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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Richard Wheeler - Fool's Coach
Release Date: August 30, 2004
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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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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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Eve Bunting - Dandelions
Zoe and her family find strength in each other as they make a new home in the Nebraska territory.
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David Dary - Seeking Pleasure in the Old West
"The men on Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition square-danced to fiddle music. Cowboys' leisure pursuits included singing, storytelling, dominoes, reading, and foot races. U.S. Army soldiers played the newfangled game of baseball and even enjoyed debating and attending concerts. Dary's irresistible na ... More
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Jennifer Owings Dewey - Rattlesnake Dance: True Tales, Mysteries, and Rattlesnake Ceremonies
Facts and folk beliefs about rattlesnakes accompany an autobiographical account of three personal encounters with rattlesnakes.
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Hal K. Rothman - Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West
The American West has always been seen as a land of opportunity, but tourism has transformed it into a land of opportunism. From Sun Valley to Santa Fe, towns all over the region have been turned over to outsiders -- not just those who visit, but those who control.
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Robert J. Conley - Nickajack
Release Date: September 01, 2003
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Terrence Kilpatrick - Swimming Man Burning: A Rip-Roaring Novel of the American West
Release Date: July 01, 1993
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Michael L. Johnson - New Westers: The West in Contemporary American Culture
These "New Westers", Johnson reveals, line-dance and two-step, listen to Garth Brooks and George Strait, drink beer from long-neck bottles, wear clothes ordered from Sheplers, watch rodeo on ESPN, play Wild West arcade games, eat fajitas and tacos in stuccoed Mexican cafes, collect Western art and N ... More
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Joan Lowery Nixon - In the Face of Danger
Deeply unhappy about her family's separation because of poverty, Megan gradually finds contentment and purpose in her new home on the Kansas prairie with a kind and loving adopted family.
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Don Coldsmith - Changing Wind Books
He was called White Buffalo, and he would be the greatest medicine man the People had ever known. But as he fought to lead his people out of the darkness of the Stone Age, his world trembled on the brink of a great and terrible transformation during a century swept by the inevitable winds of change.
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