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Slowly dying in the saddle from a bullet wound in his hip, Trace found a cave and crawled in. When he awoke there was a woman kneeling beside him attending to his wound.

NOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is among the Company's finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly...

"In 1911, Carrie Strahorn wrote a memoir entitled Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, which shared some of the most exciting events of 25 years of traveling and shaping the American West with her husband, Robert Strahorn, a railroad promoter, investor, and writer. That is all fact. Everything She Didn't Say imagines Carrie nearly ten years later as she decides to write down what was really on her mind during those adventurous nomadic years. Certain that...

Major James Brionne had brought Dave Allard to trial for murder, but his brothers returned to settle the score four years later. Brionne and his son headed West to start a new life knowing there would be another showdown.

A novel of the Shoshone woman’s epic journey with Lewis and Clark from an American Book Award winner: “A grand adventure . . . not to be missed.” —Kirkus Reviews
                  
Captured by her enemies, married to a foreigner, and a mother at age sixteen, Sacajawea lived a life of turmoil

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"Scotsman-turned-cowboy Duff MacCallister traveled far and worked hard to start a new life in America. And anyone who tries to mess with his dream is in for some serious Highland justice . . .The cattle town of Chugwater may not look like much to outsiders. But for Duff MacCallister and the determined settlers who've staked their futures here, it's a land of opportunity. That's why the whole town is fired up by the latest news. Young railroad developer...

Men and women of uncommon cultures are bound ever more tightly in the fiery forge of the spirit and history of America. Old scores are violently settled, a Mormon family homesteads in the Utah Territories, and an outlaw vaquero with royal but bitter blood finds a new sense of place. The Sioux tribal coucil seeks answers to the dark shadows of change in the lands of the enemy Utes. The Ute chief, yearning for a son, makes a promise that spans generations...

"In 1845, Sammy, a Chinese American girl, and Annamae, an African American slave girl, disguise themselves as boys and travel on the Oregon Trail to California from Missouri"--

Set in 1855, Book Two continues the tale of four generations of men and women shaping the West as the West shapes them. Adventure, danger, love, armed conflicts, slavery, gold, and Indians play into their worlds and the ways of the American West.