Berthoud Community Library District

When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.

As the daughter of a newspaper reporter, fourteen-year-old Libby keeps a diary account of the exciting events surrounding her during the building of the railroad in the West in 1868.

Along with other amazing feats, Angelica Longrider, also known as Swamp Angel, wrestles a huge bear, known as Thundering Tarnation, to save the winter supplies of the settlers in Tennessee.

Presents a collection of short stories depicting the struggles of frontiersmen to survive the harsh conditions of the American West and defeat deadly outlaws.

A broad shouldered and hearty Irishman is headed for a job laying track at the the end of the line. His plans are changed when trouble finds him at a railroad station somewhere on the plains.

At what point does a group of strangers become a community? When young Bendigo Shafter and a ragtag bunch of travelers settle in the rugged Wyoming mountains, they quickly come to depend on a toughness and wisdom many of them never knew they possessed. Led by the beautiful and resourceful widow Ruth Macken, the settlers battle harsh winters, renegade opportunists, and the destructive lure of gold. Through these brutally demanding experiences, young...

On a Minnesota farm in the mid 1800's, the hard working members of the Larson family find time to celebrate Kirsten's tenth birthday.

Traveling to San Francisco to enjoy a long over due visit with her younger sister, Breanna Baylor is shocked to discover that post-traumatic stress disorder incurred during the Civil War has triggered a wave if violent behaviour in her once gentle brother in law, Jerrod Harper. Although Jerrod is often lucid and tender, his bouts of brutality continue to grow in frequency and degree, and soon, Breanna, Dottie, and the Harper children find themselves...

A harsh and deadly land... Rye Tyler was twelve when he saw his father cut down in an Indian raid. Taken in by a mysterious stranger with a taste for Shakespeare and an instinct for survival, Rye is schooled in the lessons of a hard country. Then tragedy forces him to live a loner's life in a wild land of canyons and buttes, and on dust-choked cattle trails. But his skill with a gun has earned Rye a bloody reputation he can't escape. Though he's...

Meet Rose Wilder, the last of the Little House girls.Going fishing for the first time, starting in a new school, saving the farmhouse from a fire-these are the elements of young Rose's first year at Rocky Ridge Farm.