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Lucia St. Clair Robson - Ride the Wind: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker and the Last Days of the Comanche
In 1836, when she was nine years old, Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanche Indians. This is the story of how she grew up with them, mastered their ways, married one of their leaders, and became, in every way, a Comanche woman. It is also the story of a proud and innocent people whose lives p ... More
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Vardis Fisher - Mountain Man: A Novel of Male and Female in the Early American West
Parallels the lives of Sam Minard, a fur trapper in the Rocky Mountains during the 1830s, his Indian bride Lotus, and Kate Bowden, a woman unable to accept reality after witnessing the murder of her husband and children during a brutal Indian attack.
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Louis L'Amour - Down the Long Hills
After the massacre Hardy and Betty Sue were left with only a horse and a knife with which to face the long battle against the wilderness. A seven-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl, stranded on the limitless prairie. They were up against starvation, marauding Indians, savage outlaws, and wild ... More
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Stephen E. Ambrose Jr. - Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River to the Rockies, over the mountains, down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, and back. Lewis was the perfect choice. He endured incredible hardships and saw incre ... More
Score: 4.9 14 Reviews
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Douglas C. Jones - Gone the Dreams and Dancing
Based on actual historical events, this novel chronicles the last days of the Comanche tribe. Under the leadership of Chief Kwahadi, the Comanche battle settlers and soldiers to maintain their ancient ways.
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Marianna Dengler - The Worry Stone
When a small, serious boy joins Amanda on the park bench, she remembers that once she was small and serious too, but she had Grandfather--and his wonderful stories.
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Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove: A Novel
Two former Texas Rangers, Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae, drive cattle from Texas to Montana with a crew of oddballs, misfits, and true heroes. With its roots firmly sunk in classic trail-drive lore, this novel nevertheless transcends the Western genre. Commenting on the book's phenomenal success, ... More
Score: 4.9 15 Reviews
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Ian Frazier - Great Plains
With a unique blend of intrepid adventure, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey through the vast and myth-inspiring <I>Great Plains</I> -- from the site of Sitting Bull's cabin, to an abandoned house once terrorized by Bonnie and Clyde, to the scene of the m ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Jerry Stanley - Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
Describes the plight of the migrant workers from the Dust Bowl in California during the Depression who were forced to live in a federal labor camp and discusses the school that was built for their children.
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Benjamin Capps - Sam Chance
Release Date: October 01, 1987
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Will Hobbs - Far North
When their plane crashes in Canada's Northwest Territories, roommates Gabe and Raymond must struggle to survive in the frozen wilderness.
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Elmer Kelton - Day the Cowboys Quit
Release Date: October 01, 1986
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Elmer Kelton - The Time It Never Rained
The earth lay dying. Crops dried up, and fertile soil dissolved into clouds of yellow. Ranchers did everything within their power, and federal forces were called in fruitlessly. Only Charlie Flagg, old-time Texas cattleman, saw it as a fight worth continuing--and refused to give up his battle agains ... More
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Ben Mikaelsen - Rescue Josh McGuire
This "fast and suspenseful survival story" (Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books) is the winner of the 1991 Spur Award for best fiction, given by the Western Writers of America. Set in the Montana mountains, the "tense plotting will grip adventure lovers".--Booklist. IRA Children's Book Award ... More
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Tom Eidson - St. Agnes' Stand
A wanted man becomes the saviour of a group of nuns under attack by Apache Indians in this 1994 Spur Award Winner for Best Western Novel.
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Gary Paulsen - Woodsong
For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make their way of life possible. Includes an account of the author's first Iditarod, a dogsled race across Alaska.
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Pam Conrad - My Daniel
<P>"All I want to find is one dinosaur," Daniel was saying. "And I'll find it right here. Like I do all my fossils." Wandering through the Natural History Museum with her grandchildren, Julia Creath feels the presence of her dead brother, Daniel, she remembers a time when fossil fever hit everyone, ... More
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Gary Paulsen - The Haymeadow
Fourteen-year-old John comes of age and gains self-reliance during the summer he spends up in the Wyoming mountains tending his father's herd of sheep.
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James Alexander Thom - Panther in the Sky
Relates the story of Tecumseh's life and destiny to be a great war chief, as a man who struggles to save the land and way of life of his people.
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Elmer Kelton - Buffalo Wagons
By the summer of 1873, the great Arkansas River herd was gone, as was the Republican herd before it. The only one left, claimed the old hide hunters in Dodge City, was a vast herd south of the Cimarron in Comanche territory. But only a fool with no wish to go on living--and a buffalo hunter named Ga ... More
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Larry McMurtry - Comanche Moon: A Novel
In a story set against the bitter frontier strife between Texans and the Comanche, Texas Rangers Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call battle Buffalo Hump, the enigmatic war chief, and Gus' long-time nemesis, Blue Duck.
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Jane Smiley - The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton: A Novel
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "A Thousand Acres" come the memoirs of Lidie Harkness of Quincy, Illinois, who marries an abolitionist from New England and settles in Kansas in 1855. When her husband is murdered, Lidie vanishes into Missouri to find his killers.
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Tom McHugh and Victoria Hobson - The Time of the Buffalo
Discusses the natural history of the American buffalo and its crucial role in the life of the Great Plains Indian.
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Jean Fritz - Make Way for Sam Houston
Traces the life of the soldier who led the fight for Texas' independence from Mexico, served as governor and senator, and opposed secession during the Civil War.
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Ronald L. Davis - Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne
A biography of John Wayne, the iconic male hero of classic American cinema and an enduring figure in popular culture. Davis culls information from more than 65 interviews, extensive research, articles, and an extensive collaboration with Wayne's agent.
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Patricia Willis - Danger Along the Ohio
Traveling down the Ohio River in 1793, Amos, Clara, and Jonathan are separated from their father during a brutal Indian attack. The three children are swept down the river, and must make their way back through the wilderness in the direction of the Marietta settlement, hoping to find their father th ... More
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Alvin M. Josephy - The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest
This is the story of the so-called Inland Empire of the Northwest, that rugged and majestic region bounded east and west by the Cascades and the Rockies, from the time of the great exploration of Lewis and Clark to the tragic defeat of Chief Joseph in 1877. And at the center of this history - perhap ... More
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Craig Lesley - Winterkill
Danny Kachiah is a Native American fighting not to become a casualty. His father, Red Shirt, is dead, his wife, Loxie, has left him, and his career as a rodeo cowboy is flagging. But when Loxie dies in a car wreck, leaving him with his son, Jack, whom he hardly knows, Danny uses the magnificent stor ... More
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John S. Gray - Custer's Last Campaign: Mitch Boyer and the Little Bighorn Reconstructed
"Gray challenges many time-honored beliefs about the battle . . . (and) brings in as much as possible the testimony of the Indian witnesses . . . which generations of historians have dismissed. . . . The contrasts in (this) book . . . reinstate the basic components of what still attracts the imagina ... More
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Richard Wheeler - Fool's Coach
Release Date: August 30, 2004
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