Francis, Lottie, and Billy survive a series of hair-raising adventures while on their way west to the Oregon Trail, where they hope to find the Tucket family.
West (U.S.)
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Auteur:Brand, MaxSommaire:In The White Streak, Jimmy Babcock is a worker at the local bank run by William Parker. When Parker fires Jimmy, all Jimmy can think is how this will hurt Muriel Aiken, his fiancée. An unexpected invitation from Parker convinces Jimmy...
- 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.
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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: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.
- Auteur:Robertson, Donald L.Sommaire:
Logan is on his way to begin a new life and put the killing behind him. But he is forced to kill the leader of a gang of despicable outlaws, putting himself in direct conflict with the leader's brother.
- 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.
- Auteur:BRAND, MaxSommaire:
A man, a dog, and a horse. The call of the wild geese. A very smart doctor from the east who finds there is a lot to learn from these desert people. A woman loved by three men. A gunslinger who has a debt to settle. Max Brand brings...
- Auteur:L'Amour, LouisSommaire:
Crispin Mayo was a reckless young brawler who’d left his tiny fishing village for the vast American frontier. Headed west to join a railroad construction crew, he came upon an isolated station—and a mystery. The shack was abandoned, but...
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Auteur:Pocock, JoannaSommaire:An evocative blend of narrative nonfiction, personal memoir, nature writing, and reportage in the style of Barry Lopez and Annie Dillard, Surrender explores the changing landscape of the American West and the outsider eco-cultures that...
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Auteur:West, CharlesSommaire:Joel McAllister, a former lieutenant in the Confederate Army, takes his steadfast sergeant, Riley, and heads west for Idaho Territory, seeking peace and gold. But the trail to Silver City is littered with peril--including a band of...
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Auteur:L'Amour, LouisSommaire:In "The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon," Mike Basian was trained to be an outlaw, but he isn't sure he wants to live a life of crime. In "Showdown Trail," Rock Bannon tries to save a wagon of citizens from a smooth-talking con man.
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Auteur:Twain, MarkSommaire:Two American originals, Mark Twain and the West, come together in this documentary of the author's seven-year "pleasure trip" to the silver mines of Nevada. Twain had originally planned the trip to be a three-month "vacation;" not...
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Auteur:L'AMOUR, LouisSommaire:In 'Riders of the Dawn', a young gunslinger is changed for the better by a meeting with a beautiful woman. A classic range-war western, this novel features that powerful, romantic, strangely compelling vision of the American...
- Auteur:Alexander, TameraSommaire:
Pursued by a Texas bounty hunter, Matthew returns to Fountain Creek, Colorado, to apologize to his brother for insulting his wife Annabelle and to share his Idaho homestead. Learning that his brother has left already, he answers an ad...
- Auteur:Johnstone, William W., Johnstone, J. A.Sommaire:
Matt Jensen--reared by legendary mountain man Smoke Jensen--makes the mistake of riding into Purgatory, Arizona. Before he can even dismount his horse, he's arrested unjustly and sentenced to be hanged.
- Auteur:Johnstone, William W.Sommaire:
When "Preacher," the last gunfighter, catches wind that a lady from his past has been murdered in St. Louis, he is enraged. It's time to leave the wilderness and head to the big city to exact some revenge.
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Auteur:Ray, Deborah KoganSommaire:Documents the life and achievements of the nineteenth-century Northern Paiute leader, examining how her aptitude for languages and diplomacy enabled her to advocate on behalf of her tribe.
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Auteur:Paulsen, GarySommaire:In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.
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Auteur:Brooks, BillSommaire:John Henry Cole and his posse of bounty hunters get the tables turned on them when seemingly cornered fugitives are actually setting up an ambush.
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