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141) Heartland
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
"Billy Tree once protected the most powerful man in the world. If the situation called for it, he would have given his own life to save another's. But after his partner dies at the hands of a potential presidential assassin, a physically and spiritually broken Tree returns to his hometown of Falls City, Nebraska, to contemplate his own part in the fiasco." "Joan Blanchard never made it out of Falls City. She stayed behind, locked in an unhappy marriage....
Author
Series
The paternal family saga volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"A FAR PLACE, the sequel to GERMAN YANKEE takes the reader on an emotional account of another generation making unthinkable sacrifices to find a better life. Schutte is a master at pulling the reader into the lives of her characters and compels you to turn the page. John and Mary Wamhoff have a good life in rural Germantown, Nebraska in the late 1800s, it is all Mary ever wanted-a lovely Victorian home with two children and a successful, ambitious...
143) Cast a wide loop
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"By the autumn of 1883, the wild country west of Holt County was getting organized. Brown County was carved out of Holt and Long Pine precinct early in the year, and the railroad reached Stuart and Bassett and rolled on to Valentine. Telegraph lines ran between the cities, and newspapers-Lord, the newspapers!-were everywhere with their blaring headlines. Progress, every place you looked. But when Augustus "Gus" John is caught between the vigilantes...
144) Rainrock reckoning
Author
Series
Lone McGantry western volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Former Indian scout Lone McGantry is hired by Harriet Munro, a fiery woman lawyer seeking to make a name for herself on the western Nebraska frontier. Munro has taken the case of beautiful young Roxanne Bigbee -- a desperate fugitive fleeing a trumped-up murder conviction and a hangman's noose. But before she can appear for the re-trial that Harriet has arranged, Roxanne must be rescued from the current threatening situation her flight has placed...
145) The brass command
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"On the night of September 2, 1878, two men died. One was Colonel James McAllister, the commander of Fort Robinson in northwestern Nebraska. The other was Iron Mountain, chief of the Cheyenne living in exile on the Darlington Reservation near Fort Reno in Oklahoma Territory. As Dull Knife becomes the new chief of the Cheyenne, he considers the condition of his people. Once strong, they are now ravaged by hunger and disease. With only a few muzzle-loading...
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Series
Pub. Date
1989.
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Description
O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece. No other work of fiction so faithfully conveys both the sharp physical realities and the mythic sweep of the transformation of the American frontier-- and the transformation of the people who settled it. Cather's heroine is Alexandra Bergson, who arrives on the wind-blasted prairie of Hanover, Nebraska, as a girl and grows up to make it a...