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For Gage Jameson, the summer of 1873 has been a poor hunt. A year ago, he felled sixty-two buffalo in one stand, but now the great Arkansas River herd is gone, like the Republican herd before it. In Dodge City, old hide hunters speak is awe of a last great heard to the south-but no hunter who values his scalp dares ride south of the Cimarron and into Comanche territory. None but Gage Jameson...
2) Wagons west
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Hank the Cowdog volume 67
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Little Alfred, who hopes to become a professional explorer, skips his nap and hitches Hank to his wagon and the two travel west until a sudden storm and a flooded creek strand them far from home, and Hank must rely on his instincts and wits to keep them safe.
3) The Wagons
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You think you know all about prairie dogs but I bet you don't even know this. You see, in the very middle of every prairie dog town and about four feet down there is a pile of gold. Lafferty was the winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy Award and a six time Nebula Award Nominee. His quirky style made his work hard to pigeonhole and market, but he still managed to influence a wide array of today's best writers. Simply on of the best writers the science...
4) Wagons Ho!
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Two girls move from Missouri to Oregon - one in 1846 and one in 2011. One trip takes five months and the other five days. One trip is in a covered wagon, the other in a car. But, both girls will miss their old homes and worry about the long trip. Both girls stop at well-known landmarks and travel the Rocky Mountains. And, as each girl reaches her new home, she finds her new room and her new friends. Wagons Ho! is a unique look at both history and...
5) Wagons west!
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1 volume : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
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A rhyming story of a family's move by wagon train between Missouri and Oregon in the 1850's and their daughter's role in outwitting cattle thieves.
6) Wagons West
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He was a greenhorn but didn't know it.
When Bruce Cowan takes his family and flees Boston to homestead out west, he figured the journey to California to be long but safe. Their first day out reveals how wrong he is and the perilous dangers of the Santa Fe Trail.
It would have been a massacre but for Trent and Pat MacLeod.
Trent favors a Sharps.50 caliber buffalo rifle, while his younger brother Pat packs two Texas Navy Colts. They both prove deadly...
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Two families break up their homes and travel from the east by wagon train across the open prairie to build a ranch in the wild open undeveloped range land not far from the mountains in western Montana. The long trip is tiresome uneventful travel at times with unexpected dangers along the way. When tragedy strikes, they trust God to give them strength and guidance to continue. There is a stallion who is tamed by the young women and is a help in many...
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Through its key characters and their connection with Eastern and Western poetry and literature, this story examines the complexities of love and the fears men and women suffer when they are loved or not loved. As a child, the novel's protagonist, Rod, had struggled to escape from his mother's apathy, his father's overbearing control and the harsh reality of their loveless symbiosis. A childless marriage to his college sweetheart, Cynthia, had withered...
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The Little Wagons is a fictional novel that captures the turmoil of late nineteenth-century Sicily, when the reverse alchemy of greed and violence forever changed the emerging Cosa Nostra from benevolent gold into corrupted base-metal. The horrors of slavery and oppression forged revolutions and rebels in equal measure, and within this cornucopia of nepotism and brutality, hostility and passion are pitted against endemic hegemony. With protagonists...
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New Directions paperbook volume 217
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xii, 238 pages ; 22 cm.
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19) Radio flyer
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1 videodisc (approximately 114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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After their mother marries a child abuser, Mike decides to help Bobby escape by turning their Radio Flyer wagon into a magic rocket ship that will carry Bobby to safety.
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From chuckwagon recipes to dutch-oven favorites for your own campfire, The Cowboy's Cookbook features recipes, photos, and lore celebrating the cowboy's role in the shaping of the American West. From songs sung around the campfire after hearty meals of steak, beans, and skillet cornbread to the recipes you'll need to recreate those trailside meals in your own kitchen, this book will get you in touch with the spirit of the Old West.
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