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"Martha Jane Cannary ran through names like whiskey, but one moniker stuck-Calamity Jane. Stranded in a Virginia City mining camp, this orphan blasted through the 1860s West, determined to be noticed and tell her own story. The Not So Quiet Life of Calamity Jane shatters the veneer of legends to reveal her tenacious heart. Rowdy and seemingly hell-bent on her own destruction, this devoted friend, jilted lover, sometime wife, and heartbroken mother...
64) My Ántonia
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A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with a pioneer Bohemian girl.
65) No eye can see
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Kinship and courage series volume 2
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2001
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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.
67) Betty Zane
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Set in the dangerous West Virginia frontier against the grim incidents of the Indian War is the love story of Betty and Alfred Clarke, a young soldier. Their romance is plagued by troubles and endless interruptions before reaching its stirring climax. The exciting life around Fort Henry, an attack by Indians, Betty's heroic defense of the beleaguered garrison at Wheeling, the burning of the fort, and Betty's final race for life make up this remarkable...
68) Aiming for love
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"Josephine Nordegren and her two sisters grew up nearly wild in southwestern Colorado. Jo has the archery skills of Robin Hood and a curiosity about the forbidden outside world -- a world she's been led to believe killed her parents. When rancher David Warden brings a herd near the girls' secret home, Jo is too interested to stay away. David's parents soon follow, escaping bandits at their ranch. David's father is wounded and needs shelter, and Jo...
69) Her secret song
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"After a rough winter spent alone, Ursula Nordegren realizes she must overcome her fears of the outside world and begins a trek down Hope Mountain. Along the way she finds a badly wounded stranger and realizes God may have used her decision to leave as a way of saving the man. Wax Mosby was climbing Hope Mountain in part to atone for his terrible choices. He was hired to drive out the Warden family and now knows he was duped. But when he's wounded...
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 7
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Set in Creek's Crossing, Pennsylvania, in the years leading up to the Civil War, the novel follows Dorothea Granger's passage from innocence to wisdom against the harrowing backdrop of the American struggle over slavery. She discovers that a quilt she has stitched for her uncle Jacob with five unusual patterns of his own design contains hidden clues to guide runaway slaves along the Underground Railroad. The heroic journey she undertakes leads to...
71) Tried & true
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"In 1860s Idaho Territory, Kylie Wilde is disguised as a man, homesteading for profit so she can live comfortably back East. But love or danger could change her mind"--
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Frontier life through the eyes of Sarah Agnes Prine, a rancher's wife in Arizona who has to deal with Indians and outlaws, rifle in hand. Stuck in a loveless marriage, her romantic life picks up when her husband dies and she meets an army captain. Told in the form of a diary and based on a real-life person.
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Pine Ridge portraits volume 1
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A woman feels called to embrace people in need and the secrets that cripple them in atypical U.S. Army Post in 1878.
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Contains the fictional diary of twenty-two-year-old Mattie McCauley, in which she tells about the unexpected proposal she received from Luke Spenser, the best catch in her nineteenth-century Iowa town, and discusses the hardships and heartbreaks of their life together on the Colorado frontier.
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A New York society girl buys a ranch which becomes the center of frontier warfare. Romance soon finds the eastern girl and her cowboy. When the girl is captured by bandits, it is up to him to rescue her. A surprising climax brings the story to a delightful conclusion.
79) The star garden
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Sarah Agnes Prine novels volume 3
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The bestselling author of "These Is My Words" and "Sarah's Quilt" delivers this exhilarating continuation of the diaries of an extraordinary pioneer woman.
80) Westward hearts
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Homeward on the Oregon Trail volume 1
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2012
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