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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 7
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Well-known and loved storyteller Janet Oke presents a beautifully told tale in her best tradition. With both anticipation and anxiety, Donnigan, a man surviving on the Western frontier alone, and Kathleen, a young girl thousands of miles away with limited prospects of finding a husband and stirrings of adventure in her heart, are at last united to begin their lives together.
Author
Series
Sarah Agnes Prine novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the bestselling author of These Is My Words comes an exhilarating followup to the beloved Sarah's Quilt. In the latest diary entries of pioneer woman Sarah Agnes Prine, Nancy E. Turner continues Sarah's extraordinary story as she struggles to make a home in the Arizona Territory.
Winter 1906. Nearing bankruptcy after surviving drought, storms, and the rustling of her cattle, Sarah remains a stalwart pillar to her extended
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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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...
Author
Publisher
WESANNE Publications
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Profiles of ten courageous women who helped shape history are told in this inspiring and entertaining book. These high-spirited women left conventional roles behind, becoming America's early feminists. Some were BOLD and REBELLIOUS like Belle Starr and Ann Eliza Young. Many, such as Sarah Winnemucca and Abigail Duniway, were DEDICATED to their causes; others, like Jessie Benton Fremont, to the people they loved. Demanding acceptance on their own terms,...
Author
Series
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In April 1852, Mazy Bacon's husband, Jeremy, sells their farm, buys a wagon and some cattle, announces that they are heading West, and invites her mother along for the ride. A shocked Mazy has no choice but to follow and hope God will hear her pleas to return home. As the small family journeys westward and joins a wagon train heading for the Oregon Territory, the strengths and weaknesses of each person are dragged glaringly into the spotlight.
Author
Series
Diamond of the Rockies volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
12) The tender flame
Author
Series
Publisher
Multnomah
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Grant and Lydia, separated for years by war, rediscover each other when his daughter Jessica marries a young preacher.
Author
Series
Tender ties historical volume . 3
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
15) Every fixed star
Author
Series
The tender ties historical volume 2
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 - c.1936) was encouraged to record her experiences as a female pioneer. The result is the only known firsthand account of a remarkable woman thrust into the center of taming the American South-surviving floods, tornadoes, and fires; facing bears, panthers, and snakes; managing a boardinghouse in Arkansas that was home to an eccentric group of settlers; and running a logging camp in Mississippi that...
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
Description
Virginia City, Nevada, was "between bonanza and borrasca" when Mary McNair Mathews and her young son went there in 1869 to investigate the murder of her brother and sort out his affairs. The widow from Buffalo, New York, stayed in the West for almost ten years. Out of that time came these reminiscences of life in Nevada and California mining towns, including Virginia City, Gold Hill, Silver City, Sutro, You Bet, Nevada City, and Red Dog. These pages...
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