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421) Biscuits and gravy
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"Dewey 'Mac' Mackenzie is no ordinary chuckwagon cook. He's a marked man on the run who works cattle drives to stay one step ahead of his enemies. If these hired killers catch up to him, he'll be slinging guns instead of hash--with a side order of revenge that's best served cold... A hot meal, a hard drink, and maybe a friendly hand of poker -- that's all Mac Mackenzie wants when he drifts into the small town of Harcourt City, Montana. What he gets...
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Between 1803 and 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark co-captained the most famous expedition in American history. But, while Lewis ended his life just three years later, Clark, as the highest-ranking Federal official in the West, spent three decades overseeing its consequences: Indian removal and the destruction of Native America. In a rare combination of storytelling and scholarship, best-selling author Landon Y. Jones presents for the first...
426) Flint
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Rich beyond belief and despised by many, Flint comes home to die of cancer with no one at his side, until Nancy Kerrigan, a local rancher, needs his help in saving her ranch, and only Flint has the resources and skills to help her before his time runs out.
427) Westward the tide
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Matt Bardoul receives a mysterious warning not to go with the wagon train taking gold seekers to the Big Horns, but is determined to seek his fortune.
429) Ride the moon down
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Pioneer Titus Bass sets out across the plains in search of his wife and child who have been kidnapped by the Blackfoot nation and encounters proof of the quickly changing nature of the country as evidenced by crowds of settlers, a deadly outbreak of smallpox, and the formation of two profit-hungry companies that threaten his survival as a trapper.
430) Donner dinner party
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The Reed family struggles to survive the wagon train journey from Illinois to California as members of the ill-fated Donner Party.
431) The three-cornerd war: the Union, the Confederacy, and native peoples in the fight for the West
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"A deeply-researched, dramatic, and character-driven narrative account of the violent struggle between Union and Confederate forces to claim the American West during the Civil War"--
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During the Civil War, Charles Curtis served in the 5th United States Infantry on the New Mexico and Arizona frontier. He spent his years from 1862 to 1865 on garrison duty, interacting with Native Americans, both hostile and friendly. Years after his service and while president of Norwich University, Curtis wrote an extensive memoir of his time in the Southwest. This memoir was serialized and published in a New England newspaper and so remained unknown,...
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Queen Elizabeth believes that Barnabas Sackett is in possession of a great treasure lost by King John and puts a warrant out for his arrest, but Barnabas flees to the New World and the West with a few fighting friends and his courageous wife, Abigail, where they are destined to face unyielding terrain and fierce Native Americans.
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