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Series
Pioneer life for children volume 1
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Learn about daily life in the pioneer communities like trading posts and sodhouses that sprang up in the western territories of the United States during the 1800s. Also see how geography affected the economy and settlement patterns. Features reenactments, journal entries, and historic imagery.
Publisher
Marshall Pub. and Promotions
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
2 documentary programs. The Oregon Trail is an account of America's longest and most famous pioneer trail, covering the reasons for going, the landscape crossed, and the experience as described in immigrants' diaries. The Pony Express describes the gamble that bankrupted the men who started it, and lasted only 19 months, but made a legend of its riders and provided a vital link between California and the Northern states at the start of the Civil War....
64) Damsel
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It's the Wild West, circa 1870. Samuel Alabaster, an affluent pioneer, ventures across the American frontier to marry the love of his life, Penelope. As his group traverses the west, the once-simple journey grows treacherous, blurring the lines between hero, villain, and damsel.
Author
Series
Smoke Jensen the mountain man volume 1
Language
English
Description
From his Missouri farm, the boy traveled west. In his hand was a Navy Colt given to him by Jesse James. By his side was the old mountain man named Preacher, who would teach young Smoke Jensen everything he needed to fight like the devil, and die like a man. And in his heart was vengeance. His enemies destroyed everything he'd every loved. But they made one mistake. They let Smoke Jensen live.
68) First cow
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1820s Pacific Northwest, a cook and a Chinese immigrant come up with a scheme to strike it rich involving a wealthy businessman's prized dairy cow.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Tells the oft-overlooked tales of adventurers, warriors and conflicts that shaped the nation in the late 18th century. Traces the many battles fought by Native Americans against the French, British, Spanish and Americans. Dramatic re-enactments at historic sites, expert commentary, authentic period artifacts and journals are all used to recreate the incredible events of the era that some historians have dubbed "American's true first world war, when...
72) The outsider
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Rebecca, a beautiful young Quaker widow, forges an unexpected relationship with a mysterious gunslinger.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an Imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
"As Josephine Jenkins sets off on the Oregon Trail with her mother and younger brothers to reunite with her father out West, she realizes that her beloved diary has gone missing. Meanwhile, her fellow traveler Stephen Byrd is sad to be leaving his friends behind as his family makes the move to Oregon. Follow Josephine and Stephen along the trail as they camp in the wilderness, look out over incredible landscapes, and prepare for their new lives in...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Jericho's road: "This is Jericho's Road. Take the Other." When young Texas Ranger Andy Pickard is assigned to the Texas-Mexico border, he learns the meaning of this ominous notice on the edge of a great tract of land above the Rio Grande. Rancher Jericho Jackson is at war with a similarly ruthless cattle baron on the Mexican side of the river. The two men are rustling each other's cattle, raiding and killing on both sides of the border, and heading...
Publisher
Distributed by Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the West as it has never been told before, myth and legend stripped away and the truth revealed by 17 of the nation's top Western authorities. Learn the truth about Billy the Kid, Jesse James, the Sundance Kid, and many more.
Publisher
Direct Source Special Products
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Massacre at Fort Holman:" During the Civil War a Union colonel seeks revenge against the man who killed his wife during a Confederate raid against Fort Holman. "Hot Lead:" A new rancher attempts to support his family while dealing with rivals and his own personal demons.
79) Tombstone
Series
Language
English
Description
After success cleaning up Dodge City, Wyatt Earp moves to Tombstone, Arizona, and wishes to get rich in obscurity. He meets his brothers there, as well as his old friend Doc Holliday. A band of outlaws that call themselves The Cowboys are causing problems in the region with various acts of random violence, and inevitably come into confrontation with Holliday and the Earps, which leads to a shoot-out at the OK Corral.
80) Comanche moon
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call are now young men dealing with the ever increasing tensions of adult life-- Gus with his great love, Clara, and Call with Maggie, the young prostitute who is in love with him. McCrae and Call join a Ranger troop in pursuit of three outlaws: Comanche Chief Buffalo Hump, Comanche horse thief Kicking Wolf and Ahumado, the deadly Mexican bandit king with a penchant for slow torture. Together, they struggle...