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In this dramatic sequel of "Dances with Wolves" about army Lt. John Dunbar and his life with the Comanche Indians on the Great Plains. It is now 1874, 11 years after Dunbar deserted from the army to live among the Comanche. He has married Stands with a Fist, the captive white woman raised by Indians, and they have three children.
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In 1869, Gloriana Womack's family is much smaller since smallpox killed her mother and two of her siblings. She lives in a modest cottage in Duluth, Minnesota, with her father and young brother, and she has dedicated her life to holding her tiny, fractured family together--especially as her father is frequently gone on long fishing trips. Their livelihood may come from the waters of Lake Superior, but storms on the lake can be dangerous, even to those...
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Zane Grey's first historical western is the story of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad across the plains and through the mountains and deserts to meet up with the Southern Pacific in Utah. Brilliant civil engineer Warren Neale, sided by Texas gunfighter and friend Larry Red King, are constantly confronted with construction problems, lawlessness, corruption, and the danger of Indian attacks.
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2012
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In 1899 Jeremy, a young engineer, leaves a small town in Maine to oversee the construction of a railroad across East Africa. In charge of hundreds of Indian laborers, he soon finds himself the reluctant hunter of two lions that are killing his men in almost nightly attacks on their camp. Plagued by fear, wracked with malaria and alienated by a secret he can tell no one, he takes increasing solace in the company of the African who helps him hunt. In...
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House of Winslow volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
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Mark Winslow, a young man whose grandfather came to America on the Mayflower, is headed to Omaha to work for the Union Pacific Railroad, but his plans and his life take a detour when he rescues Lola Montez from the unwanted attentions of a drunken cowboy.
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2021.
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"The building of the transcontinental railroad is the story of America itself. Full of great dreams - and greater dangers - it required bold vision, back-breaking work, and one brave man to stop the baddest of the bad men every step of the way. His name is Wolf Stockburn, railroad detective... NEXT STOP, HELL. ALL ABOARD! The killers are organized - and ruthless. One by one, they slaughter a railroad crew at Hell's Jaw Pass in Wyoming Territory. No...
10) Dead iron
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Age of steam volume 1
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[2011]
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"Welcome to a new America that is built on blood, sweat, and gears... In steam age America, men, monsters, machines, and magic battle for the same scrap of earth and sky. In this chaos, bounty hunter Cedar Hunt rides, cursed by lycanthropy and carrying the guilt of his brother's death. Then he's offered hope that his brother may yet survive. All he has to do is find the Holder: a powerful device created by mad devisers-and now in the hands of an ancient...
12) Blood mountain
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2020.
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Thorndike Press large print western
"One man ruled the mountainside - and made a deal with the would-be railroad's competitors. If Simon Striker could stop the steel tracks, he could earn a fortune. Now a brawling, quarrelling crew of immigrant railroad workers - Chinese, Irish and Polish - are about to be swept into a death trap in the mountain. And as Striker unleashes his landslide of terror, treachery and murder, a tough Irishman and sword-wielding...
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