Title search results
Showing 41 - 60 of 700 items
Wolf willow: a history, a story, and a memory of the last plains frontier
By Wallace Earle Stegner. 1962
When I was thirteen
By Mary. Pseud McKenzie. 1979
This diary of a young girl in pioneer Ontario was written in 1897-1898 and published in a rural paper 20…
years later. Mary McKenzie is the pseudonym of Christina Young, daughter of John and Emma (Dawson) Young. 1979.Voice of the pioneer: more first-person accounts from CBC's best-loved radio program
By Bill McNeil. 1984
The silence of the North
By Olive A Fredrickson, Ben East. 1972
In 1920, Olive Fredrickson married a trapper. She relates their many hardships: loneliness, near-starvation, and winter life in a primitive…
cabin. When her husband died, Olive was left with three children and a farm to manage. c1972.The village blacksmith
By Aldren Auld Watson. 1968
A look into the bygone world of the old New England blacksmith. He shod horses, built wagons, buggies, sleds, and…
agricultural tools, and repaired harnesses. The author reveals the great variety of objects made from iron as well as how they were used. 1968.The legend of Grizzly Adams, California's greatest mountain man (Vintage West series)
By Richard H Dillon. 1966
In 1837, at the age of 37, John Adams left Massachusetts for California where he hunted bear and other wildlife.…
He gradually assembled a menagerie of animals and exhibited them in San Francisco during the 1850s. Even with the facts separated from the legend, Adams continues to stand out as a bold and fearless man. 1966.The Oregon Trail
By Francis Parkman, Edith Goodkind Rosenwald, Mason Wade, Maynard Dixon. 1978
An account of the author's experiences during the early days of the West. He writes of big game hunts, encounters…
with Indians, and camp life on the trail. First published in 1849. 1978.The mighty land
By Cliff Farrell. 1975
Roundup of anecdotes, legends, and historical facts of the Old West by a Western novelist. Colorful portrayal of the trail…
blazers, the Indians, and bandits and the peacemakers, the railroad men and the ranchers. 1975.The generous years: remembrances of a frontier boyhood
By Chet Huntley. 1968
The well-known television commentator recalls his boyhood in Montana before the depression - the one-room schoolhouse, the hard work and…
the wholesome pleasures, and the history and natural beauty of his native state. 1968.Roughing it in the bush: or, Forest life in Canada
By Susanna Moodie. 1962
Les enfants de la Nouvelle-France
By Gilbert Desmarais, Pierre-Alexandre Bonin. 2020
À travers onze portraits d'enfants, le lecteur est invité à explorer les multiples aspects de la vie en Nouvelle-France, à…
différentes époques, tels que : la traversée de l'Atlantique à bord d'un grand voilier, la prise de possession du territoire, l'économie, les vêtements, la médecine.Narrative of the Great Plains, its native tribes, and America's western expansion. Highlights the story of nine-year-old settler Cynthia Ann…
Parker's 1836 kidnapping by Comanches and, later, her son Quanah's rise to chiefdom. Violence. Bestseller. 2010Pie Town woman: the hard life and good times of a New Mexico homesteader
By Joan Myers. 2001
Pie Town, New Mexico, was immortalized in 1940 in the photographs of Russell Lee, who documented life in the high,…
dry farming community as part of the Farm Security Administration's New Deal survey of American life. This book tells the story of one of the women photographed by Lee, Doris Caudill. Joan Myers tells Doris's story and recounts the experiences of Russell and Jean Lee during their stay in Pie Town. Woven through Myers's narrative are her musings on the relationships among memory, photographs, and actual events. Included are a selection of Lee's iconic photographs, Doris's family snapshots, and photographs taken by Myers herself showing the visual residue of those bygone yearsWay out West: recollections and tales
By H. G. Merriam. 1969
A collection of brief accounts portraying the variety of life in the West. The stories included here were selected by…
H.G. Merriam from "Frontier," a regional magazine published in Montana from 1920 to 1939The American West: a very short introduction (Very short introductions)
By Stephen Aron. 2015
Examination of a long, complicated history, beginning before the West was American and extending into the twenty-first century. Describes migrations…
westward, rivalries between French, Spanish, and British empire-builders, and conflicts with Mexico and Indians. Discusses the Gold Rush, the mingling of cultures, water conservation, and Hollywood-produced Westerns. 2015Iron rails, iron men, and the race to link the nation: the story of the transcontinental railroad
By Martin W. Sandler, Martin W Sandler. 2015
Recounts the construction of the transcontinental railroad. An additional 1,800 miles of tracks to the West Coast finally connected the…
eastern and western shores. Discusses the daring feats of tens of thousands of workers, the dangers they encountered, their challenges, and their successes. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2015Beyond the hundredth meridian: John Wesley Powell and the second opening of the West
By Wallace Stegner. 1992
Author of Angle of Repose (DB 54215) recounts the life and expeditions of John Wesley Powell (1834-1902). Stegner details Powell's…
interest in scientific observation, feuds with politicians and industrialists, and his plans for development of the West based on the discoveries he made during his travels. 1953The red and the white: a family saga of the American West
By Andrew R. Graybill. 2013
Historian probes interracial Native-white relationships critical in the development of the trans-Mississippi West. Explores the 1870 Marias Massacre, an episode…
set in motion by the murder of Malcolm Clarke, in which Clarke's two sons rode with the Second U.S. Cavalry to kill their own blood relatives. 2013Shot all to hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's greatest escape
By Mark Lee Gardner. 2013
Recounts the final holdup of the eight-man James and Younger gang. Details the outlaws' 1876 attempt to rob the First…
National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota; the response from the employees and citizens; and the two-week manhunt that followed. Violence and some strong language. Spur Award. 2013The wrath of Cochise
By Terry Mort, T. A Mort. 2013
Details the February 1861 events that sparked years of war between the Chiricahua Apaches and the U.S. Army and white…
settlers in the West. Describes the mistakes of inexperienced lieutenant George Bascom after a rancher's stepson was kidnapped and the subsequent acts of revenge by Indian leader Cochise. 2013