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Kinship and courage series volume 1
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Based on an incident on the Oregon Trail recorded by pioneer Ezra Meeker: "the meeting of eleven wagons returning and not a man left in the entire train; all had died, and been buried on the way, and the women returning alone." The novel explores the possible fate of these women, bonded by loss, growing in faith and fighting for survival.
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Love comes softly series volume 1
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A marriage of convenience blossoms into heartfelt love in a pioneer setting in the Old West. Fiction in the Little-House-on-the-Prairie tradition.
3) Amethyst
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Dakotah treasures volume 4
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"Jeremiah McHenry returns to Medora to make a new life. Will he be able to convince Amethyst that he is the kind of man she's been looking for?"--Provided by publisher.
4) O pioneers!
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Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
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Love comes softly series volume 2
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Their family growing, Clark and Marty look to bind each other together with love and faith. Over 800,000 sold!
Pub. Date
c2000
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318 p.
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Sequim Valley is located between Wasington's Olympic Mountains and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Once a major dairy farming area, Sequim is now becoming a retirement community for people from all over the country. These family histories show the sharp contract between life 50 to 150 years ago and life today. This book will be a great resource for both current and future researchers because contributors were asked to include basic family genealogy.
7) Patience
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Brides of the West volume 6
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In the continuing story of mail-order brides in the successful Brides of the West series, Patience is abducted in a case of mistaken identity. But everything changes when she escapes her kidnapper and stumbles onto a gold mine. Can Patience make her fortune without losing her heart to Sheriff Jay Longer? Copeland's readers will delight in this rollicking story of romance and danger.
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Kinship and courage series volume 2
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In the second moving installment of her new "Kinship and Courage" series, bestselling author Jane Kirkpatrick weaves a compelling tale of courage and loss, heartache and joy, as demonstrated in a small community of women whose faith and friendship must sustain them on a trip across the Oregon Trail.
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Change and cherish volume 2
Pub. Date
2007
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In book two of the Change and cherish series, Emma Giesy is married and the mother of two. She's strong-willed and smart. Despite the odds, she and her husband branch off from a religious community of the 1850s to work and live independently in the remote coastal forest of the Washington Territory, surrounded by her husband's family rather than the influence of the autocratic German leader who has taken the main colony into Oregon.
12) Sweet boundless
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Diamond of the Rockies volume 2
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Kristen Heitzmann's Repackaged DIAMOND OF THE ROCKIES Series Continues
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"Millions of devoted readers believe they know Laura Ingalls -- the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains and went on to write the famous autobiographical books. But the full saga of her life has never been told. Now Caroline Fraser, editor of the Library of America's Little House series, masterfully fills in the gaps. For all the hardships Wilder's books describe, her life was harder and grittier. With fresh...
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Love comes softly series volume 4
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Clark and Marty visit their daughter Missie and her husband Willie in the far West and meet their two little grandsons, but their faith is tested once again when the visit is marred by a tragic accident.
15) My Ántonia
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'The best thing I've done is My Antonia,' recalled Willa Cather. 'I feel I've made a contribution to American letters with that book.' Set against the vast Nebraska prairie, Cather's elegiac novel features one of the most winning heroines in American fiction—Antonia Shimerda—a young woman whose strength and passion epitomize the triumphant vitality of this country's pioneers.
'If, as is often said, every novelist is born...
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Canadian West series volume 3
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Elizabeth and Wynn face more challenges as a test of their faith and love.
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2005
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140 p.
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Among the women of the Twentieth Century American West, a few lived extraordinary lives. With tempered steel in their character, they were loved by some, admired by most, and respected by all. This collection of stories, documents and photographs provides a window into the past of one of these special women, a glimpse into her life and times. The stories draw from Peterson family oral history, many of them told by Minnie herself around the campfire...
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John Hawk volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
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351 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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"Army scout John Hawk helps three women traveling through Blackfoot country, pursued by outlaws. Reaching their destination in Helena, the women thought they were safe. But Zach Dubose and his two partners were waiting for them. Dubose kills the youngest woman and Hawk vows to avenge her death"--
19) June
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Brides of the West volume 2
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Wanted: Women with religious upbringing, high morals, and a strong sense of adventure, willing to marry decent, God-fearing men. Applicants may apply by mail. Must allow at least two months for an answer.
Like her sister before her, June leaves her Michigan home to embrace her future as a mail-order bride to a young Washington State pastor. But from the start, nothing works out as June expects. Caught up in her fiancé's vision for an elaborate...
Like her sister before her, June leaves her Michigan home to embrace her future as a mail-order bride to a young Washington State pastor. But from the start, nothing works out as June expects. Caught up in her fiancé's vision for an elaborate...
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From New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer revisits the story of the original Long, Tall Texans: the legendary man who built Jacobsville and the cowgirl who tamed him!
Big John Jacobs is eager to expand his growing Texas ranch, but he needs the help of the local railroad baron. Unable to sway his prospective partner with his business offer, John offers a proposal of another kind— a marriage of convenience to Camilla...
Big John Jacobs is eager to expand his growing Texas ranch, but he needs the help of the local railroad baron. Unable to sway his prospective partner with his business offer, John offers a proposal of another kind— a marriage of convenience to Camilla...
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