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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kingfisher 2011
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MESGwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.)
Summary: Describes the actions of both whites and Comanches during a 40-year war over territory, in a story that begins with the kidnapping of a white girl, who grew up to marry a Comanche chief and have a son, Quanah, who became a great warrior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Native GwynneGwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.)
Summary: A historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 978.004 GWYHancher, Adam
Summary: After her father dies in the fall of 1849, a little girl and her family follow Mr. Reed's wagon train west, discovering the challenges, excitement, and danger of the frontier on their way to their homestead in California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubledday Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HANPagnamenta, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 PAGLee, Stacey (Stacey Heather)
Summary: "In 1845, Sammy, a Chinese American girl, and Annamae, an African American slave girl, disguise themselves as boys and travel on the Oregon Trail to California from Missouri"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEEMcLynn, Frank.
Summary: In all the sagas of human migration, few can top the drama of the journey by midwestern farmers to Oregon and California in the years 1840-49. Seeking the promised land, these travelers trekked two thousand miles by covered wagon from Missouri to their destinations on the Pacific coast. Although they used mountain men as guides, they went almost literally into the unknown, braving dangers from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 MCLHansen, Ron
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1979
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANMcLelland, Brad
Summary: In an 1850s Wild West filled with supernatural beasts and magic-wielding outlaws, Keech and his band of fellow orphans, seeking revenge for their killed families, search for Bonfire Crossing, the Osage land that holds clues to the wherabouts of the all-powerful Char Stone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction McLelland 2019Dary, David.
Summary: A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West. Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David Dary gives us the whole sweeping story of those who came to explore, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US DaryPatent, Dorothy Hinshaw.
Summary: Shows the hardships the pioneers faced in their long overland journeys to the West Coast by wagon train.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker and Co. 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978.02 PATUtley, Robert Marshall
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.82 UTLSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISSummary: Four theatrical families of the 1980's recreate the most wanted criminal families of the 1860's. This portrayal of the Jesse James gang is a rapidfire succession of thrilling moments -- the bandits' lightning attacks on banks, trains and stagecoaches ; their hairbreadth escapes from the law ; Jesse's jubilant wedding celebration ; and the tragic Great Northfield, Minnesota raid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN LONSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRHickman, Katie
Summary: "As the internationally bestselling historian Katie Hickman writes, "Myth and misunderstanding spring from the American frontier as readily as rye grass from sod, and - like the wiry grass - seem as difficult to weed out and discard." But the true-life story of women's experiences in the Wild West is more gripping, heart-rending, and stirring than all the movies, novels, folk-legends, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 HICCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 978 HICLizzio, Kenneth P.
Summary: "An abolitionist and a spy, father and son, in the forgotten Western theater of the Civil War. The abolitionist legacies of Orville Brown and his son, Spencer, live on in this historic and daring 19th-century account. Journeying apart from each other, butwith similar passion, Orville and Spencer's stories span virtually every major abolitionist event: from the battles of Bleeding Kansas and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Countryman Press, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LIZCrichton, Michael
Summary: A tale set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting follows the exploits of two ambitious paleontologists who sabotage each others' careers in a rivalry that came to be known as the Bone Wars.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CRISummary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BURLapati, JoAnna
Summary: "Through scratchboard art and quotes from the subject's letters, this picture book biography follows the life of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, who served in the Union army disguised as a man. Back matter materials include an author's note, two glossaries, recommended reading, a timeline of events, and additional historical information"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2024
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Summary: "Before Rachel Carson, there was George Bird Grinnell -- the man whose prophetic vision did nothing less than launch American conservation. George Bird Grinnell, the son of a New York merchant, saw a different future for a nation in the thrall of the Industrial Age. With railroads scarring virgin lands and the formerly vast buffalo herds decimated, the country faced a crossroads: Could it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2019