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In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable...
4) The wrecker
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Isaac Bell thrillers volume 2
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English
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Detective Isaac Bell travels early-20th-century America pursuing thieves and killers. When train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express line, Bell quickly discovers that a mysterious saboteur is at work.
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The Sacketts volume 6
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Orrin and Tyrel Sackett are forced to leave their home in the Tennessee mountains when Tyrel shoots Long Higgins, after he accidentally shoots Orrin's bride-to-be. Higgins is the last of a family with which the Sacketts have been feuding. To keep from getting into a situation with the local sheriff, a distant cousin of the Sacketts, the two strike out for the western lands. With Cap Roundtree and Tom Sunday, the brothers settle in the town of Mora,...
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Sundown Riders volume 3
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1997
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English
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On the wild frontier, Mac Tunstall and his band of Texans set out on a journey to deliver a shipment of Winchesters to the U.S. Army and are joined by four courageous women as violence and betrayal are found at every turn.
9) The women
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c1978
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English
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Text and illustrations present a portrait of the industrious women who helped settle the West.
10) Wyoming!
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Wagons West. Main series volume 3
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English
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As a weary band of pioneers makes its way by wagon train across the Great Plains, romance blossoms between wagon scout Whip Holt and the beautiful Indian maiden, La-ena.
13) The frontiersmen
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Portrays the people and times, the drama and danger of the developing frontier in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century United States.
14) The inheritance
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©2009
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McKenna Ashford moves west with her rebellious younger brother Robert. U.S. Marshall Wyatt Caradon's well-meant attempt to help the young man brings him face-to-face with the one situation he never wanted to encounter--and the one woman who holds the key to helping him find his future.
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Unlike his brothers Jacob, Sam and Patrick, Shawn O'Brien isn't content to settle down on the family ranch in New Mexico territory. With his razor-sharp eye, lightning-fast draw, and burning thirst for justice, Shawn is carving out a reputation of his own. As a town tamer he takes the most dangerous, lawless towns in the West and makes them safe for decent men, women, and children. When a stagecoach accident leaves Shawn stranded in Holy Rood, Utah,...
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"Using public and private collections in every western state and in Canada, John Ravage has gathered more than three hundred photographs, line drawings, lithographs, stereoviews, and other images. This new edition of Black Pioneers also adds sections on black entertainers and ranchers, a chapter on the dating of historic photographs and their genealogical significance, as well as an expanded bibliography. All aid understanding of the black frontier...
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[2013]
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"In The Flaming Rider three tribes of Indians are camped around Fort Meany? having come there to trade their wares. They love most of all to gamble? and what better way than betting on a horse race? Trouble erupts when a greenhorn? David Tarlton? is persuaded to enter his horse in a race" --from the publisher.
"Barney Dwyer in Outlaw Buster is a gentle giant who has yet to find a place in the world despite his efforts to do what is right. The capture...
18) The Indians
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[1973]
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English
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Illustrated chronicles of Indian life, culture, rituals, confrontations with the white man, etc. on the Western frontier.
20) The pioneers
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English
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An account of the westward movement of the pioneers which began in 1841, lavishly illustrated with contemporary paintings and photographs.
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