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3221) Stage dreams
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The New Mexico Territory, 1861. Young Grace, a trans runaway, has headed west, fleeing her Georgia home--and conscription into the Confederate Army. But her coach ride to California makes an unplanned stop when notorious outlaw the Ghost Hawk swoops in, shaking down its passengers and stealing away with Grace. The Ghost Hawk--Flor, to her friends--means to hold Grace for ransom. But when the two get to talking about Flor's plan to crash a Confederate...
3223) The hateful eight
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (168 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. Bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive Daisy race toward the town of Red Rock, where Ruth will bring Daisy to justice. Losing their lead on the blizzard, they seek refuge at Minnie's, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie's, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our travelers come...
Pub. Date
c2001
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1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Although Buffalo Bill has fought Indians and Civil War battles, nothing can prepare him for his newest challenge: show business! His 'Wild West Show' is hugely popular, but when he signs a former enemy, Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, for a featured role, a hysterical clash of cultures reverberates far beyond the boundaries of their sprawling outdoor theater. And the complications only multiply when the troupe discovers it must put on a special command...
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[2004]
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Matt Dillon finds himself in the middle of the Pleasant Valley War. With vigilante ranchers on his back and a headstrong daughter on his tail, Matt takes up the fight to restore peace with his own brand of law and order.
3226) Under a painted sky
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"In 1845, Sammy, a Chinese American girl, and Annamae, an African American slave girl, disguise themselves as boys and travel on the Oregon Trail to California from Missouri"--
3227) Lonely are the brave
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 48 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After landing himself in jail trying to break out his friend, Jack Burns finds himself alone and on the run from the law. Leading the manhunt is Sheriff Morey Johnson, who must bring Burns to justice despite his own sympathy for the fugitive.
3228) Conagher
Pub. Date
[2005]
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After her husband disappears, Evie Teale struggles to raise her two children and run a remote stagecoach station. Conn Conagher is an honest, hardworking cowboy. Their lives are intertwined as they fight the elements, Indians, outlaws, and loneliness.
3229) Drums along the Mohawk
Pub. Date
[2005].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A historical drama that tells the story of a young frontier leader, his spirited wife, and their struggles in the backwoods of New York state.
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2014
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Ten years after the events of Riders of the Purple Sage, John Shefford, a disillusioned preacher from Illinois travels to Arizona and takes refuge in a village controlled by polygamist Mormons hiding from the federal government. It's there Shefford learns the story of Fay Larkin: years ago, the infant Fay, along with Jane Withersteen and a gunslinger known as Lassiter, were trapped in Surprise Valley. Intrigued, Shefford decides to track Fay down....
3232) Blue rivers of Heaven
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Tales of Zebadiah Creed volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
393 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Description
"Framed for a murder he didn't commit, Zebadiah finds himself in a New Orleans prison cell next to Willie Dan, a cold-blooded killer, who insists they escape together. As Zeb refuses and is sent upriver to the swamps on a chain gang to build a road for the Hydras plantation, he is thrust into a conspiracy of confederates, whose efforts to build a golden circle of slave states from Texas, Louisiana and Georgia to Cuba are just beginning to take hold....
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Pub. Date
2018.
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453 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Life at the Barr-McGee ranch has settled into a pleasant lull of work and rest for members of The Outfit. Life should be good ... but big Rafe Barr stews about his wife and son's murderer, and leaves to search for resolution, revenge, reckoning. Meanwhile, Black Jack Smith attends a high-stakes poker tournament in Santa Fe, where he encounters southern gambler Colonel Rufus Turlington the Second, and his powerful covert Brotherhood of the Phoenix....
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Relive the Oleson's adoption of Nancy, and every endearing moment of season eight of the series, with restored and remastered picture and sound. Share memories with the Wilders and Ingalls when snowed in at Christmas, witness Almanzo's stroke and the birth of baby Rose, and behold Charles' faith as he pleads for his adopted son's life, in this completely uncut and unforgettable, 22-episode saga.
3235) The rainmaker
Pub. Date
2005
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1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Under the spell of a wandering charlatan named Starbuck, a lonely ranch girl blossoms into full womanhood.
Pub. Date
2020.
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529 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Description
"The Spoilt Quilt and Other Frontier Stories, edited by Hazel Rumney, features sixteen brand-new stories that will delight historical fiction fans. These stories capture the spirit of freedom and individualism in the evolving American frontier through the early 1900s and feature pioneering women of the West who face life-changing challenges in settings that are in stark contrast to civilized society. Ranging from high-action traditional Westerns to...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"The astonishing true story of three fearless female resisters during WWII whose youth and innocence belied their extraordinary daring in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. It also made them the underground's most invaluable commodity. Recruited as teenagers, Hannie Schaft, and Dutch sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen fulfilled their harrowing missions as spies, saboteurs, and Nazi assassins with remarkable courage, but their stories have remained...
3238) Death Comes to Lajitas
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Texas Ranger Luke Caldwell volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
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239 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
"The Big Bend of Texas is Outlaw Heaven and Lawman Hell. This vast, desolate, but starkly beautiful territory is full of hiding places and bushwack spots for thieves and killers, where every canyon may hold death, every cactus patch could be hiding a man ready to put a bullet into a peace officer's back. Texas Ranger Luke Caldwell and his young partner, Bobby Howell, are sent into this pit of lawlessness to put a stop to the wholesale cattle rustling...
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