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Off the Shelf February 2016
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The big sky : a novel
by A. B. Guthrie
Relates the adventures of Boone Caudill, a mountain man in the American West of the mid-nineteenth century
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Follow the river [ebook]
by James Alexander Thom
Captured by the Shawnee Indians, Mary Ingles escapes and follows the Ohio River for a thousand miles back towards her home in Virginia.
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The tenderness of wolves
by Stef Penney
When her teenage son disappears in the aftermath of a brutal murder, a determined mother sets out from her snow-covered nineteenth-century settlement to find him, an effort that is hampered by vigilante groups and the harrowing forces of nature.
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My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
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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Blood and thunder : an epic of the American West
by Hampton Sides
The author of Ghost Soldiers examines the real-life story of America's Manifest Destiny and westward expansion, describing the forcible subjugation of Native American tribes that stood in the way, including the fierce and bloody battles against the Navajo, which ended with a brutal siege at Canyon de Chelly and "the Long Walk" migration.
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Skookum : an Oregon pioneer family's history and lore
by Shannon Applegate
Culled from the documents, letters, journals, recollections, manuscripts, and photographs collected by the pioneer women of her family, the author reconstructs their perilous 1843 journey to Oregon and a view of the emerging West.
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Little house in the big woods
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.
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By the shores of Silver Lake
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.
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Little town on the prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oats crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school, but becomes a certified school teacher.
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Farmer boy
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State at the end of the nineteenth century. He raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.
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The long winter;
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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.
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These happy golden years
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura has her first experiences as a teacher, and is courted by Almanzo Wilder.
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The first four years
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.
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Julie Meyer : the story of a wagon train girl
by Dorothy Hoobler
Forced to leave her home in Indiana due to bad weather and poor crops, Julie and her family head for Oregon in search of a better life and find struggles along the way while attempting to travel the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon.
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The secret school
by Avi
In 1925, fourteen-year-old Ida Bidson secretly takes over as the teacher when the one-room schoolhouse in her remote Colorado area closes unexpectedly.
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Boston Jane : an adventure
by Jennifer L. Holm
After moving to the Northwest to be with her true love, gentile and proper sixteen-year-old Jane Peck of Philadelphia learns that living in the Washington Territory is something vastly different from her home back east and so must find the strength necessary to meet the many unexpected challenges ahead of her.
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Children of the Wild West
by Russell Freedman
Historical photographs with explanatory text present a picture of life in the American West from 1840 to the early 1900s.
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Frontier home
by Raymond Bial
With full-color photographs, the author of Amish Home presents a survival story of family life in the early American wilderness, a challenge often met only with few supplies and simple tools.
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Daily life in a covered wagon
by Paul Erickson
Describes what it was like traveling on the Oregon Trail, including what travelers ate, wore, and saw along the route.
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Dandelions
by Eve Bunting
Moving to their new home on the prairie, Zoe sees that her mother is unhappy with their desolate lifestyle, but while on a ride to the nearby town, Zoe sees something special that may make her mother happy once again.
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The buffalo storm
by Katherine Applegate
Forced to leave her beloved grandmother behind in order to travel west with her family, young Hallie knows that she will have to put her fears aside and muster all her courage in order to help her family complete their perilous and long journey to their new home in a distant land.
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Iva Dunnit and the big wind
by Carol Purdy
A pioneer woman with six children uses her wits and strength to save her prairie home during a fearsome windstorm.
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The Golly sisters ride again
by Betsy Cromer Byars
The Golly Sisters, May-May and Rose, share further adventures as they take their traveling show through the West.
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Ken Burns Presents: The West
Chronicles the history of the American West beginning before the European settlers and continuing into the 20th century. Includes the peoples, the wagon trains, the Gold Rush, the Civil War, the transcontinental railroad and the destruction of the buffalo, wars against the Indians, settlers in the West, the Wounded Knee massacre, and beginnings of the new West.
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Little House On the Prairie: Season 1
In September of 1974, Little House on the Prairie made its TV debut. The show was a top-rated series throughout its nine seasons on-air and has continued to be an on-air staple ever since in cable and syndication. Based on the best-selling books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, this series captured the hearts of viewers around the world. While this is the dramatic, gripping story of a young pioneer family's struggle to build a new life for themselves on the American frontier of the 1870s, the show's timeless themes of love, strong morals and rich family values still resonate and inspire us today.
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