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Author
Series
One thousand White women trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
An Indian request in 1854 for 1,000 white brides to ensure peace is secretly approved by the U.S. government in this alternate-history novel. Their journey west is described by May Dodd, a high-society woman released from an asylum where she was incarcerated by her family for an affair.
22) Rivers of gold
Author
Series
Yukon quest volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Author
Series
Sarah Agnes Prine novels volume 1
Publisher
Regan Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Frontier life through the eyes of Sarah Agnes Prine, a rancher's wife in Arizona who has to deal with Indians and outlaws, rifle in hand. Stuck in a loveless marriage, her romantic life picks up when her husband dies and she meets an army captain. Told in the form of a diary and based on a real-life person.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After years of isolation on top of Hope Mountain, Ilsa Nordegren and her sisters provide refuge for members of the Warden family, who have escaped from a land-grabbing cattle baron. The last thing Mitch Warden expects is to be smitten with Ilsa, a strong-willed, dark-haired woman who dresses like Robin Hood and defends herself better than most men. Mitch vows to help his family reclaim their land, but first he must draw away the hired killers who...
Author
Series
Homeward on the Oregon Trail volume 3
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Martin and her two children have finally reached the Oregon Country. But Eli Kincade, the wagon train scout who captured her heart, has chosen to continue life on the trail.
26) Aiming for love
Author
Language
English
Description
Josephine Nordegren is one of three sisters who grew up nearly wild in southwestern Colorado. She has the archery skills of Robin Hood and the curiosity of the Little Mermaid, fascinated by but locked away from the forbidden outside world--a world she's been raised to believe killed her parents. When David Warden, a rancher, brings in a herd much too close to the girls' secret home, her older sister especially is frightened, but Jo is too interested...
27) Prairie fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Author
Series
Canadian West series volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Janette Oke's beloved story of a young teacher moving west concludes with a poignant and touching tale. Canadian West book 4.
Author
Series
Tender ties historical series volume 3
Publisher
Waterbrook Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
30) A time to love
Author
Series
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"After her long-awaited wedding day ends in disaster, Linda Forrest wonders whether she will ever be happy again. Seeing Blake Barrett's ad for a mail order bride gives her hope that, with God's help, she may still find a time to love." - Back cover.
Author
Language
English
Description
As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families...
32) The star garden
Author
Series
Sarah Agnes Prine novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Marty and Clark Davis arrive home from a visit out west with daughter Missie knowing there are changes ahead for them. But are they prepared for the changes that have taken place while they were gone? Clare and Kate are eagerly awaiting their new baby, but what lies ahead will test their fate in unimagined ways. Luke wants to become a doctor, but his studies will take him far from home. Ellie has blossomed into a lovely young woman, but is there...
37) Where trust lies
Author
Language
English
Description
"After teaching in a 1920s mining town in western Canada, Beth Thatcher no longer feels at home among her wealthy family in the East, and her heart is torn between two very different worlds"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Traveling by covered wagon, Marty and her husband come to the frontier prairie with bright dreams of a new homestead. But her husband is killed in an accident, and Marty, pregnant and alone, now has nowhere to go. When widower Clark Davis offers her a home in exchange for caring for his little girl, Marty knows she must accept. But acceptance means she must marry Clark, and become a real mother for little Missy.
40) The Homesman
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2014, ©1998.
Language
English
Description
Four women in the isolated frontier territory go mad, and it is up to the unlikely combination of homesteader Mary Bee Cuddy and ne'er-do-well Briggs to escort them east to safety.
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