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Plainsong (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Kent Haruf

"Ambitious, but never seeming so, Kent Haruf reveals a whole community as he interweaves the stories of a pregnant high school girl, a lonely teacher, a pair of boys abandoned by their mother, and a couple of crusty bachelor farmers. From simple elements, Haruf achieves a novel of wisdom and grace--a narrative that builds in strength and feeling until, as in a choral chant, the voices in the book surround,... (more)

Earth's Children: Book 4

The Plains of Passage

by Jean M. Auel

Jean M. Auel’s enthralling Earth’s Children series has become a literary phenomenon, beloved by readers around the world. In a brilliant novel as vividly authentic and entertaining as those that came before, Jean M. Auel returns us to the earliest days of humankind and to the captivating adventures of the courageous woman called Ayla. With her companion, Jondalar, Ayla sets out on her most dangerous and... (more)

The Children's Blizzard (P.S.)

by David Laskin

Thousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered "land, freedom, and hope." The disastrous blizzard of 1888 revealed that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by natural forces they neither understood nor controlled, and America’s heartland would never be the same. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into... (more)

My Antonia (Barnes & Noble Classics)

by Willa Cather

My Ántonia, by Willa Cather , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics : New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars... (more)

Giants in the Earth : A Saga of the Prairie

Giants in the Earth : A Saga of the Prairie

by Lincoln Colcord, O. E. Rolvaag

The classic story of a Norwegian pioneer family's struggles with the land and the elements of the Dakota Territory as they try to make a new life in America.

Centennial

by James A. Michener

"Michener is America's best writer, and he proves it once again in CENTENNIAL." THE PITTSBURGH PRESS A stunning panorama of the West, CENTENNIAL is an enthralling celebration of our country, brimming with the glory and the greatness of the American past that only bestselling author James Michener could bring to stunning life. From the Native Americans, the migrating white men and women, the cowboys, and the... (more)

Great Plains

by Ian Frazier

National Bestseller With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and myth-inspiring Great Plains . A travelogue, a work of scholarship, and a western adventure, Great Plains takes us from the site of Sitting Bull’s cabin, to an abandoned house once terrorized by Bonnie and Clyde,... (more)

Wild palomino,: Stallion of the prairies (Famous horse stories)Harlan Thompson

Wild palomino,: Stallion of the prairies (Famous horse stories)

by Harlan Thompson

The Log of a Cowboy

by Andy Adams

A classic fictional chronicle of life on the open trail, THE LOG OF A COWBOY has long been considered the best and most reliable account of real cowboy life ever written. In the years following the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Andy Adams left his home in the San Antonio Valley and took to the range. Here he charts his first journey as a bona fide cowboy, from south Texas to Montana along the western trail. Guided... (more)

Trails Plowed Under: Stories of the Old West

Trails Plowed Under: Stories of the Old West

by Charles M. Russell

"Russell writes easily, and in the vernacular. He tells of Indians and Indian fighters, buffalo hunts, bad men, wolves, wild horses, tough hotels, drinking customs, and hard-riding cowboys. . . . <He> lived long enough in the West to acquire a vast amount of information and lore, and he has left enough from his brush to prove his place as a sound interpreter of a stirring period and a fascinating... (more)

True, Free SpiritBill ; Larson, Pamela Morris (editor) Morris

True, Free Spirit

Charles E. Morris: Cowboy Photographer of the Old West

by William A. Morris

This book contains over 100 photos taken by my grandfather, Charles E. Morris depicting north central Montana from 1895 to 1905 from the cowboy point of view. The themes of cowboys, cattle, sheep, Native Americans and daily life on the prairie were captured by the photographer as he worked both as a cowboy and early western photographer. My father, Bill Morris, wrote the book as a biography of his father, and my... (more)

Kit Carson (American adventure series)Frank Lee Beals

Kit Carson (American adventure series)

by Frank Lee Beals

Young Pioneers (Little House)

by Rose Wilder Lane

A story of frontier love and courage... Newlyweds Molly and David are only sixteen and eighteen years old when they pack up their wagon and head west across the plains in search of a new homestead. At first their new life is full of promise: The wheat is high, the dugout is warm and cozy, and a new baby is born to share in their happiness. Then disaster strikes, and David must go east for the winter to find work.... (more)

Death Sentence: Murder on the PrairieJohn Forsythe

Death Sentence: Murder on the Prairie

by John Forsythe

Getting Air

by Dan Gutman

They can rule the half-pipe, but can they survive this? Jimmy, David, and Henry are psyched. It's summer, school's out, and they are on their way to California, where they will be able to do some major skating. But on the plane, the unthinkable happens: They are hijacked by terrorists. As frightened as they may be, they take action and they succeed. Sort of. They may have beaten the terrorists, but now their plane... (more)

Stay Away, Joe, a Novel

Indian Paint The Story of an Indian Pony - Famous Horse StoriesGlenn Balch

Indian Paint The Story of an Indian Pony - Famous Horse Stories

by Glenn Balch

Portraits from the plainsGrant MacEwan

Portraits from the plains

by Grant MacEwan

Big Sky

by A. B. Guthrie

Originally published more than fifty years ago, THE BIG SKY is the first of A. B. Guthrie, Jr.'s, epic adventure novels of America's vast frontier. THE BIG SKY introduces Boone Caudill, Jim Deakins, and Dick Summers, three of the most memorable characters in Western American literature. Traveling the Missouri River from St. Louis to the Rockies, these frontiersmen live as trappers, traders, guides, and explorers.... (more)

Beneath the mask: Life with the HutteritesJune Leiby

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