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1) The homesman
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A "homesman" is a person charged with taking women who have been driven mad by the conditions of rural life in the 1850's to asylums in the East. Mary Bee Cuddy, an ex-teacher and spinster, who is indomitable, resourceful, and "plain as an old tin pail." Brave as she is, Mary Bee knows she can't make it alone, so she takes along her only available companion: the lowlife and untrustworthy George Briggs.
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McKettrick romances volume 4
[McKettricks of Texas volume 4
McKettricks of Texas volume 04
Romantic sounds audio
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[McKettricks of Texas volume 4
McKettricks of Texas volume 04
Romantic sounds audio
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"When news arrived of trouble back in Texas, Holt McKettrick left; his mail-order bride on the spot. But that's how it had always been for Holt- trying to do the right thing inevitably got somebody mad at him. He just prayed he'd be in time to keep his best friend from the gallows and save the man who'd raised him as a son. The arduous trip from Arizona to San Antonio wold be rife with rustlers and thieves- both of which Holt; could easily handle....
3) Faith
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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Best-selling author Lori Copeland kicks off this historical Western series with this pleasing tale of mail-order brides set in 1872. When their pastor father dies suddenly, leaving little money, three sisters realize that they need to take drastic action to survive. Each answers a newspaper ad soliciting Christian brides. Faith goes to Texas, where her intended, a well-to-do rancher named Nicholas Shepherd, seems to be having second thoughts. While...
4) My Ántonia
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
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"Orphaned Jim Burden rides the trains from Virginia to Black Hawk, Nebraska, where he will live with his paternal grandparents. Jake, a farmhand from Virginia, rides with the 10-year-old boy. On the same train, headed to the same destination, is the Shimerda family from Bohemia. Jim lives with his grandparents in the home they have built, helping as he can with chores to ease the burden on the others. The home has the dining room and kitchen downstairs,...
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From the moment Madeling Hammond steps off the train in New Mexico, she walks straight into t5rouble. Almost tricked into marriage by a handsome, drunken cowboy, Madeline quickly realizes she has a lot to learn if she is going to survive life on her brother's ranch in the southwestern territory.
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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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"Skye is born into a remote world of the unsettled West--her Scottish father a loving but moody mountain man, her mother a Lakota bride taken from her Sioux family by this passionate Highlander. But the steel-springed lunge of a mountain lion tears Skye's mother from her, starting her on a destiny-filled journey. With half-Scottish feet clad in Indian moccasins, Skye walks two separate paths, not knowing whether to believe her father's bitter enemy...
9) Wind River
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In a land where justice was found in the barrel of a gun and the line between a decent man and an outlaw was often too thinly drawn, two extraordinary sisters struggled to survive and fought for their freedom. Rebecca, as beautiful and untamable as the mountains of Utah, was forced to marry a brutal polygamist, but she refused to surrender her dream. And Katie risked her life so Rebecca might have a chance for freedom. And she risked everything else...
10) Chalk's woman
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David Ballantine's debut novel Chalk's Woman, is a story about freedom, liberation, and love. Set in the violent backdrop of the waning months of the Civil War, Chalk's Woman addresses violence and redemption as seen through the eyes of a girl maturing into a woman.
Ann, a fourteen-year-old girl, wakes up after a terrible explosion in a make-shift hospital during the waning months of the Civil War-her house no longer stands and her mother is dead,...
11) The Hen House
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Once a frontier saloon girl, Leticia Murphy Potter is now happily married, and her husband, Eulis, couldn't be more overjoyed to call her his wife. The happy couple have become upstanding citizens of Denver City, and have just begun to build a home there together. But despite her successes, Letty's trials and tribulations aren't over. Trouble is brewing just over the horizon and soon Letty and Eulis will have to work together to overcome new threats-both...
12) Crown of dust
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Disguising herself as a boy and hiding in the melee of the gold rush to escape her past, Alex raises suspicions in proprietor Emaline, who extends protection around the unusual youth until an unexpected gold strike reveals dangerous secrets.
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The belles of Lordsburg volume 3
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Julianna Ortiz's life was complicated with her brother in prison, his fellow gang members harassing her, and her long-absent father showing up. On top of all this, the gunslinger known as DelNorte trapses into her life.
14) Honor's pledge
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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In the Colorado Rockies, Abigail Martin and Montgomery Farrel find their relationship shattered by an old promise Monte made to another woman.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 15
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He was known as Deathwind to the Ohio Valley Indians, and now Lewis Wetzel must single-handedly save Fort Henry. Armed only with his long rifle and knife, he heads out on a one-man rampage to stop the bloody border wars, to face down Chief Wingenund, and to avenge the brutal missionary massacre at Village of Peace.
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Deep in the untamed Southern Arizona Territory, the United States Army embarks on a final campaign to rid the area of the remaining Apache warriors and capture and kill their famed war chief Geronimo. Legendary for their relentless battle tactics and astounding survival skills, the Apache make a fearsome enemy, able to cut down man, woman, and child in silence, and transverse undetected throughout the rocky terrain. General Nelson A. Miles is determined...
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" After her parents' deaths and the recession force her out of her home in 1873, Jenny Dousmann heads for the Wild West. She knows that if she can find her brother, Otto, a Civil War veteran, he'll take care of her. When they finally reunite, Jenny is surprised to find that Otto has been working as a buffalo hunter and is struggling even to support himself. The number of hunters in the West has increased rapidly, and buffalo has become scarce. To...
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Westward America! volume 3
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"Jonah Wilde has always had an untamed spirit, and he will stop at nothing to achieve his dream of building a farming empire in the wild prairies of Indiana. But in 1810, the Shawnee Indians still call these prairies home, and a disastrous and violent encounter with the Shawnee changes everything for the Wilde family. Jonah's young wife, Sadie, and his three-year-old son, Paul, are left to fend for themselves at Tippecanoe. Her dreams in tatters,...
19) The last trail
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With anxiety, Mr. Sheppard, his nephew, and daughter set up camp in the gathering darkness. They were trying to reach Fort Henry before nightfall but lost their way in the shades of the forest. Their guide had mysteriously deserted them that morning. Suddenly, a band of Indians appeared at the edge of the firelight brandishing tomahawks. As quickly as they appeared, they disappeared. Moments later, a man clad in fringed buckskins silently slipped...
20) Betty Zane
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1782 - the Ohio River settlements. The land along the Ohio River is newly settled. Indomitable men and women - Col. Zane and his family, the McCollochs, Wetzel, the "Death Wind" Indian killer, among them - have hewn a life out of the frontier wilderness, building homesteads and farms around the stockade and blockhouse of Fort Henry. All about them is the seemingly impenetrable forest, haunt of white renegades and hostile Indian tribes - the Wyandots,...
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