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Author
Series
Gold seer trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lee Westfall, a young woman with the magical ability to sense the presence of gold, must flee her home to avoid people who would abuse her powers, so when her best friend Jefferson heads out across Gold Rush-era America to stake his claim, she disguises herself as a boy and sets out on her own dangerous journey.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1863 Clarissa Graham leaves St. Louis, Missouri and joins a wagon train headed west, to provide a better life for her daughter. As the trail turns increasingly dangerous, Dawson Clements, a jaded ex-soldier helps Clarissa and her daughter survive. As they near Montana can Clarissa convince Dawson to remain by her side for a journey that will last a lifetime?
6) Prairie song
Author
Series
Hearts seeking home volume 1
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Marjory is faced with some difficult decisions when her mother dies, and she must find a new destiny for herself and her family. With the help of Walter Wilkins, the young man assigned to drive their team, Marjory must find a courage equal to the task ahead of her and the strength to accept what may be the hardest thing of all-true love.
Author
Series
Tender ties historical series volume 1
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of Marie Dorion, the first mother to cross the Rocky Mountains and remain in the Northwest, A Name of Her Own is the fictionalized adventure account of a real woman’s fight to settle in a new landscape, survive in a nation at war, protect her sons and raise them well and, despite an abusive, alcoholic husband, keep her marriage together.
With two rambunctious young sons to raise, Marie Dorion refuses to be left behind...
With two rambunctious young sons to raise, Marie Dorion refuses to be left behind...
Author
Publisher
Helen's Sons Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of Outlander, author Tom Reppert has created a grand epic with a captivating heroine and finely etched characters. Young Paula Masters, used to her cell phones, cherry latters and designer jeans, suddenly finds herself thrust back in time to 1848 on the Oregon Trail.
Author
Series
The petticoat party volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
When a disaster claims the men of their wagon train, spunky twelve-year-old Phoebe, her mother, sister, and other women rely on their own resources to complete the journey to Oregon in 1845.
17) Angel train
Author
Series
Wagon wheel series volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In the turbulent mid-1800s, Charity Morgan, a businesslike young woman whose devout religious community is losing its Pennsylvania homestead to the economic recession, and the other members make plans to form a wagon train to Oregon, where free land is plentiful.
18) The quilt walk
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Emmy Blue learns the true meaning of friendship--and how to quilt--while making a harrowing wagon journey from Illinois to Colorado with her family in the 1860s.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In 1865, fifteen-year-old Aiden and his thirteen-year-old sister Maddy, penniless orphans, leave drought-stricken Kansas on a wagon train hoping for a better life in Seattle, but find there are still many hardships to be faced.
20) The Water Seeker
Author
Language
English
Description
Amos Kincaid is the son of a dowser — a person gifted in knowing how to "find" water deep in the ground. As a young person, Amos doesn't reveal his gift to others; he's not sure he wants the burden. But through his experiences growing up and crossing the Oregon Trail, Amos learns about life's harsh realities, especially the pain in losing loved ones. As he cares for those around him, Amos comes to accept his dowsing fate. This epic novel is a fascinating...
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