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The spring of 1824 is a challenging one for the inhabitants of Paradise N.Y. when a flood devastates the village. But for Nathaniel and Elizabeth Bonner, it's also a time of reunion as their children return from far-off places, a childhood friendship evolves into a romance, and family secrets threaten heart and home.
23) Many sparrows
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"When settler Clare Inglesby is widowed and her young son, Jacob, captured by Shawnees, she'll do anything to get him back. Frontiersman and adopted Shawnee, Jeremiah Ring, promises to help her recover Jacob. Once they reach the Shawnees and discover Jeremiah's own Shawnee sister has adopted Jacob, keeping his promise becomes far more complicated"--
25) Dakota dugout
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Macmillan,ill ;Macmillan
Pub. Date
c1985
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A woman describes her experiences living with her husband in a sod house on the Dakota prairie.
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"Buffalo Jones needs no introduction to American sportsmen, but to these of my readers who are unacquainted with him a few words may not be amiss. He was born sixty-two years ago on the Illinois prairie, and he has devoted practically all of his life to the pursuit of wild animals. It has been a pursuit which owed its unflagging energy and indomitable purpose to a singular passion, almost an obsession, to capture alive, not to kill. He has caught...
28) SHANE
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Acclaimed director George Stevens' legendary rendition of the quintessential Western myth earned six Academy Award nominations, and made Shane one of the classics of the American cinema. The story brings Alan Ladd, a drifter and retired gunfighter, to the assistance of a homestead family terrorized by a wealthy cattleman and his hired gun (Jack Palance). In fighting the last decisive battle, SHANE sees the end of his own way of life. Mysterious, moody...
34) The frontiersmen
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Time-Life Books,ill.Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1977
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Portrays the people and times, the drama and danger of the developing frontier in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century United States.
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Kirsten volume Book 5
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Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
1988
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Ten-year-old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, one of the natural treasures of her Minnesota frontier world, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself.
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When Tabitha Brown's son makes the fateful decision to leave Missouri and strike out for Oregon, she refuses to be left behind. Despite her son's concerns, Tabitha hires her own wagon to join the party. Along with her reluctant daughter and her ever-hopeful granddaughter, the intrepid Tabitha has her misgivings. The trials they face along the way will severely test Tabitha's faith, courage, and ability to hope. With her family's survival on the line,...
38) First frontier
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Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
c2001
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Chronicles the exploration and settlement of lands west of the Appalachian Mountainsduring the late 1700s and early 1800s.
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Wilderness volume Book 3
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The third novel in the Wilderness series finds the Bonner family back home in the North American frontier. A sparkling, absorbing historical novel, set in America at a time when the growing population in the towns clashed with the frontiersmen, the adventurers and the original settlers, in their attempts to regulate society, as they saw it. The Bonner family easily straddle both worlds. But Hannah, the oldest daughter, a gifted healer, training in...
40) Valley of dreams
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Wild West Wind volume Book One
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As one woman tries to find the hidden valley of her father's dreams in the 1906 Black Hills, she also discovers courage, faith--and romance.
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