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3) The fields
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Awakening land trilogy volume 2
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English
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The continuing saga of Sayward Luckett Wheeler, in which she marries an educated New Englander and bears eight children.
5) Mustang man
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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It is almost too much for even a Sackett to handle! He could outride and outshoot any five men, but he was a fool for a lady in distress. The posse was hot on his trail for murder when he took time out to rescue Sylvie from a gang of desperados. it wasn't til she bushwhacked him with a shotgun, and tried to poison him that he realised she was up to no good. After he'd heard her sad story, he should have cut and run, but somehow Sackett never seems...
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Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932) presented an essay at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893 that would change the study of American History forever. This essay would ultimately be published with twelve supporting articles to form "The Frontier in American History". Turner was an innovator in that he was one of the first to call attention to the Frontier as an integral part of the study of The United States of America. Turner himself grew up on...
9) The Living
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HarperCollins Publishers
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English
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Late in the 19th century, surveyors, miners, farmers and other new settlers struggle to make a new life among the Lummi and Nooksack Indians in the settlement at Whatcom on Bellingham Bay near Puget Sound.
10) The searchers
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After a Texas frontier family is massacred by Comanches, Amos Edwards and his nephew search for Edwards' niece, who had been taken captive during the raid
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A soldier-author's view of the American frontier The history of the expansion of the frontier of America is particularly marked by the famous-perhaps legendary-trails upon which pioneers in their 'prairie schooners' or cattlemen driving their great herds crossed the vast continental interior. All roads tell their own stories, not by virtue of being routes of passage, but because of the personalities of those who travelled them and the events that...
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Colorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a hospital bed, IV taped to the back of her hand, police officer at her door. She is charged with murder. The clues: a sack of chicken feed slit with a knife, a milky-eyed dog tied outdoors one cold afternoon. The motives: the brutal business of farming and a family code of ethics as unforgiving as the winter prairie itself.
15) The long winter
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.
16) My Antonia
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation of the immigrant
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Frontier stories volume 2
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English
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A collection of forty-five short stories by Louis L'Amour that are set in the American West.
Here are timeless stories of danger and daring, wanderlust and heroism, Filled with ordinary men and women facing life-threatening challenges with courage, dignity and honor.
20) The town
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Awakening land trilogy volume 3
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English
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The final novel in the "Awakening Land" trilogy, in which Sayward Wheeler completes her mission, living to a ripe, old age, and seeing her family and friends make the transition from the ways of the wilderness to the ways of civilization.
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