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Language
English
Description
The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie book series. Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls-the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true story of her life has never been fully told. Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes readers from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush.
8) The furies
Author
Series
Kent family chronicles (John Jakes) volume 4
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Newly widowed, Amanda Kent, a brave young woman raised by the Teton Sioux, after witnessing the horrors of war at the Alamo, is indentured to a Mexican officer and longs to return home to Boston and restore her family's legacy.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1860 on the eve of a civil war that threatened to tear the country apart, two Americans conceived of an audacious plan for linking the nation's two coasts, thereby joining its present with its future. This book traces the development of the Pony Express and follows it from its start in St. Joseph, Missouri 1,500 miles west to Sacramento.
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Language
English
Description
The explosive true saga of the legendary figure, Daniel Boone, and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power -- Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian Mountains engage in a never-ending series of bloody battles....
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"1827. Duncan Lammons, a disgraced young man from Kentucky, sets out to join the American army in the province of Texas, hoping that here he may live and love as he pleases. That same year, Cecelia, a young slave in Virginia, runs away for the first time. Soon infamous for her escape attempts, Cecelia drifts through the reality of slavery until she encounters frontiersman Sam Fisk, who rescues her from a slave auction in New Orleans. She travels with...
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Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
©2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Born in 1867 in the Big Woods in Wisconsin, Laura experienced both the hardship and the adventure of living on the frontier. It wasn't until after she was sixty that Laura Ingalls Wilder started chronicling those times, which resulted in nine Little House books, a hit TV series that ran for eight years and her own permanent place as a heroine of the American West.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The story of the "Black Boys," a rebellion on the American frontier in 1765 that sparked the American Revolution. Drawing on largely forgotten manuscript sources from archives across North America, Spero recasts the familiar narrative of the American Revolution to reveal how the West played a crucial role in igniting the flame of American independence.
Author
Publisher
South Dakota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Presents Laura Ingalls Wilder's unedited, and unpublished, draft of her autobiography that was written for an adult audience and eventually served as the foundation for her popular Little House on the Prairie series.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Rumors of war between the North and South are spreading across the land. In rural Green County, many of the farmers are already choosing sides. But not John Zachary. His loyalties lie with his family first -- and his heart is telling him to go west. Hoping to build a new life in the fertile valleys of Oregon, he convinces his best friend, Emmitt Braxton, to pack up their families and join him on a wagon train across the Oregon Trail. The journey...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"'You're not wanted in Hattan's Point, ' Matt Brennan was told moments after arriving in town. 'There's trouble here and men are picking sides.' But Matt decided he wasn't going anywhere. Not until he found out what the dispute was about, and not before he got to know Moira Maclaren. She considered him nothing more than a drifting ranch hand, but Matt was determined to prove her wrong. To do so, he'd have to solve a mystery that was at the center...
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