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English
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In the fall of 1873, a wagon train of immigrants sets off from Missouri for the Montana Territory. Leading them is wagon master Jamie Ian MacCallister, a giant of a man who swears he can get them there by Christmas. The journey is plagued by brutal storms and rugged terrain, outlaws and hostile Indians. Just when things look nearly hopeless, two unlikely saviors arrive: an old mountain man known as Preacher and legendary frontiersman Smoke Jensen....
Author
Series
High Sierra sweethearts volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Trace Riley finds the smoldering ruins of a small wagon train, he recognizes the hand behind the attack as the same group who left him as sole survivor years ago. Living off the wilderness since then, he'd finally carved out a home and started a herd--while serving as a self-appointed guardian of the trail, driving off dangerous men. He'd hoped those days were over, but the latest attack shows he was wrong. Deborah Harkness saved her younger...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Based on true events, this compelling survival story by award-winning novelist Jane Kirkpatrick is full of grit and endurance. Beset by storms, bad timing, and desperate decisions, 8 women, 17 children, and one man must outlast winter in the middle of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1844.
1844. The Stevens-Murphy company left Missouri to be the first wagons into California through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Mostly Irish Catholics, the party sought...
11) The steel angel
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In Texas at the close of the Civil War wagon boss Adam Rait inherits a wagon train of rifles and ammunition when the owner is murdered. He must protect the cargo from several parties who would just as soon take it by force as pay for it while dealing with Angela de Acera (the Steel Angel)"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"James Pratt and his young bride press on toward the Bitterroot Valley, deep in Sioux territory, after their wagon master deserts them and seemingly disappeared. James' brother Mason enlists legendary Indian scout John Hawk to find them against deadly odds"--
14) Death's caravan
Author
Series
Trailsman volume 92
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
DENVER DEADLINE. Skye Fargo had been hired to get a wagon train of cargo to Denver. Gold and glory waited for the first man to make it through the waves of Indian warriors who had turned the Plains into a sea of blood. The Trailsman calculated that he could handle the Cheyenne, but he hadn't figured on a mountain man named Amos Winfield, who was closer to the redskins than to the whites. Or on a sexy stowaway named Sally, who lied about everthing...
15) Blood mountain
Author
Publisher
BooksbyAFoster
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Houston Hawks was a young girl, a lone survivor on the trail west. She is found by Tall Feather. He is the fierce, intelligent medicine man for the people. He brings her home and makes Sarah his own daughter. She becomes Aponi. The problem is that her remaining rich and powerful family back east wants her returned... at all costs."--Back cover.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Tom Healy was in trouble. His theatrical troupe needed to get to Alder Gulch, Montana, and the weather was turning. Andy Barker promised Tom he could get them there safely, but Tom was reluctant to trust him: he had the lives of three actresses to consider, and his personal feelings for Janice further heightened his concern. Then King Mabry showed up. Although Tom didn't like the way he looked at Janice, he could see that Mabry made Barker uneasy....
Author
Series
Trailsman volume 85
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
SURVIVAL OF THE FIERCEST. Ciilization was left fa behind as Skye Fargo led the wagon train into the unmapped mountains of Montana. Fargo figured he knew the risks he was running with this party of scientists and settlers organized by nature-loving, naturally lovely Annabel Dorrance. He was pretty sure he'd have his hands full with the likes of Annabel's ex-boyfriend, bully boy Barrat Dowling, so eagr to shoot him out of the saddle. Or a string...
Author
Series
Preacher and MacCallister western volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Settling the American West required true grit, fortitude, and when necessary, shedding blood. It also required men like Preacher and MacCallister to enforce peace in a land where the law was scarce--and justice was delivered from the barrel of a gun... Wagon trains carrying immigrants along the Oregon Trail are falling prey to outlaws. Most families surrender their valuables and goods peacefully, but anybody brave enough to resist gets a bullet....
20) The quilt walk
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
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.
