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81) A bride at last
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English
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"On the 1880s Kansas prairie, Silas and Kate both harbor resentment over their previous failed mail-order engagements, but when a young boy loses his mother and needs their help, they must attempt to move beyond past hurts and find healing together"--
82) The renegade
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1970.
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English
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Mike McVey was glad to be out of the Army, free of Colonel Roscoe Cool's bitter hatred, and ready to lead his own kind of life. Yet just when a cache of gold promised him new freedom and fortune, McVey again found himself smack in the middle of Army affairs, as the Plains Indians prepared the biggest uprising the white soldiers had ever seen.
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In "Mistakes Can Kill You," we meet Johnny O'Day, who has had to make his way in a man's world since he was a boy. Half dead from pneumonia, Joe Redlin and his wife took him in. Their natural son, Sam, harbored plenty of resentment toward the kid. But now, Sam's in big trouble, and Johnny may be the only person who can come between him and a pair of gunmen. Twenty-seven, broke, and armed, Ross Haney is "The Rider of Ruby Hills." Ross thinks he might...
85) Dark territory
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Sheriff Aaron Mackey western volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
Description
A rash of deadly train robberies has the chief investor of Dover Station feeling itchier than a quick draw without a target. And he wants Sheriff Aaron Mackey to scratch that itch with every bullet his battered badge authorizes him to shoot. When Mackey and his backup gun down four kill-crazy bandits, they uncover a plot cooked up by respected citizens of Dover Station.
86) Luck
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Publisher
Sagebrush Large Print Westerns
Pub. Date
[1999]
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English
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Pierre Ryder has been forged by the sternest of frontier Jesuits for the hard life of a missionary priest in the frozen wastes of the Far North. Into this life of gentleness, a thunderbolt descends in the form of a letter from his father, long thought dead, who lies dying of a bullet wound. Ignoring the pleas of the good priests, Pierre rides at once to avenge his father, into a life and a country far from all he has ever known. When he meets Jackqueline...
87) Expedition!
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Bantam
Pub. Date
1993.
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English
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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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Thomson/Gale
Pub. Date
c2007.
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English
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When a land rush in Gallatin Basin opens, Dave Salkeld and a select group of Flying Diamond cowpunchers are going to stake claims, but Luke Converse and his cattle outfit have turned the boomers (farmers) against cattlemen even before the land rush starts.
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Five Star
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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The Claim Jumpers tells the story of Bill Emery who is taking part in the Cherokee Land Rush, looking for a homestead. Range of No Return is the story of Herb Cole and his struggle to rebuild his herd and his reputation after allegaions of cattle rustling. When the situation looks like it could not get any worse, someone murders rancher Jed Giboney, and before he dies, Jed points to Herb as his killer, enflaming every rancher on the range.
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Novel of the American West volume 1
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Wolfpack Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
Description
Once again, New York Times and internationally best-selling author W. Michael Gear turns his master's hand to the frontier West. In the vein of his best-selling Coyote Summer, Gear now takes us to the 1812 Missouri Fur Trade. An intimate of the Burr conspiracy, the condemned and hounded John Tylor signs on as boatman with Manuel Lisa's expedition. But the river is now contested as the British, Spanish, and other fur companies prepare to break Lisa's...
92) Going West
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Publisher
Dial
Pub. Date
c1992.
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English
Description
In this simple and beautifully written text, with its beautifully evocative illustrations, the story of a little family of young American pioneers unfolds. Young readers will be enthralled by this moving account of the awesome challenges faced by a pioneer family during their first hard year in the American West.
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Novel of the American West volume 2
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Wolfpack Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"In The Plains the story of John Tylor continues. Tylor thought he was finally free of pursuit as he headed out into the Great Plains. Turns out he's the most wanted man beyond the frontier--and half the world is on his trail. Not only has Fenway McKeever survived, but he enlists a couple of British agents along with a party of angry Arapaho in his pursuit of Tylor. Chief Gray Bear, he finally has his rifles! But keeping them when every tribe on the...
94) Sackett's land
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Sacketts volume 1
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English
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After discovering six gold Roman coins buried in the mud of the Devils Dyke, Barnabas Sackett enthusiastically invests in goods that he will offer for trade in America. But Sackett has a powerful enemy: Rupert Genester, nephew of an earl, wants him dead. A battlefield promise made to Sacketts father threatens Genesters inheritance. So on the eve of his departure for America, Sackett is attacked and thrown into the hold of a...
95) Fields of bounty
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Leah's garden volume 03
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English
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Lilac Nielsen's dream has come true: Reverend Ethan Pritchard has finally noticed her. But she must balance this new courtship with her dream of publishing her artwork in a New York newspaper. She has been submitting the drawings under a pen name, and if anyone traces them to her the entire Nielsen family could be in danger. When a family crisis back in Ohio shakes the Nielsen sisters, can they continue to build the new life they've begun in Nebraska?...
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[Awakening land trilogy] volume 1-3
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
As a small girl, Sayward Wheeler and her family walk from Pennsylvania to the wilderness of the Ohio valley where they suffer many hardships and witness the rapid development of the area.
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Disney DVD
Pub. Date
[c2002.]
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English
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Legends (and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davey Crockett are depicted in this feature film edited from television episodes. Crockett and his friend George Russell fight in the Creek Indian War. Then Crockett is elected to Congress and brings his rough-hewn ways to the House of Representatives. Finally, Crockett and Russell journey to Texas and partake in the last stand at the Alamo.
98) A lost lady
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English
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Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that solid foundation, bringing delight and beauty to her elderly husband, to the small town of Sweet Water where they live, to the prairie land itself, and to the young narrator of her story, Neil Herbert. All are bewitched by her brilliance and grace, and all are ultimately betrayed. For Marian longs for "life on any terms," and in fulfilling herself, she...
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In the spring of 1860 on the eve of a civil war that threatened to tear the country apart, two Americans conceived of an audacious plan for linking the nation's two coasts, thereby joining its present with its future. This book traces the development of the Pony Express and follows it from its start in St. Joseph, Missouri 1,500 miles west to Sacramento.
"On the eve of the Civil War, three American businessmen launched an audacious plan to create...
100) The Sisters brothers
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English
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Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road to Warm's gold claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does - and for whom he does it.
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