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Five trails west volume 2
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Silver bullets, bears, blizzards, and buffalo occupy the Harris family as they settle into their new life on the Middle Fork of the Little Red River. Add Big Sam Meeker to the mix and things really start to happen.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
301 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm.
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Ruth Harris and her younger brother, Jerry, who are of mixed Cherokee and white heritage, head down the Ohio with their parents to settle new country, perhaps in Arkansas. Pirates kill their parents, and the kids become captives on a Mississippi River island. Ruth is forced into marriage with a ne'er-do-well and bears his child; Jerry seems destined to become a pirate. Then the New Madrid earthquake of 1811 intervenes.
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Five trails west volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
455 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
This is a story of pioneers, pirates and ponies, floods, earthquakes, a mysterious wilderness settlement and how the second generation of a Cherokee family found a home on the upper reaches of the Little Red River. Barely sixteen, Ruth Harris is captured with her brother Jerry and held prisoner on Pirate Island. With help from the New Madrid earthquakes, they flee through trackless wilderness and Jerry comes of age during their sojourn at Flee's Settlement....
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Pub. Date
2017.
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483 pages (large print) : genealogical table ; 23 cm.
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In the continuing story of an early ranching family of Arkansas, Jesse and Sarah Meeker and Riley Fourkiller establish the first ranches along Osage Creek, raising horses and mules. After an attack on their home, Jesse moves his family back to the Village on the Middle Fork before heading west on the Cherokee Trail. Then the Civil War erupts ...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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475 pages (large print) ; 25 cm.
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"A desert rescue, an Apache midnight visit, a lost preacher, an unexpected baptism, and an incredible gunfight all combine to make life in the Tularosa Basin exciting. Zenas Meeker and the Rafter JD vaqueros cross the Tularosa Basin in search of gold and adventure only to find the water holes fouled by avenging Indians. At the end of the cattle drive, Zenas joins the Army as a wagon driver and participates in the Red River War. And Will Castleberry,...
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