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Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Language
English
Description
Twenty Miles From a Match, originally published in 1978, is the autobiography of an indomitable woman and her family's twenty years of adventures and misadventures in a desert wilderness. In 1908, a venturesome woman named Sarah Olds packed up her brood and went homesteading in the deserts north of Reno, west of Sutcliffe on Pyramid Lake. Her ailing husband said, welcoming her to their new home, "There, old lady. There's your home, and it's...
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
1988-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, one of the natural treasures of her Minnesota frontier world, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself.
7) Red dog
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living with his family in the rugged, often dangerous, Wyoming mountains in the 1860's, twelve-year-old Adam finds his courage put to the test when he is left in charge of the household during his stepfather's absence.
8) Going west
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young pioneer girl and her family prepare to leave the big woods of Wisconsin and travel west in their covered wagon.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Laura and her family move from Wisconsin to Kansas, they make friends with a helpful neighbor who comes to their aid later when they settle in the Dakota Territory.
Author
Series
Claude books (Joan Lowery Nixon) volume 5
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
When Shirley convinces her husband Claude to help fulfill their adopted daughter's dream of a visit from Santa, she doesn't reckon on the real Santa Claus showing up at their place in Texas.
14) Remembered
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Language
English
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Description
When Veronique Girard was five, her father left for America to amass a fortune and send for his family. After 25 long years, a deathbed promise carries Veronique from Paris to Willow Springs to find her long-lost father-said to be mining the near-by mountains. But when she asks local freighter Jack Brennan to take her on his treacherous mining camp deliveries, neither realizes how much such a simple request will forever alter their lives.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1848, nine-year-old Joshua Martin McCullough writes a journal of his family's journey from Missouri to Oregon in a covered wagon. Includes a historical note about westward migration.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A Yellowstone origin story introduces a new generation of the Dutton family as they explore the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home. The series is executive produced by Taylor Sheridan, co-creator of Yellowstone, and stars Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford. This release features all eight episodes of season one plus over...
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