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First mountain man series volume 1
Language
English
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Only one man can mete out justice on the unforgiving frontier. First in the Preacher series from the New York Times bestselling western author.
He's known from the Northwest to the deserts of the Southwest as Preacher, though he's as far from being a man of the cloth as you can get. But when he was a young greenhorn, he was caught by a marauding tribe and set to be burned alive, until he just started preaching and never...
He's known from the Northwest to the deserts of the Southwest as Preacher, though he's as far from being a man of the cloth as you can get. But when he was a young greenhorn, he was caught by a marauding tribe and set to be burned alive, until he just started preaching and never...
Author
Series
Trail drive series volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Homeward on the Oregon Trail volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
340 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kentucky, 1854. Elizabeth has mourned her husband's death for three years, but now she feels ready to fulfill the dream they had shared: to take their two children west. At Kansas City, they join a substantial wagon train. Elizabeth soon finds herself being drawn to the group's handsome guide, Eli Kincade.
9) The way west
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Series
Language
English
Description
Second in the epic adventure Big Sky series. The wise and paternal mountain man Dick Summers agrees to pilot a wagon train full of 'greenhorns' on a journey from Missouri to Oregon. The passengers confront not only the wild grandeur of the untamed west, but also their own reasons for leaving everything behind. They struggle with the imperfect reality of their long held dreams. Resolve is tested, nature is conquered, and men are made or unmade in this...
Author
Series
Homeward on the Oregon Trail volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Desperate circumstances bring out the best and worst of the travelers, including Will Bramford, the wealthy widower who is pursuing Elizabeth, and Eli Kincade, the independent and solitary guide who has stolen Elizabeth's heart.
11) Oregon trail honeymoon: [a christian western romance by the author of Alone on the Oregon Trail]
Author
Publisher
Vanessa Carvo
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Ida, the daughter of Chastity Skylark, develops a hankering for the Oregon Trail. She orders up a mail order groom, as well as supplies for the four-month trek and they start off on the trail.They encounter many obstacles along the way; not the least of which is simple survival.
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Series
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"Settling the American West required true grit, fortitude, and when necessary, shedding blood. It also required men like Preacher and MacCallister to enforce peace in a land where the law was scarce--and justice was delivered from the barrel of a gun... Wagon trains carrying immigrants along the Oregon Trail are falling prey to outlaws. Most families surrender their valuables and goods peacefully, but anybody brave enough to resist gets a bullet....
13) Arapaho summer
Author
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1867, two Union veterans and two Arapaho women they rescue from a Lakota war party set off on the Oregon Trail in search of a new beginning. Captain Caleb Stone and Sergeant Dil Smith find their plans to start over must change to include Little Rain and White Cloud, whose heritage poses obstacles to living among whites. The Trail tests them with storms, attacks by Indians and renegade whites, and the trials of travel. On the way they pick up a...
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Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
511 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Missouri, 1860. Rumors of war between the North and South are spreading across the land. In rural Green County, many of the farmers are already choosing sides. But not John Zachary. His loyalties lie with his family first--and his heart is telling him to go west. Hoping to build a new life in the fertile valleys of Oregon, he convinces his best friend, Emmitt Braxton, to pack up their families and join him on a wagon train across the Oregon Trail....
Publisher
Barbour Books, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
439 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Risking all their hopes and dreams on promises of fertile land in the Northwest, thousands set off on the Oregon Trail between 1843 and the 1890s. Despite the majestic landscape and daily opportunities for fireside chats, the trail was hardly the place these migrants expected to find romance. In these nine novellas, travelers on the wagon trains experience all the challenges and dangers of the trail. Some will lose much, settle down along the trail,...
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