Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Description
"Based on an actual historical event but told through fictional diaries, this is the story of a remarkable woman who travels west in 1875 and marries the chief of the Cheyenne Nation. One thousand white women begins with May Dodd's journey west into the unknown. Yet the unknown is a far better fate than the life she left behind. Committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for the crime of loving a man beneath her station, May finds that...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Follows the Ingalls family's journey through Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, back to Minnesota, and on to Dakota Territory, [examining] sixteen years of travels, unforgettable experiences, and the everyday people who became immortal through Wilder's fiction. Using additional manuscripts, letters, photographs, newspapers, and other sources, ... Wilder biographer Pamela Smith Hill adds ... context and leads readers through Wilder's growth...
47) My Ántonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Antonia Shimerda, the destitute child of Bohemian immigrants, and Jim Burden, a native Virginian who, after being orphaned at the age of ten, is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska. Jim goes to Harvard, becomes a traveling busnissman,a nd returns to Nebraska infrequently; Antonia elopes with a shiftless railroad conductor, comes home disgraced, and finds happiness with Anton Cuzak, a gentle farmer.
48) Roses for Mama
Author
Series
Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
A captivating story of a young girl who must assume responsibility for raising her younger siblings. As the challenges intensify, she is determined in her faith to raise them as her mother would have wanted.
50) Soaring Eagle
Author
Series
Prairie winds volume 2
Description
A gold locket holds a secret for a young widow and a Lakota warrior. Will the difficult choices they must make ever bring them face-to-face?
52) Forty guns West
Author
Series
First mountain man series volume 4
Pub. Date
c1993
Description
Back East for a reunion with his aging parents, Preacher gets into a fight with a pack of city bullies, and when one of them ends up dead, Preacher must high-tail it back west, with an angry posse in hot pursuit.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Description
In a dramatic new series, a host of characters is drawn to the rugged Yukon to start life anew. Fleeing an arranged marriage, Grace escapes to Alaska. Peter, a widower, must choose between parenting his young children and following his dream, while Karen chooses to strike out on her own in search of a missing family member.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
She thought she had already been pushed to the limits of her endurance . . . After all their dreaming and planning, Missie and her beloved Willie are actually on the trail west in a covered wagon, leaving behind her also-beloved family. Her memories are bittersweet as she faces the hardships of the westward trek--the rain, the mud, the impassable rivers, and even death. Will their love for each other and faith in God survive the bewildering surprise...
56) To dream anew
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Heirs of Montana book 3. Though the Diamond V ranch is flourishing and their own family growing, Dianne and Cole Selby find their hard-earned success threatened as a band of Indians on the warpath inch closer to the valley they call home. When a new family settles in the area with ambitions to establish an empire in Montana, it quickly becomes apparent that they will stop at nothing to uproot Dianne's family from the land they've nourished and come...
57) The last trail
Author
Series
Description
Jonathan Zane seeks revenge against the man who abducted his sweetheart and controls a gang of marauding outlaws and Indians.
Author
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...
Author
Description
This is a fascinating autobiography of Baby Doe Tabor, the second wife of pioneer Colorado businessman Horace Tabor, whose rags-to-riches and back to rags again story made her a well-known figure in her own day, and at one time hailed as the "best dressed woman in the West." It was during Baby Doe's final years of her life living in a shack on the site of the Matchless Mine, enduring great poverty, solitude, and repentance, that fellow Coloradan...