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Slocum and the spirit bear / by Logan, Jake.;
Slocum needs to get out of Saint Joseph, Missouri, thanks to a money-grubbing sheriff who fines him every chance he gets. When newcomer Ed Warren is held up, Slocum shoots the would-be robber, only to be levied with yet another fine. But Slocum's luck turns after Ed offers him a job protecting a small wagon train hoping to strike it rich in the Colorado mines. Just before the Rockies, they are attacked by a group of otherworldly creatures that rise out of the ground and can disappear into thin air. The creatures are led by Spirit Bear, who has sworn to kill anyone who crosses his land. In order to get the wagon train to safety, Slocum has to hunt down Spirit Bear, his most unearthly foe ever...Cover verso.
Subjects: Western stories.; Slocum (Fictitious character); Wagon trains; Pioneers;
© c2012., Penguin,
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A home in Drayton Valley : a novel / by Sawyer, Kim Vogel.;
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Subjects: Christian fiction.; Love stories.; Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Pioneers; Wagon trains; Life change events; Man-woman relationships;
© c2012., Bethany House,
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Riding the nightmare / by Johnstone, William W.; Johnstone, J. A.;
Agreeing to lead the Spencer family down the infamous Nightmare Trail--a killing ground for the Hardcastles, an Arkansas Ozark clan who don't allow trespassers on their road unless they pay in blood, Duff MacCallister must shoot first and fast when they come face-to-face with these bad men.
Subjects: Western fiction.; MacCallister, Duff (Fictitious character); Outlaws; Wagon trains; Trails;
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Go west, young man / by Johnstone, William W.,author.; Johnstone, J. A.,author.;
Missouri, 1860. Rumors of war between the North and South are spreading across the land. In rural Green County, many of the farmers are already choosing sides. But not John Zachary. His loyalties lie with his family first--and his heart is telling him to go west. Hoping to build a new life in the fertile valleys of Oregon, he convinces his best friend, Emmitt Braxton, to pack up their families and join him on a wagon train across the Oregon Trail. The journey will be long and hard. The physical hardships and grueling mental challenges will bring out the best in the some--and the worst in others. But with the guidance of an experienced wagon master and scout, they are determined to reach their destiny, no matter how high the cost ...
Subjects: Western fiction.; Historical fiction.; Wagon trains; Frontier and pioneer life;
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Geronimo Stilton. [sound recording]. by Lobley, Bill.; Scholastic Audiobooks.;
Surfs up, Geronimo! -- The wild, wild West.Read by Bill Lobley.Surf's up, Geronimo!: Geronimo dreams of a nice relaxing vacation by the beach ... and ends up in a fleabag hotel that seems about to fall apart.The wild, wild West: A wagon-train trip turns into a showdown with the wickedest rat in Cactus City.
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Adventure and adventurers; Humorous stories.; Journalists; Mice; Mystery and detective stories.; Stilton, Geronimo (Fictitious character);
© p2010., Scholastic,
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Preacher's carnage / by Johnstone, William W.; Johnstone, J. A.;
Preacher is no hired killer. When a wagon train is brutally ambushed on the Sante Fe Trail though, he can't say no to the St. Louis businessman willing to pay him for justice. It's not the stolen gold that's convinced Preacher to take the job And it's not the missing body of one of the wagon train's crew, a prime suspect who may have plotted the ambush and taken off with the gold. No, it's the suspect's lovely fiance, Alita Montez. She believes her boyfriend is innocent--and has run off to find him. Preacher can't abide the idea of a young woman alone on the Sante Fe Trail. If the Comanche don't get her, the coyotes will. And Preacher can't have that.
Subjects: Western fiction.; Frontier and pioneer life; Indigenous peoples; Trappers; Mountain life;
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Dead man's hand / by Nix, David.;
Jake Paynter is a doomed man. Haunted by an abusive childhood and his participation in atrocities of the Civil War, he seeks the isolation of the Plains Cavalry as a white officer for an all-Black buffalo soldier troop. Now, he is in irons and certain to be hanged for killing his captain after refusing an inhumane order. Despite his best efforts to maintain isolation, he starts to make friends on his journey to trial. The people of the wagon train begin looking to Paynter for leadership, and he reluctantly falls into the role. The opportunity to escape arises when the wagon train is attacked by bandits, but Paynter's growing ties to the travelers compel him to stay. As his trial approaches, Paynter must lean on his friends for salvation, but the laws of the west are swift and harsh, and a grueling confrontation with his past is on the horizon.
Subjects: Western fiction.; Cowboys; Trials (Murder); Friendships;
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To hell and gone / by West, Charles,author.;
"As a widower with three young boys, Duncan Hunter dreamed of a new life for his sons in the heart of Washington Territory. But the journey was doomed from the start. Before reaching Hell Gate, their wagon train was attacked by Blackfoot Indians. Most of the pioneers were viciously murdered. But Hunter's son Cody survived--taken in by Crow Indians and raised as one of their own. They called the boy Crazy Wolf. This is his story ... From hunting and tracking on the American frontier to leading patrols on covert missions for the U.S. Army, Cody Hunter would become one of the most valued scouts in the nation. But a part of him would always be Crazy Wolf--a man of two worlds, as wild and free as the land itself. And every bit as dangerous."--Back cover.
Subjects: Western fiction.; Novels.; Orphans; Scouts (Reconnaissance); Crow;
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The blood of innocents / by Lynch, Sean.;
As both a former Confederate guerilla and Texas Ranger, and now a U.S. marshal, no one knows the dangers of the frontier and cowtowns like Marshal Samuel Pritchard. A couple of wagon trains traveling the Oregon Trail have vanished and Pritchard's got miles of bad road across hostile territory to investigate. But he must also reckon with a price on his head. Bounty hunter Captain Laird Bonner is the greatest manhunter throughout the west--and he's as ruthless as he's relentless in pursuing his prey. Then the trail for both Pritchard and Bonner ends in an Idaho mining town named Whiskey Falls. Ruled by a man who earned his stripes in Andersonville, the town is a literal hell for everyone who lives there, slaving and dying to satiate their captor's lustful greed. To escape, Pritchard and Bonner must declare an uneasy truce and take on an army of gunmen. This is the story of Samuel Pritchard. A frontier-town peacekeeper who left many outlaws dead in the dust . . .
Subjects: Western fiction.; Theft; Bounty hunters; Outlaws; Slavery;
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The Oregon Trail. by Johnstone, William W.;
"Wagon Master Clayton Scofield has led countless families across the dusty, wide-open territories of the West, helping the brave, sometimes reckless pioneers settle into new lives brimming with the promise of good lives. Accompanied by his nephew Clint Buchanan riding as scout and cook Spud Williams, Scofield's latest trail finds him guiding a train of thirty wagons from Independence, Missouri, to the distant dream of Oregon"--Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Western fiction.; FICTION / Action & Adventure; FICTION / Historical / General; FICTION / Westerns;
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