Vaughan, Robert
Summary: "When sixteen-year-old Matt Logan and his friend Danny Dugan ran away from an orphanage, they went west. There, they met Jim Bridger, among other mountain men, and became fur trappers. But the market for beaver plews died out, and the two friends took on jobs as wagon train guides. They eventually separated, hoping to meet again. One of the trains Matt picks up in Independence began its journey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: "It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees postings soliciting 'eligible women' to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter, she has nothing to lose. She joins forty-three other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2,000-mile journey west. None are prepared for the hardships they face on the trek or for the strengths they didn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DALWiley, Jesse
Summary: It's 1850, and you are setting off on the treacherous Oregon Trail. In this first book of four, your goal is to get you and your family to Chimney Rock on time. But many dangers await you on the journey ahead. Wild animals, natural disasters, sickness, and other obstacles stand between you and your destination. Which path will get you safely across the prairie? With more than twenty possible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A band of hardy pioneers, led by guide Breck Coleman, makes its perilous way along the Oregon Trail, braving bison, treacherous river crossings, blizzards and Indian attacks. Filmed in two versions simultaneously, each scene had to be shot twice, once for the widescreen process Grandeur in 70mm, and again for the standard 35mm version.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY WESTERN BIGWiley, Jesse
Summary: It's 1845 and your family is fleeing Florida with hopes of starting fresh out west. You'll encounter sudden snowstorms that will overwhelm your wagon train en route to the Oregon Trail. Food will become scarce--and you'll get lost. Can you survive the unseasonably cold climates? If you make the right choices, you could find the Lewis-Clark Trail, which would lead back to the Oregon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After years of reckless behavior, a heroin addiction and the destruction of her marriage, Cheryl Strayed makes a rash decision. Haunted by memories of her mother Bobbi and with absolutely no experience, she sets out to hike more than a thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail all on her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WILCopies Available at East Bay
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Summary: A family must survive the dangerous ford of the wild Snake River along the Oregon Trail, in a book where the reader's choices determine the outcome of the expedition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GREWiley, Jesse
Summary: "It's 1849. You and your family are at the halfway mark on your 2,000-mile journey West. You've set up camp near South Pass, Wyoming. A powerful storm strikes. Your wagon train must ford the river immediately. When crossing the wild water, the current pulls you in and separates you from your family. You wake up on a riverbank--lost and disoriented. You have no other choice by to find your way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Summary: Keep your wagon train alive in this trailblazing choose-your-own-trail experience on the Oregon Trail! With more than twenty possible endings, there are wild animals, rapid rivers, bandits, treacherous weather, famine, and even death that stand between you and your dream life out West. Do you have what it takes to make it all the way to Oregon City?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILSummary: A wagon train of three families has hired mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a shortcut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants face the scourges of hunger, thirst, and their own lack of faith in each other's instincts for survival....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA MEEAtwood, Megan
Summary: When Olive makes up a story about a trip to Paris to impress her New York pen pal Molly, the lies quickly get out of hand, and threaten their long distance friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ATWDallas, Sandra
Summary: "From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous Overland Trail "If you are an adventuresome young woman of high moral character and fine health, are you willing to travel to California in search of a good husband?" It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees the postings soliciting "eligible women" to travel to the gold mines...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Dallas 2020Guin, Jerry
Summary: "Sam Bass was just a farm boy from Indiana, but he wound up in Texas and became one of the most notorious outlaws in the history of the Old West. Texas history has often referred to Bass as "Texas' Beloved Bandit" or "Robin Hood on a Fast Horse." Jerry Guin's historical novel The Bandit takes an unflinching look at the life and times of Sam Bass, from his almost accidental incursion into a life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GUISummary: Inspired by the legend of Shields 'Emperor' Green, a descendant of African kings turned outlaw slave in the pre-Civil War South. Seeking freedom for his family, Emperor fights his way north, joining the daring raid on Harper's Ferry and helping alter the course of American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EMPCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EmCline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: "In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLISummary: The story of one young hippie's quest in the 1970s for belonging and liberation that leads not only to peace, love, and rock and roll but that sets into motion a new counterculture crusade a Jesus Movement changing the course of history. Inspired by a true movement, it tells the story of a young Greg Laurie being raised by his struggling mother, Charlene in the 1970s. Laurie and a sea of young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JESKelly, Anita
Summary: "When Alexei Lebedev finally comes out to his conservative community, it does not go well. That's how he ended up on the rugged Pacific Crest Trail, hoping he can figure out a new life plan in the thousands of miles it'll take to walk the famed hike. He's prepared for rattlesnakes, blisters, and months of solitude. What he's not prepared for is the ray of sunshine named Ben Caravalho....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELUrlocker, M. Z.
Summary: 1950. The Cold War simmers, and ex-GI Jack Waters is called in to investigate a fatal accident at a research lab in California. When Waters recognizes the victim, he realizes he must revisit his hidden past in World War II to solve a murder and prevent Nazi scientists from creating a terrible, new weapon in America. Blending noir detective fiction with post-WWII history, The Man from Mittelwerk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkshares, Inc. 2022
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Summary: "The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both. But life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2020
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Summary: US Marshals Madison James and Jonas Quinn are transporting two prisoners across the country on a private plane. When the plane experiences engine trouble en route from the Pacific Northwest to Colorado, the pilots crash-land the aircraft deep in the heart of the sprawling Salmon-Challis National Forest. When Madison and Jonas regain consciousness, they find both pilots and one prisoner dead--...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARSummary: Cullen Bohannon, a former soldier and slaveholder, follows the track of Union soldiers, who killed his wife. This brings him to the middle of one of the biggest projects in US history, the building of the railroad. After the war years in the 1860s, this connected the east with the still wild west.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HELPeterson, Doug
Summary: "Based on the true story of Ellen Craft, a light-skinned slave who escaped from Georgia in 1848. By posing as an ailing white man while her husband pretended to be her slave, Ellen and William Craft traveled over one thousand to freedom"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PETCarr, Robyn
Summary: The rustic campground at the crossroads of the Colorado and Continental Divide Trails welcomes everyone, whether they're looking for a weekend getaway or a new lease on life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017