The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie book series Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls-the pioneer girl...
Women pioneers
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Author:Fraser, CarolineSummary: - Author:Snelling, LauraineSummary:
Award-winning author Lauraine Snelling continues the story of Ruby Torvald in Book Two of her Dakotah Treasures series. Ruby's most recent boarder at the Dove House is schoolteacher Pearl Hossfuss. Avoiding an arranged marriage...
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Winner of Silver Angel and Golden Heart Awards, Lauraine Snelling is the multimillion-selling author of over 50 inspiring books. As Opal begins, it's 1886 in the wild and untamed Dakotah Territory. To avoid a drifter's murderous...
- Author:Lowell, ElizabethSummary:
Agreeing to rescue Lady Jessica Charteris from an unwanted marriage only if she will accompany him to America as his wife, Wolfe Lonetree takes his bride to the West, where Jessica is determined that theirs be a marriage in name only....
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Author:Cather, WillaSummary:Alexandra Bergsons, the daughter of Swedish immigrants, inherits her family's ailing farm in Hanover, Nebraska upon the death of her father. Over the years, she turns the farm into a successful enterprise. However, success has not...
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Author:Cather, WillaSummary:A deeply moving portrait of a community of early American pioneers in the Nebraska heartland and of the free-spirited girl at its heart.
Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of...
- Author:Gordon, Irene TernierSummary:
Marie-Anne Lagimodière was a force to be reckoned with. Her honeymoon was a four-month journey from Quebec to Pembina with a brigade of tough voyageurs, and she criss-crossed Canada with her fur trader husband during the early 1800s....
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Author:Siggins, MaggieSummary:In 1807 Marie-Anne Lagomodière became the first white woman to make the canoe voyage from Quebec to the Red River Valley in western Canada as she accompanied her coureur du bois husband. She settled into the life and learned Cree and...
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Author:Boggs, Johnny D.Summary:Saddle tramp Sam MacKinnon is in trouble. Double-crossed by his partners after robbing a saloon and gambling hall, MacKinnon has been left behind in the mountains of southern New Mexico with busted ribs, a banged-up head, no gun, and no...
- Author:Oke, JanetteSummary:
Newlyweds Missie and Willie share a dream. However, it means that Missie must leave her parents, family and friends behind to join a wagon train and claim land in the West with her new husband. Overcoming incredible hardships on the...
- Author:Peterson, TracieSummary:
After the death of her father, 16-year-old Dianne Chadwick believes her family's only hope is to move to her uncle's home in Montana. The Chadwicks must learn the skills it takes to survive the wagon trail. The journey is treacherous,...
- Author:Oke, JanetteSummary:
Through her dozens of novels, including The Bluebird and the Sparrow (RB# 94672) and Too Long a Stranger (RB# 94970), Janette Oke has become one of today's most beloved inspirational writers. In Julia's Last Hope, drawing on...
- Author:Carter, SarahSummary:
Sarah Carter’s "Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies" examines the goals, aspirations, andchallenges met by women who sought land of their own. Supporters of British women...
- Author:Heitzmann, KristenSummary:
After Monte's sister dies, Abby and Monte take her orphaned child into their home. The little girl is headstrong and spoiled, but Abby immediately begins to steer her toward a love for God. The couple is even more joyous when Abby...
- Author:Heitzmann, KristenSummary:
Joe and Arie, a young Amish couple, try to get through their first summer on their farm with the help of Joe's younger sister Nancy and brother Steven.
- Author:Miller, Linda LaelSummary:
One ranch. Three sons. Only one will inherit...and on one condition. Tired of waiting for his sons to settle down, Arizona-territory rancher Angus McKettrick announces a competition: the first son to marry and produce a grandchild will...
- Author:Morgan, LaelSummary:
In the boomtowns of the Alaska-Yukon stampedes, where gold dust was common currency, the rarest commodity was an attractive woman, and her company could be costly. Author Lael Morgan takes you into the heart of the gold rush demimonde,...
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Author:Illing, ThoraSummary:A biography of the extraordinary Nellie Cashman, a well-loved miner, entrepreneur and philanthropist who lived and worked in the roughest boomtowns of the West in the late-nineteenth century. At a time when well-bred women wore tight...
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Author:Caldwell, ClaireSummary:Poetry that explores what it means to be a woman—a settler woman—in the wilderness.
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Author:Monson, MarianneSummary:Tells the stories of women pioneers who endured unimaginable hardships to settle the West. All of them overcame obstacles, broke barriers, and changed the world--inspiring examples for the modern woman.
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