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A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
The adventures continue for Laura Ingalls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set out for Kansas. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the best spot to build their little house on the prairie. Soon they are...
42) Pioneer recipes
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Presents information on pioneer cookery and instructions for recipes prepared in the spirit of the pioneers, including multicultural dishes, historical methods, and current adaptations.
45) Mojave crossing
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Tell Sackett was sitting pretty, with thirty pounds of gold that were mostly his. Maybe that was why when a beautiful raven-haired woman asked to ride with him to Los Angeles, he didn't care that she came with a lot of trouble. A powerful hard ride over the blistering Mojave desert was one third of the trouble. Another third was trackers out for the woman and for his blood. The last third was getting ambushed and being left without the woman, a horse,...
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GoodTimes Entertainment
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English
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The premiere movie depicts Charles Ingalls and his family leaving their home in Wisconsin to make a new life in Kansas. Remember me involves a terminally-ill widow who enlists Charles Ingalls' help in finding a home for her three children.
47) Boulder Dam
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Walter J. Black
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English
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Lynn Weston, a college athlete, finds adventure when gangsters try to blow up a great American dam.
48) The Arizona clan
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Dodge Mercer looks for thieves taking his sorghum at night and becomes interested in opposing clan's lovely daughter during the day.
49) The trail driver
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Old Adam Brite recruits a tough outfit to drive four thousand cattle along the Chisholm Trail, haunt of gunslingers and rustlers. One of his gun-toting horse wranglers is Reddie Bayne, a youth who turns out to be slightly different.
51) A moment in time
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Lone star brides volume 2
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English
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"Alice Chesterfield is a woman pursued. Having survived an attack that left her scarred and her father dead, she is never free from the fear and memories of the man who is responsible. Texas seems to be an answer to Alice's prayers, and when she has the opportunity to relocate to a ranch near Dallas, Robert Barnett captures her attention. Unlike any man Alice has ever known, Robert doesn't worry about the obstacles that stand in their way--and he...
52) Sackett
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A long-time drifter, William Tell Sackett hungers for a place to settle down and build a life. His search takes him to a ghost trail that leads to a secluded and very beautiful valley holding a fortune in gold. Meeting Angie Kerry, a woman as courageous and resourceful as she is beautiful, Tell begins to dream of a home in the untamed valley. But, knowing that dangerous men would follow him there looking for gold, Kerry is forced to preserve his claim...
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"Leaving behind their dear friends in Beaver Creek, Elizabeth and Wynn take over an even more primitive RCMP outpost in the Canadian Northwest. A frontier woman now, Elizabeth had triumphed over the worst life could offer, or had she?"--Provided by publisher.
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Virtues and vices of the Old West volume 1
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English
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Patience Cavanaugh has lost hope in romance. The man she yearned to marry is dead and her dreams are gone with him. Now she is consumed with the restoration of a dilapidated boarding house in order to support herself. Despite her desire for solitude, Jedediah Jones, the local sheriff with a reputation for hanging criminals, becomes an ever-looming part of her life. It seems like such a simple arrangement: Patience needs someone with a strong back...
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"A vaquero with a past." Pecos Smith was the best horseman, the best shot, the best man with a rope that ever rode out of southwest Texas. That was all anyone really knew about him. But in six-gun country, west of the Pecos, people figured he would be useful to have around so no one asked questions -- Publisher.
56) The Last Trail
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English
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White rustlers trouble the people of the Ohio River Valley, and Lewis Wetzel and Jonathan Zane set about stopping them.
57) Distant dreams
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Ribbons of steel volume 1
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English
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Andrew Jackson's presidency and accompanying intrigue form the historical setting for this novel. An almost consuming curiosity about things mechanical, and especially the new railroad, creates frequent conflicts for 15-year-old Carolina Adams. The inquisitive teen faces daily challenges from her family and peers in an age when it is feared that too much education may "cause insanity in women." Fascination for the sight, sound, and even the smell...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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First edition.
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English
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In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril--the Kansas Indian Territory. The pioneer life is a hard one, especially for a pregnant woman with no friends or kin to turn to for comfort or help. The burden of work must be shouldered alone,...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Fullscreen edition.
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English
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Missie and Wille LaHaye are on their way to the west. The couple become rugged pioneers as they face all kinds of hardships, including death. Missie fights homesickness, boredom, and being pushed to the limit. Can her faith help her through?
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