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Fisher, Dave P.

Summary: "Jury of Six is a steadily moving western set against the backdrop of 1880 Nebraska. Families like the MacMahons were the backbone of the developing west. It was a time when the law was spread thin and honest men and women took care of difficulties in black and white. Good men were respected; bad men were dealt with by the law of rope and gun. For eight years the disappearance of Niobrara...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIS

Cather, Willa

Summary: Orphaned as a teenager, Jim Burden comes to live with his stern grandparents on their isolated farm. His pain and loneliness ease when he meets the beautiful Antonia, the high spirited daughter of neighboring immigrant farmers. Antonia's lust for life in her new country endears the young woman to Jim, but not his grandparents, who want bigger and better things for their grandson.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Cather 2007

Hilleman, Andrew

Summary: "Resurrecting a forgotten American folk hero who captivated the nation as an outlaw for economic justice, World, Chase Me Down is a debut novel of adrenaline-fueled, page-turning suspense based on the first great crime of the last century: the revenge kidnapping by out-of-work former butcher Pat Crowe of the sixteen-year-old son of Omaha's wealthiest meatpacking tycoon--the man who forced him...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIL

Galloway, Marcus.

Summary: Sheriff Zeke Wolpert of Keith County, Nebraska, doesn't keep the peace so much as turn a blind eye to the illegal activities of outlaws for payoffs. To the disgust of the county's honest citizens - and himself - he spends most of it on liquor. Now the outlaws have set their sights on a Wells Fargo shipment that's worth a fortune. It's a chance for Zeke to get enough money to retire. But it's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP W GAL

Sandoz, Mari

Summary: Amidst the gold hunters, Indians, outlaws, ranchers, and farmers of 1870's Nebraska Morissa Kirk tries to find success and acceptance as a doctor.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1980

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAN

Hilleman, Andrew

Summary: Once the most wanted man in America, Pat Crowe is a forgotten folk hero who captivated the nation as an outlaw for economic justice. World, Chase Me Down resurrects him, telling the electrifying story of the first great crime of the last century: how in 1900 the out-of-work former butcher kidnapped the teenage son of Omaha's wealthiest meatpacking tycoon for a ransom of $25,000 in gold, and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HIL

Agee, Jonis

Summary: "The award-winning author of The River Wife returns with a multi-generational family saga, set in the unforgiving Nebraska Sandhills in the years following the massacre at Wounded Knee--an ambitious tale of history, vengeance, race, guilt, betrayal, family, and belonging, filled with a vivid cast of characters shaped by violence, love, and a desperate loyalty to the land"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AGE

Alter, Judy

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1988

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALT

Cheshire, Giff

Summary: "When land promoter Rodney Gallant comes to Nebraska and tries to tie up water rights around Silver Lake, Jim Carlin hoped to head off trouble peacefully with a ranchers' meeting until a bushwhacker's bullet tried to keep him from the meeting. Now it's obvious that trouble is already there and Gallant is willing to use violence to get what he wants"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Cheshire 2020

Baker, Shannon

Summary: A cattle rancher investigates the murder of another, copes with her husband's infidelity, and searches for her missing niece--heiress to a ranch that is a source of friction among locals.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAK

Fisher, Karen

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FIS

Fisher, Karen

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005

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Ballantine, David.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAL

Gemeinhart, Dan

Summary: In 1890 Washington the only family Joseph Johnson has left is his half-wild Indian pony, Sarah, so when she is sold by a man who has no right to do so, he sets out to get her back--and he plans to let nothing stop him in his quest.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GEM

Crichton, Michael

Summary: A tale set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting follows the exploits of two ambitious paleontologists who sabotage each others' careers in a rivalry that came to be known as the Bone Wars.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CRI

Kent, Kathleen

Summary: "A taut, thrilling adventure story about buried treasure, a manhunt, and a woman determined to make a new life for herself in the old west. It's the 19th century on the Gulf Coast, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. After escaping the Texas brothel where she'd been a virtual prisoner, Lucinda Carter heads for Middle Bayou to meet her lover, who has a plan to make them both rich, chasing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kent 2013

Chappell, Henry.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Texas Tech University Press 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHA

Enger, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENG

Grey, Zane

Summary: First serialized in 1919, the novel takes place during WWI and tells the story of Kurt Dorn, a wheat farmer in the state of Washington whose father is German and his mother American. Though he has a successful farm, there are groups that would like to prevent wheat from being harvested at all, including a group of Bolsheviks, the Industrial Workers of the World, which is led by a German spy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star/Gale Cengage Learning 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

Denning, Susan.

Summary: It's 1867 in New York City and Aislynn Denehy's close friend, Tim Nolan is forced west to find work in a Utah mining camp. Aislynn follows, enduring the treacherous trail only to find life in the raucous Treasure Mountain camp brings small joys and big challenges.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [S.l.] 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DEN

Mayo, Matthew P.

Summary: In autumn, 1849, 14-year-old Janette Riker travels westward to Oregon Territory with her father and two brothers. Before crossing the Rockies, they stop briefly to hunt buffalo. The men leave camp early on the second day ... and never return. Based on actual events, and told in diary format, Stranded is the harrowing account of young Janette Riker's struggle to survive the long winter alone....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star Publishing, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc. 2017

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MAY

Russell, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cennan Books, an imprint of Cynren Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUS

Connealy, Mary

Summary: "After his father's death, Kevin Hunt inherits a ranch in Wyoming-the only catch is it also belongs to a half brother he never knew existed. But danger follows Kevin, and he suspects his half brother is behind it. The only one willing to stand between them is Winona Martin-putting her in the cross hairs of a perilous plot and a risk at love"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CON

Punke, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Pub. 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUN

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUN

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