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Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
When a frontier baron known as the Commodore orders Charlie and Eli Sisters, his hired gunslingers, to track down and kill a prospector named Herman Kermit Warm, the brothers journey from Oregon to San Francisco, and eventually to Warm's claim in the Sierra foothills, running into a witch, a bear, a dead Indian, a parlor of drunken floozies, and a gang of murderous fur trappers.
Author
Language
English
Description
Buck's epic account of traveling the length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way--in a covered wagon with a team of mules, an audacious journey that hasn't been attempted in a century--tells the rich history of the trail, the people who made the migration, and its significance to the country.
Author
Series
Ribbons west volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[c1999]
Language
English
6) Revealed
Author
Series
Fountain Creek chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Lone Star legacy (Judith Pella) volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Author
Series
Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 11
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
They tried to tell him that his father had killed himself, but Kearney McRaven knew better. No matter what life had dealt him, his father would go down fighting. And as he delved deeper into the mystery, he learned that just before his father died, the elder McRaven had experienced a remarkable run of luck: he'd won nearly ten thousand dollars and the deed to a cattle ranch. Not yet eighteen, Kearney was determined enough to track down his father's...
10) The daybreakers
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 6
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2000, c1960
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO--the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation that made him a marked man to every gunslinger in the Wild West. James Butler Hickock was known across the frontier as a soldier, Union spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman, and actor. Wild Bill became a legend, crossing paths with General Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody, as well as Ben Thompson...
Author
Series
Oklahoma western biographies volume 7
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
17) The inheritance
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
McKenna Ashford moves west with her rebellious younger brother Robert. U.S. Marshall Wyatt Caradon's well-meant attempt to help the young man brings him face-to-face with the one situation he never wanted to encounter--and the one woman who holds the key to helping him find his future.
19) A heart's home
Author
Series
Journey of the heart volume 6
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Emmies hope for a life with Isaac is overshadowed by a tragic loss at Fort Phil Kearny.
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