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81) The yellow rose
Author
Series
Lone Star legacy (Gilbert Morris) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Thatcher, a young school teacher from a wealthy Eastern family, migrates from the big city to teach school in a small coal mining town in the west.
An air of discord settles over Hope Valley when Jack's spirited mother, Charlotte, pays an unexpected visit... and stays with Elizabeth. While Charlotte "helpfully" critiques Elizabeth's skills as a housekeeper, pie-maker and teacher, Rosemary has become a bit of a taskmaster herself for those...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The Whip is inspired by the true story of a woman, Charlotte "Charley" Parkhurst (1812-1879) who lived most of her extraordinary life as a man in the old west. As a young woman in Rhode Island, she fell in love with a runaway slave and had his child. The destruction of her family drove her west to California, dressed as a man, to track the killer. Charley became a renowned stagecoach driver for Wells Fargo. She killed a famous outlaw, had a secret...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In 1911, Carrie Strahorn wrote a memoir entitled Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, which shared some of the most exciting events of 25 years of traveling and shaping the American West with her husband, Robert Strahorn, a railroad promoter, investor, and writer. That is all fact. Everything She Didn't Say imagines Carrie nearly ten years later as she decides to write down what was really on her mind during those adventurous nomadic years. Certain that...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
In recent decades, a small but growing number of historians have dedicated their tireless attention to analyzing the role of women in Texas history. Each contribution--and there have been many--represents a brick in the wall of new Texas history. From early Native societies to astronauts, Women in Texas History assembles those bricks into a carefully crafted structure as the first book to cover the full scope of Texas women's history. By emphasizing...
Author
Series
Eden Murdoch and Brad Randall novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Captain Brad Randall is charged with finding the family of Eden Murdoch, a white woman "rescued" from a Cheyenne village by Custer's Seventh Cavalry in 1868.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Despite their initial differences, Elizabeth and the town's new Mountie, Nathan, must work together to help his niece adjust to her new school and make friends. Meanwhile, tension and excitement are rising in the town when they strike oil. However, Gowen may have already been planning for such a day.
Series
Love comes softly volume 4
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Missie and Willie have set up a homestead and are starting a family. The new railroad will make it possible for Missie's father to visit. When the reunion is interrupted by tragedy, this family's faith and love are once again challenged.
Author
Series
Westward America! volume 3
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Jonah Wilde journeys into the prairies of Indiana with his wife and toddler son in the hopes of building a farming empire, a dream that is compromised by an encounter with the Shawnee, who claim the land.
93) The homesman
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs to join her.
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"When Calls the Heart centers on young teacher Elizabeth Thacher (Poppy Drayton) who trades high society life for a classroom post in the prairie, determined to prove she is brave enough to live on her own. She learn's through her aunt's secret diary that she has been a pioneer woman herself, and uses it as a guide to embark on her own adventures."--Container.
Author
Series
Sarah Agnes Prine novels volume 1
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Language
English
Description
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.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Finding Home: Hope Valley hosts a Christmas Festival where shared traditions, new and old, bring the community together. Elizabeth and others come to realize what it means to them to be home for Christmas.
Moving Picture: Lucas gives Elizabeth writing advice that causes her to search for new inspiration. Rosemary and Lee plan a vacation. Faith returns home with a dilemma that may force her to part ways with Carson. Gowen is interviewed for a business...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"Many girls in elementary and middle school fall in love with the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. What they don't always realize is that Wilder's books are autobiographical. This narrative biography describes more of the details of the young Laura's real life as a young pioneer homesteading with her family on many adventurous journeys. This biography, complete with charming illustrations, points out the differences between the fictional...
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