost and Mr. Chicken: After deciding to solve a murder mystery, a timid typesetter spends a fright-filled night in a haunted house.
The reluctant astronaut: A small-town carnival worker who is deathly afraid of heights suddenly finds himself working for NASA and getting mixed up in an experimental flight.
The shakiest gun in the West: After leaving the comfort of the East to bring modern dentistry to the West, a timid Pennsylvania dentist finds...
Author
Series
Race and culture in the American West volume 17
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The biography of Sarah Bickford, born a slave in Tennessee, who became the first African American female public utilities owner of the Virginia City Water Company and spent three decades promoting tourism at a historic building where the Montana Vigilantes lynched five men"--
2518) Thunder over the prairie: the true story of a murder and a manhunt by the greatest posse of all time
Author
Publisher
Twodot
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A collection of Louis L'Amour's never-before-seen fragments, film/TV scripts and treatments, notes, short stories, and advice to other writers, compiled and annotated by his son. Here is a behind-the-scenes look at how Louis wrote the short stories, novels, literary and motion picture treatments, notes, and outlines that he wasn't able to finish or release in his lifetime. Annotations and commentary by his son Beau give readers even more insight into...
