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332 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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This book provides detailed profiles of ten amazing women of the Old West who left their mark on history. They dared to step outside the traditional roles of wife and mother and left society's conventions behind them. They engaged in a wide range of interests and professions, and their stories will inspire and entertain. All became well known on a national level during their lifetimes, but most have fallen into obscurity over the years.
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416 pages : illustrations map ; 25 cm
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English
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The story of the U.S. explorer and national hero, John Fremont, a leading figure in the 1840s war with Mexico over California. It is told through the eyes of Bradford Stone, a young cartographer who along with Kit Carson participates in Fremont's politico-military adventures, including the Bear Flag Rebellion.
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English
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Monson shares the stories of twelve women who heard the call to settle the west and came from all points of the globe to begin their journey. As a slave, Clara watched helpless as her husband and children were sold, only to be reunited with her youngest daughter six decades later. Charlotte hid her gender to escape a life of poverty and became the greatest stagecoach driver that ever lived. A Native American, Gertrude fought to give her people a voice...
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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An unseen evil haunts the homestead in this chilling, folkloric tale of madness, paranoia, and otherworldly terror. Lizzy is a tough, resourceful frontierswoman settling a remote stretch of land on the nineteenth century American frontier. Isolated from civilization in a desolate wilderness where the wind never stops howling, she begins to sense a sinister presence that seems to be borne of the land itself, an overwhelming dread that her husband dismisses...
33) Where trust lies
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Series
Return to the Canadian West volume 2
Language
English
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"After teaching in a 1920s mining town in western Canada, Beth Thatcher no longer feels at home among her wealthy family in the East, and her heart is torn between two very different worlds"--Provided by publisher.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Raised on a cattle ranch, Agnes Morley was sent to Stanford University to learn to be a lady. Yet in no time she exchanged her breeches and spurs for bloomers and a basketball; and in April 1896 she made history. In a heart-pounding game against the University of California at Berkeley, Agnes led her team to victory in the first-ever intercollegiate women's basketball game, earning national attention and putting women's basketball on the map.
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331 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
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English
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"Best-selling author David McCullough tells the story of the settlers who began America's migration west, overcoming almost-unimaginable hardships to build in the Ohio wilderness a town and a government that incorporated America's highest ideals. As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of...
36) The Oregon Trail
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1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Take a 2,000-mile journey with the pioneers that braved The Oregon Trail ... See rare photos, hear diary excerpts and watch stunning footage in this award-winning film, previously viewed on public television"--Packaging.
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Canadian West volume 2
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English
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Elizabeth and Wynn find that their commitment to God and to each other gives their life meaning.
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