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1) O pioneers!
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English
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The first of her renowned prairie novels--a story that expresses Cather's conviction that "the history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman." When Alexandra Bergson takes over the family farm after her father's death, she falls under the spell of the rich, forbidding Nebraska prairie.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c1983
Language
English
Description
Jack Crabb is 121 years old. And he's done it all. He's been a full-fledged Cheyenne, an Indian fighter, a snake oil merchant, master gunman, drinking buddy of wild Bill Hickok, colleague of Buffalo Bill, and is the only survivor of Custer's Last Stand. Crabb is either the Old West's most neglected hero or the biggest liar ever to cross the Mississippi. Little Big Man is Jack Crabb's story.
4) Snowed in
Author
Publisher
Bradbury Press
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
Snowed in for the winter at their Wyoming frontier home in the early twentieth century and unable to attend school, Grace and Luke keep busy reading, studying, singing, and sharing stories.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A tough Minnesota winter brings many changes to Kirsten's frontier life, including the new responsibility of helping her brother Lars set his traps and a move into a new house for her family.
8) The women
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Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1978
Language
English
Description
Text and illustrations present a portrait of the industrious women who helped settle the West.
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English
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1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck - in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly to tame their patch of land, buying saplings from a local tree man known as John Appleseed so they can cultivate the fifty apple trees required to stake their claim on the property. But the orchard they plant sows the seeds of a long battle. James loves the apples, reminders...
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Series
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English
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"In the wake of the death of his wife as she gives birth to his son, and the killing of his brother on the West Texas plains, John Kerney is forced to give up his ranch, leave his son behind, and strike out in search of the murderous outlaws and a place where he can start over. He drifts south until he meets a man who offers him work trailing cattle to the New Mexico Territory and forever changes his life"--
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Language
English
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Contains the fictional diary of twenty-two-year-old Mattie McCauley, in which she tells about the unexpected proposal she received from Luke Spenser, the best catch in her nineteenth-century Iowa town, and discusses the hardships and heartbreaks of their life together on the Colorado frontier.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, one of the natural treasures of her Minnesota frontier world, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself.
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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A childless couple working a farm in the brutal landscape of 1920 Alaska discover a little girl living in the wilderness, with a red fox as a companion, and begin to love the strange, almost-supernatural child as their own.
19) Monument Rock
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A collection of seven short fiction stories and one short novel about fortune seekers, lawbreakers, dreamers, and pioneers in the American frontier.
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