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...
Frontier and pioneer life
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Author:Silverthorne, JudithSummary: -
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...
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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.
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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.
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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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Author:Hobson, Richmond P.Summary:Adventures of a pioneer cattle rancher and his city-bred bride in the back country of Northern British Columbia.
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Author:Grey, ZaneSummary: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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Author:MacDonald, Ervin AustinSummary: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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Author:Zimmer, MichaelSummary: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...
- Author:Burroughs, William S.Summary:
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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Author:PRICHARD, Katharine S.Summary: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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Author:Adamson, Gil, Spalding, EstaSummary: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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Author:Casey, DonisSummary: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...
- Author:GREY, ZaneSummary:
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...
- Author:Stone, TedSummary:
The Red River Trail, used approximately between 1820 and 1880 to take supplies and settlers to the West, stimulated commerce in the region and played an important part in the growth of Manitoba and Minnesota.*It highlights the role of...
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Author:Stonier-Newman, LynneSummary: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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Author:Downs, ArtSummary: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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