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Grosz, Wilhelm

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Harms Inc. 1940

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Byron, M. Christine

Contents: The Mackinac Straits Region -- Mackinaw City -- Crossing the Straits -- St. Ignace -- Mackinac Island.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2007

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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4923 BRY
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 977.4923 BYR

Dallas, Sandra

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC DAL

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

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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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC VAU

Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

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

Burkhardt, D. C. Jesse

Summary: With 145 color photographs and maps, Northbound Tracks Across Michigan and Wisconsin presents a visual history of contemporary changes to the railroad networks across these two states in the Great Lakes region. Michigan-born photojournalist, D. C. Jesse Burkhardt, carries readers on a journey that chronicles rail operations in Wisconsin and Michigan. The primary focus extends from the 1970s to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Publishing 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.09775 BUR

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

Hogan, Ray

Summary: "In Texas at the close of the Civil War wagon boss Adam Rait inherits a wagon train of rifles and ammunition when the owner is murdered. He must protect the cargo from several parties who would just as soon take it by force as pay for it while dealing with Angela de Acera (the Steel Angel)"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

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

West, 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 WES

Harmon, Amy

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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Summary: Chronicles the history of locomotive development, including photographs of over four hundred types of trains and seven of the world's most memorable railroad journeys.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2014

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 385.09 TRAIN SMI

Nelson, Ramon

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: S. Jennings Press 1990

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 289.9 NEL

Rule, James S.

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: M. Witmark & Sons 1922

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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

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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Beaty, Andrea

Summary: Ever since he was a baby, Iggy Peck has built towers, bridges, and buildings, which comes in handy when his second grade class is stranded on an island during a picnic.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2007

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E BEA

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BEA

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
Call number: 917.3 AME 2
Call number: 917.3 AME 3
Call number: 917.3 AME 4
Call number: 917.3 AME 5
Call number: 917.3 AME 6

Twain, Mark

Summary: Mark Twain’s life—one of the richest and raciest America has known—is delightfully portrayed in this mosaic of words and more than 600 pictures that capture the career of one of America’s most colorful personalities. The words are Twain’s own, taken from his writings—not only the autobiography but also his letters, notebooks, newspaper reporting, sketches, travel pieces, and fiction. The...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Missouri Press 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TWAIN, MARK TWA

Summary: The 72-minute film Ice Bridge follows islanders' unique and quirky lifestyle throughout an entire year while tracing the formation of the spectacular phenomenon known as the "ice bridge" (a three-mile span of ice that allows islanders to cross to the mainland).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: icebridgemovie.com 2008

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Straits Ice

Brisson, Steven C. (Steven Charles)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mackinac State Historical Parks 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4923 BRI

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

Withers, Ernest C.

Summary: "Ernest C. Withers was one of the most prominent African-American photographers during the civil rights years. During the course of his work, he took thousands photographs that document the Movement--from the Emmett Till trial in 1955 to the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. What set his work apart was that he goes beyond the political struggles to show the human face of Movement....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: CityFiles Press 2019

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 323.1196 WIT

Erdoes, Richard

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bear & Co. 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 ERD

Lo Monaco, Gérard

Summary: In this pop-up history of rail travel, train lovers will lose themselves in lively, highly detailed illustrations showcasing great trains in history--from the first steam engine to the futuristic bullet train.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson Inc. 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 385.09 LO M

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