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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Describes the adventurous prospectors who traversed the United States in 1848 in response to rumors of gold in the Sacramento Valley, detailing the rough and rowdy cities that popped up, seemingly out of thin air, to accommodate the treasure-seekers.
4) Cutthroats
Author
Series
Slash and Pecos volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a lifetime of robbing banks and holding up trains, Jimmy "Slash" Braddock and Melvin "Pecos Kid" Baker are ready to call it quits, though not completely by choice. Sold out by their old gang, Slash and Pecos have to bust out of jail and pull one last job to finance their early retirement. The target is a rancher's payroll train. The catch is: the train is carrying a Gatling gun and twenty deputy U.S. marshals who know they're coming. Caught...
Author
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish ancestors' land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that land by the United States government "A brilliantly conceived family history, one that places questions of responsibility and atonement at the center of the conversation about America's political future."—the Whiting Foundation Growing up, Rebecca Clarren only knew the major plot points of her tenacious...
7) Shane
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A drifter and retired gunfighter assists a homestead family terrorized by an aging cattleman and his hired gun.
9) Damsel
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An affluent man sets out on a perilous journey across the American West to marry the love of his life.
It's the Wild West, circa 1870. Samuel Alabaster, an affluent pioneer, ventures across the American frontier to marry the love of his life, Penelope. As his group traverses the west, the once-simple journey grows treacherous, blurring the lines between hero, villain, and damsel.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
"A reading group favorite, The Jump-Off Creek is the unforgettable story of widowed homesteader Lydia Sanderson and her struggles to settle in the mountains of Oregon in the 1890s. “Every gritty line of the story rings true” (Seattle Times) as Molly Gloss delivers an authentic and moving portrait of the American West. “A powerful novel of struggle and loss” (Dallas Morning News), The Jump-Off Creek gives readers an intimate look at the hardships...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A thoroughly modern woman (for the early 1900s) who supports her five boys by writing adventure stories, Charlotte Bridger Drummond joins a search party for a missing child, gets lost herself, and "is rescued by a band of elusive, quasi-human beasts."--Jacket
Author
Series
Fields of silver and gold volume 2
Publisher
Keystone Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Before the railroad made travel to the isolated communites of theSierra Nevada accessible, Snowshoe Thompson endured the elements to trek across snowy mountains, facing frostbite, fatigue, and even wolves to deliver the mail. Thompson carried more than letters from home; he carried on his back the future of Nevada, saving lives in the process, on snowshoes of his own design.
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