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Magic tree house. Original series volume 23
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When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.
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Suddenly all alone in 1894 Kansas, Summer Steadman can't find the employment she needs to settle near the fresh graves of her husband and four children. Bitter against the Lord and refusing to eat, she collapses in despair. Remembering his own painful loss, godly widower Peter Ollenbuger offers her food and shelter for tutoring his 10-year-old son.
3) Wagon wheels
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Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.
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Town called Hope volume 3
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Evangelist Elijah Book is a fearless warrior for God, or so he believes. When a helpless infant is entrusted to his care, his zeal becomes sidetracked as the fate of an innocent child rests with a woman Eli must trust in spite of himself. Storms of hurt and bitterness threaten to overwhelm Lily Nolan after the death of her husband and child. If there is a God, how could He abandon her so completely? Can she risk opening her heart to the orphaned Samuel?...
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Pa Ingalls decides to sell the old house, and the family sets out for Indian Country! They travel from Wisconson to Kansas and there, finally, Pa builds their little house on the prairie. Sometimes farm life is difficult, even dangerous, but Laura and the family are kept busy and are happy with the promise of their new life on the prairie.
7) Prairie fire
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1998 HOLT Medallion finalist! / 1998 finalist for Romantic Times Reviewers Choice! The fictional town of Hope discovers the importance of forgiveness, overcoming prejudice, and the dangers of keeping unhealthy family secrets.
8) The Kincaids
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Follows Jake Kincaid, a gambler, loner, and hunter whose ambition and greed forever change Kansas and the Indian Territories as well as the lives of his two sons--one a lawman and one an outlaw.
9) Prairie Rose
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Abandoned as a baby and raised in a crowded orphanage, Rosie Mills has always dreamed of a home of her own. Now she finally sees her chance. Impulsively, she heads to the Kansas prairie to care for a widower's young son. In exchange, she'll have a place to call home. Rosie soon discovers, however, that what she longs for even more than a home is someone to love her. Love is too risky for Seth Hunter. Deserted by his own father, he fears getting close...
11) The Amen Trail
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2004
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After one of her clients dies under embarrassing circumstances, frontier saloon girl Leticia Murphy fled the town of Lizard Flats with handyman and erstwhile drunk Eulis Potter in tow. Eager to forget her colorful past, Letty is determined to turn over a new leaf, and Eulis is happy to follow her. Impersonating a preacher and his wife, the pair travel from the Kansas territories to Colorado-marrying couples, baptizing babies, and performing burials...
12) May B: a novel
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When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.
15) West of Railhead
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"'WELCOME TO EDEN GROVE -- FASTEST GROWING CITY IN THE WEST.' That was the message that greeted newspaperman Clark Tanner as he rode into the raw, new town in the summer of 1872. A lot of people, Tanner included, were putting all their hopes and dreams into founding the town and making a fresh start of things. Perhaps no one of them wanted to wipe the slate clean more than Clark Tanner, whose crusade against the corruption of a powerful block of Nebraska...
16) A dangerous love
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Mercy and Eagleflight volume 2
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c1997
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Mercy Randolph, at home in Sweetriver, Kansas, finds herself in the midst of danger moving as fast as a tornado. Meanwhile, Jeremiah must learn to deal with his new faith and his new love--while risking everything to save his nephew from enemies
17) To the frontier
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Adventures of young Buffalo Bill volume 1
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2001.
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After the death of his brother, eight-year-old Bill Cody and his family set out from Iowa to make a new home for themselves in the volatile Kansas Territory.
19) Heartland
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1986
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"A novel about a family's fortunes on the American frontier."
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American Girl history mysteries volume 12
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c2001
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In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead, but Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the woman with whom Papa has corresponded.
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