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1) Mr. Tucket
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English
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In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, 14 year old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.
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English
Description
Con Vallian knew the best way to stay out of trouble was to mind his own business. Then he stopped for a cup of coffee at a stranger's campfire and found himself guiding the McKaskels, a family of greenhorn Easterners, across the prairie -- fighting a pack of rustlers on one hand and some mighty unpredictable Indians on the other! Quick and the Dead tells the story of peaceful folks driven to action under the guidance of a mysterious stranger. It...
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Series
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Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
In 1910, New York socialite Olivia resists an arranged, socially advantageous marriage. The mysterious death of her sister Eleanor in Northern California is an unhappy but convenient excuse to go West. On the way, she is nearly drowned, and decides to hide her identity when she arrives in Mercy Falls.
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Journals of Corrie Belle Hollister volume 1
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English
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The five Hollister children must find their way to California when their mother dies on the wagon train. (Series: Journals Of Corrie Belle Hollister, 1).
5) Dreadnought
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Series
Clockwork century volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
Mercy Lynch is just a frustrated nurse who wants to see her father before he dies. But she'll have to survive both Union intrigue and Confederate opposition if she wants to make it off the Union-operated, Tacoma-bound "Dreadnought" alive.
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English
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Lee Westfall, a young woman with the magical ability to sense the presence of gold, must flee her home to avoid people who would abuse her powers, so when her best friend Jefferson heads out across Gold Rush-era America to stake his claim, she disguises herself as a boy and sets out on her own dangerous journey.
10) Bound for Oregon
Author
Publisher
Dial
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of the journey made by nine-year-old Mary Ellen Todd and her family from their home in Arkansas westward over the Oregon Trail in 1852.
11) The way west
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Series
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English
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A hundred-odd men, women, and children gathered at the rendezvous a few miles outside of Independence. They were solid, established folk, most of them, and they were leaving behind prosperous farms and businesses because they shared a dream about the rich lands in the West, where a man, his wife, and their young ones might make a better life and a new world more desirable than any Americans before them had ever known.
Author
Series
Time-traveling twins volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Twins Liz and Lenny, along with their time-traveling grandmother, join a group journeying west on the Oregon Trail in 1843.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
In 1865, fifteen-year-old Aiden and his thirteen-year-old sister Maddy, penniless orphans, leave drought-stricken Kansas on a wagon train hoping for a better life in Seattle, but find there are still many hardships to be faced.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
While travelling in a wagon train on the Oregon Trail two youths, David and Ethan, distance themselves from it to fight over a girl. Midway through they are attacked by outlaws, David escapes while Ethan is left for dead. For Ethan it is the start of a long adventure. By the author of Manhunt.
Author
Publisher
Alantic Monthly
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Ordered by their father to find their missing brother, Englishmen Charles and Addington Gaunt set off to America, where guide Jerry Potts and a growing number of companions journey by wagon train and confront a number of personal demons.
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