Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.)
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A Pioneer Sampler: The Daily Life of a Pioneer Family in 1840
$19.99 Add to cartIn an unusual blend of fiction and nonfiction, A Pioneer Sampler chronicles one year in the lives of the Robinson family. Illustrated historical notes enlarge on the social history and describe activi
- Author: Greenwood, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 30 1998
- ISBN10: 0395883938
- Language: English
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Who Was Annie Oakley?
$6.99 Add to cartYou want girl power? Meet Annie Oakley Born in 1860, she became one of the best-loved and most famous women of her generation. She amazed audiences all over the world with her sharpshooting, horse-ri… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Spinner, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 18 2002
- ISBN10: 0448424975
- Language: English
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North of Laramie
$7.99 Add to cartJohnstone Country. A New Legend in the Making.
The bestselling Johnstones kick off their blazing new western series with a real bang–a fatal, fateful shootout that sends a man named Buck Trammel on t… [more below]- Series: The Buck Trammel Western #1
- Author: Johnstone, William W.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 078604585X
- Language: English
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The Oregon Trail: An Interactive History Adventure
$9.99 Add to cartYou’re living in the United States during the time of the Westward Expansion. Settlers are heading west on the Oregon Trail as they seek better lives. Will you: Go west with your family as part of a w… [more below]
- Series: You Choose Books (Paperback)
- Author: Doeden, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1476536074
- Language: English
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Oregon Trail Stories: True Accounts of Life in a Covered Wagon
$12.95 Add to cartTravel along the Oregon Trail with the pioneers who dared to “face the elephant” as they moved west in search of a new life. Compiled from the trail diaries and memoirs that document this momentous pe… [more below]
- Author: Klausmeyer, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 2003
- ISBN10: 076273082X
- Language: English
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Mr. Tucket
$7.99 Read moreIt is 1848 and 14-year-old Francis Tucket is heading west on the Oregon Trail. When he lags behind to practice shooting his new rifle, he is captured by Pawnees. It will take wild horses, hostile trib… [more below]
- Series: Tucket Adventures (Paperback) #1
- Author: Paulsen, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0440411335
- Language: English
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Bad Land: An American Romance
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – Startlingly observed, beautifully written, this book is a contemporary classic of the American West. – “As good a book as I have read … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Raban, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: October 07 1997
- ISBN10: 0679759069
- Language: English
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Daily Life in a Covered Wagon
$10.99 Add to cartGreat for classroom lessons on the Oregon Trail and Westward Expansion
In 1853, the Larkin family loaded up their wagons and headed west in search of a new life. But how did they do it? What did they … [more below]- Author: Erickson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: July 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140562125
- Language: English
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Montana: A Paper Trail
$85.00 Read moreMontana: A Paper Trail is a story of two journeys. Thomas Minckler has spent a half century on a journey to collect 19th- and early 20th-century letters and documents, vintage photographs, rare books,… [more below]
- Author: Minckler, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: December 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0917298217
- Language: English
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Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of the Wild West
$18.95 Add to cartTakes the top 50 wildest episodes in the region’s history and presents them to the reader in one convenient, narrative-driven package.
- Author: Mayo, Matthew P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0762754311
- Language: English
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Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852: As Told by Mary Ann and Willis Boatman and Augmented with Accounts by Other Overland Travelers
$24.95 Add to cartWith numbers swelled by Oregon-bound settlers as well as hordes of gold-seekers destined for California, the 1852 overland migration was the largest on record in a year taking a terrible toll in lives
- Author: Rau, Weldon Willis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0874222389
- Language: English
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The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
$19.99 Add to cartFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History
A dramatic, riveting, and “fresh look at a region typically obscured in accounts of the Civil War. American history buffs will relish this entertaining and e- Author: Nelson, Megan Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1501152556
- Language: English
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Desperate Passage
$20.99 Add to cartIn late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year’s westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gat… [more below]
- Author: Rarick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0195383311
- Language: English
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Old Cowboys Never Die: An Exciting Western Novel of the American Frontier
$8.99 Add to cartThey say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But old cowboys? That’s a different story — especially when they’re trail-hardened cattlemen who just got stiffed out of retirement by a shifty lawyer.… [more below]
- Series: Old Cowboys Never Die
- Author: Johnstone, William W.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0786049022
- Language: English
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Son of the Old West
$28.00 Add to cartAn epic narrative of
the Old West told through the vivid, outsized life of cowboy, detective,
and chronicler Charlie SiringoNo figure in the Old West lived or
shaped its history more fully than Charlie- Author: Ward, Nathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0802162088
- Language: English
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Jim Bridger: Trailblazer of the American West
$21.95 Add to cartEven among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Fr駑ont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of explorati
- Author: Enzler, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: 10-Jan-23
- ISBN10: 080619197X
- Language: English
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Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
$23.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West–“a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy” (The New York Times… [more below]
- Author: Sides, Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 09 2007
- ISBN10: 1400031109
- Language: English
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The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-Mile Horseback Journey Into the Old West
$30.00 Add to cartUSA Today Bestseller!
“Spellbinding” (Douglas Preston) and “completely fascinating” (Elizabeth Letts), cowboy and journalist Will Grant t
Selected by the Smithsonian as Best Travel Books of the Year- Author: Grant, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 0316422312
- Language: English
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Dreams of Eagles
$8.99 Add to cartFrom the greatest western writers of the 21st century, the classic second adventure in The Eagles, one of the most iconic and beloved sagas of the American frontier, is back in print as legendary Scot… [more below]
- Series: Eagles
- Author: Johnstone, William W.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0786051051
- Language: English
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Yondering (Louis l’Amour’s Lost Treasures): Stories
$8.99 Read moreAs part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials
“Over the years I have been proud to write about the men and women of the American frontier. But- Series: Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures
- Author: L’Amour, Louis
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0525621105
- Language: English
