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Tells of the life and times of Calamity Jane and others whose pasts embrace the violent history of the West.
Calamity Jane is about to ride again. When her old friend and rival Buffalo Bill Cody sweeps her into his rag-tag band of legends on a Wild West tour of Europe, Calamity Jane begins her last, bittersweet adventure: a journey of memories, fellowship, humor, and love.
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"Based on an actual historical event but told through fictional diaries, this is the story of a remarkable woman who travels west in 1875 and marries the chief of the Cheyenne Nation. One thousand white women begins with May Dodd's journey west into the unknown. Yet the unknown is a far better fate than the life she left behind. Committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for the crime of loving a man beneath her station, May finds that...
3) The revenant
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The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Trapping beaver, they contend daily with the threat of Indian tribes turned warlike over the white men's encroachment on their land, and other prairie foes -- like the unforgiving landscape and its creatures. Hugh Glass is among the Company's finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face...
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IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 65
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In one generation, the Clark family of Virginia fought for our nation's independence, and explored, conquered, and settled the continent from sea to shining sea. This powerfully written book recreates the warm life of the family, the dangers of the battlefield, the grueling journeys across an untamed wilderness, and the soul-stirring Lewis and Clark Expedition. This mighty epic is a fitting tribute to the wisdom and courage of Ann Rogers Clark, her...
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On November 7, 1908 in the town of San Vicente, Butch Cassidy was killed in a bloody shootout with the Bolivian army. Or was he? In a small Texas town in 1950, a Pinkerton detective interrupts and old- timer's daily game of dominos to learn the truth about Butch Cassidy-- who is alive and well and sitting right in front of him. So begins a novel about the West's most legendary outlaw, as told by America's master storytellers.
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"Raised among the Lemhi Shoshone, Sacajewea learns all the ways to survive. When her village is raided, she is kidnapped and then gambled away to Charbonneau, a French Canadian trapper. Now she must learn to survive in a new world teeming with fur trappers and traders. When Lewis and Clark's expedition arrives, Sacajewea must cross a vast and brutal terrain with her newborn son, the white man who owns her, and a company of men who wish to conquer...
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9 March 1876. My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed, all our possessions burned, our friends butchered by the soldiers, our baby daughters gone, frozen to death on an ungodly trek across these rocky mountains. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the...
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This biographical novel about the life of Kit Carson-frontiersman, fur trapper, Army scout and later military officer, and always a trusted friend to the Indian nations-focuses primarily on the seventeen years from 1831 to 1848 when Carson was among the foremost of the men engaged in war.
9) Snowbound
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This novel is based on the experience of American explorer John Frm̌ont and his attempt to find a railway route to the West along the 38th parallel, when he becomes trapped in the snowbound Colorado mountains and must fight his way out.
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Michael Crichton volume 26
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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"The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country, it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop, two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils while surveilling, deceiving, and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous...
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Born James Butler Hickok, Wild Bill Hickok made his reputation as a gunslinger extraordinaire, and his legend has titillated journalists, novelists, and historians ever since. Here is the story--crafted by a master novelist, of this complex hero, whose exploits have become part of the lore of the American frontier.
Nurtured by devout, staunchly Abolitionist parents, young Hickok quickly leaves their hardscrabble farm to homestead in Kansas. A true...
12) This old Bill
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His eyes had seen the glory—of the wild, wild, West...The life of Buffalo Bill Cody was as epic and exciting as the story of the West itself. Cowboy, Pony Express rider, Indian fighter, Union soldier, scout for General George Custer, slayer of Tall Bull and Yellow Hand—he saved Wild Bill Hickok's life, and beat the paths that made way for the railroad and the nation in America's rugged frontier.But now, in his final hours, old Bill Cody faces...
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Big, brash and fearless, Buffalo Jones is in pursuit of the greatest mountain lion ever spotted in the remote Arizona desert. Determined to bring the beast home alive, Jones leads a colorful band of brothers into a wild land, across the Colorado River to Buckskin Mountain at the red mesa rim of the Grand Canyon. But while Jones has foresworn all killing, even smashed his rifle on a wagon wheel in a vow to save the species, he and his men are entering...
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Wyatt Earp, an American odyssey volume 1
Wyatt Earp an American odyssey volume 01
Wyatt Earp an American odyssey volume 1
Wyatt Earp an American odyssey volume 01
Wyatt Earp an American odyssey volume 1
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"It is 1862. With his older brothers fighting in the war, Wyatt Earp - at fourteen - is left to manage the family's Iowa farm under his father's iron rule. These years of labor inculcate into him an ambition to seek his fortunes by his wits rather than the sweat of his back. The open territory to the west, he knows, offers that opportunity. When his family treks to California he makes the passing acquaintance of a beguiling Mexican girl, whose philosophy...
15) The Removes
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Traces the intertwining stories of Civil War hero George Armstrong Custer, his frontierswoman wife Libbie and a teen who became a member of the Cheyenne tribe after surviving a homestead attack.
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American story 1800-1860 volume 5
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Determined to map the uncharted miles between the Mississippi and the Pacific, Meriwether Lewis is frustrated by his duties as secretary to president Thomas Jefferson and teams up with friend William Clark on a dangerous journey.
18) Eclipse
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
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"Provides a solution, dark in its ramifications to one of the greatest mysteries in American history; the terrible and unexplained death of Meriwether Lewis, age thirty-five, in the wilderness of the Natchez Trace of Tennessee in October 1809"--P. [4] of cover.
19) The sixth rider
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"The exploits of the legendary Dalton gang told from the perspective of the youngest brother, Samuel Cole Dalton, whose protected youth leads to a life of crime, glory, and violence"--
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