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Author
Series
Homeward on the Oregon trail volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a journey to Oregon country, Elizabeth Martin finds two men who may play a part in her new life out west: the wealthy widower who is pursuing Elizabeth and the solitary guide who has stolen Elizabeth's heart.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three lone wagons on the California Trail become trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains by a sudden snowstorm. Stuck in tight quarters with others makes Cynthia Cooper reevaluate her reasons for being engaged to fellow-traveler Walter Prentice. When a widowed father heading to a California ranch and a gold prospector both show an interest in Cynthia, she has to reconsider here dreams for marriage alongside her responsibility to care for her mother....
Author
Series
Cactus Creek volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Colby Blaine has been a loner his whole life. And he isn't about to change now. But that doesn't mean he can ignore people in trouble. When he rides up to an inexperienced wagon train under attack, he doesn't hesitate to jump into the fray. It's only after the raid that he really lands himself in hot water...
25) Wyoming!
Author
Series
Wagons West volume 3
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2009]
Language
English
Description
As a weary band of pioneers makes its way by wagon train across the Great Plains, romance blossoms between wagon scout Whip Holt and the beautiful Indian maiden, La-ena.
Author
Language
English
Description
It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees the postings soliciting "eligible women" to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter and several painful secrets, she has nothing to lose. So she joins forty-three other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2,000-mile journey west. None of them are prepared for the hardships they face on the trek through the high plains, mountains, and deserts,...
27) Meek's cutoff
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A wagon train of three families has hired mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a shortcut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants face the scourges of hunger, thirst, and their own lack of faith in each other's instincts for survival. When they encounter a Native American, they must choose...
Author
Publisher
Hub City Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Ian McGuire's The North Water and Michael Punke's The Revenant, Child in the Valley by Gordy Sauer is a coming-of-age story set in the harsh landscape of Gold Rush America, centering on a orphan's journey to California in a wagon train of ruthless 49ers. Seventeen-year-old Joshua Gaines is suddenly orphaned in 1849, and after discovering that his foster father has left him deeply in debt, he flees his St. Louis home for Independence,...
31) Mary's blessing
Author
Series
McKenna's daughters volume 2
Publisher
Realms
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When her mother dies, Mary Lenora must grow up quickly to take care of her brothers and sisters. Can love help her to shoulder the burden? Mary Lenora Caine knows she is adopted. As she was growing up, her mother called her “God’s blessing.” But now that she’s gone, Mary no longer feels like any kind of blessing. Her father, in his grief, has cut himself off from the family, leaving the running of the home entirely in Mary’s hands. As she...
Author
Series
Western light volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beth Rutledge and her mother's one chance to escape Beth's tyrannical father is a wagon train heading west. Wagon train scout Jake Holt senses the secretive Beth is running from something and finds a new hope for his future in protecting her. Can they risk trusting each other with their lives--and their hearts--with danger threatening their every step?
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both. But life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of the journey and their disparate pasts...
34) Soaring high
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"First Julie is inspired to raise money so that two bald eagles can fly free. But will she be able to raise enough money to build a tower for their flight? Then, on a journey to commemorate the birth of a nation, Julie finds a way to include a very significant signature on the rededication scroll. And when Julie realizes she can make a positive change in punishments at school, she runs for student body president. Will Julie get the votes she needs?"--...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Captain Nathan Brittles takes out his last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack; three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby and risk their lives to bring the infant to safety; lack of supplies imperative to their survival drives the Cheyenne tribe to embark on a 1,500 miles journey back to their ancestral hunting grounds; two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley, encountering many challenges...
36) Nebraska!
Author
Series
Wagons West volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Saga of the first wagon train west toward Oregon begins in Independence, Missouri, and ends when the five hundred brave pioneers reach the great plains of Nebraska. Centers on "Whip" Holt, the ruggedly quiet leader of the caravan and Cathy van Ayl, who leaves her family behind in Missouri to travel with Whip Holt's train and perhaps win his heart.
Author
Series
Duff MacCallister western volume 12
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023].
Language
English
Description
"Duff MacCallister brings Highland justice to the new American frontier when he joins a wagon train headed for trouble in this explosive installment from the USA Today bestselling spin-off of the blockbuster Eagles series from William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone, the Greatest Western Writers of the 21st Century. Duff MacCallister left Scotland to forge a new life in America, raising cattle on the western plains of the growing nation. But keeping...
Author
Publisher
Bushel & Peck Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"I've written this book in hopes that its stories--and the incredible people they're about--will pull our country closer together through a shared history of the American West. In its own way the Wild West was a melting post every bit as much as the cities of the East Coast--and maybe even more so. While the American cowboy is, deservedly, a cultural icon and part of our national mythology, what many people don't know, is that a significant per\centage...
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Moses Schallenberger joined a wagon train traveling from Iowa to California, as winter approached trouble fell, and young Moses was forced to survive on his own for the long winter.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
An ordinary boy with extraordinary dreams. A man whose legend spreads acros the frontier. Ride the epic saga of an American hero and the battles that forged his soul in these classic tales in the legendary Preacher series.
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