1850-1950

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1850-1950

The desperado who stole baseball

2010
In 1881, the scrappy, rough-and-tumble baseball team in a California mining town enlists the help of a quick-witted twelve-year-old orphan and the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid to win a big game against the National League Champion Chicago White Stockings.

Rough, tough Charley

2007
Rhyming verse chronicles the life of Charley Parkhurst, an orphan who grew up to become a legendary stagecoach driver, and whose death revealed a surprising secret.

Sloane Hall

2010
A California mansion is shrouded in mystery, its residents haunted by secret anguish. Flash back to 1929 Hollywood during a tumultuous time that shatters the lives of hard-drinking Pauline Sloane, silent-screen heroine, John Doyle, a young and angry cameraman, fired from his job and newly employed as Pauline's chauffeur, and Julia Nons, the chef, Marta Escobar, the housekeeper, and Robbie Morgan, Pauline's agent.

California's gold rush

2012
Presents a detailed chronology of the California gold rush.

A circle of time

2002
In 1996, a fourteen-year-old girl in a coma is forced back in time by a girl who died in 1906, and who needs help in righting a series of terrible wrongs.

Walk across the sea

2003
In late nineteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are being driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, fifteen-year-old Eliza Jane McCully defies the townspeople and her lighthouse-keeper father to help a Chinese boy who has been kind to her.

The chase

2007
Detective Isaac Bell sets out to pursue a ruthless bank robber who leaves no one alive as he goes from town to town.

Mr. Speaker!

the life and times of Thomas B. Reed, the man who broke the filibuster
2011
The volatile last decades of the 19th century are captured through the career of reform Speaker of the House Thomas Reed.

The desperado who stole baseball

2009
In 1881, the scrappy, rough-and-tumble baseball team in a California mining town enlists the help of a quick-witted twelve-year-old orphan and the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid to win a big game against the National League Champion Chicago White Stockings.

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