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1) Western USA
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Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Lonely Planet's Western USA is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Cruise down coastal highways, soak up Seattle's culture, or be awestruck by the Grand Canyon; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Western USA and begin your journey now!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
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...
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English
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"In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman, alone in a house abandoned by the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her two older sons, who have gone in search of their father after his return is delayed. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, a boy with a bad eye who is convinced that a...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women...
7) The loggers
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Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
©1976
Language
English
Description
Provides an interesting portrait or early logging in the west. Many pictures and stories provide a history of the people and their work.
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
©1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Covers the period of westward expansion from 1860 to 1900 including the search for gold via the Oregon Trail, outlaws and lawmen, the Chisholm Trail, and a railroad that would span the country.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"San Francisco was once widely viewed as the prettiest city in America. Today it is best known as the epicenter of the homeless zombie apocalypse. What went wrong? Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 30 years, during which time he advocated for the decriminalization of drugs, and for alternatives to jail and prison. But as massive open-air drug markets spread across the state, Shellenberger decided to take a deep dive...
Author
Publisher
Highbridge Audio
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
This collection gathers seven classic Louis L'Amour stories, performed by a star-studded cast. Willie Nelson reads six and one is fully dramatized by Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and the late Waylon Jennings, who together were known as The Highwaymen.
15) Little Big Man
Author
Publisher
Dial Press Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The life story of Jack Crabb, 111 years old and the son of two fathers. He recounts his life as a Cheyenne Indian and as a white man.
Author
Series
American culture and economics volume no. 1
Publisher
Academic Reprints
Pub. Date
1954
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save. 1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her mind. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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"Learn how wild mustangs were first introduced to America and how they still roam free today. On the North American plains, wild mustangs have roamed for generations ... shaping human history and struggling to survive it. For the Spanish, they were a tool of conquest. For Native Americans, they brought on a new way of life where horsemanship and horse-trading were central. And for the entire world, wild mustangs became a renowned wonder of the American...
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