Tom Kedrick was hired to clear a sizable strip of land of certain "vagrants and outlaws." But what he found were hard-working ranchers and farmers determined to resist any efforts to disenfranchise them.
Frontier and pioneer life
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Author:L'Amour, LouisSummary: -
Author:Bowering, GeorgeSummary:A fictionalized account of the McLean Gang, halfbreeds who terrorized the Canadian West in the 1870s. The novel traces their idealistic beginning--stealing cattle and guns with the intention of starting an Indian rebellion--to their...
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Author:Card, Orson ScottSummary:Young Alvin Maker is born into an alternative frontier America, where folk magic is real and he himself is gifted with power. But he must learn to use it wisely, for dark forces are arrayed against him.
- Author:Glover, RuthSummary:
When Tieney Caulder is sent to the New World by her father to stake a claim for her family, she is shocked to discover that her sweetheart, Robert Dunbar, has promised to marry a dying widow and take care of her children in exchange for...
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Author:Jackson, FredaSummary:Jane Priddle, a proper young Englishwoman, has lived a sheltered, genteel life. In 1897, she is offered a life-changing opportunity: she will travel to Canada's northwest frontier to search for young Billie Thomm. Surviving in the...
- Author:MacLachlan, PatriciaSummary:
"I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall." A heartwarming story about two children, Anna and Caleb, whose lives are changed forever when their widowed papa advertises for a mail-order bride....
- Author:Hunter, MaureenSummary:
Anyone who has delved into the history of the Red River Settlement will have come across the name Sarah Ballenden. Her 1850 trial is one of the most famous in Manitoba legal history. The fact that her name isn't officially attached...
- Author:L'Amour, LouisSummary:
After discovering six gold Roman coins buried in the mud of the Devil's Dyke, Barnabas Sackett enthusiastically invests in goods that he will offer for trade in America. But Sackett has a powerful enemy: Rupert Genester, nephew of...
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Author:Zimmer, MichaelSummary:A strike breaker looks back at his life, and his unwilling involvement in the bloody Gunnison Affair at Red Devil Salt Works in Rio Tinto, Texas.
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Author:L'AMOUR, LouisSummary: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...
- Author:Cotton, Ralph W.Summary:
When a band of drovers stumbles upon the goods that were left behind after a botched robbery, they decide to do the moral thing and take the money to its rightful owner. But there's an outlaw after the prize, and it'll take the...
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Author:Reiss, KathrynSummary:In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead, but Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the woman with whom Papa has corresponded.
- Author:Alexander, TameraSummary:
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...
- Author:Alexander, TameraSummary:
When Véronique Girard was five, her father left for America to amass a fortune and send for his family. After 25 long years, a deathbed promise carries Véronique from Paris to Willow Springs to find her long-lost father--said to be...
- Author:Aiken, GinnySummary:
Trapped in an abusive marriage, Faith Nolan finds the courage to defy her husband to help others. When her actions result in a false charge of murder, she finds the support she needs in Nathan Bartlett.
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Author:Osborne, Thomas, MacGregor, RoySummary:Thomas Osborne delivers a gripping account of 1870s Ontario pioneer life. The view 16-year-old Thomas Osborne first had of Muskoka was at night, trudging alone with his even younger brother along unmarked primitive roads to find their...
- Author:Rivers, FrancineSummary:
Sold into prostitution as an orphan, Angel has never believed in love. Then Michael Hosea pursues her, showers her with unconditional love, and marries her. Through his caring, Michael slowly melts Angel's icy heart.
- Author:Snelling, LauraineSummary:
Having experienced her share of sorrow, Rebecca has grown afraid of opening her heart to love. Can she overcome her fears or will she settle for something less than love?
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Author:Dueck, AdeleSummary:It's 1908, and twelve-year-old Erik faces the challenges of adapting to pioneer life on the Canadian prairie and understanding what's really going on in his family.
Erik never wanted to leave his grandfather's farm, and the...
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Author:Finch, DavidSummary:The escapades of this great Canadian are brought to life in a story that combines the lure of gold, the thrill of wilderness exploration and comic tales about life on a southern Alberta ranch. With access to Patterson’s diaries, letters...
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