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21) The glory trail
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Cowhand Luther Pike always dreamed of being a lawman. His first assignment is to escort the infamous Nellie Dupray, a beautiful but shady woman convicted as a rustler, to the Capital City jail. His journey is lined with dangers that even the most hardened lawman would have trouble handling.
Author
Series
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 5
Language
English
Description
For years, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch have ridden roughshod over rabble-rousers and gun hands in troubled towns like Appaloosa, Resolution, and Brimstone. Now, newly appointed as Territorial Marshalls, they find themselves traveling by train through the Indian Territories. Their first marshaling duty starts out as a simple mission to escort Mexican prisoners to the border, but when the Governor of Texas, his wife and daughters climb aboard with...
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Publisher
A Caitlyn Diouhy Book, Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Musa and his sister travel to a Zanzibar beach in a shared minibus which, despite Musa's protests, gets loaded with everything from a man and his bicycle to ten swimmers.
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Language
English
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America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line — the first American railroad — in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
In car-clogged urban areas across the world, the humble bicycle is enjoying a second life as a legitimate form of transportation. City officials are rediscovering it as a multi-pronged (or -spoked) solution to acute, 21st-century problems, including affordability, obesity, congestion, climate change, inequity, and social isolation. As the world's foremost cycling nation, the Netherlands is the only country where the number of bikes exceeds the number...
Publisher
Del Bello Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (52 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This documentary aims at sharing ideas to provoke environment-friendly and cost-effective changes in cities worldwide. It focuses on innovations in transportation, recycling, social benefits including affordable housing, parks, and the processes that transformed Curitiba into one of the most livable cities in the world. Includes exclusive interviews from Curitiba's mayors, Jaime Lerner and Cassio Tanigushi, as well as others who made Curitiba a world...
Author
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Celebrating the sesquicentennial anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States, After Promontory: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Transcontinental Railroading profiles the history and heritage of this historic event. Starting with the original Union Pacific—Central Pacific lines that met at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869, the book expands the narrative by considering all of the transcontinental
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Myths! Lies! Secrets! Uncover the hidden truth behind the sinking of the Titanic with beloved educator/author Kate Messner. The fun mix of sidebars, illustrations, photos, and graphic panels make this perfect for fans of I Survived! and Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales.
On April 15, 1912 an "unsinkable" ship called the Titanic unexpectedly hit an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Right?
Wrong!...
On April 15, 1912 an "unsinkable" ship called the Titanic unexpectedly hit an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Right?
Wrong!...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
366 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1846, pioneers traveling west to Oregon passed through strange, barren landscapes and experienced weather inconceivable to those raised in the East. Lucy Mitchell talks her husband, Israel, into hiring a skilled frontiersman to lead them and aid them in the journey. The story of Lucy, wife and mother of five, and James MacLaren, a frontiersman, shows how their furtive relationship rescues James from despair and almost destroys Lucy's family.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
"In 1820, the 240-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later, in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale. Its twenty-man crew, fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, decided instead to sail their three tiny boats for the distant South American coast. They would eventually travel over 4,500 miles. The next three months tested just how far humans...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
The true stories of the Wild West heroes who guarded the iconic Wells Fargo stagecoaches and trains, battling colorful thieves, vicious highwaymen, and robbers armed with explosives. The phrase "riding shotgun" was no teenage game to the men who guarded stagecoaches and trains the Western frontier. Armed with sawed-off, double-barreled shotguns and an occasional revolver, these express messengers guarded valuable cargo through lawless terrain. They...
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Join Elisha and Jay on a wild ride! You'll dive down to the deepest part of the ocean; rumble with monster trucks; learn to sail a ship; drive a real race car and blast off into outer space.
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Language
English
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Description
For fans of sea battles, adventures, and war stories like Unbroken, this is the incredible true story of a boy who helps to bring closure to the survivors of the tragic sinking of the USS Indianapolis, and helps exonerate the ship’s captain fifty years later.
Hunter Scott first learned about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis by watching the movie Jaws when he was just eleven-years-old. This was fifty...
Hunter Scott first learned about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis by watching the movie Jaws when he was just eleven-years-old. This was fifty...
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Series
Ranger Sam Burrack volume 37
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
361 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Arizona Territory Ranger Sam Burrack is sent to retrieve the sheriff of Big Silver, Arizona, and escort him to Yuma. Sheriff Sheppard Stone once saved the life of Territory Judge Albert Long, but the judge has heard stories of Stone turning into a reckless drunk -- stories that are confirmed when Burrack rides into town. Holed up in his office on a days-long whiskey bender, Stone has been terrifying the townsfolk and firing bullets into the street....
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hear the loud sirens. See the flashing lights. This fire truck is on the move!
What kind of gear do firefighters keep in their trucks? And how do the trucks help firefighters battle fires? Read this book to find out!
Learn all about mighty machines in the Vroom-Vroom series―part of the Lightning Bolt Books™ collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt Books™ bring nonfiction topics to life!
Author
Publisher
Globe Pequot
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
Europe by Eurail has been the train traveler's one-stop source for visiting Europe's cities and countries by rail for over forty years. Newly revised and updated, this comprehensive annual guide provides the latest information on fares, schedules, and pass options, as well as detailed information on more than one hundred specific rail excursions and sightseeing options.
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
This richly comprehensive history by a self-proclaimed "low-brow" historian features more than 100 photographs and contemporary prints of America's railway system. Stewart H. Holbrook presents a dramatic, highly readable chronicle of the development of the backbone of the country's commerce and industry. Abounding in episodes of ingenuity and achievement, the growth of the railway system required constant improvements in techniques, devices, and machines,...
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
If you want to know where you are, you need a good clock. The surprising connection between time and place is explored in Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There, the companion book to the National Air and Space Museum exhibition of the same name.
Today we use smartphones and GPS, but navigating has not always been so easy. The oldest "clock" is Earth itself, and the oldest means of keeping time came
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