frontier and pioneer life

In the Indiana wilderness in 1821, twelve-year-old Nelly Vandorn and her older brother hold fast to their rough frontier ways when their father brings home a fancy new city wife not long after burying their mother.

In 1860, eleven-year-old Annie, who lives at the Red Buttes Pony Express station in the Nebraska Territoryasks Pony Express rider Billy Cody to help her find the person responsible for sabotaging her favorite pony Magpie.

As her family travels from Vermont to settle in California, in the early 1850's fourteen-year-old Luanna learns to accept life for what it is, no matter where.

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

In Dakota Territory in the 1880s, half-Chinese Hanna and her white father face racism and resistance to change as they try to make a home for themselves. Includes author's note.

A blend of fact and fiction introduces readers to a period in the United States history known as the westward expansion.

"Barbie's family sets up a backyard campsite to try living like pioneers, but when her mother needs to get an important project to work and there is too much traffic for her to get it there on time, the girls come up with a way to save the day"--OCLC.

Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.

Alone in the frontier wilderness in the winter of 1839 while his father is recovering from an injury, eleven-yearold Nathan runs afoul of the renegade killer known as Weasel and makes a surprising discovery about the concept of revenge.

Having separated from the one-armed trapper who taught him how to survive in the wilderness of the Old West, fifteen-year-old Francis gets lost and continues to have adventures involving dangerous men and a friendly mule.