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A lovely schoolteacher faces the frontier with the firm resolve to never marry a rowdy adventurer of the West. Canadian West book 1.

"Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It's locked at all times. Because when the trunk is opened, people around her start to disappear... The year is 1914, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, and forced her to flee her hometown of Redondo, California, in a hellfire rush, ready to make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will be one of...

Cutting through 160 years of mythmaking, best-selling historian Michael Wallis presents the ultimate cautionary tale of America’s westward expansion.

Biographies of some outspoken and influential women who lived in the American West from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth century.

Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.

Arizona Territory pioneer Sarah Prine struggles with drought, starving cattle, and a neighbor's unwelcome advances, a situation that is further complicated when her brother's family is devastated by the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

Documents the day to day experiences of frontier life through the eyes of pioneer women who settled in the American West, enduring hardships, deprivation, and violence, and showing courage and strength in their attempts to organize homes and communities in the wilderness.

A biography of the African American pioneer.

Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple. John C. Frémont, one of the United Statess leading explorers of the nineteenth century, was relatively unknown in 1842, when he commanded the first of his expeditions to the uncharted West. But in only a few years, he...