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"The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country, it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop, two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils while surveilling, deceiving, and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous...
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In 1911, Carrie Strahorn wrote a memoir entitled Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, which shared some of the most exciting events of 25 years of traveling and shaping the American West with her husband, Robert Strahorn, a railroad promoter, investor, and writer. That is all fact. Everything She Didn't Say imagines Carrie nearly ten years later as she decides to write down what was really on her mind during those adventurous nomadic years. Certain that...
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"It starts with an unusual request: 'On this trip there will be no cussing, no drinking, no gambling, and no loose women.' No problem. Or so Red Ryan thinks--until he meets the passengers. They include four holy and silent monks, one beautiful lady tutor, and a drunken, washed-up gunfighter. Even worse, they're crossing the wild Texas hill country where bloodthirsty Apaches are on the loose and a mad-dog killer is on the prowl. But that can't compare...
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"It's 1852. The wounds of the Mexican War are healing. Regis Royle, co-owner of a steamship fleet, has made it out alive, relatively unscarred and with enough profit and foolhardy ambition to envision a new life in south Texas. With the help of his crack-shot kid brother Shepley, his glad-handing riverboat partner Cormac Delany, and his old friend, raw-edged former Texas Ranger Jarvis 'Bone' McGraw, Regis is laying claim to the prime jewel in a magnificent...
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"Luke Jensen has seen some sorry looking bounties in his time, but this one takes the cake. A wanted poster is offering a reward of one dollar and forty-two cents--plus one busted harmonica--to capture Three-Fingered Jack McKinney. Turns out, McKinney's twelve-year-old son Aaron wants revenge on his daddy for abandoning him and his mom. The reward is all the money Aaron can scrape together. Luke can't say no to the poor boy--or his beautiful mother--so...
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"Smoke Jensen is mighty proud of his son Louis for finishing law school. But he can't help being a little disappointed that Louis isn't returning to the Sugarloaf Ranch. Instead, he's setting up his own law practice in nearby Big Rock--a career choice that turns out to be every bit as dangerous as fending off cattle rustlers. The boy's first case lands him smack in the middle of a heated dispute between two riled-up ranchers over water rights. If...
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Ribbons west volume 1
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English
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Amid the conflict of the Civil War, "Westward the Dream" reveals a wonderful opportunity for Brenton and Jordana Baldwin to explore the great western frontier with the hopes of a transcontinental railroad on the horizon.
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Olive Collins
Pub. Date
[2020]
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307 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"In 1865, Goldie O'Neill was nine years of age when she trekked across the unclaimed American West with her family to form their own Irish catholic Colony. Their new community had dreams of self-governance and prosperity far removed from the anti-Irish sentiment and prejudice of the ruling classes. They soon learned about the extremes of the American West and the ongoing Indian war. A year after their arrival, Goldie blames herself for her sister's...
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Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
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720L
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228 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Prometheus Jones and his eleven-year-old cousin Omer flee Tennessee and join a cattle drive that will eventually take them to Texas, where Prometheus hopes his father lives, and they find adventure and face challenges as African Americans in a land still recovering from the Civil War.
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650L
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112 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 20 cm.
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English
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"Describes the people and events of the age of Manifest Destiny and the American West. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspective of a traveler on the Oregon Trail, a laborer, or a Sioux warrior"--Provided by publisher.
12) Buffalo wagons
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1997
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1st Forge ed.
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218 pages ; 18 cm
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English
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For Gage Jameson, the summer of 1873 has been a poor hunt. A year ago, he felled sixty-two buffalo in one stand, but now the great Arkansas River herd is gone, like the Republican herd before it. In Dodge City, old hide hunters speak is awe of a last great heard to the south-but no hunter who values his scalp dares ride south of the Cimarron and into Comanche territory. None but Gage Jameson...
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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225 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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In the first in this trio of Western stories by Louis L'Amour--"Black Rock"--Jim Gatlin, a Texas trail driver, arrives in the town of Tucker where he finds himself quickly drawn into the middle of an all-out battle for the XY Ranch when, due to a case of mistaken identity, he kills the segundo of Wing Cary's Flying C Ranch. Gatlin is a dead-ringer for Jim Walker, who, like Cary, wants control of the XY. Gatlin is thrown into a situation in which all...
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Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2019]
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345 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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"He may be a wanted man, but all outlaw Jack Bowdre ever desired was a second chance. Now he's on his way to jail, completely unaware that his unexpected--and unexpectedly beautiful--traveling companion is none other than Nora Kane...his mail order bride. It's too bad Nora doesn't know Jack is her groom-to-be. All she sees is a scoundrel. But when their stagecoach crashes and the truth comes spilling out, they're suddenly left to fend for themselves--and...
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Geronimo Stilton graphic novel volume 13
Pub. Date
2013
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54 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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Traveling to the American west to stop the Pirate Cats' evil scheme, Geronimo Stilton makes sure that the work on the Transcontinental Railroad is completed.
17) Cardslinger
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Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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352 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Jason "Shuffle" Jones embarks on a quest across the American West to find his missing father, the creator of a popular fantasy card game that may hold clues to his whereabouts.
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Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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Recounts Will Cody's, later known as Buffalo Bill, legendary Pony Express ride where he covers 322 miles, using twenty-one horses, and taking over twenty-one hours to complete.
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Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
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292 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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"When twenty-five-year-old Lewis Taylor is released from the Texas State Prison, he receives little attention as he walks into the midday sunlight, free after serving five years for a crime he didn't commit. His only interest is in getting back to his hometown of Gila Bend, Texas, a quiet farming community about which he has only warm, idyllic memories. During his long years in prison, he survived by thinking fondly of the home he'd known since boyhood--and...
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Westward to home volume 3
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WhiteFire Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Fresh out of finishing school, Julianne Blackstone is eager to return to her sister's ranch in Colorado, but her parents have other plans. Plans that involve money, matrimony...and mayhem. While helping in her mother's chic dress shop, Julianne rekindles an old friendship with young attorney Levi Stanfield and his father Judge Stanfield. But when she discovers her father's self-serving plans are at odds with the law, her own life is placed in peril....