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When the night bells ring

Don't awaken what sleeps in the dark. In a future ravaged by fire and drought, two climate refugees ride their motorcycles across the wasteland of the western US, and stumble upon an old silver mine. Descending into the cool darkness of the caved-in tunnels in desperate search of water, the two women find Lavinia Caine's diary, a settler in search of prosperity who brought her family to Nevada in the late 1860s. But Lavinia and the settlers of the Western town discovered something monstrous that dwells in the depths of the mine, something that does not want greedy prospectors disturbing the earth. Whispers of curses and phantom figures haunt the diary, and now, over 150 years later, trapped and injured in the abandoned mine, the women discover they are not alone . . . with no easy way out. The monsters are still here and they are thirsty.

The indifferent stars above

the harrowing saga of a Donner Party bride
2010
Provides an account of the harrowing experiences of twenty-one-year-old bride Sarah Graves after her family joined with the Donner party seven months into their journey to California in 1846, and, equipped with snowshoes constructed by her father, pressed on with fourteen other relatively young, healthy people in search of help after the travelers became stranded by a snowstorm.

Imperfect union

how Jessie and John Fr?mont mapped the West, invented celebrity, and helped cause the Civil War
2020
"Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Fr?mont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple John Fr?mont grew up amid family tragedy and shame. Born out of wedlock in 1813, he went to work at age thirteen to help support his family in Charleston, South Carolina"--Provided by publisher.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

children's author
2018
A brief biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder that follows events from her early childhood to her later years as an author.

My ?ntonia

A successful lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with an immigrant Bohemian girl.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder

A biography of American author Laura Ingalls Wilder, covering her upbringing in a pioneer family, early life and marriage, and work as a teacher and writer.

O pioneers!

Alexandra, the daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, becomes a wealthy land owner after she inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
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Susanna of the Alamo

a true story
Relates the experiences of the Texas woman who, along with her baby, survived the 1836 massacre at the Alamo.
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