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Summary: "In Pam Houston's critically acclaimed collection of strong, shrewd, and very funny stories, we meet smart women who are looking for the love of a good man, and men who are wild and hard to pin down. "I've always had this thing for cowboys, maybe because I was born in New Jersey," says the narrator in the collection's title story. "But a real cowboy is hard to find these days, even in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOUColeman, Jane Candia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1996
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP W COLMeloy, Maile.
Contents: Tome -- Four lean hounds, ca. 1976 -- Native sandstone -- Ranch girl -- Garrison junction -- Red -- Aqua boulevard -- The river -- Kite whistler aquamarine -- Last of the white slaves -- Thirteen & a half -- Paint -- The ice harvester -- A stakes horse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELDallas, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC DALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DALHenderson, William Haywood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HENDallas, Sandra
Summary: "From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous Overland Trail "If you are an adventuresome young woman of high moral character and fine health, are you willing to travel to California in search of a good husband?" It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees the postings soliciting "eligible women" to travel to the gold mines...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Dallas 2020Larison, John
Summary: Facing starvation and worse when she is orphaned on her family's 1885 homestead, seventeen-year-old sharpshooter Jessilyn Harney cuts off her hair and disguises herself as a boy to journey across the mountains in search of her outlaw brother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LARSoli, Tatjana
Summary: Traces the intertwining stories of Civil War hero George Armstrong Custer, his frontierswoman wife Libbie, and fifteen-year-old Anne Cummins, a captive of the Cheyenne after surviving a homestead attack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLKirkpatrick, Jane
Summary: In 1911, Carrie Strahorn wrote a memoir entitled Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage , which shared some of the most exciting events of 25 years of traveling and shaping the American West with her husband, Robert Strahorn, a railroad promoter, investor, and writer. That is all fact. Everything She Didn't Say imagines Carrie nearly ten years later as she decides to write down what was really on her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIRCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kirkpatrick 2018Whitson, Stephanie Grace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: T. Nelson 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHIWhitson, Stephanie Grace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson Publishers 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHIKirkpatrick, Jane
Summary: Madison Bacon, a young wife in southern Wisconsin, finds her comfortable life uprooted when her husband decides to sell their homestead and head west, as she joins eleven other women on the journey to an uncertain destiny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KirkpL'Amour, Louis
Summary: It was no work for a woman. That's what they told Mary Breydon when she came to manage a rundown stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail. But Mary had no choice. Her fine Virginia home burned to ashes in the Civil War and her husband was brutally shot down on the way to Colorado. She needed to make a new beginning for herself and her young daughter on the raw frontier. Isolated in an untamed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LAMOke, Janette
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1995
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC OKEKingsolver, Barbara.
Summary: When Taylor Greer hits the road she has no real destination, only to get as far from Kentucky as possible. By the time she ends up in Arizona, she has inherited a three-year-old Cherokee girl from an Indian woman she met in a bar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1988
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KINSickels, Noëlle
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SICHall, Brian
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALAnthony, David
Summary: The heroes' baseball team, the Traverse City Salmon, are playing the Garden City Sprouts in the little league championship game. The Sprouts throw a curve ball and turn into pinch-hitting plant monsters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sigil Pub. 2009
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC ANTCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ANTKrohn, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-first Century Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 391.00973 KRODumas, Marti
Summary: "Introduces the reader to women in the old West"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, An imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2021