L'Amour, Louis
Summary: Val Darrant was just four years old the snowy night his mother abandoned him. But instead of meeting a lonely death, he met Will Reilly -- a gentleman, a gambler, and a worldly, self-taught scholar. For ten years they each were all the family the other had, traveling from dusty American boomtowns to the cities of Europe -- until the day Reilly's luck ran out in a roar of gunfire. But it wasn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC L'AMJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "It's one of the great mysteries of the Old West. The unexplained disappearance of a hunting party of Prussian nobles who entered the American wilderness--and never returned. Now, years later, the Prussian government demands an explanation. In response, the U.S. Army hires Preacher and Jamie MacCallister to join their search party--along with a band of Prussian soldiers led by the sinister...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHPunke, Michael
Summary: "A story of survival on the American frontier chronicles the exploits of fur trapper Hugh Glass, who is attacked by a grizzly bear and left for dead by his fellow trappers, but survives and treks through the wilderness to seek justice"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUNEnger, Lin
Summary: Abandoned by her husband and her two sons who went out to search for him, Gretta Pope must follow her family across the rugged badlands of 1880s Montana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENGRussell, Sheldon
Summary: "In the American West, as the nation heals from the Civil War that nearly destroyed it, new battle lines are being drawn. Caleb Justin, orphaned and grieving, and his comrade Joshua Hart, a tough, worldly runaway, leave their home along the Ohio River bound for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, intent to join Sheridan's troops in their pursuit of Indian lands. But a badly healed foot injury ends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cennan Books, an imprint of Cynren Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSDallas, Sandra
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 DALDallas, 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: FIC DALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Dallas 2020Rundell, B. N.
Summary: "Osage, Kansa, Otoe, were all tribes west of the Mississippi and dwelt directly in the path of the two friends determined to escape the bounty hunters from Philadelphia and to explore the uncharted wilderness of the west. But when they encounter former French Voyageurs turned slave traders that take Pawnee women captive, their purposes take a turn. But slave-traders are nothing compared to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNJohnston, Terry C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHJohnstone, William W.
Summary: Hired to track down the lady friend of a notorious outlaw, Slash and Pecos have their work cut out for them when they meet Miss Fannie Diamond, a glamorous--and elusive--showgirl who refuses to go quietly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHConnealy, Mary
Summary: Trace Riley has been self-appointed guardian of the trail ever since his own wagon was attacked. When he finds the ruins of a wagon train, he offers shelter to survivor Deborah Harkness and the children she saved. Trace and Deborah grow close working to bring justice to the trail, but what will happen when the attackers return to silence the only witness?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CONWilliamson, Penelope.
Summary: A sprawling Western saga featuring Clementine Kennicutt, a well-to-do Boston woman. To escape her tyrannical father she elopes with Gus McQueen, a Montana rancher, only to fall in love with Zach, his brother. The time is the late 1800s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILCompton, Ralph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Signet 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COMDoig, Ivan.
Summary: Anna Ramsey and Angus McCaskill engage in a fateful contest of the heart as they forge new lives in the beautiful Two Medicine country of Montana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOIJackson, Easy
Summary: "The frontier town of Ring Bit, Texas, has a way of attracting trouble. But it's never seen anything like the mysterious gunman Hawkshaw. As the town marshal, it's Tennessee Smith's job to keep an eye on him. When Tennessee's stagecoach is ambushed--and she's taken hostage--she could use help even if it comes from Hawkshaw"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JACJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "A hot meal, a hard drink, and maybe a friendly hand of poker -- that's all Mac Mackenzie wants when he drifts into the small town of Harcourt City, Montana. What he gets is a fistful of trouble. When he defends a saloon girl from the unwanted advances of some local toughs, he earns the wrath of the town's powerful namesake, Oscar Harcourt. Harcourt rules this place with an iron fist -- and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: WES FIC JOHSickels, Noëlle
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SICL'Amour, Louis
Summary: "Pronto Pike had known plenty of trouble, but none like that winter on Hanging Woman Creek. He and his partner Eddie Holt - as good a man with a rifle as ever rode - were making things tough for the rustlers lifting Bar J cattle. Then Ann Farley came to stay with her brother and vigilantes cut them down. Pronto and Eddie knew they had real trouble because men who will shoot at a woman will do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005
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1 available in Adult PBK, Call number: PBK Western L'Amour 1964Groom, Winston
Summary: When the Colonel's famous Valle del Sol ranch is raided, it was Pancho Villa who not only stole the cattle but also murdered the ranch manager. Even worse, Villa's henchmen abduct the Colonel’s grandchildren in another daring raid only days later. Frantic, the aging patriarch and his adopted son race to El Paso, hoping to gather a group of cowboys brave enough to hunt down the generalissimo on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRODonati, Sara
Summary: In 1857, a young midwife travels west to the New Mexico Territory to care for women in need, facing a harrowing journey. Once there, she realizes her employer and his wife are keeping secrets from her, and she must ferret out the truth to protect their young daughter. First Carrie must confront the demons in her own past, with the help of the man she's come to love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: The education in real life of a 19th Century dilettante. Philip Hamilton interrupts his philosophy studies at Harvard to deliver money for his father to St. Louis, but his snobbish ways get him into trouble. He is robbed and sold for indentured labor on the frontier in wild and dangerous Indian country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEAWheeler, Richard S.
Summary: The continuing saga of Sam Flint, a frontier journalist whose only weapon is the truth. He drives a wagon full of printing equipment to a gold strike in New Mexico Territory, opens a newspaper and takes on the big mining bosses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: Western WheelerMcCarthy, Kevin
Summary: "A saga of loyalty and survival in the vast, severe American West. Irish immigrant brothers Michael and Thomas O'Driscoll have returned from the brutal front lines of the Civil War. Unable to adapt to life as farm laborers, they reenlist in the army and are thrown into ferocious combat with Red Cloud's coalition of Indian tribes in the heart of Montana's Powder River Valley. Thomas finds love...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2019