Both young adults and adults will find appeal in this Oregon Trail novel. Lovisa and the rest of the extended King family join a wagon train in 1845. There's plenty of hardship and even death, but the family still has time to...
Frontier and pioneer life
- Author:Crew, LindaSummary:
- Author:Vanderhaeghe, GuySummary:
Wesley Case is a former soldier and son of a Canadian lumber baron who sets out into the untamed borderlands between Canada and the United States to escape a dark secret from his past. He settles in Montana where he hopes to buy a...
- Author:Peterson, TracieSummary:
Peterson's enthralling tale spotlights Lacy Gallatin, a tomboy who feels out of place with her married sisters. Riding off in snow-covered darkness to seek the counsel of the only mother figure she's ever known, Lacy finds herself...
- Author:Jagears, MelissaSummary:
After three failed attempts, Everett Cline is not happy when another--uninvited--mail-order bride steps off the train in his Kansas farming community. But is she the wife he's been waiting for?
- Author:Mole, RichSummary:
From the days of the fur trade, one constant thread weaves its way through the tumultuous history of frontier British Columbia, Washington and Oregon—the war over liquor. Between 1840 and 1917, the whisky wars of the west coast were...