Hale, Nathan
Summary: "The Donner Party expedition is one of the most notorious stories in all of American history. It's also a fascinating snapshot of the westward expansion of the United States, and the families and individuals who sacrificed so much to build new lives in a largely unknown landscape. From the preparation for the journey to each disastrous leg of the trip, this book shows the specific bad decisions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2013
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Summary: A chronicle of the mid-nineteenth-century wagon train tragedy draws on the perspectives of one of its survivors, Sarah Graves, recounting how her new husband and she joined the Donner party on their California-bound journey and encountered violent perils, in an account that also offers insight into the scientific reasons that some died while others survived.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: From the Publisher: Women lighthouse keepers, fur traders, cooks on sailing vessels, missionaries, and fearless travelers all wrote of their lives on the Great Lakes, both publicly and in quiet testimonies such as letters, logbooks, and diaries. Their narratives, which span the centuries from 1789 to the present, are now collected in this anthology. Compiled in response to historical accounts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ladyslipper Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 WOMHubbard, Ben
Summary: "In the winter of 1846-47, a group of eighty-seven pioneers heading from the Midwest to California found themselves snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range with no way forward and no food or supplies. While forty-eight of the group members survived, the others perished due to extreme weather, starvation, and illness. To survive, the remaining people resorted to extreme measures . . ....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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Summary: Based on true-life characters and events, this novel tells the story of young Jane Hebert who at the age of 12 faced a tragedy which began a lifelong search for forgiveness and love. In the years that follow, Jane finds herself involved with a man 16 years her senior, struggles to make peace with the mother who turns from her and fights to build a family of her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIRMicklos, John
Summary: "In the spring of 1846, the Donner and Reed families joined a wagon train bound for California in hopes of a better life. But when the party took an untested shortcut, it set them down a tragic path. As they crossed the Sierra Nevada, heavy snow fell in the mountain pass. They were trapped. Supplies were already low, and now they faced a winter of starvation. Told through the gripping,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J978 MICMiller, Robert H. (Robert Henry)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Press 1995
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB FIELDS MILDumas, Marti
Summary: "Introduces the reader to women in the old West"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, An imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 DUMHolliday, Murray.
Summary: Accounts the history of the Society of Indiana Pioneers from 1916-1980.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Society of Indiana Pioneers 2005
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: REF GEN 929.3772 HollidayMacy, Sue.
Summary: Raised on a cattle ranch, Agnes Morley was sent to Stanford University to learn to be a lady. Yet in no time she exchanged her breeches and spurs for bloomers and a basketball; and in April 1896 she made history. In a heart-pounding game against the University of California at Berkeley, Agnes led her team to victory in the first-ever intercollegiate women's basketball game, earning national...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MACEckert, Allan W.
Summary: Recreates events which actually occurred in the opening up of the Northwest Territory in the period 1700 to 1900 based on written documents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jesse Stuart Foundation 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.8 ECKSummary: Hondo Lane, a cavalry rider, becomes the designated protector of Angie Lowe and her son, Johnny. Angie, who is waiting for the return of her brutish husband, refuses to leave their homestead despite the growing dangers from nearby warring Native American tribes. Angie's feelings begin to grow for Hondo, but she has no idea that her husband is dead and Hondo is the one who killed him. Special...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Summary: Besieged by British rangers and Shawnee Indians, the settlers of Fort Henry must make a valiant stand in one of the last battles of the American Revolution, and their only hope is Betty Zane, who runs the gauntlet to retrieve the last keg of gunpowder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walter J. Black 1961
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRESummary: Young teacher Elizabeth Thatcher trades high society life for a classroom on the prairie, determined to prove she is brave enough to live on her own. She learns through her aunt's secret diary that she had been a pioneer woman herself, and uses it as a guide to embark on her own adventures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frontier Productions 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WhSummary: For the love of her new husband, Jeannie abandons a high society city life to trek into the vast and wild heart of Australia - where wives are seldom seen and even less accepted. Enduring isolation, hardships and battling against the sexist and racial prejudice of the Australian outback environment, Jeannie strives to win the friendship and respect of those about her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA WECather, Willa
Summary: Life on the divide was a struggle for the pioneering Bergson family. Alexandra, both tough as nails and tender as a budding blossom, faces and conquers the harsh realities of early settlers in Nebraska.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CATHarness, Cheryl.
Summary: Profiles the life and adventures of Daniel Boone; chronicling his childhood in Pennsylvania, service in the French and Indian War, journey across the Appalachians, and settlement of Boonesboro, Kentucky; and includes illustrations, maps, and primary source quotations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2007
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Summary: Contains profiles and photographs of twenty-three women who sought their fortunes in the Yukon and Alaska during the gold rush age of the late ninteenth and early twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alaska Northwest Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.91 MURSantella, Andrew.
Summary: A biography of Daniel Boone, focusing on his efforts as a pioneer and trailblazer during America's westward expansion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976.9 SANSummary: From creator, Taylor Sheridan comes a prequel to Yellowstone. It follows the original Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. It's a stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America's promised land Montana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV YELSummary: "When Calls the Heart" tells the captivating story of Elizabeth Thatcher (Erin Krakow), a young teacher accustomed to her high society life, who receives her first classroom assignment in Coal Valley, a small coalmining town where life is simple, but often fraught with challenges. Lori Loughlin plays Abigail Stanton, a wife and mother whose husband, the foreman of the mine, along with a dozen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "Davy Crockett has been America's best-known folk hero for at least 160 years. This informed biography by James Atkins Shackford first appeared in 1956, at the height of the television-inspired Crockett craze. As Michael Lofaro notes in his introduction, "Shackford faced the monumental task of rescuing a nearly unknown David Crockett from the obscurity caused by the popularity of the earlier...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CROCKETT, DAVID SHAHenderson, Caroline A. (Caroline Agnes)
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.6 HENMcLaird, James D.
Contents: Princeton, Missouri, 1856-1864 -- To Montana and Wyoming, 1864-1874 -- To black hills expedition of 1875 -- With crook in 1876 -- With Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood, 1876 -- Dime novel heroine, 1877 -- Life in Dakota, 1878-1881 -- Following the northern Pacific, 1882-1884 -- Life in Wyoming, 1884-1894 -- A Deadwood celebrity, 1895-1896 -- Life in Montana, 1896-1901 -- The Pan-American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2005