Adventures of a pioneer cattle rancher and his city-bred bride in the back country of Northern British Columbia.
Frontier and pioneer life
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Auteur:Grey, ZaneSommaire:Held captive in a lost canyon are three desperate people who have fled Mormon persecution. Among them is the beautiful young Fay Larkin. To rescue her, John Shefford must face the treacherous half-breed Shad and his murderous crew.
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Auteur:MacDonald, Ervin AustinSommaire:This first-hand account of a Canadian pioneer—the next title in TouchWood’s Classics West series—tells the story of a hard-won wilderness home and of the self-sufficient father and brothers who built it. Their tale of wanderlust begins...
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Auteur:Zimmer, MichaelSommaire:In 1885 young Rose Edwards, widowed and penniless but fiercely independent, begins an odyssey to revisit the land of her childhood. But the old ways are disappearing, and Rose becomes a reluctant hero of an indigenous population as she...
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Auteur:Burroughs, William S.Sommaire:A good old-fashioned shoot-out in the American West serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers fight for galactic freedom.
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Auteur:PRICHARD, Katharine S.Sommaire:The Pioneers is set against the background of pioneering life in the Gippsland region of Victoria in pre-Federation Australia. Mary and Donald Cameron are free-settlers who make a home in the wilderness and grow a prosperous cattle...
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Auteur:Adamson, Gil, Spalding, EstaSommaire:In 1903 a mysterious, desperate young woman flees alone across the west, one quick step ahead of the law. She has just become a widow by her own hand. Two vengeful brothers and a pack of bloodhounds track her across the western...
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Auteur:Casey, DonisSommaire:Alafair Tucker is a strong woman, the core of family life on a farm in Oklahoma where the back-breaking work and daily logistics of caring for her husband Shaw, their nine children, and being neighborly requires hard muscle and a clear...
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Buck Duane, son of a famous gunfighter, falls prey to the old problem – called out by a cowboy who wants to make trouble, Duane kills him and then must ride off to the lawless country near the Neuces River to escape being...
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Auteur:Stonier-Newman, LynneSommaire:Keeping the peace in turn-of-the-century B.C. Murderers, thieves and drunks tested the will of Superintendent Fred Hussey, the B.C. Provincial Police officer appointed to keep the peace in rough-and-tumble, turn-of-the-century B.C. But...
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Auteur:Downs, ArtSommaire:At the end of the nineteenth century, Canada’s prairies were still sparsely populated. Crimes such as horse theft, random murders, and prison escapes were the order of the day, and the North West Mounted Police continued to rely on...
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Auteur:Downs, ArtSommaire:They looked impressive in their red tunics, but the members of the fledgling North West Mounted Police had little experience as they departed from Fort Garry in 1874 on a mission to bring order to the lawless territories west of the Red...
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Auteur:Downs, ArtSommaire:The far-ranging officers of the BC Provincial Police covered an area larger than California, Oregon, and Washington combined. In Yukon, a force of nineteen Mounties were charged with upholding the law across all of Arctic Canada. Set in...
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Auteur:Downs, ArtSommaire:Gold rush fever in the 1860s brought thousands of miners to the new territories of British Columbia and the Yukon armed with rifles, revolvers, and bowie knives. Among them were thugs and outlaws lured by the promise of easy riches....
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Jake Slade and his partner, Three-Fingers Bent, arrive in a small Texas town with plans to start up a stagecoach way station. But when Bent is accused of murder, Slade's got to find the real culprit before his friend's day in the...
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A woman is kidnapped from Fort Henry by a band of renegades and hostile Ohio Valley Indians, and Lewis Wetzel (known by the Indians as Death Wind) with his partner Jonathan Zane set out in pursuit, with little hope of survival.
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"He'd rope the devil and tie him down-if the lasso didn't burn," it was said of Buffalo Jones, one of the last of the famous plainsmen who trod the trails of the Old West. Killing was repulsive to him and the passion...
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Auteur:Martel, SuzanneSommaire:Winner of the Ruth Schwartz Award. Jeanne Chatel has always dreamed of adventure. So when the eighteen-year-old orphan is summoned to sail from France to the wilds of North America to become a king's daughter and marry a French settler...
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After his parents died, young Ben Hammon came to western Colorado where his uncle Scott was a small-town lawman. Ben had much to learn, especially about the Kean family. A classic short novel and six great tales of the Old West from the...
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"The third novel in the trio that began with 'The Root Cellar' and 'Shadow in Hawthorn Bay.' This is the unforgettable tale of a young girl who escapes to Canada during the American Revolutionary War, who will...
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