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Set against the backdrop of the California Gold Rush, this darkly comic novel follows the misadventures of the fabled Sisters brothers, two hired guns who, under the order of the mysterious Commodore, try to kill Hermann Kermit Warm, a man who gives them a run for their money.

A fictional retelling of the early life of Mary Jemison who was captured during the French and Indian War and lived for most of her life with the Seneca Indians.

The first volume of The Kent Family Chronicles, following the adventures of Philip Kent from his birthplace in France to his new home in Revolutionary-era America.

The arrival from Philadelphia of her spiteful nemesis Sally Biddle and the return of her corrupt ex-fiance Richard Baldt spell trouble for seventeen-year-old Miss Jane Peck, who has survived on her own in Shoalwater Bay, a community of white settlers and Chinook Indians in 1850s Washington Territory.

Twelve-year-olds Anikwa, of the Miami village of Kekionga, and James, of the trading post outside Fort Wayne, find their friendship threatened by the rising fear and tension brought by the War of 1812.

"In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads a small band of men on an expedition that has been deemed impossible: to venture up the Wolverine River and pierce the vast, untamed Alaska Territory.

"When John Hale's parents moved from Chicago to a farm in the Dakota Territory in the late 1880s, he was not happy (too hot in summer, too cold in winter, and that is just the beginning); but after a year, and now eleven, he has settled in and made some friends at school--but when a sunny day in January 1888 turns abruptly into a deadly blizzard he will need all his strength and courage to survive what became known to history as The Children's Blizzard.

"In 1807, Harriet Winter leaves her family's New Hampshire farm with her brother to settle in the Genesee Valley to avoid being pushed into marriage with her neighbor, Daniel Long"--OCLC.

"Indian Territory, 1881. Brody Martin, at 15 has survived a gunpowder explosion, a bear attack, a panther attack, and more than one attempt on his life.

Ten years after the events of Vengeance Road, Reece Murphy, who has been forced to join the Rose Riders gang, must work with aspiring journalist Charlotte Vaughn to get free.

"It's 1850, and you are continuing on the treacherous Oregon Trail.

"It's 1855. You and your family are leading a wagon train on the Oregon Trail.

"It's 1849. You and your family are at the halfway mark on your 2,000-mile journey West.

Sixteen-year-old Sissel Hemstad and her siblings have been living peacefully in small-town Montana, but while two men, one a mine owner and one a Pinkerton spy, are courting her, using her gift as a Ransacker could doom them all.

Rachel helps her father build a sod house for the family after they move to the prairie.