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Summary: Two feisty Western Shoshone sisters put up a heroic fight for their land rights - and their human rights. Carrie and Mary Dann endure terrifying roundups by armed federal marshals in which thousands of their horses and cattle are confiscated, for the crime of grazing them on the open range outside their private ranch - even though that range is part of 60 million acres recognized as Western...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2009

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H. Belden & Co

Format: cartographic

Publisher / Publication Date: Mika Silk Screening 1972

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1 available in Genealogy Atlas Stand, Call number: R GEN 712.913 ILL

Pagnamenta, Peter.

Summary: Recounts the lives and adventures of British aristocrats who explored and settled in the American West between 1830 and 1890, becoming landowners and making social adjustments to rub elbows with fur traders, Indians, and buffalo.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 PAG

Contents: Plat book of Kent County, Michigan (193? ) -- Farm plat book (1955, 1961) -- Tri-annual atlas & plat book (1966) -- Triennial atlas & plat book (1969, 1971) -- Atlas & plat book (1974, 1977) -- Land atlas & plat book (1979) -- Land atlas and plat book (1981-1982, 1983, 1985, 1988) -- Land atlas & plat book (1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2000, (2004-2005, 2009, 2010)

Format: cartographic

Publisher / Publication Date: Rockford Map Publishers. 1930

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1 available in Genealogy Atlas Stand, Call number: R-GEN 912 PLAT Kent 2009

Meloy, Ellen.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.9 MEL

Pearce, Fred.

Summary: Reveals the land grab taking place around the world and how corporate and governmental promises about the benefits of development are masking environmental and social destruction and the transfer of wealth out of host countries.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.3 PEA

Piper, Karen Lynnea

Summary: "A poignant, surreal, and fearlessly honest look at growing up on one of the most secretive weapons installations on earth, by a young woman who came of age with missiles. The China Lake missile range is located in a huge stretch of the Mojave Desert, about the size of the state of Delaware. It was created during the Second World War, and has always been shrouded in secrecy. But people who make...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PIPER, KAREN PIP

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B PIPER PIP

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio Piper

Summary: Tom Bodett explores the trails that extended America's frontiers. He follows the footsteps and wagon ruts of rugged pioneers, dauntless homesteaders, reclusive mountain men, and stop-at-nothing gold hunters as they explored, settled, and worked the new land.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2002

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6 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 AME 1
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Slaughter, Thomas P. (Thomas Paul)

Summary: Exploring Lewis and Clark probes beneath the traditional narrative of the journey, looking beyond the perspectives of the explorers themselves to those of the woman and the men who accompanied them, as well as of the Indians who met them along the way. It reexamines the journals and what they suggest about Lewis's and Clark's misinterpretations of the worlds they passed through and the people...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LEW

Summary: Profiles six prominent heroes and villains of the American West.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2010

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc Wi

Lassieur, 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 LAS

Dobson, Patrick.

Contents: A leap into the prairie sea -- I'm going to Helena, Montana : the Kansas cities -- Don't worry, kid, you'll be all right : Lawrence, Topeka, Saint Marys, Wamego -- It's the best you're gonna find here : Manhattan, Randolph, Marysville -- You'll find everything you need there : Beatrice, Nebraska; Wilber -- The Jims : Friend, Hastings, Hansen, Minden -- It's better to try something and apologize...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.804 DOB

Krohn, Katherine E.

Summary: Looks at the different modes of dress in the American West from the 1840s to the 1890s, examining the clothing and accessories of Native Americans, early pioneers, and the men and women of different social classes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-first Century Books 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 391.00973 KRO

Abbey, Edward

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Summary: Long considered an underground classic, The Journey Home stands beside Desert Solitude as one of Abbey's most important works. In a voice edged with chagrin, Abbey offers a portrait of the American West that readers will not soon forget, presenting the reflections and observations of a man who left the urban world behind in pursuit of the natural one and the myths buried therein.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 1991

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 ABB

Summary: The legend of the most infamous bandit in the history of the West. Jesse James is the bold bandit whose name became synonymous with train hold-ups, daylight bank heists and every other daredevil crime associated with the lawless West of the 1800s.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN JES

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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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RAN

Todras, Ellen H.

Summary: Investigates how early settlers traveled west towards the Pacific in wagon trains, and examines the hardships they faced and the towns they founded.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kingfisher 2011

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Kalman, Bobbie.

Summary: This book introduces the life and times of the people from the Old West describing their homes, jobs, tools, clothes, and travel.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 2008

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Heat Moon, William Least

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Summary: Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least-Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map--if they get on at all--only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 HEA

Dumas, Marti

Summary: "Introduces the reader to women in the old West"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, An imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.4 DUM

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 DUM

Burgess, Douglas R.

Summary: "From previously undiscovered archives in England, the Carolinas, Rhode Island, Jamaica, and elsewhere, Douglas Burgess has synthesized a fascinating retelling of the "Golden Age of Piracy", from 1660 to 1725. Pirates needed patrons, the fragile American colonies needed maritime wealth and coastal protection, and everyone except the English crown benefited from untaxed and unregulated...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 BUR

Summary: When a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers for the gold mines, he (Wayne) is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his drivers in order to cross the 400 treacherous miles to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under his tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys are aware that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COW

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN COW

Yoegel, John A.

Summary: "The key to launching your career in real estate. To get your foot in the door of this competitive trade you need to pass your state exam. This book, with tests and flashcards online, gives you the building blocks to do just that and get on and move up the ladder to a lucrative future. Written in a friendly style by expert instructor John A. Yoegel, this new edition has the latest on everything...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.33 YOE

Weber, Eva.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 2002

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.3678 WEB

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