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One thousand White women trilogy volume 3
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English
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"Strongheart is the final installment to the One Thousand White Women trilogy, a novel about fierce women who are full of heart and the power to survive. In 1873, a Cheyenne chief offers President Grant the opportunity to exchange one thousand horses for one thousand white women, in order to marry them with his warriors and create a lasting peace. These women, "recruited" by force in the penitentiaries and asylums of the country, gradually integrate...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
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1110L
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English
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A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author's own family memoirs, these words belong to Sarah Prine, a woman of spirit and fire who forges a full and remarkable existence in a harsh, unfamiliar frontier. Scrupulously recording her steps down the path Providence has set her upon-from child to determined young adult to loving mother-she shares the turbulent events, both joyous and tragic, that molded her, and recalls the enduring...
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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...
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English
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From New York Times bestselling author Richard Matheson, best known for his horror and fantasy writing, comes a highly praised Western that shows the master's hand in this genre as well.
Back East, they told tall tales about Marshal Clay Halser, the fearless Civil War veteran who became known as the "Hero of the Plains" for his daring exploits in the Wild West. But the truth, as revealed in his private journals, is even more compelling.
A callow
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Sarah Agnes Prine novels volume 3
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English
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Draws on the true stories of the author's grandmother to continue the tale of turn-of-the-twentieth-century pioneer Sarah, whose efforts to survive in the Arizona Territory are challenged by drought before a stagecoach accident puts her in the path of three strangers.
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Frontier stories volume 02
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English
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Presents a collection of thirty tales of danger, hardship, and adventure on the Western frontier, including "The town no guns could tame," "Horse heaven," and "Strange pursuit."
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English
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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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Journals of Callie McGregor volume 01
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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Hope and endurance grew alongside the wildflowers of the untamed west---and in the heart of a young pioneer woman who's determined to survive the Indian massacres, prairie wildfires, and harsh weather of the Montana Territory.
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Journals of Callie McGregor volume 01-02
Pub. Date
c2002-2003
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English
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Promiseland: Callie McGregor is a young pioneer woman determined to survive the Indian massacres, prairie wildfires, droughts and blizzards of the Montana Territory and help settle the west. Her journals bring to life the men and women who endured these problems and more, transporting readers to a time long gone. A ragged old man leaves a Christmas gift Callie will never forget. A dying mother tries to drown her children rather than leave them as...
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Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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Inspired by the author's original family memoirs, this absorbing story introduces the indomitable Sarah Prine, one of the most memorable women ever to survive and prevail in the Arizona Territory of the late 1800's. As a child, Sarah forges a life as full and fascinating as our deepest needs, our most secret hopes, and our grandest dreams. Rich in authentic detail, this action-packed novel is also the story of a powerful and enduring love between...
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