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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Widowed Mrs. Cora Edwards sees Oregon as a fresh start for her and her son...but there are a few problems. She's not a widow...and baby Noah isn't her son. He's the nephew she's vowed to protect--even if she must accept a marriage of convenience before she'll be permitted on the wagon train. Her groom, lawman Flynn Adams, carries his own secret heartache...which Cora starts to ease. On the path to a new future, will they find a way forward together?"--...
22) Keeping faith
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Dr. Victoria Fenway and wagon-train captain Joseph Rickard promised to love each other forever, but a misunderstanding led to her marrying another man. Now determined to carry on her late husband's work of rescuing slaves, she is tracking his murderer. With dangerous slavers tracking her, Joseph becomes her protector, hoping for a second chance"--
24) Idaho!
Author
Series
Wagons West. Main series volume 13
Description
Only the most daring cross the River of No Return to enter this wild, lawless region. Mountains laden with riches lured prospectors burning with gold fever. Easy money brought ruthless young men with guns for hire. And hidden amid the vast forests of white pine were the war ponies of Shoshoni and Nez Perce--bloodthirsty Indian warriors who gathered to drive the white man from the red man's ancestral home.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
""Texas Ranger Jim Blawcyzk and some fellow Rangers are tasked with protecting a wagon train of former slaves and freemen heading to start a new life in west Texas. Besides the usual dangers of the Texas wilderness, there are those who will stop at nothing to prevent the emigrants from building their new settlement"--Provided by publisher"--
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They are the first wagon train to cross the American continent - and forge the Oregon Trail. Five-hundred courageous men, women and children, led by mountain man Whip Holt, they have survived the Rocky Mountain winter, fierce native attacks, and countless other hardships.
Author
Series
Sundown Riders volume 1
Pub. Date
1996
Description
Between Kansas City and Montana Territory were a thousand ways to die--and a few bold men who would never turn back.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018], c2014.
Description
Three lone wagons on the California Trail become trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains by a sudden snowstorm. Stuck in tight quarters with others makes Cynthia Cooper reevaluate her reasons for being engaged to fellow-traveler Walter Prentice. When a widowed father heading to a California ranch and a gold prospector both show an interest in Cynthia, she has to reconsider her dreams for marriage alongside her responsibility to care for her mother....
30) Meadow lark
Author
Series
Santa Fe Trail trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Leaving her home in Taos, Mexico in 1845, thirteen-year-old Teresita joins a wagon train, hoping to find both her brother Julio and a new life for herself that is different from that of her mother.
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
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Description
She had made a solemn promise to see her younger sister to safety in California. But the endless journey across the frontie was proving a heartbreaking test of courage and endurance for Faith Beal. All she had to sustain her was her steadfast belief in a loving God-- and the guiding hand of a stranger who truly seemed heaven-sent. Connell McClain was her selfless guardian as their wagon train slowly made its way west. And as they shared the dangers...
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Despite his apathy toward white folks, mountain man Joe Fox reluctantly agrees to lead a group of settlers through the Rockies to Oregon. Taken aback by their appreciation, he soon finds himself enjoying their company, especially the attentions of young Callie Simmons. That is, until her parents warn Joe to keep his distance. But they should have worried about Max Starbeau, a wolf in sheep's clothing who travels with the party until the opportunity...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
"It is the early 1860s and twelve-year-old Erik Larson and his Swedish family are headed west in a wagon train from Minnesota to find a valley in pre-Idaho Territory. The family holds high hopes that their new home will provide the happiness they seek--that is, until a deadly illness strikes. When Erik's own mother becomes ill, the wagon master decides to push ahead, intent on outracing a blizzard. Unfortunately, winter arrives with a vengeance, and...
34) The Oregon Trail
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Wagon Master Clayton Scofield has led countless families across the dusty, wide-open territories of the West, helping the brave, sometimes reckless pioneers settle into new lives brimming with the promise of good lives. Accompanied by his nephew Clint Buchanan riding as scout and cook Spud Williams, Scofield’s latest trail finds him guiding a train of thirty wagons from Independence, Missouri, to the distant dream of Oregon. It isn’t long before...
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"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....
38) Preacher
Author
Series
First mountain man series volume 8
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
He will Become a Legend . . .
Before the legend of Preacher there was a man, and before the man there was a boy. In this thrilling new novel, William W. Johnstone tells the story of a young man filled with wanderlust and raw courage-who will someday become a hero.
. . . If He Survives
On nothing more than a lark, he leaves his family and begins a journey from Ohio westward. Along the way, he runs up against badlands and bad men, loses his freedom,...
39) Distant heart
Author
Series
Westward hearts volume 2
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Godly scout Sam Two Feathers and born-again fancy-girl Toni Rodden despair of finding true love along the 1850 Oregon Trail. Who would marry a half-breed or a former harlot?
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Mary Rockwood Powers reluctantly left her comfortable life as a doctor's wife in Wisconsin in 1856, one of the many women whose destiny as a settler of the West was determined by her husband's wishes. Trading in her home for canvas roof and wheels, Mary, her husband, and their three children set out on the arduous trek westward to California. Shortly into their travels west, it became painfully obvious that Doctor Powers was simply not up to the task...