Kirkpatrick, Jane
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIRSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN HONGrey, Zane
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.
Format: text
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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Frontier Productions 2013
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY WHECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WhCather, 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CATSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD 1883Copies Available at Interlochen
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV YELBenjamin, Melanie
Summary: "The morning of January 12, 1888, was unusually mild, following a punishing cold spell. It was warm enough for the homesteaders of the Dakota Territory to venture out again, and for their children to return to school without their heavy coats-- leaving them unprepared when disaster struck. At the hour when most prairie schools were letting out for the day, a terrifying, fast-moving blizzard...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BENCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Benjamin 2021Paine, Lauran
Summary: "Samuel Parker is traveling through the mountains hoping to find a place to settle his two children before lung fever kills him when they help an injured man whom Samuel fears may be an outlaw. As the man heals, he directs Samuel to Absaroka Valley where they are drawn into the center of a land fight"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PAISummary: When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs to join her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN HOMSummary: Follow the adventures of a young school teacher as she faces new adventures and trials with the many citizens of Hope Valley, on the Canadian frontier.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WHESummary: Follow the adventures of a young school teacher as she faces new adventures and trials with the many citizens of Hope Valley, on the Canadian frontier.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: EdifyFilms 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV WHEMiller, Sarah Elizabeth
Summary: In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and the warm bosom of her family, for a new life in Kansas Indian Territory. Packing what they can carry in their wagon, Caroline, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MILMiller, Judith
Summary: "A saga of two families that portrays the harsh circumstances and intense courage displayed by African-American sharecroppers and Caucasian men as they formed the towns of Nicodemus and Hill City in the western Kansas prairie during the late nineteenth century"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MilleWest, Charles
Summary: "James Pratt and his young bride press on toward the Bitterroot Valley, deep in Sioux territory, after their wagon master deserts them and seemingly disappeared. James' brother Mason enlists legendary Indian scout John Hawk to find them against deadly odds"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WESSummary: A wagon train of three families has hired mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a shortcut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants face the scourges of hunger, thirst, and their own lack of faith in each other's instincts for survival....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA MEEConnealy, Mary
Summary: Josephine Nordegren is one of three sisters who grew up nearly wild in southwestern Colorado. She has the archery skills of Robin Hood and the curiosity of the Little Mermaid, fascinated by but locked away from the forbidden outside world--a world she's been raised to believe killed her parents. When David Warden, a rancher, brings in a herd much too close to the girls' secret home, her older...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONConnealy, Mary
Summary: "After a rough winter spent alone, Ursula Nordegren realizes she must overcome her fears of the outside world and begins a trek down Hope Mountain. Along the way she finds a badly wounded stranger and realizes God may have used her decision to leave as a way of saving the man. Wax Mosby was climbing Hope Mountain in part to atone for his terrible choices. He was hired to drive out the Warden...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONFerber, Edna
Summary: Epic western about the Cravat family settling the Oklahoma prairie. Yancy Cravat is a newspaperman and lawyer who helps found the town of Osage. An adventurer, he finds town-life stifling and seeks his thrills even further into the frontier. His wife ends up becoming a town leader when his absences leave her no other choice.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, Doran and Company 1930
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FERGrey, Zane
Summary: In New Mexico, Trueman Rock seeks to bring a rustling family to justice, but then he falls in love with the daughter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walter J. Black 1931
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREOke, Janette
Summary: When Beth Thatcher returns to Coal Valley, she has much to be excited about. She anticipates Jarrick's proposal of marriage and perhaps a spring wedding. The mine is expanding, and there are more schoolchildren than ever. But the town's rapid growth brings many challenges. A second teacher is assigned, and Beth finds herself going head-to-head with a very different philosophy of education--one...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION OKECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Oke 2016Swarthout, Glendon
Summary: Four women in the isolated frontier territory go mad, and it is up to the unlikely combination of homesteader Mary Bee Cuddy and ne'er-do-well Briggs to escort them east to safety.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SWAWest, Charles
Summary: "Army scout John Hawk helps three women traveling through Blackfoot country, pursued by outlaws. Reaching their destination in Helena, the women thought they were safe. But Zach Dubose and his two partners were waiting for them. Dubose kills the youngest woman and Hawk vows to avenge her death"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WESCline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: "In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLISummary: When Elizabeth leaves her comfortable life in the city to move to a frontier town, she finds new purpose and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Edify Films 2022