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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Minnesota, 1862: As a woman fleeing from a dark and secret past, Sarah Wakefield leaves Rhode Island quietly and quickly under cover of night for the long journey to Minnesota where she has been advised there is good work to be had. She soon finds a husband who becomes a resident physician for a Sioux town there but the political backdrop of that moment is volatile: white settlers are breaking treaties, Native American land is shrinking, and mass...
2) O pioneers!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Unschooled homesteader Sayward Luckett couldn't even read her own name, but fell in love and married a book-learned frontier lawyer. In the wild, wooded land of 1790s Ohio Territory, she will experience joy and hardships aplenty, raising seven children and many grandchildren while suffering inconstancies of the heart and enduring the difficulties of settling a new land.
Author
Series
Wilderness series (Sara Donati) volume 3
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family. Now Donati takes on a new and often overlooked chapter in our nation’s past—and in the life of the spirited Bonners—as their oldest daughter, the brave and beautiful Hannah, comes of age with a challenge...
Author
Publisher
South Dakota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Presents Laura Ingalls Wilder's unedited, and unpublished, draft of her autobiography that was written for an adult audience and eventually served as the foundation for her popular Little House on the Prairie series.
Author
Series
Wilderness series (Sara Donati) volume 5
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
After a year of searching, Hannah Bonner and her half brother Luke succeed in rescuing his wife Jennet who had been kidnapped by a renegade priest, but they learn their quest is not yet over when Jennet reveals she has given birth to a son and placed him in the care of a shady Creole merchant, Honor Poiterin, who has taken the child to the embattled city of New Orleans and is claiming him as his own.
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