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English
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The villiage of Cooperstown, named for its Quaker founder, William Cooper, lay near the edge of a forest. Fascinated by its dark green depths, its mysterious hiding places, James, youngest but one of the twelve Cooper children, had many romantic dreams about it - dreams and romances that stayed with him long afterwards and found their way into his books, The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, and the rest of the Leather Stocking Tales.
3) O pioneers!
Author
Publisher
Reader's Digest Association
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
One of America’s greatest women writers, Willa Cather established her talent and her reputation with this extraordinary novel—the first of her books set on the Nebraska frontier. A tale of the prairie land encountered by America’s Swedish, Czech, Bohemian, and French immigrants, as well as a story of how the land challenged them, changed them, and, in some cases, defeated them, Cather’s novel is a uniquely American epic.
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Series
Sarah Agnes Prine novels volume 1
Publisher
Harpercollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Contains the fictional journal of Sarah Prine, in which she records the events of her life in the Arizona Territories from 1881 to 1901, as a child, a fiery young woman, and a caring mother.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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When Laura Ingalls and her family leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, they head west for the open prairie skies of Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the perfect spot for Pa to build them a new home. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. But just when they begin to feel settled, they are caught in the middle of a dangerous...
18) Bendigo Shafter
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1993, c1979
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Bendigo Shafter arrives with a group of pioneers in a small Western settlement in Wyoming to begin a new life filled with struggle, adventure, and excitement.
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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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 the midst of a frontier gold boom. These pioneering...
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