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An acclaimed historian’s “compellingly told” year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer the American West in the mid-nineteenth century (The Guardian).
In all the sagas of human migration, few can top the drama of the journey by Midwestern farmers to Oregon and California from 1840 to 1849—between the era of the fur trappers and the beginning of the gold rush. Even with mountain...
In all the sagas of human migration, few can top the drama of the journey by Midwestern farmers to Oregon and California from 1840 to 1849—between the era of the fur trappers and the beginning of the gold rush. Even with mountain...
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Penguin Publishing Group
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English
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Solomon Brakefield has been wronged one too many times after doing the right thing. He's so fed up with leading a noble life that he seeks out legendary killer and train robber Nestor Quarles to learn the ways of the outlaw. Nestor is willing to oblige, but the price may be more than Solomon cares to pay.
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Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Examines the settlement of the area that became the southwestern portion of the United States, detailing how it evolved from land settled by Native Americans, to Spanish territory, to states that were pawns between the North and South prior to the Civil War.
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English
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Covering more than two centuries, The Beaver Men recounts the beginning of the beaver trade along the St. Lawrence to the last great rendezvous of traders and trappers on Ham's Fork, in what is now Wyoming, in 1834. The Beaver Men is the third in Mari Sandoz's trilogy of books narrating the history of the American West in relation to an animal species.
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Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Meet the men who forged a strong kinship in a fictional account that follows Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday through Long Grass, Denver, Texas, and Arizona as the friends head for the fateful OK Corral in a story peopled by gunslingers, Indians, female cattle counters, brothel owners, and those working to put an end to the lawlessness that has ruled the West for so long.
8) Wild West
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DK Pub. in association with the Smithsonian Institution
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Brief text and color illustrations chronicle the history of the American West, from the adventures of Lewis and Clark to the massacre at Wounded Knee.
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Pub. Date
2016
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English
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"In imperial Vienna, where the court halls buzzed with waltzes and champagne, as well as temptation, rivals, and cutthroat intrigue, the intensely personal tale of Empress Sisi unraveled. Infamously beautiful, a mother of four, and wife of Emperor Franz Joseph - whom she unintentionally stole away from her sister - Sisi's reign was anything but simple. Against the backdrop of a rich, romantic, and volatile time period--marked by pivotal events such...
10) Koda
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Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Traveling with his owners from Missouri to Oregon in 1848, Koda, an energetic two-year-old quarter horse, finds the long journey increasingly tedious and tiring until his young owner goes missing on the trail and he must use all his skills to find her.
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Determined to protect her historical family home from Napoleon's orders to renovate 1860s Paris, Rose Bazelet establishes a defense in the basement of her house on rue Childebert and records her experiences in letters to her late husband, a process that helps her come to terms with a decades-old secret.
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Pub. Date
2016
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English
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A portrait of the British-born wife of John Quincy Adams details her upbringing in circumstances that differed significantly from her husband's, their tempestuous marriage, their wide range of residences, and her efforts to forge her own sense of self.
13) Doc: a novel
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English
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After the burned body of a mixed-blood boy, Johnnie Sanders, is discovered in 1878 Dodge City, Kansas, part-time policeman Wyatt Earp enlists the help of his professional-gambler friend Doc Holliday.
14) Maps of fate
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Threads West an American saga volume 2
Publisher
Reid Lance Rosenthal
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Set in 1855, Book Two continues the tale of four generations of men and women shaping the West as the West shapes them. Adventure, danger, love, armed conflicts, slavery, gold, and Indians play into their worlds and the ways of the American West.
16) The Oregon trail
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Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
1986
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English
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Presents an account of a young Eastern journalist's travels on the Oregon Trail and in 1846.
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Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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"Describes the people and events of the age of Manifest Destiny and the American West. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspective of a traveler on the Oregon Trail, a laborer, or a Sioux warrior"--Provided by publisher
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Modern library of the world's best books volume 267
Publisher
Gramercy Books
Pub. Date
1914
Language
English
Description
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. “The Oregon Trail” offers a critical view of the Conestoga wagon generation. The result of the notes Parkman took along the newly-developed roads to the West, the book put an end to the sentimentalized portrait of pioneer travel. Altering the course of American history and shaping early views of Native Americans, it denounces, in its descriptions of the Oglala...
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