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1) O pioneers!
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English
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Swedish farmer John Bergson's daughter Alexandra encourages the family members to help keep his dream alive after his death.
2) My Ántonia
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English
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The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation immigrants.
"Willa Cather's My Ántonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. Set during the great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative follows Antonia Shimerda,...
3) My 'Antonia
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My Ántonia, first published 1918, is one of Willa Cather's greatest works. It is the last novel in the Prairie trilogy, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family, the Shimerdas, whose eldest daughter is named Ántonia. The book's narrator,
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Lone McGantry western volume 8
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Description
375 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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"Bitter and heartbroken after the untimely death of a loved one, Lone McGantry finds himself once again aimlessly drifting across the frontier. Seeking solace from the woman who helped raise him, he visits "Ma" Sharples in North Platte, Nebraska, where he discovers Ma has been recently jilted of her life savings by conman Jack Swain. Feeling a renewed sense of purpose, Lone vows to track down the varmint. The trail takes many twists and turns, ultimately...
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Young Harriet's father sells her as a slave to settle his gambling debt with an eccentric Indian—and her story is just beginning. Part Huck Finn, part True Grit, Harriet's story of her encounter with the dark and brutal history of the American West is a true original. When she escapes the strange mound-building obsession of her Pawnee captor, Harriet sets off on a trek to find her father, only to meet with ever-stranger characters and...
7) A lost lady
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A portrait of a woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them, and whose transformations embody the decline and coarsening of the American frontier. An American version of Madame Bovary.
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Slash and Pecos westerns volume 14
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Johnstone Country. Be Quick or Be Dead. In a twist of fate, Slash and Pecos are riding hard for the law, dispensing justice as they see fit, and determined to watch their final sunset as heroes ... not outlaws. His wicked ways mostly behind him, reformed bank robber Jimmy "Slash" Braddock is getting hitched to his sweetheart. But before the honeymoon, Chief U.S. Marshal Luther T. "Bleed-'Em-So" Bledsoe needs Slash and his former partner-in-crime,...
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Pub. Date
1992.
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xvi, 523 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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O pioneers!: When Alexandra Bergson's father dies, she is left in charge of his unsuccessful farm and her younger brothers. The unyielding land of the Nebraska Divide would be challenge enough, but a violent passion shakes this courageous young woman to her core and changes her life forever.
Song of the lark: Thea Kronborg, an ambitious young singer, has to contend with the narrow-mindedness of her neighbors in a tiny Colorado town.
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