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Alone in the world, teen-aged Hattie is driven to prove up on her uncle's homesteading claim. For years, sixteen-year-old Hattie's been shuttled between relatives. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she courageously leaves Iowa to prove up on her late uncle's homestead claim near Vida, Montana. With a stubborn stick-to-itiveness, Hattie faces frost, drought and blizzards. Despite many hardships, Hattie forges... (more)

Follow the River

by James Alexander Thom

Mary Ingles was twenty-three, married, and pregnant, when Shawnee Indians invaded her peaceful Virginia settlement, killed the men and women, then took her captive. For months, she lived with them, unbroken, until she escaped, and followed a thousand mile trail to freedom--an extraordinary story of a pioneer woman who risked her life to return to her people.

A Lantern in Her Hand

by Bess Streeter Aldrich

After marrying Will Deal and moving to Nebraska, Abbie endures the difficulties of frontier life and raises her children to pursue the ambitions that were once her own.

Mrs. Mike

by Benedict Freedman, Nancy Freedman

A moving love story set in the Canadian wilderness, Mrs. Mike is a classic tale that has enchanted millions of readers worldwide. It brings the fierce, stunning landscape of the Great North to life-and tenderly evokes the love that blossoms between Sergeant Mike Flannigan and beautiful young Katherine Mary O'Fallon. "It is the personality of Sgt. Mike blowing through this account like a clear breeze that... (more)

Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and Lily of the West (Bloody Jack Adventures)

Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and Lily of the West (Bloody Jack Adventures)

by L. A. Meyer

The intrepid Jacky Faber, having once again eluded British authorities, heads west, hoping that no one will recognize her in the wilds of America. There she tricks the tall-tale hero Mike Fink out of his flatboat, equips it as a floating casino-showboat, and heads south to New Orleans, battling murderous bandits, British soldiers, and other scoundrels along the way. Will Jacky's carelessness and impulsive actions... (more)

Caddie Woodlawn

by Carol Ryrie Brink, Trina Schart Hyman

Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother's dares every chance she gets. Caddie is friends with Indians, who scare most of the neighbors -- neighbors who, like her mother and sisters, don't understand her at all. Caddie is brave, and her story is special because it's based on the life and memories of Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother, the real... (more)

Old Yeller (Perennial Classics)

by Fred Gipson

When a novel like Huckleberry Finn, or The Yearling, comes along it defies customary adjectives because of the intensity of the respouse it evokes in the reader. Such a book, we submit, is Old Yeller; to read this eloIquently simple story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country is an unforgettable and deeply moving experience. The big, ugly, yellow dog showed up out of nowhere one night and stole a whole... (more)

My Antonia

by Willa Cather

Willa Cather, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, considered My Ãntonia to be one of her best works, and critic H.L. Mencken claimed it was one of the best American novels ever written. Published in 1918, the novel compassionately and intimately traces the story of a Bohemian family as they settle on the Great Plains in Nebraska. This American classic is still lauded internationally by scholars and everyday... (more)

Sackett's Land (Louis L'Amour)

by Louis L'Amour

Barnabas Sackett flees Elizabethan London, and comes face-to-face with peril in the American wilderness.

The Last Trail

by Zane Grey

Twilight of a certain summer day, many years ago, shaded softly down over the wild Ohio valley bringing keen anxiety to a traveler on the lonely river trail. He had expected to reach Fort Henry with his party on this night, thus putting a welcome end to the long, rough, hazardous journey through the wilderness; but the swift, on-coming dusk made it imperative to halt.

Love Comes SoftlyJanette Oke

Love Comes Softly: Book 1

Love Comes Softly

by Janette Oke, Janette Oke, Janette Oke, Janette Oke, J. Oke, Janette Oke

2003 reprint of the 1979 classic. Here's the book that launched Janette Oke's successful career! This revised edition of one of her most beloved prairie tales is a must-have for lovers of inspirational fiction. When Marty and Clem's western adventure turns to tradegy, pregnant Marty is left penniless and alone. Then Clark Davis asks her to marry him (right after Clem's funeral) and Marty is infuriated! Although... (more)

Little House: Book 4

On the Banks of Plum Creek

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. Here they settle in a little house made of sod beside the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. Soon Pa builds a wonderful new little house with real glass windows and a hinged door. Laura and her sister Mary go to school, help with the chores, and fish in the creek. At... (more)

The Tales of Alvin Maker: Book 4

Alvin Journeyman

by Orson Scott Card

Alvin is a Maker, the first to be born in a century. Now a grown man and a journeyman smith, Alvin has returned to his family in the town of Vigor Church. He will share in their isolation, work as a blacksmith, and try to teach anyone who wishes to learn the knack of being a Maker. For Alvin has had a vision of the Crystal City he will build, and he knows that he cannot build it alone. But he has left behind in... (more)

The Tales of Alvin Maker: Book 5

Heartfire

by Orson Scott Card

Peggy is a Torch, able to see the fire burning in each person's heart. She can follow the paths of each person's future, and know each person's most intimate secrets. From the moment of Alvin Maker's birth, when the Unmaker first strove to kill him, she has protected him. Now they are married, and Peggy is a part of Alvin's heart as well as his life. But Alvin's destiny has taken them on separate journeys. Alvin... (more)

Outlander: Book 6

A Breath of Snow and Ashes

by Diana Gabaldon

Eagerly anticipated by her legions of fans, this sixth novel in Diana Gabaldon’s bestselling Outlander saga is a masterpiece of historical fiction from one of the most popular authors of our time. Since the initial publication of Outlander fifteen years ago, Diana Gabaldon’s New York Times bestselling saga has won the hearts of readers the world over — and sold more than twelve million books. Now, A Breath... (more)

Sacajawea (Lewis & Clark Expedition)

by Anna Lee Waldo

Clad in a doeskin, alone and unafraid, she stood straight and proud before the onrushing forces of America's destiny: Sacajawea, child of a Shoshoni chief, lone woman on Lewis and Clark's historic trek -- beautiful spear of a dying nation. She knew many men, walked many miles. From the whispering prairies, across the Great Divide to the crystal capped Rockies and on to the emerald promise of the Pacific... (more)

Betty Zane

by Zane Grey

Inspired by the life and adventures of his own great-great grandmother, Betty Zane was Zane Grey's first novel and launched his career as a master writer of rousing frontier and Western adventures. Betty Zane is the story of the events culminating in the last battle of the American Revolution, when two hundred Redcoats from British-controlled Detroit along with four hundred Shawnee Indian attacked the small,... (more)

Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier

Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier

by Linda S. Peavy

The rarely seen and startlingly vital black-and-white photographs in this volume capture the fortitude and pride of the clear-eyed women of the frontier, women who had to practice all the tender arts of nurturing a family under the most rugged of circumstances. Peavy and Smith cut through all the myths of frontier life in their frank and engaging commentary, getting down to the cold, gritty facts under such... (more)

The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

by Daniel Brown

In April of 1846, Sarah Graves was twenty-one and in love with a young man who played the violin. But she was torn. Her mother, father, and eight siblings were about to disappear over the western horizon forever, bound for California. Sarah could not bear to see them go out of her life, and so days before the planned departure she married the young man with the violin, and the two of them threw their lot in with... (more)

Shane

by Jack Schaefer

He rode into our valley in the summer of '89, a slim man, dressed in black. ~ "Call me Shane," he said. ~ He never told us more. ~ There was a deadly calm in the valley that summer, a slow, climbing tension that seemed to focus on Shane. ~ "There's something about him," Mother said. "Something...dangerous..." ~ "He's dangerous all right," Father said,...but not to us..." ~ "He's like one of these here slow burning... (more)

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by Kirby Larson

by James Alexander Thom

by Bess Streeter Aldrich

by Benedict Freedman, Nancy Freedman

by L. A. Meyer

by Carol Ryrie Brink, Trina Schart Hyman

by Fred Gipson

by Willa Cather

by Louis L'Amour

by Zane Grey

by Janette Oke, Janette Oke, Janette Oke, Janette Oke, J. Oke, Janette Oke

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

by Orson Scott Card

by Orson Scott Card

by Diana Gabaldon

by Anna Lee Waldo

by Zane Grey

by Linda S. Peavy

by Daniel Brown

by Jack Schaefer