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1) The pioneers
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The exodus began in 1841, a stream of men, women and children pouring out of Independence, Missouri. They were headed west, walking beside the covered wagons that held their possessions going across 2000 miles to the Pacific Coast. Mostly American-born, they were home-seekers, determined to find the fertile earthly paradise missionaries and mountain men had sworn existed on the other side of the continent.
2) Forbidden
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Old West volume 1
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Rhine Fontaine is building the successful life he's always dreamed of--one that depends upon him passing for White. But for the first time in years, he wishes he could step out from behind the facade. The reason: Eddy Carmichael, the young woman he rescued in the desert. Outspoken, defiant, and beautiful, Eddy tempts Rhine in ways that could cost him everything ... and the price seems worth paying. Eddy owes her life to Rhine, but she won't risk her...
3) Tempest
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Old west volume 3
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What kind of mail-order bride greets her intended with a bullet instead of a kiss? One like Regan Carmichael - an independent spirit equally at home in denims and dresses. Shooting Dr. Colton Lee in the shoulder is an honest error, but soon Regan wonders if her entire plan to marry a man she's never met is a mistake. Colton, who buried his heart along with his first wife, insists he only wants someone to care for his daughter. Yet Regan is drawn to...
6) The cowboys
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This volume from the Time Life The Old West series examines through text and many photographs and illustrations the life of the cowboy in the American West. Chapters include cattle barons, the range, roundup time, long trail, beef boom towns, and code of the West.
8) Breathless
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Old west volume 2
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"A strong-willed beauty finds herself in the arms of the handsome drifter from her past and finds the courage to pursue her dreams"--
As manager of one of the finest hotels in Arizona Territory, Portia Carmichael has respect and stability, and refuses to jeopardize that by hitching herself to the wrong man. Kent Randolph nicknamed Portia "Duchess" when she was a young girl. Now she's a stunning, intelligent woman. After drifting through the West,...
9) The townsmen
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Photographs-and-text-survey of frontier life in the cities, boom towns and villages of the Western United States, 1850-1900.
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A classic fictional chronicle of life on the open trail, long considered the best and most reliable account of real cowboy life ever written. In the years following the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Andy Adams left his home in San Antonio Valley and took to the range. Here he charts his first journey as a bona fide cowboy, from south Texas to Montana along the western trail.
11) The scouts
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Discusses the lives and work of Indian and white scouts in the West in the early 20th century.
12) The gunfighters
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Illustrated chronicle of the lives and careers of badmen and lawmen of the American West, 1865-1900, Wyatt Earp, Jesse James, et al.
14) The railroaders
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History of the building and development of railroads in the western United States.
17) The ranchers
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Describes in text and illustrations the development of large ranches in the western plains, the impact of these establishments on the economy of the area, their organization, and some famous ranches and their owners.
18) The frontiersmen
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Portrays the people and times, the drama and danger of the developing frontier in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century United States.
19) The Alaskans
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A pictorial history of Alaska, from its purchase by the United States in 1867 through 1912, chronicling the exploration of the wilderness, the discovery of gold, and the development of the whaling, fishing, and fur industries.
