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5) Centennial
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English
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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 foreigners, it is a story of trappers, traders, homesteaders, gold seekers, ranchers, and hunters--all caught up in the dramatic events and violent...
8) Widow Boy
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English
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The bullet that ended Edwina Sinclair’s life went into her husband’s chest. Their dream of a new life together in the gold rush town of Cripple Creek died with him. She escapes the ruthless gang that killed him, only to discover the local law is on the take. She must find justice on her own. Disguising herself as a boy and using skills she isn’t supposed to have, she makes her way in the gold-crazy town, intent on killing the gang leader to...
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Civilization of the American Indian volume 2
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University of Oklahoma Press
Language
English
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English
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"The popular image of the settling of the American West has primarily been of cowboys, soldiers, miners, and trappers--the white men. In Homesteading Women: An Oral History of Colorado, 1890-1950 Julie Jones-Eddy brings to light the reality of the frontier through the oral testimonies of some of the women whose strength and perseverance were essential to the establishment of families, farms, and communities in the West." "Homesteading Women is a compilation...
13) A quilt of words: women's diaries, letters & original accounts of life in the Southwest, 1860-1960
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Publisher
Johnson Books
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
18) Red river stage
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Publisher
Leisure Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Tweleve stories presented in this novel. Each story is a slice of Western history, peopled with characters that live and breathe.
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Publisher
[Independently Published]
Pub. Date
©2021
Language
English
Description
""Life on the Morapos" is a book based on my mother, Janet Eberle's, daily diary entries. She began writing in 1944 and continued this practice until 2003. This book covers the years from 1944 to 1963, when we lived on the Morapos Creek, in rural Moffat County, Colorado near Hamilton, Colorado. This book explores everyday life on the ranch as well as unusual events such as getting electricity and all of its conveniences in 1953, the harsh winter of...