18 books like One Thousand White Women
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything—everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter.
Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. Not everyone is keen on Cussy's family…
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These Is My Words
Een jonge, avontuurlijke pioniersvrouw beschrijft in haar dagboeken hoe ze eind 19e eeuw per huifkar naar Arizona trekt en daar twintig jaar lang te maken krijgt met het harde leven in het Wilde Westen.
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Julia's last hope
The only thing she has left is her faith in God. . . . Is it enough?
With the closing of the Calder Springs' timber mill, most of the town's residents are left unemployed. Several families, realizing the lack of a future in the small mountain town, soon decide to relocate.
But not the Harrigan family. Although John has lost his job at the mill, he and his wife, Julia, make the decision to stay…
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Roses for Mama
She's cared for her siblings as best she could . . . but is it enough? Instead of the new life she and her family expected to forge out west, seventeen-year-old Angela is thrust into the role of caring for her three younger siblings after the death of their parents. With the help of her older brother, and trust in God, Angela is determined to raise the children as her mother would have wanted.As…
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Redeeming Love
California’s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside. Then she meets Michael Hosea. A man who seeks his Father’s…
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The Cherokee Trail
Mary Breydon knew how to get things done. Raised on a Virginia plantation, she learned how to care for livestock, respect her workers, and keep good books. But after her husband is killed, she must make a living running a stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail. Mary faces challenges that even the men eagerly anticipating her failure would have a difficult time overcoming. After being forced to…
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A Woman Named Damaris (Women of the West)
She was almost fifteen on the night she dared for the first time to think of what life might be like away from home. Pa again had come home drunk and mean; the trauma of the subsequent scene had been repeated as long as Damaris could remember. The idea that she no longer needs to tolerate this, that maybe she's old enough to manage on her own, is planted in her mind and begins to grow. She must…
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The Fort Henry saga
300 p. : 22 cm
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How the West Was Won
They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endless distances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the Sierra Nevada. They were men like Linus Rawlings, a restless survivor of Indian country who'd headed east to see the ocean but left his heart--and his home--in the West. They were women like Lilith Prescott, a smart, spirited beauty who fled her family and fell for a gambling man in…
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The writings of Bret Harte
Francis Bret Harte was born on August 25, 1836 in Albany New York. As a young boy Harte developed an early love of books and reading. He first published at the tender age of 11; a satirical poem titled "Autumn Musings." Expecting praise he encountered anything but and was later to write "Such a shock was their ridicule to me that I wonder that I ever wrote another line of verse." By age 13 his…
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Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life
Stewart Edward White’s 1904 collection of thirteen short stories entertain readers with wild and wooly tales of the American frontier, including narratives about prospecting and logging.
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The Spirit of the Border
Wikipedia: Spirit of the Border is an historical novel written by Zane Grey, first published in 1906. The novel is based on events occurring in the Ohio River Valley in the late eighteenth century. It features the exploits of Lewis Wetzel, a historical personage who had dedicated his life to the destruction of Native Americans and to the protection of nascent white settlements in that region.…
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Sarah's Quilt
Arizona Territory pioneer Sarah Prine struggles with drought, starving cattle, and a neighbor's unwelcome advances, a situation that is further complicated when her brother's family is devastated by the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
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Faith
Prolific author Copeland kicks off another historical Western series with this pleasing tale of mail-order brides set in 1872.
When their pastor father dies suddenly, leaving little money, three sisters realize that they need to take drastic action to survive. Each answers a newspaper ad soliciting Christian brides. Faith goes to Texas, where her intended, a well-to-do rancher named Nicholas…
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A time to love
At the altar Linda Forrest discovers her fiancee has eloped -- with her own sister! Starting a new life as a mail order bride she finds her husband has a sinister secret, but that no danger can place her beyond God's love.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Betty Zane
I found this book one of Mr. Grey's finer writings, perhaps due to his emotional and familial attachment to the subject. The feel of the time is very real and still written with contemporary digestability. Not to be overlooked by fans of Zane Grey or historical novels.
From Wikipedia: Elizabeth "Betty" Zane McLaughlin Clark (July 19, 1759 – August 23, 1823) was an alleged heroine of the…
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Backwoods of Canada
The toils, troubles, and satisfactions of pioneer life are recorded with charm and vivacity on The Backwoods of Canada, by Catherine Parr Traill, who, like her sister Susanna Moodie, left the comforts of genteel English society for the rigours of a new, young land. Traill offers a vivid and honest account of her trip to North America and of her first two and a helf years living in the bush…
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While the Billy Boils
While the Billy Boils collates Henry Lawson’s most well known short stories of the 1890s, originally published in a variety of Australian and New Zealand newspapers—most prominently the Sydney Bulletin. Lawson presents a satirical and sometimes emotional study of frontier life in late colonial Australia, and the characters living in it.
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