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English
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A fascinating and rare look at women pioneers and their tales of courage and hardship in the untamed American West. These are the stories of twelve women who heard the call to settle the West and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journey: the East Coast, Europe, and as far away as New Zealand. They endured unimaginable hardships just to get to their destination, and then the next phase of their story began. These are gripping miniature...
2) O Pioneers!
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Language
English
Description
One of America’s greatest women writers, Willa Cather established her talent and her reputation with this extraordinary novel—the first of her books set on the Nebraska frontier. A tale of the prairie land encountered by America’s Swedish, Czech, Bohemian, and French immigrants, as well as a story of how the land challenged them, changed them, and, in some cases, defeated them, Cather’s novel is a uniquely American epic.
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Series
John Hawk volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"James Pratt and his young bride press on toward the Bitterroot Valley, deep in Sioux territory, after their wagon master deserts them and seemingly disappeared. James' brother Mason enlists legendary Indian scout John Hawk to find them against deadly odds"--
Author
Publisher
Deseret News
Pub. Date
1913
Physical Desc
78 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the initial westward migration, to exploration and development of the American West to daily life in the West and intimate pictures of the people who inhabited it, this collection offers American West enthusiasts a new glimpse at some forgotten treasures of American culture. Encompassing genres such as poetry, fiction, nonfiction, tourist guides, biographies and drama, this collection provides a new window to the legend and realities of the American...
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Wagon trains carrying immigrants along the Oregon Trail are falling prey to outlaws. Most families surrender their valuables and goods peacefully, but anybody brave enough to resist gets a bullet. The gang's latest victim was a wagon master who sought to protect his charges only to die in the dust. With the blood of good men being spilled and families being terrorized, Preacher and Jamie MacCallister volunteer to escort the next wagon train. Preacher...
8) Amethyst
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Series
Dakotah treasures volume 4
Language
English
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It's 1886 and Major Jeremiah McHenry is retiring from the army to return to Medora in the Dakotah Territory. Slowed down by old war wounds, Jeremiah is determined to make a new, quieter life for himself... and find a wife. Feisty newcomer to Medora, Amethyst O'Shaunasy, is venturing out beyond her Pennsylvania home into the harsh Dakota badlands, trying to heal her broken heart after the death of her mother and to escape her abusive father. Can Jeremiah...
10) My Ántonia
Author
Language
English
Description
Antonia Shimerda, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants, not only survives her father's suicide, poverty, and a failed romance, she triumphs with high spirits.
11) Golden ax
Author
Publisher
Penguin Poets
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
64 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking collection of poetry from Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and New York Times bestselling author Rio Cortez. From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience, a poetry collection exploring personal, political, and artistic frontiers, journeying from her family's history as "Afropioneers" in the American West to shimmering glimpses of transcendent, liberated futures. In poems that range from wry,...
13) Ruby
Author
Series
Dakotah treasures volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Ruby Torvald and her young sister, Opal, have received an inheritance from their long-lost father who left home years ago to seek his fortune in the Black Hills. When they leave their comfortable situation in Chicago and arrive at the mining town of Medora to claim their inheritance, the sisters discover that rather than the legacy of gold they expected, their father has left them a shocking bequest.
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
262 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
William has been missing for two days. And even though the rest of the wagon company has decided they must continue on to Zion, Constance brown refuses to go any farther until she finds her husband. All she can think about is the last time she saw him -- he lovingly touched her face and then sang their baby girl to sleep. Will that memory be all Constance has to hold on it? In a future time and place, Liz King is a teenage struggling with her identity...
16) Opal
Author
Series
Dakotah treasures volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Ruby Torvald marries rancher Rand Harrison, her sister, Opal, takes to ranch life like a hummingbird to sugar water. She can outshoot, outride, and outwork any cowboy on the place. Ranching has clearly captured her heart. But when Opal makes a foolish though innocent decision, her dear friend Atticus is taken away from her, and she is consumed with feelings of guilt and self-recrimination. Will she ever see Atticus again? Jacob Chandler, hiding...
18) Pearl
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Series
Dakotah treasures volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Ruby Torvald has turned Dove House, the scandalous inheritance her father left to her and her sister, into a respectable establishment. Her newest boarder is Pearl Hossfuss, a twenty-two-year-old schoolteacher from Chicago. Hiding scars within and without, Pearl has given up hope that any man would marry her. Her father has his own ideas, insisting she marry his clerk, a widower with five children. So Pearl flees to Dakotah Territory in response to...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (329 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the history of the American frontier and the lives of iconic pioneers and others including Daniel Boone, Tecumseh, Lewis & Clark, Davy Crockett, Andrew Jackson, John Fr�emont, and Kit Carson.
20) Desert wife
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
c1981
Physical Desc
xiv, 304 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The wife of an Indian trader tells of her life in the Four Corners country where Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado touch.
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