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2) The homesman
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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
Love comes softly volume 1
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A woman's dream to forge a new life for herself on the great American plains becomes a test of her pioneering spirit, her inner strength, and her undying faith. It was Marty Claridge's dream to build her new life on the frontier with her husband. But when the courageous pioneer woman is suddenly widowed, she's offered a new opportunity-- to marry a widower in a marriage of convenience. What they did not expect was that the marriage would lead to love....
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
10 DVDs (1,950 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Each well crafted episode focused on a personal story of courage and perseverance of not just the main cast, but of the westward-bound emigrants as they made the perilous journey by Conestoga wagon from the banks of the Mississippi to California's Pacific shores, in the face of great odds. Their heart-warming (and sometimes heartbreaking) sagas tell the tale of how the American West was truly won, by hard-working and determined people. Include 39...
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
Young teacher Elizabeth Thatcher trades high society life for a classroom on the prairie, determined to prove she is brave enough to live on her own. She learns through her aunt's secret diary that she had been a pioneer woman herself, and uses it as a guide to embark on her own adventures.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Thatcher is an independent, strong-willed teacher who has foregone the life of the big city and found a job, a home, and romance with a handsome Mountie named Jack, in the small frontier town of Coal Valley. But when she learns that her mother has taken ill, she returns to Hamilton, her hometown, with Jack as her escort. Once in the comparably opulent Hamilton, Elizabeth and Jack are confounded by Jack's ne'er-do-well brother and Elizabeth's...
Series
Love comes softly volume 3
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Missie and Wille LaHaye are on their way to the west. The couple become rugged pioneers as they face all kinds of hardships, including death. Missie fights homesickness, boredom, and being pushed to the limit. Can her faith help her through?
Series
When calls the heart volume Season 1, movie 1
Publisher
Frontier Productions
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Young teacher Elizabeth Thatcher trades high society life for a classroom on the prairie, determined to prove she is brave enough to live on her own.
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 minutes) : sound, black & white ; 12 cm.
Language
English
Description
They are rugged pioneers, Indian fighters and brave trailblazers who tame the wild west. These are the women of the great frontier. Buck Wyatt is a tough, experienced scout who leads a wagon train comprised of two ex-show girls, a hearty widow and fifteen men who act as guides. When one of the men disobeys Buck's orders not to fratenize with the ladies, Buck shoots him, causing the others to desert. The determined women insist on going on, learning...
10) Calamity Jane
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At first, curvaceous Calamity is too busy fighting Indians and cracking a bullwhip to pay mind to such girlie what-alls as dresses and perfume. And Wild Bill is too busy wooing a dainty chanteuse to give a hoot about a hot-headed tomboy. But things change in a big way when each becomes love's target.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth is still dealing with Jack's departure to the Northern Territories when problems closer to home arrived, this time in the form of two new students. Chad and Earl are Ray Wyatt's nephews and are rude and condescending to Elizabeth. Eventually, they even vandalize the school. Meanwhile, Abigail is trying to keep her cafe up and running despite Wyatt stealing customers by opening up a commissary at the railroad and forces his men to eat there....
Series
When calls the heart volume season 1, film 2
Publisher
Frontier Productions
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Young teacher Elizabeth Thatcher takes a special interest in one of her students who has been selectively mute since her father passed away in a mine explosion.
13) Settlers
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mankind's earliest settlers on the Martian frontier, llsa and Reza inhabit a desolate farmstead with their child Remmy. They work the land and shield their daughter from the dangers of the harsh surroundings. When hostile intruders threaten to expel them from the compound the family is forced to fight to survive in this science-fiction thrill ride.
14) The homesman
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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
When calls the heart volume Season 1, movie 3
Publisher
Frontier Productions
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"When a group of miners comes to Coal Valley to reopen the mine, the town's women get caught up in the prospect of new single men"--Container.
16) Meek's cutoff
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A wagon train of three families has hired mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a shortcut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants face the scourges of hunger, thirst, and their own lack of faith in each other's instincts for survival. When they encounter a Native American, they must choose...
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 408 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From 1964-1970, Fess Parker portrayed American Statesman Daniel Boone. For the first time, these classic episodes are collected in these unique 2-disc set personally compiled by Fess Parker and Ed Ames.
Series
Love comes softly volume 8
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Belinda's pregnant friend Annie comes to stay and Annie's meddlesome mother-in-law gives Belinda unwanted advice about her medical practice, Belinda looks to a higher power for strength, wisdom, and diplomacy. The final chapter in the Love comes softly series.
Series
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm.
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Thatcher, a young teacher who left her life of high society to teach out west in Coal Valley, has been home with her family in the city. Feeling that it2s time to return to teaching in Coal Valley, Elizabeth goes back to the small mining town. However, life has unexpected challenges in store for the young teacher when she runs into an old flame in her new home.
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (23 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 teacher's guide folded sheet.
Language
English
Description
From the backwoods of Tennesse to halls of Washington, D.C., meet Davy Crockett. A legendary hunter, politician and avid storyteller who tames the wild frontier with sharpshooting, cleverness and plenty of humor.
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