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English
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In 1875, Kathryn Walsh arrives in a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas where she relaunches her uncle's newspaper, pitting herself against the town's most powerful men until she finds an ally in the local saloon owner who believes in what she stands for.
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Language
English
Description
Buck's epic account of traveling the length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way--in a covered wagon with a team of mules, an audacious journey that hasn't been attempted in a century--tells the rich history of the trail, the people who made the migration, and its significance to the country.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call are now young men dealing with the ever increasing tensions of adult life-- Gus with his great love, Clara, and Call with Maggie, the young prostitute who is in love with him. McCrae and Call join a Ranger troop in pursuit of three outlaws: Comanche Chief Buffalo Hump, Comanche horse thief Kicking Wolf and Ahumado, the deadly Mexican bandit king with a penchant for slow torture. Together, they struggle...
5) First cow
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in the 1820s Pacific Northwest, a cook and a Chinese immigrant come up with a scheme to strike it rich involving a wealthy businessman's prized dairy cow.
A loner and cook has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers in Oregon Territory, though he only finds a connection with Chinese immigrants. The men collaborate on business, although its longevity is reliant upon the participation of a wealthy landowner's prized milking cow.
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by New Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Examines the lives and legacies of Kit Carson and Buffalo Bill Cody, following the frontiersmen across the Mississippi River into the Rocky Mountains and California. Carson gained fame by guiding Georgia explorer John C. Frémont on a journey to map the Western trails to the Pacific, while Cody's skirmishes as a Pony Express mailman and an Army scout later gave him the knowledge and impetus to create his Wild West Show.
Publisher
eOne
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Cullen Bohannon, a former soldier and slaveholder, follows the track of Union soldiers, who killed his wife. This brings him to the middle of one of the biggest projects in US history, the building of the railroad. After the war years in the 1860s, this connected the east with the still wild west.
Publisher
Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A group of westward-bound emigrants must rely on their courage and perseverance as they make their way by Conestoga wagon from the banks of the Mississippi to California's Pacific shores in the face of great odds. This collection contains all 38 episodes from the 2nd season of the series.
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