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...
Frontier and pioneer life
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Author:PUCKRIDGE, Doreen KSummary:Story of a remarkable family whose fortunes have been linked so intimately with the history of Port Lincoln, South Australia.
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Author:Jackman, CliffSummary:From the 1860s to the 1880s, the outlaws known as the Winter Family roam the harsh frontier, both serving and battling the fierce advance of civilization. Among its twisted specimens are the psychopathic killer Quentin Ross, the mean...
- Author:BERTON, PierreSummary:
Seven short studies of men and women whose fame has someting to do with the Canadian frontier.
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Author:Grey, ZaneSummary: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...
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Author: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, RonaldSummary: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...
- Author:Overholser, Wayne D.Summary:
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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Author:Grey, ZaneSummary: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.
- Author:Muir, JohnSummary:
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,...
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Author:deWitt, PatrickSummary: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'...
- Author:Compton, RalphSummary:
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...
- Author:BRAND, MaxSummary:
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...
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Author:Silverthorne, JudithSummary: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...
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Author:Silverthorne, JudithSummary: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...
- Author:Le May, AlanSummary:
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.
- Author:Robertson, Donald L.Summary:
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.
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Author:L'Amour, LouisSummary:William Tell Sackett finds strength in the Sackett clan who've come from near and far to settle the score with the "Lazy A" boys, out for Sackett's life in the canyon country of Arizona.
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Author:L'Amour, LouisSummary:Ross Harney had fought Comanches and rustlers, hunted buffalo and horse thieves. His life had been rich in hard-fisted experience, poor in the goods of the world. But now he was going to ride for himself, fight for himself.
- Author:Connealy, MarySummary:
Union army officer Cameron Scott is used to being obeyed, but nothing about this journey to Lake Tahoe has gone as expected. He's come to fetch his daughter and nephew, and seek revenge on the people who killed his brother. Instead...
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Author:Snelling, LauraineSummary:Ever so slowly Dakota Territory is being transformed from a vast prairie into rich farmland. With the coming of the railroad, the small town of Blessing begins to prosper, and the Bjorklund family is reaping the promised harvest that...
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