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1) Bad hombres
Author
Series
Slash and Pecos westerns volume 6
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
He blew into town like a tornado--a mysterious stranger with money to burn and a sadistic streak as wide as the Rio Grande. He says his name is Benson and he's come to invest in the town's future. First, he showers the banks and local businesses with cash. Then, he hires a pair of drunks to fight and get arrested so he can check out the local lawmen. After that, he warms up to a lady of the evening--with deadly results. That's just the beginning....
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Newman's stories turn a spotlight on women struggling in Alaska, facing not just grizzly bears and charging moose, but the psychological complexities of love and family. From Anchorage to the remote, unsettled wilderness, her stories reinvent what we think about the American frontier-- and what we believe about hope and human connection. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
On January 12, 1888, a surprise blizzard broke out in the middle of the day across the Midwest. In its path, hundreds of children and teachers found themselves stranded inside schoolhouses with no food, no heat, and very few options. Days passed, and over 235 people died as result of the harsh snow of the Schoolhouse Blizzard, but many were able to survive thanks to the bravery of others in their communities. Learn all about the disastrous weather...
6) Shane
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A drifter and retired gunfighter assists a homestead family terrorized by a wealthy cattleman and his hired gun.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A rich, immersive debut novel, inspired by true events, about a meeting between two women in 1970s Soviet Russia-a deeply religious homesteader living in isolation with her family on the Siberian taiga and an ambitious scientist-that irrevocably changes the course of both of their lives. A vivid and eye-opening story about fate, ambition, and Soviet politics, Lost Believers is an unforgettable journey.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From the creator of the "Legends of the Old West" podcast, a book exploring the overlapping narratives of the biggest legends in frontier mythology. The summer of 1876 was a key time period in the development of the mythology of the Old West. Many individuals who are considered legends by modern readers were involved in events that began their notoriety or turned out to be the most famous - or infamous - moments of their lives. Those individuals were...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From creator, Taylor Sheridan comes a prequel to Yellowstone. It follows the original Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. It's a stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America's promised land Montana.
11) One big open sky
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
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Description
In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska.
13) Softly falling
Author
Publisher
Sweetwater Books, an Imprint of Cedar Fort, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Leaving her uncle and his English estate, Lily Branson, 24, travels to Wyoming to live with her father on his ranch. Since Lily has no dowry, her uncle thinks she might fare better in the United States. But when Lily reaches Wyoming, she finds that her father has gambled away the ranch and is working as an accountant for another rancher. Now she must find a way to survive before the harsh winter comes.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Growing up, Rebecca Clarren only knew the major plot points of her tenacious immigrant family's origins. Her great-great-grandparents, the Sinykins, and their six children fled antisemitism in Russia and arrived in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, ultimately settling on a 160-acre homestead in South Dakota. Over the next few decades, despite tough years on a merciless prairie and multiple setbacks, the Sinykins became an American...
15) Charlotte's Rose
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
As a twelve-year-old Welsh immigrant carries a motherless baby along the Mormon Trail in 1856, she comes to love the baby as her own and fear the day the baby's father will reclaim her.
16) Captive heart
Author
Publisher
Covenant
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Emmalyne Madsen sends a desperate plea heavenward as a band of lawless men makes their way up the aisle of the railcar. When one hauls her roughly from the seat, threatening and cursing, Emmalyne fears her adventure out West has just turned into a nightmare. Thayne Kendrich has an urgent need for a school teacher, and he's not above doing whatever it takes to get one-including forcing her at gunpoint across the scorching prairie. But the teacher he...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
100 ways to embrace the simple life, with step-by-step instructions for keeping chickens, growing vegetables, making beer and wine, arranging flowers, soap making, and more! This is a home-management book for the twenty-first century. Alva Herdevall and Anders Rydell combine traditional methods with modern ideas to show that a higher degree of self-sufficiency is possible for everyone. You will learn the secrets of beekeeping, how to grow your own...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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In Montana in the summer of 1872, Crow Mary marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader, and accompanies him to his trading post in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan, Canada. In the spring of 1873, they are preparing to return to Montana when they witness the Cypress Hills Massacre, in which forty innocent Nakoda are killed by a drunken gang. Following the massacre, Crow Mary single-handedly recues five Nakoda women who are being held captive and abused...
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