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61) Amethyst
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Amethyst Colleen O'Shaunasy travels west to find her father's heir. But when she discovers Joel in Dakotah Territory, she uncovers shocking news. How will she be able to tell her overbearing father? And how will he react when he learns she's not coming home? Major Jeremiah McHenry has retired from the army and returns to Dakotah Territory to make a new life. Amethyst is touched by his kind and gentlemanly manner, and soon he's captured her heart....
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2014.
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"Belongs on your must-read list. This novel is a gem." —Omaha World-Herald
Nancy E. Turner's unforgettable These Is My Words melds the sweeping adventures and dramatic landscapes of Lonesome Dove with the heartfelt emotional saga of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All.
A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author's own family memoirs, these
...63) Tried & true
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2014.
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"In 1860s Idaho Territory, Kylie Wilde is disguised as a man, homesteading for profit so she can live comfortably back East. But love or danger could change her mind"--
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Kinship and courage series volume 1
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2000.
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Based on an incident on the Oregon Trail recorded by pioneer Ezra Meeker: "the meeting of eleven wagons returning and not a man left in the entire train; all had died, and been buried on the way, and the women returning alone." The novel explores the possible fate of these women, bonded by loss, growing in faith and fighting for survival.
65) Runaway heart
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Westward dreams series volume 1
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Holly Lambeth has traveled 2,000 miles from her home in Kentucky to escape the humiliation of her broken engagement. Holly has come west to find a new life, but her cousin's chilly reception suggests that she has made a terrible mistake.
66) The homesman
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The Homesman is a devastating story of early pioneers in 1850s American West. It celebrates the ones we hear nothing of: the brave women whose hearts and minds were broken by a life of bitter hardship. A homesman must be found to escort a handful of them back East to a sanitarium. When none of the countys men steps up, the job falls to Mary Bee Cuddyex-teacher, spinster, indomitable and resourceful. Brave as she is, Mary Bee knows she cannot succeed...
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Sarah Agnes Prine novels volume 1
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Frontier life through the eyes of Sarah Agnes Prine, a rancher's wife in Arizona who has to deal with Indians and outlaws, rifle in hand. Stuck in a loveless marriage, her romantic life picks up when her husband dies and she meets an army captain. Told in the form of a diary and based on a real-life person.
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Westward chronicles volume 1
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c1998
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Simone Dumas flees from her abusive father and is hired by Jeffrey O'Donnell to work as a Harvey Girl at the Topeka Harvey House.
69) Queen of swords
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Wilderness series (Sara Donati) volume 5
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c2006
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It is the late summer of 1814, and Hannah Bonner and her half brother Luke have spent more than a year searching the islands of the Caribbean for Luke’s wife and the man who abducted her. But Jennet’s rescue, so long in coming, is not the resolution they’d hoped for. In the spring she had given birth to Luke’s son, and in the summer Jennet had found herself compelled to surrender the infant to a stranger in the hope of keeping...
72) 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.
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Clark and Marty were caught up in a marriage of convenience that over time turned into deep mutual respect and love. They now preside over a growing family in their little prairie house. As they reach out to those in their frontier community, they discover that love is not limited to the size of one's dwelling.
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Plain, independent Lidie Harkness, impatient with the restrictions placed on women in mid-nineteenth century Illinois, jumps at the chance to marry New England abolitionist Thomas Newton and travel with him to the Kansas Territory where they embark on a dangerous quest to stop the spread of slavery.
77) Honor's Pledge
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c1998
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The paths of Abigail Martin, a woman of the western frontier, and Montgomery Farrel, a handsome Southern gentleman, cross.
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A CIRCLE OF COURAGEOUS WOMEN DISCOVERS THE MEANING OF INDEPENDENCE, FORGIVENESS, AND LOVE Ruth Martin had a dream: to become an independent woman and build a life in southern Oregon for herself and her children. But when her friend Mazy's inaction results in a tragedy that shatters Ruth's dream, Ruth must start anew and try to heal her tender wounds. Her friends are also moving on. Mazy wrestles with her understanding of what faith and family really...
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Westward chronicles volume 2
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Her dreams shattered in a whispered betrayal, Rachel Taylor looked to a future in the West, where she could separate from the memories and longings of her heart. When a new luxurious resort opens in New Mexico, Rachel's years of hard work and dedication with the Harvey House restaurants help her obtain the coveted position of house manager. Her initial excitement dims, however, when she discovers she will be working with Braeden Parker, the man her...
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Westward dreams series volume 2
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c1995
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Left homeless and penniless after the Civil War, Adelaide heads West to seek a new life and finds romance in the lush Napa Valley.