A disgraced Confederate soldier and two impressionable youths come up with a plan to organize a militia and give the Yankees a taste of militia warfare.
Frontier and pioneer life
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Author:Boggs, Johnny D.Summary: -
Author:Goudie, ElizabethSummary:Originally published in 1973 and now a Nimbus Classic, Woman of Labrador is Elizabeth Goudie’s enduring and candid story of her pioneering life as a trapper’s wife in the early 1900s. She was left alone much of the year to rear eight...
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Author:Strange, KathleenSummary:Mrs. Strange was thrust, unprepared, into hard farm life on a Canadian ranch, with a background of London, gentle upbringing, a bit of the rough with the smooth in her war experiences, but with no training for hard labor and domestic...
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Author:Lottridge, Celia BarkerSummary:Winner of the IODE National Chapter Violet Downey Book Award. This sequel to Ticket to Curlew finds eleven-year-old Josie well settled in her new home, but she's never had a friend her own age. So when a girl named Margaret moves to the...
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Author:Demers, BarbaraSummary:Willa is a thirteen-year-old orphan shipped to the new world in 1795. Resourceful and strong-willed, she survives many hardships before travelling on foot from Hudson's Bay to Fort Edmonton with native companions who show her a...
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Author:Grey, ZaneSummary:Wildfire is a glorious beast, a fiery red stallion that is captured and broken by Lin Slone, a horse trainer. A legendary and miraculous horse, Wildfire is also a curse--he can run like the wind but could also injure those who love him...
- Author:Butala, SharonSummary:
Acclaimed novelist and literary nonfiction writer Sharon Butala's new novel is vividly filled with sodbusters and cowboys, fallen women and proper ladies, settlers and Indians. By the end of the first chapter, Sophie Hippolyte's husband...
- Author:Snelling, LauraineSummary:
Cassie Lockwood is dismayed to discover her father's South Dakota valley land is already occupied. Meanwhile, Cassie's arrival spurs the revelation of long-hidden secrets among the locals and leaves her questioning whether or not she...
- Author:Oke, JanetteSummary:
Nothing in her cultured East Coast upbringing prepared Elizabeth for a teaching position on the Canadian frontier. Yet, despite the constant hardships, she loves the children in her care. Determined to do the best job she can and...
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Author:L'Amour, LouisSummary:This volume presents eight of Louis L'Amour's ever popular short stories, including "Mistakes Can Kill You," "The Man from the Battle Flat," "The Lion Hunter and the Lady," "The One for the Mojave Kid," and others.
- Author:Schutz, FredSummary:
A collection of articles from Fred Schultz’s weekly column which appeared in the Rimby Record between 1954 and 1997. Filled with enchanting observations of both natural and human history, West of the Blindman reminds us of the beauty...
- Author:BRAND, MaxSummary:
Young Andrew Lanning made one mistake in the beginning, and now the most feared lawman in the mountain desert, Hal Dozier, is on his trail and will stop at nothing to bring the outlaw Lanning to justice. But is Andrew guilty of all the...
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Author:Clark, SallySummary:It is 1897, and word of gold on the Klondike has spurred a frantic rush of miners to cash in on the riches rumoured to be found there. But by the time the prospectors arrive, all the claims have been staked. Without enough supplies or...
- Author:Taylor, CoraSummary:
"Victoria Callihoo was born before Canada was a nation, and was a grandmother by the time Alberta became a province.*She traveled with her family on the buffalo hunt on a Red River cart when the herds were so numerous they...
- Author:Snelling, LauraineSummary:
As one woman tries to find the hidden valley of her father's dreams in the 1906 Black Hills, she also discovers courage, faith--and romance.
- Author:Warren, SpringSummary:
Easterner Edward Turrentine Bayard III deserts his wealthy family and travels to Nebraska. After all, it will be good for his health. Once he's mastered skinning buffalo, perfected his shot, and fallen in love, he returns back East and...
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Author:Paulsen, GarySummary: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.
- Author:Johnstone, William W.Summary:
Texas bounty hunter Bill Pike and his cutthroat companions have a plan to capture the legendary Smoke Jensen that is sure to succeed. A warrant for the arrest of Smoke offers a $10,000 reward. But now Smoke is a peaceful man, spending...
- Author:Brennan, KevinSummary:
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...
- Author:Oke, JanetteSummary:
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...
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