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Author
Publisher
Crown
Language
English
Formats
Description
Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness—and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch.
When Papa Pilgrim, his wife, and their fifteen children appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy, their new neighbors saw them as a shining example
Series
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Schoolteacher Elizabeth gets a fresh start with the handsome Mountie Jack after she reassures him that she declined the proposal from her childhood friend, and instead would like to try to make things work with Jack. Meanwhile, Elizabeth's close friend Abigail encounters a young orphan who has been stealing food. Abigail decides to show the boy kindness by taking care of him and his ill sister.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A biographical history of influential African American pioneers and freedom fighters in the Midwest, including Sara Jane Woodson, Peter Clark, and Dred Scott.
After not being allowed to vote, testify in court, or send their kids to school, African Americans had to create a system of their own, in a book that examines the institutions they made and the struggles they faced to gain equality.--
204) The white: a novel
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
205) Jubal Sackett
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Wilderness explorer Jubal Sackett was the son of Barnabas Sackett, the first of that line to come to the New World. Jubal feared no man, nor did he back away from any challenge. His determination to blaze new trails took him across the vast savage North American continent where no white man had been before. Living and fighting among the Indian tribes, Jubal forged a legend as a powerful medicine man whom they called "Ni'kwana, master of mysteries."...
Author
Publisher
Rosen Central Primary Source
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Surveys the life of Swiss/German immigrant John Sutter, on whose land gold was discovered in the mid-nineteenth century, spurring the California gold rush and westward expansion.
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
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Le Divorce, a dazzling meditation on the mysteries of the "wispy but material" family ghosts who shape us. Growing up in the small river town of Moline, Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of floating down the Mississippi and off to see the world. Years later, at home in France, a French friend teases her: 'Indifference to history--that's why you Americans seem so naive and don't really know where...
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1846, the eighty-seven members of the Donner Party left Illinois to begin a new life in California. Many pioneers made this journey, but the Donner Party faced delays and terrible misfortune. Trapped with few supplies in the snowy Sierra Nevada for the winter, what would the travelers do to survive? To understand the impact of a disaster, you must understand its causes. How did taking an untested shortcut affect the Donner Party's progress? How...
211) 17 miracles
Publisher
Excel Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
As part of the Willie Handcart Company, Levi Savage (Jasen Wade) feared that leaving late in the season would lead to despair and death. What he came to find out is that for every tragedy, there is a multitude of miracles. Based on actual events.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents an account of frontier life for women in the American West through brief biographies of fifteen famous individuals, including Calamity Jane, Belle Starr, Nellie Cashman, Mary Fields, and Annie Oakley.
Series
When calls the heart volume Season 2, movie 5
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Thatcher, a young teacher who left her life of high society to teach out west in the rustic town of Hope Valley is finally feeling at home in the small town. However, she is still in unknown territory when it comes to her feelings for the handsome Constable Jack Thornton. Even after acknowledging they come from very different backgrounds, Elizabeth and Jack realizes they feel passionately towards each other.
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Fremont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of. His adventures are fit for remaking into the tall tales Bridger himself liked to tell. Here, in a biography that finally gives this outsize character his due, Jerry Enzler takes this frontiersman's full measure...
216) Wild life: a novel
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A thoroughly modern woman (for the early 1900s) who supports her five boys by writing adventure stories, Charlotte Bridger Drummond joins a search party for a missing child, gets lost herself, and "is rescued by a band of elusive, quasi-human beasts."--Jacket
217) Homesteading
Author
Publisher
Lyons & Burford
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the Wollaston family's attempt to carve a successful homestead out of the harsh plains around Ismay, Montana, in the period from 1910 to the late 1920s
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Davy Crockett, the King of the Wild Frontier, is a man of legend. He is said to have killed his first bear when he was three years old. His smile alone killed another, and he skinned a bear by forcing him to run between two trees. Fact or fiction? Find out the real story of this folk hero, who did love to hunt bears, served as a congressman for Tennessee, and fought and died at the Alamo"--
"An illustrated biography of famous frontiersman Davy Crockett,...
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