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2) Love begins
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"After their father's passing, Ellen Barlow and her sister Cassie struggle to maintain the family farm in Anderson's Corner. When Clark Davis finds trouble in town on his way to California, Ellen agrees to hire him at the farm to work off his debts. Before long, Clark and Ellen unexpectedly develop feelings for each other. Ultimately, a turn of events inspires the pair to begin a legacy of love and faith together."
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This is a story about one man's passion for the wide-open spaces and freedom of the Canadian North. Frank is from Germany and knew nothing about Yukon when he decided to give up his job and become a trapper. He chose a rough life of fishing and hunting over material comforts and the responsibilities of raising a family. The call of the wild was too strong to resist.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A heartwarming story adapted from the bestselling 'Love Comes Softly' series by Janette Oke. When the wife of a struggling homesteader on the western frontier unexpectedly dies, the man searches for the strength and courage to raise his young daughter, and finds it, with the help of his parents.
Pub. Date
[2011], c1996
Language
English
Description
Whether Wyatt Earp and his five brothers were law breaking badge holders or tamers of wild boomtowns of the West, this family left behind more than blood at the OK Corral. Follow their controversial trail from their Midwestern roots during the Civil War to Kansas cow towns like Dodge City, to the mining towns of Leadville and Tombstone, to the golden land of California at the turn of the century. The story of the Wild West is not complete without...
Language
English
Formats
Description
An ambitious rancher sets his sights on the hills of the awesome Snowy River country. Buried somewhere in that pristine wilderness, protected by treacherous terrain and bands of wild, stampeding horses, is a fortune in unmined gold. Before the rancher can stake his claim, however, his world is turned upside down when a cowboy steals his daughter's heart and uncovers a secret in those hills more precious than any treasure. Bonus features included.
Pub. Date
[2011], c1996
Language
English
Description
The western frontier attracted all kinds of honest hard working men and women in search of wealth, happiness and a better way of life. The West also attracted another breed of individual, ruthless and lazy men and women who wanted to get rich quick without working. They were called bandits, highway men or just plain robbers. Frontier robberies made headlines in newspapers all across the country and the robbers themselves became famous, not by settling...
10) Never grow old
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a vicious outlaw takes over a peaceful frontier town, an undertaker must choose between profits and survival in this gritty western.
11) The homesman
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs to join her.
12) The searchers
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughters. Breathtaking scenery gives a picture of frontier families separated by miles of emptiness.
13) The West
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the history of the American West, starting with the first European explorations and ending with the beginning of the 20th century. Examines the impact of the white settlers on the lives of the Native Americans and the land. Also discusses the Gold Rush, the Civil War, the building of the transcontinental railroad, the battle of Little Bighorn, and the massacre at Wounded Knee.
Pub. Date
[2011], c1996
Language
English
Description
It was early in the 1800s that Americans were lured to a new way of life in an untamed frontier region of Mexico called Texas. Thousands of settlers would stream into this foreign land hoping to spread their heritage and their culture. The true story of this land is of two men who swept through history in a Texas sized legend of incredible battles and tremendous enterprise. Stephen Austin and Sam Houston would lead the Texans in their struggle for...
16) The Real West
Series
Pub. Date
[2011], c1996
Language
English
Description
There was a point in time that the North American Indians relied upon the construction and use of simple weapons to sustain the two necessities of life: procurement of food and the defense of families and communities. Daily life was constantly threatened by the forces of nature, opposing tribes, and most deadly of all, the invading white man. In response to the white intruder, the Indian warrior - who had spent his entire youth using bows and arrows,...
Pub. Date
[2011], c1996
Language
English
Description
In the beginning there were no schools, no churches and no laws. Many men recognized no authority but their own and this was usually dictated at the business end of a gun. Western boomtowns were magnets for every gun fighter, gambler, prostitute and hell raiser who could buy passage there. In time a cry went out for someone to bring order to this violent insanity. This is the story of the Western law man, who rode into town and to the rescue.
Pub. Date
[2011], c1996
Language
English
Description
Neither the snag-studded, sand bar filled waters of the Missouri River, nor the mighty Indian tribes that lined its banks could stop the power of the mighty steamboats. Westward expansion into the vast new frontiers of the Louisiana Purchase was propelled by steam beginning in the 1830s when early trips brought soldiers, miners, homesteaders and supplies that would lead the way for the defeat of the Indians and the settlement of the West. But before...
Pub. Date
[2011], c1996
Language
English
Description
By the 1890s the West was changing fast; the century was about to turn and the old way was dying, even bands of outlaws were being pulled into the modern world. Butch Cassidy's "Wild Bunch" was the last of the great Western desperado groups, but rather than going quietly into the night, they clashed with the modern world using daring, innovation, and cunning. This is the story of a different breed of outlaw. Where others bragged about being the fastest,...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
2 documentary programs. The Oregon Trail is an account of America's longest and most famous pioneer trail, covering the reasons for going, the landscape crossed, and the experience as described in immigrants' diaries. The Pony Express describes the gamble that bankrupted the men who started it, and lasted only 19 months, but made a legend of its riders and provided a vital link between California and the Northern states at the start of the Civil War....
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