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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe. 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...
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Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
During the 1800s, many settlers moved westward across North America to seek their fortunes as farmers, ranchers, and miners. In the Wild West, there were few towns and few people paid much attention to laws. Readers will take a trip through this thrilling period of American history as they join Louise and Nat for a tale of cowboys in a frontier town. They will find out how people lived, worked, and traveled in the Wild West, and much more.
Publisher
Radio Spirits
Pub. Date
2014
Description
The man in the saddle is angular and long legged; the gun in his holster is gray steel, its handle unmarked. Lean of figure and tanned of skin, his steely eyes gaze out over the violent frontier of the American West. He's a quiet man -- but one not to be crossed. He's film legend James Stewart in his only continuing radio role as Britt Ponsett: The Six Shooter. Here are twenty episodes from the 1953-54 series -- including the original audition recording....
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
An account of the 1846 Donner-Reed expedition reveals the true events surrounding the tragedy, profiling the adventurous characters who shaped the group and how various interpersonal factors led to their harrowing experiences.
"In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a restless caravan prepared for what they hoped would be the most rewarding journey of a lifetime. But in eagerly pursuing...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"Addictive. Highly recommended!"-Paulette Jiles, New York Times bestselling author of News of the World Beautifully rendered, Where Coyotes Howl is a vivid and deeply affecting ode to the early twentieth century West, from master storyteller Sandra Dallas. Except for the way they loved each other, they were just ordinary, everyday folks. Just ordinary. 1916. The two-street town of Wallace is not exactly what Ellen Webster had in mind when she accepted...
7) Fort Laramie
Publisher
Radio Spirits
Pub. Date
2011
Description
"Listeners were given one last great western as the Golden Age of Radio was coming to an end. 'Specially transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of the wild frontier' told the 'dramatic story of Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry!' Raymond Burr starred as Quince, with Vic Perrin, Jack Moyles, and Harry Bartell co-starring as his fellow officers. The show was meant to be 'a monument to ordinary men who lived in extraordinary times' - and with its...
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