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The Great Railroad Race
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Kristiana Gregory |
As the daughter of a newspaper reporter, fourteen-year-old Libby keeps a diary account of the exciting events surrounding her during the building of the Transcontinental Railroad in the West in 1868. |
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Dear Levi
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Elvira Woodruff |
Twelve-year-old Austin Ives writes letters to his younger brother describing his three-thousand-mile journey from their home in Pennsylvania to Oregon in 1851. |
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West along the wagon road, 1852
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Laurie Lawlor |
Eleven-year-old Harriet "Duck" Scott, who isn't nearly as ladylike as her older sisters, finds many opportunities for adventure during an 1852 wagon train trip from Illinois to Oregon Territory, as h… |
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Going West
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Martin Waddell |
A little girl chronicles the hardships encountered during her family's journey west by wagon train. |
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Sunsets of the West
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Tony Johnston |
Pa and his family pack up their belongings and undertake the difficult journey to a new life in the West. |
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Dear America
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Murphy, Jim |
The first humorous book in the Dear America series follows an Italian girl's immigrant family as they move from New York City to a utopian community in the frontier West.
While traveling in 1883 w… |
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Pioneer puzzle
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Marianne Monson |
Twins Nathan and Aria discover that tunnels under the stage in their church's cultural hall lead, magically, to another time when they find themselves on the pioneer trail with Joseph, a boy their ag… |
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The camp in the mountains
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Edward Sylvester Ellis |
In the Louisiana Territory of the late eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old Fred Linden, his fifteen-year-old friend Terry Clark, and a Shawanoe warrior, Deerfoot, finally reach the trappers' cabin b… |
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Redeeming Love
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Francine Rivers |
California’s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitut… |
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Death marks time in Trampas
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T. T. Flynn |
Battle Hymn for a Lost Lawman, the short novel that opens this quintet, is the story of Peace Harrigan. Named by his mother in sheer determination to keep him from becoming a lawman-Peace's father, b… |
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Territory
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Emma Bull |
A historical fantasy finds late-nineteenth-century college student Jesse Fox summoned by a magician friend to the western city of Tombstone, where he witnesses the supernatural powers of such figures… |
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Close Range
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Annie Proulx |
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short-story collections of our time.
Annie Proulx's masterful langu… |
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A Perfect Place
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Patricia Hermes |
Late in 1848, nine-year-old Joshua McCullough starts a second journal, this time recording events in Willamette Valley, Oregon Territory, as his family and others they met on the trail begin to get s… |
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End of the drive
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Louis L'Amour |
A veteran trail driver, who has survived thundering stampedes and Comanche raids, discovers there's nothing so dangerous as courting a beautiful woman.... A brutally beaten homesteader crawls off to… |
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The deerslayer
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James Fenimore Cooper |
The Deerslayer is the last book in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy, but acts as a prequel to the other novels. It begins with the rapid civilizing of New York, in which surrounds the followi… |
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Twister on Tuesday
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Mary Pope Osborne,Sal Murdocca |
When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado. |
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Lake in the Clouds
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Sara Donati |
In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the … |
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