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1844. The Stevens-Murphy company left Missouri to be the first wagons into California through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Mostly Irish Catholics, the party sought religious freedom and education in the mission-dominated land. When a heavy snowstorm hits in October, the party separates in three directions. Now young Mary Sullivan, newlywed Sarah Montgomery, widowed Ellen Murphy, and her pregnant sister-in-law Maolisa each risks losing those they loved....
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"Larkspur Nielsen is ready for a change. Her parents have passed on, and her older brother is successfully running the family business. She bristles at the small-mindedness that permeates life in her small Ohio community, and she sees little chance of a satisfying future there. She has a little money saved, and after turning the tables on a crooked gambler who had fleeced several locals, including her younger brother, she can stake a new start for...
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Homeward on the Oregon Trail volume 2
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Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2013
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English
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Desperate circumstances bring out the best and worst of the travelers, including Will Bramford, the wealthy widower who is pursuing Elizabeth, and Eli Kincade, the independent and solitary guide who has stolen Elizabeth's heart.
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Homeward on the Oregon Trail volume 1
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Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Kentucky, 1854. Elizabeth has mourned her husband's death for three years, but now she feels ready to fulfill the dream they had shared: to take their two children west. At Kansas City, they join a substantial wagon train. Elizabeth soon finds herself being drawn to the group's handsome guide, Eli Kincade.
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Prairie dreams volume 1
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Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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Elise Finster and her British mistress, Lady Anne, are searching for the new but missing earl of Stoneford. Determined to follow David Stone's somewhat cold trail leading to Oregon, the greenhorns secure livestock and supplies to join a wagon train. Will the ladies succeed in their quest or succumb to the malfeasance of the mysterious man dogging their heels?
7) Washington!
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Wagons West. Main series volume 9
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Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
[2011], c1982
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English
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Wounded Civil War veteran Toby Holt goes West to the Washington timberland to claim a homestead and reunite with a wife he barely knows. Commissioned to build a transcontinental railroad from Washington to Montana and beyond, Holt and his men struggle to navigate the rocky peaks and the ruthless profiteers.
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Town called Fury volume 1
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New York, NY
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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Presents the saga of the American frontier town called Fury, built smack dab in the middle of the untamed Arizona Territory, and the only man who can give Fury a fighting chance. The last thing Jason Fury wants is to lead this wagon train west to California. But halfway across Oklahoma the wagon train is attacked by bloodthirsty Commanche.
10) Nebraska!
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Wagons West. Main series volume 2
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Pinnacle Books/Kensington Pub
Pub. Date
[2009], c1978
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English
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Saga of the first wagon train west toward Oregon begins in Independence, Missouri, and ends when the five hundred brave pioneers reach the great plains of Nebraska. Centers on "Whip" Holt, the ruggedly quiet leader of the caravan and Cathy van Ayl, who leaves her family behind in Missouri to travel with Whip Holt's train and perhaps win his heart.
11) Dead aim
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Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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The oldest and boldest O'Malley brother, Long John takes on the challenge of riding shotgun on a wagon train across the hostile Nebraska Territory. But the real test lies in the journey ahead--to the Rocky Mountains, Sante Fe, and home to Texas--with perils that will either make him a living legend or a dead one
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American Girl
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[2014]
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English
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"First Julie is inspired to raise money so that two bald eagles can fly free. But will she be able to raise enough money to build a tower for their flight? Then, on a journey to commemorate the birth of a nation, Julie finds a way to include a very significant signature on the rededication scroll. And when Julie realizes she can make a positive change in punishments at school, she runs for student body president. Will Julie get the votes she needs?"--...
13) A Christmas prayer: a cross-country journey in 1850 leads to high mountain danger -- and romance
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Shiloh Run Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Three lone wagons on the California Trail become trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains by a sudden snowstorm. Stuck in tight quarters with others makes Cynthia Cooper reevaluate her reasons for being engaged to fellow-traveler Walter Prentice. When a widowed father heading to a California ranch and a gold prospector both show an interest in Cynthia, she has to reconsider here dreams for marriage alongside her responsibility to care for her mother....
14) Wagon train west
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"In 1864 two former mountain men are hired to guide a wagon train to Fort Carson. When a large Dakota war party attacks, the guides will have to use every skill they possess if anyone is to survive"--
15) Keeping faith
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Dr. Victoria Fenway and wagon-train captain Joseph Rickard promised to love each other forever, but a misunderstanding led to her marrying another man. Now determined to carry on her late husband's work of rescuing slaves, she is tracking his murderer. With dangerous slavers tracking her, Joseph becomes her protector, hoping for a second chance"--
16) The steel angel
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"In Texas at the close of the Civil War wagon boss Adam Rait inherits a wagon train of rifles and ammunition when the owner is murdered. He must protect the cargo from several parties who would just as soon take it by force as pay for it while dealing with Angela de Acera (the Steel Angel)"--
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both. But life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of the journey and their disparate pasts...
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Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Wagon trains carrying immigrants along the Oregon Trail are falling prey to outlaws. Most families surrender their valuables and goods peacefully, but anybody brave enough to resist gets a bullet. The gang's latest victim was a wagon master who sought to protect his charges only to die in the dust. With the blood of good men being spilled and families being terrorized, Preacher and Jamie MacCallister volunteer to escort the next wagon train. Preacher...
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Hub City Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"For fans of Ian McGuire's The North Water and Michael Punke's The Revenant, Child in the Valley by Gordy Sauer is a coming-of-age story set in the harsh landscape of Gold Rush America, centering on a orphan's journey to California in a wagon train of ruthless 49ers. Seventeen-year-old Joshua Gaines is suddenly orphaned in 1849, and after discovering that his foster father has left him deeply in debt, he flees his St. Louis home for Independence,...
20) Prairie song
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Hearts seeking home volume 1
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"Though it means saying goodbye to the beloved friends and spiritual mentors of her St. Charles, Missouri quilting circle, Anna Goben is certain that she needs to enlist her family in the Boones Lick Company wagon train. The loss of her beloved brother in the Civil War has paralyzed her mother and grandfather in a malaise of grief and depression and Anna is convinced that only a fresh start in the Promised Land of California can bring her family back...
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