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Jinkerson, Lorana A.

Summary: Nettie Does the NCT: North Country Trail is a children's book about four friends who are members of the North Country Trail Association and love to hike the North Country National Scenic Trail. As the story of their adventures unfolds, Blue Blazes provide the reader with interesting and useful facts about the North Country Trail and hiking it, thus making this book a teaching tool for parents...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Xlibris Corp. 2009

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 797 JIN

Summary: 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 MEE

Carr, Robyn

Summary: The rustic campground at the crossroads of the Colorado and Continental Divide Trails welcomes everyone, whether they're looking for a weekend getaway or a new lease on life.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAR

Carr, Robyn

Summary: For Sierra Jones, Sullivan's Crossing is meant to be a brief stopover. She's put her troubled past behind her but the path forward isn't yet clear. A visit with her big brother Cal and his new bride, Maggie, seems to be the best option to help her get back on her feet. Not wanting to burden or depend on anyone, Sierra is surprised to find the Crossing offers so much more than a place to rest...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CAR

Wiley, Jesse

Summary: It's 1850, and you are setting off on the treacherous Oregon Trail. In this first book of four, your goal is to get you and your family to Chimney Rock on time. But many dangers await you on the journey ahead. Wild animals, natural disasters, sickness, and other obstacles stand between you and your destination. Which path will get you safely across the prairie? With more than twenty possible...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018

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Vaughan, Robert

Summary: "When sixteen-year-old Matt Logan and his friend Danny Dugan ran away from an orphanage, they went west. There, they met Jim Bridger, among other mountain men, and became fur trappers. But the market for beaver plews died out, and the two friends took on jobs as wagon train guides. They eventually separated, hoping to meet again. One of the trains Matt picks up in Independence began its journey...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

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Summary: Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009

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Summary: A band of hardy pioneers, led by guide Breck Coleman, makes its perilous way along the Oregon Trail, braving bison, treacherous river crossings, blizzards and Indian attacks. Filmed in two versions simultaneously, each scene had to be shot twice, once for the widescreen process Grandeur in 70mm, and again for the standard 35mm version.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY WESTERN BIG

Compton, Ralph.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charnwood 2000

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP W COM

Wiley, Jesse

Summary: "Go west, young pioneer--your journey begins here! Inside you'll find two books in one: The Race to Chimney Rock and Danger at the Haunted Gate. In these first two legs of your trek on the Oregon Trail, you need to find your way to prominent landmarks Chimney Rock and Devil's Gate--but not without unpredictable challenges ahead. Natural disasters, disease, and dishonest people are challenges...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018

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Wiley, Jesse

Summary: It's 1845 and your family is fleeing Florida with hopes of starting fresh out west. You'll encounter sudden snowstorms that will overwhelm your wagon train en route to the Oregon Trail. Food will become scarce--and you'll get lost. Can you survive the unseasonably cold climates? If you make the right choices, you could find the Lewis-Clark Trail, which would lead back to the Oregon...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WIL

Wiley, Jesse

Summary: "It's 1849. You and your family are at the halfway mark on your 2,000-mile journey West. You've set up camp near South Pass, Wyoming. A powerful storm strikes. Your wagon train must ford the river immediately. When crossing the wild water, the current pulls you in and separates you from your family. You wake up on a riverbank--lost and disoriented. You have no other choice by to find your way...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WIL

Messner, Kate

Summary: Ranger, a golden retriever, could have been a great search-and-rescue-dog except for the squirrels--but one day he unearths a mysterious box and finds himself transported back to the year 1850 where his faithful service is really needed by a family traveling west along the Oregon Trail.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MES

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MES

Siccama, Carolyn.

Summary: Follow the rail trail for an alphabet adventure ... learn sign language letters; go on a scavenger hunt; stroll through the seasons. -- Publisher's description.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: BookSurge Publishing 2008

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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE SIC

Fisher, Karen

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FIS

Fisher, Karen

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FIS

Wiley, Jesse

Summary: A family makes the treacherous journey to Devil's Gate along the Oregon Trail, in a book where the reader's choices determine the outcome of the expedition.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018

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Wiley, Jesse

Summary: A family must survive the dangerous ford of the wild Snake River along the Oregon Trail, in a book where the reader's choices determine the outcome of the expedition.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018

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Cline-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 CLI

Harmon, Amy

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both. But life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2020

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Greene, Merritt.

Summary: A story of the Great Saulk Trail in 1832 with an introduction to the Northwest Territory.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hillsdale School Supply 1959

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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL FIC GRE

McDonald, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2003

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MacDonald, John D. (John Dann)

Summary: The first mystery featuring detective Travis McGee. He comes to the aid of a young lady whose father had hidden some stolen jewels before dying in prison.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: ImPress Mystery 2004

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Compton, Ralph.

Summary: Returning home after the Civil War, Texas rancher Dan Ember and his neighbors find that their only chance of survival is a dangerous cattle drive north across the Llano, an area overrun with killers, gunslingers, and Quanah Parker's Comanches.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 1995

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COM

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