Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: In 1911, Carrie Strahorn wrote a memoir entitled Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage , which shared some of the most exciting events of 25 years of traveling and shaping the American West with her husband, Robert Strahorn, a railroad promoter, investor, and writer. That is all fact. Everything She Didn't Say imagines Carrie nearly ten years later as she decides to write down what was really on her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2018
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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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star Publishing, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MAYJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "Smoke Jensen is mighty proud of his son Louis for finishing law school. But he can't help being a little disappointed that Louis isn't returning to the Sugarloaf Ranch. Instead, he's setting up his own law practice in nearby Big Rock--a career choice that turns out to be every bit as dangerous as fending off cattle rustlers. The boy's first case lands him smack in the middle of a heated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHMcCauley, Terrence
Summary: At long last, U.S. Marshal Aaron Mackey and Deputy Billy Sunday will see crime baron James Grant and his kill-crazy cronies stand trial for the mayhem and suffering they unleashed on the people of Dover Station. But as Montana Territory's statehood is approaching, murdering devils like Grant can no longer be tolerated in positions of political power. Or can they? Montana's capital of Helena...
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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 MCCBrunstetter, Wanda E
Summary: "In 1850, three lone wagons on the California Trail become trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains by a sudden snowstorm. Stuck in tight quarters with others forces Cynthia Copper to question her engagement to a near stranger and to reconsider her dreams for marriage alongside her responsibility to care for her mother"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Brunstetter 2018Summary: A corrupt political boss tries to sabotage a small Western town by appointing an African-American as the sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY BLASummary: Rush to California after the 1848 gold discovery alongside thousands of hopeful men and women. Meet news reporters, English gentry, miners, morticians, marriage brokers, bankers, fugitives, preachers, imposters, trail guides, map makers, cooks, missionaries, town builders, soiled doves, and more people who take advantage of the opportunities to make their fortunes in places where the population...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Books, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc. 2016
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Summary: In 1807, Harriet Winter leaves her family's New Hampshire farm with her brother to settle in the Genesee Valley to avoid being pushed into marriage with her neighbor, Daniel Long.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2018
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Summary: Young colt Sky was born with the urge to run. Alongside his band, he moves across the range searching for fresh water and abundant grazing. But humans have begun to encroach on Sky's homelands. With fewer resources to share, Sky knows that he must leave if his family is to survive. He hopes that one day, he'll be strong and brave enough to return and challenge the stallion to lead the herd....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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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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Summary: When Dede sees a notice offering land for black people in Kansas, her family decides to quit sharecropping and become homesteading pioneers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAFSummary: A family saga focusing on the lives of the Macahan family in the Old West. Their stories are played out against a realistic recreation of the American West in that lusty, hard-hitting period when laws were frequently broken and progress was charted by individual suffering and survival.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2013
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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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Summary: In 1875, Kathryn Walsh settles in frontier California. Moved by the oppression of local miners, she decides to relaunch her uncle's newspaper, putting her in the spotlight of Calvada's most powerful men.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RIVConnealy, Mary.
Summary: "Sophie McClellan, a resourceful pioneer, raised her daughters to be strong, wise, faithful, and independent, but will finding true love be too great a challenge for these Texas women?"--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Pub. Inc. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONSummary: Relive the heartwarming moments when orphan Albert wins Charles' heart, when Mary conquers doubts about becoming a wife and mother, and when Laura and Albert help a dying friend realize his dream. All twenty four uncut episodes are restored and remastered for premium picture and sound to capture hearts once again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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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 2020Rivers, Francine
Summary: New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save. 1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2022
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Summary: A stand-alone companion to the New York Times and Indie bestsellers A Wolf Called Wander and A Whale of the Wild. Exiled from his band, a young, wild horse must find his way across treacherous terrain to reunite with his family after being captured for the Pony Express. A fast-paced survival story about wild horses, family bonds, and a changing environment. Young colt Sky was born with the urge...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC PARWilson, Diane L.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Colton, son of a black mother and a white father, takes a job with the Pony Express in 1860 after his father abandons the family on their California-bound wagon train, and risks his life to deliver an important letter that may affect the growing conflict between the North and South.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILRivers, Francine
Summary: New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save. 1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RIVMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: Living quietly in her friend Dora's Miles City whorehouse, Calamity Jane is plunged back into one final, bittersweet adventure by the arrival of her old friend and rival, Buffalo Bill Cody.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1990