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Author
Series
Orphan Train adventures volume 3
Pub. Date
1996,c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Deeply unhappy about her family's separation because of poverty, Megan gradually finds contentment and purpose in her new home on the Kansas prairie with a kind and loving adopted family.
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 4
Pub. Date
1992, c1953
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.
25) Into the west
Author
Description
The story of the expansion of the American West as seen through the eyes of two families, one white, one Lakota, over the course of many generations.
26) Dakota dugout
Author
Pub. Date
[1985]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A woman describes her experiences living with her husband in a sod house on the Dakota prairie.
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 2
Pub. Date
1953
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
Author
Series
Plainsmen volume 12
Formats
Description
"Scout Seamus Donegan is now under the command of Col. Nelson A. Miles, who must lead his war-weary troops up the Tongue River into butte country. There, amidst the snow-covered bluffs, awaits Crazy Horse with a thousand-strong force of Lakota braves. They are ready to engage Col. Miles and the Fifth U.S. Infantry, in the last battle Crazy Horse will ever fight against the white man's army"--From publisher description.
Author
Series
Plainsmen volume 14
Formats
Description
"By mid-1877, trouble in the Northwest is bewing like a foul broth. Ill will is growing between white settlers and the Non-Treaty bands of the Nez Perce. The American government is forcing the Indians from their homelands onto the reservation. Many go quietly, thinking more about their families than of the pride of their warriors. But for a few holdouts, there's no room for compromise. Their history, their heritage, and their ancestors are buried...
31) Prairie Brides
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Each of these historical novellas is set on the open plains when saying "I do" also most often meant committing to a life of hard work against the backbreaking soil. But, love has the ability to shine over any circumstance and light the bride's eyes with sparkles of hope.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Through nine historical romance adventures, readers will journey along with individuals who are ready to stake a claim and plant their dreams on a piece of the great American plains. While fighting land disputes, helping neighbors, and tackling the challenges of nature the homesteaders are placed in the path of other dreamers with whom romance sparks. And God has His hand in orchestrating each unique meeting.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Treat her with respect, you walk away safe. If not, there will be consequences. Alice never met her young Army of the West officer father stationed in Oregon Territory, 1860s. She's raised like a boy by her Canadian trapper stepfather and lovely, feisty, Indian mother alongside the Columbia River. She can shoot a beaver's eye at a hundred paces, doesn't know how to cook or sew, can fight blade up with knives, hunt bear on her own, and never wears...
Author
Series
Little house books volume 3
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Laura Ingalls and her family are moving! They travel from Wisconsin to Kansas, where wide open land stretches as far as the eye can see. Sometimes farm life is difficult, even dangerous, but Laura and her family are kept busy and are happy with the promise of their new life on the prairie."--
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"In 1880, Pemmican lay at the western edge of the Great Plains. Nearly a decade later, surveyors of the 49th parallel reached the small community to find it straddling the new Canadian-U.S. border. Now known as Bordertown, local law enforcement is dealt with on one side by Clive Bennett, a Mountie, and on the other by U.S. Marshal Jack Craddock. Whiskey traders, buffalo hunters, gold prospectors, silver miners, drifters and drunks keep the two...
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