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1) Wayward son
Author
Series
Simon Snow volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Simon Snow is back and he's coming to America! The story is supposed to be over. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after... So why can't Simon Snow get off the couch? What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. He just needs to see himself in a new light... That's how Simon and Penny and Baz...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 524 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
H.W. Brands tells the story of settling the American West, from fur trading in Oregon to the Texas Revolution; from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. He shows how the migrants' vivid dreams drove courage, perseverance, and outrageous acts of violence. The West was where riches rewarded a miner's persistence, a cattleman's courage, a railroad man's enterprise; but El Dorado was as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1853, Abigail Scott was a nineteen-year-old school teacher in Oregon Territory when she married Ben Duniway. Marriage meant giving up on teaching, but Abigail always believed she was meant to be more than a good wife and mother. When Abigail becomes the primary breadwinner for her growing family, what she sees as a working woman appalls her -- and prompts her to devote her life to fighting for the rights of women, including the right to vote."--...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 371 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the actions of both whites and Comanches during a 40-year war over territory, in a story that begins with the kidnapping of a white girl, who grew up to marry a Comanche chief and have a son, Quanah, who became a great warrior.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxix, 449 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple John Frémont grew up amid family tragedy and shame. Born out of wedlock in 1813, he went to work at age thirteen to help support his family in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a nobody. Yet, by the 1840s, he rose to...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
479 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Wyoming, 1870. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other. With no other settlers for miles, it is a matter of survival. But when Ernest Bemis finds his wife, Cora, in a compromising situation with their neighbor, he doesn't think of survival. In one impulsive moment, a man is dead, Ernest is off to prison, and the women left behind are divided by rage and remorse. Losing her husband to...
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