Three hundred independent-minded women in 1880s California have embarked on a seemingly impossible journey: to establish a town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada composed exclusively of women. The only way for the singular town of...
Frontier and pioneer life
- Auteur:Brennan, KevinSommaire:
- Auteur:Oke, JanetteSommaire:
When Sarah Perry loses her husband, she resolves that the best thing she can do for her young daughter Rebecca is send her off to a "proper" boarding school. And, years later, when Rebecca returns home, the distance between the two...
- Auteur:Clavin, TomSommaire:
The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the OK Corral, by the New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City and Wild Bill. On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, nine men clashed in what would be...
- Auteur:Grey, ZaneSommaire:
The story follows an ancient feud between two frontier families that is inflamed when one of the families takes up cattle rustling. The ranchers are led by Jean Isbel and, on the other side, Lee Jorth and his band of cattle rustlers. In...
- Auteur:Lottridge, CeliaSommaire:
Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award and the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People It is 1915, and Sam Ferrier and his father arrive by train in Curlew, Alberta, to build a new home...
- Auteur:Patterson, R. M.Sommaire:
Few men have been as set on isolated adventures and as passionate about the wild landscape of Canada as R.M. Patterson. He spent over 30 years in exploration, from northern rivers such as the Nahanni and the Liard, to the foothills of...
- Auteur:PUCKRIDGE, Doreen KSommaire:
Story of a remarkable family whose fortunes have been linked so intimately with the history of Port Lincoln, South Australia.
- Auteur:BERTON, PierreSommaire:
Seven short studies of men and women whose fame has someting to do with the Canadian frontier.
- Auteur:Grey, ZaneSommaire:
In 1925, Elijah Winters brings his daughter to a remote trading post in Arizona, but ranch life bores her. To awaken her to a new, healthier way of life, Elijah colludes with a young archaeologist searching for an ancient kiva of a...
- Auteur:Owl, Grey, Polk, James, Gnarowski, Michael, Eayrs, Hugh, Allan, Julie, Allan, Norman Bethune, Ostrovsky, Susan, Gordon, Sydney, Innis, Mary Quayle, Simcoe, Elizabeth Posthuma, Kilbourn, William, Stagg, RonaldSommaire:
Voyageur Classics is a series of special versions of Canadian classics, with added material and new introductory notes. In this bundle we find five biographical and autobiographical titles that shed light on some of Canada’s most...
- Auteur:Overholser, Wayne D.Sommaire:
Dan Riley is determined to find out who is really in charge of a local syndicate, and the only man willing to help him is Andrew Daniels, a former newspaper man whose courage comes from a bottle.
- Auteur:Grey, ZaneSommaire:
Just as young surveyor Warren Neale discovers graft and corruption in the building of the Union Pacific Railroad in Wyoming, his fiancee Allie is kidnapped by ruffians.
- Auteur:Muir, JohnSommaire:
John Muir (1838-1914), whose writings about the natural world have shaped the conservation and environmental movements for more than a century, wrote this autobiographical account near the end of his life about his childhood in Dunbar,...
- Auteur:deWitt, PatrickSommaire:
When a frontier baron known as the Commodore orders Charlie and Eli Sisters, his hired gunslingers, to track down and kill a prospector named Herman Kermit Warm, the brothers journey from Oregon to San Francisco, and eventually to Warm'...
- Auteur:Compton, RalphSommaire:
In this Ralph Compton western, the Strange twins find themselves in double trouble... Young Jed and Tim Strange lost their father to an outlaw's bullet, and now their mother has succumbed to a fatal illness. Unable to farm their...
- Auteur:BRAND, MaxSommaire:
The Seventh Man by Max Brand, tells part of the story of the larger-than-life western character, Dan Barry, known as “Whistling Dan,” and his alter-ego companions, Black Bart, the wolf-dog, and Satan, the...
- Auteur:Snelling, LauraineSommaire:
After turning the tables on a crooked gambler, Larkspur Nielsen joins her sisters on a wagon train bound for Oregon while donning a disguise as Clark Nielsen, knowing four women will draw unwanted attention. But maintaining the ruse is...
- Auteur:Silverthorne, JudithSommaire:
12-year-old Emily travels back in time again in this sequel, to discover a secret locked in her grandmother's soon-to-be-sold stone house.
Twelve-year-old Emily Bradford travels back in time to discover a secret about her...
- Auteur:Silverthorne, JudithSommaire:
Visiting her grandmother's farm, Emily encounters a strangely-dressed girl her age, and discovers that she's a relative -- from another time!
Who is this oddly dressed girl? Where did she come from? What is she doing on the rock...
- Auteur:Le May, AlanSommaire:
When Martin Pauley and Amos Edwards return to their Texas homestead to find a burning ruin, they set out to find Amos' missing daughter--and exact revenge on the Comanche responsible for the attack.