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Ann Arbor Railroad Company. National parks and reserves United States New Mexico Santa Fe Railroad stories Railroads Railroads Michigan Ann Arbor History Railroads Michigan Ann Arbor Pictorial works Santa Fe (N.M.) Description and travel Santa Fe (N.M.) Fiction Santa Fe (N.M.) GuidebooksSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANYee, Betty G.
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Tam Ling Fan disguises herself as her twin brother, journeys from her village in China to California, and works as a laborer on the Transcontinental Railroad--where she faces danger on multiple fronts--to earn the money her family desperately needs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Lab 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC YEELassieur, Allison
Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J917.3 LASWarrick, Robert I.
Summary: "The Ann Arbor Railroad was as much a steamship line as a railroad. This text rich volume follows Michigan's most distinctive railroad from beginning to end with stunning photographs that will surprise readers."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morning Sun Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385 WARBurkhardt, D. C. Jesse
Contents: Rolling tonnage: moving the double A's freight -- Passenger trains -- Tracks on the water: the carferry fleet -- Terminals: Elberta, Cadillac, Owosso, Ann Arbor, and Toledo -- The war years -- We have the connections -- After the carferries -- Addendum: the Ann Arbor carferry fleet (1892-1982).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.097 BURSummary: "Santa Fe is romantic and complicated, old-fashioned and hip, cobbled together from disparate traditions and outsiders' hopes. It is a place to eat chile-drenched breakfast burritos, admire turquoise jewelry and wander light-filled galleries. But it is also a place for contemplation and reverence, for honoring the past and dreaming into the future. A place to revel in all that space between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wildsam Field Guides 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.895 SANTA FE WILSummary: Hannibal, one of history's most famous generals, achieved what the Romans thought to be impossible. With a vast army of 30,000 troops, 15,000 horses, and 37 war elephants, he crossed the mighty Alps in only 16 days to launch an attack on Rome from the north. In Hannibal in the Alps, a team of experts conclusively proves for the first time that Hannibal's army did indeed cross the Alps.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HANWoods, Stuart.
Summary: Having married the seductive Barbara Kennedy against his better judgment, Santa Fe lawyer Ed Eagle awakens the morning after his fortieth birthday to discover that his wife has vanished and that all of his money has been wired to Mexico.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOODent, Huntley.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5979 DENKellerman, Jonathan.
Contents: Boston -- Santa Fe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M KELMcDonald, Megan.
Summary: A girl's diary records the year 1848 during which she, her brother, mother, and stepfather traveled the Santa Fe trail from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Chang, Gordon H.
Summary: In 1864, as the Civil War still raged, throngs of Chinese migrants began to converge on the enormous western worksite of the Transcontinental Railroad. Over the next five years, they blasted tunnels through the granite cliffs of the Sierra Nevada and laid tracks across the burning Nevada and Utah deserts. As many as twelve hundred lost their lives along the route. Those who survived would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 331.6 CHAPeterson, Tracie
Summary: "When an accident leaves Cassandra Barton incapacitated, she spends her time compiling a book of stories about the men working on the Santa Fe Railroad. But worry grows as revolutionaries set out to destroy the railroad. As the danger intensifies, Cassie and her longtime friend Brandon must rely on their faith to overcome the obstacles that stand in the way"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HELWebster, Christy
Summary: In "Marvelous Machinery" Thomas the Tank Engine and his engine friends help the Earl and his friend Ruth get ready for a fair featuring new inventions, and in "The Royal Engine" Thomas takes Sir Topham Hatt to London to meet the queen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The holiday season is in full swing when a cultured gentleman with twinkling eyes, an ample belly, and a snowy beard is hired as the Macy's department store Santa. He claims his name is Kris Kringle, and soon fills everyone with the Christmas spirit. Everyone that is, except Doris Walker, his boss, who is raising her daughter not to believe in Santa. But when Kringle is declared insane, and put...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY MIRDrabelle, Dennis.
Summary: The notorious Central Pacific Railroad riveted the attention of two great American writers: Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris. Drabelle tells a classic story of corporate greed vs. the power of the pen. The Central Pacific Railroad accepted US Government loans; but, when the loans fell due, the last surviving founder of the railroad avoided repayment. Bierce, at the behest of his boss William...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.0979 DRAEnss, Chris
Summary: Colorado Territory in 1864 wasn't merely the wild west, it was a land in limbo while the Civil War raged in the east and politics swirled around its potential admission to the union. The territorial governor, John Evans, had ambitions on the national stage should statehood occur--and he was joined in those ambitions by a local pastor and erstwhile Colonel in the Colorado militia, John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TwoDot 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 ENSPlant, Jeremy F.
Summary: "A fond look back at the C&O in Virginia and West Virginia from the last years of steam to the end of the Chessie System era."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morning Sun Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385 PLACarlson, David
Summary: A teenage girl has vanished in Santa Fe. Nearby, in the Trappist monastery of St. Mary of the Snows, a beautiful young nun is stabbed to death. Father Nicholas Fortis is on sabbatical at St. Mary's, and when Lieutenant Christopher Worthy of the Detroit Police Department is flown in to help find the missing teenager, the Orthodox monk asks his friend to delve into the nun's murder as well. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffeetown Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARHornstein, Hugh A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2005