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1) Beloved hope
Author
Series
Heart of the frontier volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
With her mind and soul healing after the massacre at the Whitman Mission, Hope Flanagan is forced to confront her past when she is asked to testify.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
On the grueling trail west, Grace Martindale loses her new husband and her last vestige of security. Upon arriving in Oregon Country, she uses her midwifery skills to help the other settlers, and--with the aid of fur trapper Alex Armistead--the Cayuse tribe. But peace between the groups is fragile, and tension soon leads to violence.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to 'aging out' out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse.... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds...
Author
Series
Heart of the frontier volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
When tensions between the Rogue River Valley's native peoples and white settlers reach a breaking point, Mercy Flanagan and young minister Adam must draw on their faith in God to make it out alive.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"They came on boats, on trains, great unceasing waves of them-the poor, the disenfranchised, the seekers, the dreamers. Second and third generations of farmers eking out an existence on scraps of farms divided up among too many sons. Political agitators no longer welcome in their homelands. Young men fleeing conscription in a king's army. Married couples starting out. Bachelors from towns with few women. The poor in tenements with air so stifling...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drawn to a Montana homestead and to a strange childhood companion she'd long forgotten, Joanna Chase and others converge on this remote ranch where a madman lurks with a vision to save the future through murder, forcing them all to come together to save themselves--and humanity.
Author
Series
Wild West Wind volume 2
Language
English
Description
Book Two in Lauraine Snelling's Exciting Wild West Wind Series
After fleeing North Dakota and the now defunct Wild West Show, Cassie Lockwood and her companions have finally found the hidden valley in South Dakota where her father had dreamed of putting down roots. But to her dismay, she discovers a ranch already built on her land.
Cassie's arrival surprises Mavis Engstrom and forces her to reveal secrets she's kept hidden for years. Her son Ransom...
Author
Series
Return to the Canadian West volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
Beth Thatcher's excitement over her return to Coal Valley, her anticipated engagement, and the expansion of her school is mitigated by the arrival of a new teacher whose philosophy of education clashes with Beth's beliefs.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xvi, 777 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1857 a young midwife braves the perilous journey west from New York City to Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory in this captivating epic from Sara Donati, the international bestselling author of Where the Light Enters. Carrie Ballentyne's life was upended in 1845 when she had to leave the only home she'd ever known in the mountains of upstate New York. With her are her widowed mother and younger brother Nathan, but the separation from Bonner, Ballentyne,...
10) Pioneer crafts
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
40 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Including explanations of how crafts were made by pioneers, this book presents instructions for making candles, baskets, lanterns, toys, and many other things.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
Sequel to Mr. Tucket
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Having separated from the one-armed trapper who taught him how to survive in the wilderness of the old west, fifteen-year-old Francis gets lost and continues to have adventures involving dangerous men.
12) Homestead
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION 5 UNDER 35 HONOREE and FLANNERY O'CONNOR AWARD WINNER Melinda Moustakis, a debut novel set in Alaska, about the turbulent marriage of two unlikely homesteaders "Moustakis has OCEANS OF TALENT." --Pam Houston "A writer who TRULY HAS EVERYTHING." --Jaimy Gordon Anchorage, 1956. When Marie and Lawrence first lock eyes at the Moose Lodge, they are immediately drawn together. But when they decide to marry, days later, they...
14) Desolation Creek
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Building a ranch takes heart and grit. Smoke and Sally Jensen are more than capable of meeting the challenges of shaping the land, raising the livestock, and establishing their brand. But Smoke wasn't always an entrepreneur. He's more apt to settle accounts with a fast draw than a checkbook. And when he learns his old friend Preacher has been ambushed by outlaws, he wastes no time saddling up and hitting the vengeance trail with his fellow mountain...
Author
Series
Leah's garden volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Larkspur Nielsen is ready for change, frustrated by the small-mindedness of her Ohio hometown and its lack of opportunity for her or her younger sisters. But the push to leave comes faster than she ever expected when several of her bold actions for justice earn her vindictive enemies. Overnight, they must pack up and ready to make a new life out West, hoping to escape notice and any opportunities for revenge. Knowing that four women traveling together...
16) Calder grit
Author
Series
The Calder Brand volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the countryside explodes in violence, the Calder patriarch has the power to stop the destruction, though some believe Benteen Calder is only stoking the flames for his own gain. One man courageously straddles the divide…
That man is Blake Dollarhide, the ambitious young owner of Blue Moon’s lumber mill. When Blake’s spoiled half-brother takes advantage of the innocent daughter of a homesteading family, Blake steps in as Hanna Anderson’s...
18) The long winter
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Originally published: 1940.
19) Fields of bounty
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"Lilac Nielsen's dream has come true: handsome young Rev. Ethan Pritchard has finally noticed her. Yet she must balance this new courtship with the pursuit of another dream--the publication of her artwork in a New York paper. She has secretly been submitting a series of drawings under a pen name, and if anyone traces the drawings back to her, the entire Nielsen family could be put in danger.As their family farm expands and Lilac's relationship with...
20) Where trust lies
Author
Series
Return to the Canadian West volume 2
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.