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Follows the story of Sayward as a wife and mother, working with her own brood on that hard frontier to create a durable home and the aspects of civilization in a region where life was still difficult and where towns were just beginning to appear.

A little pioneer girl and her family, living in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, make their first trip into town to visit the general store.

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....

Jacob Gamble and his crazy brother Ishmael are sworn enemies. But when they finally meet up at an old mission church in the desert to settle their feud, they find a score of massacred bodies...and one mortally wounded survivor who promises them riches beyond their wildest dreams if they return his prized possession to Canyon Diablo. Problem is, Canyon Diablo is the deadliest town on the frontier. A cutthroat named Boss Rex runs the place with murderous...

A young pioneer boy must adjust to settled frontier life when his father leaves him with relatives and returns to the woods.

After surviving the Whitman Massacre as a child, Mercy still prays for peace between the native peoples and the white settlers of Oregon Territory. Longing for purpose, she travels to another mission to help a friend. There she meets Adam, a handsome young minister. When tragedy strikes yet again, Mercy and Adam must rely on their faith to make it out alive.

Breck Wallace was turning into a true mountain man on the American frontier. As a teenager in Tennessee he killed in self-defense, then left behind a woman he loved. With a gun and trap lines he is learning how to survive in the Rockies, braving the punishing elements, ruthless outlaws, and forging an uneasy peace with the Indians. But as dangerous as life is, nothing is worse than a powerful man with a murderous grudge. Breckenridge has left two...

Others might think Elizabeth Sonnefelt's life idyllic. Recently married to Matthew, setting up housekeeping in a new home, surrounded by dear friends of the community, Elizabeth seems to have it all. What more could the teacher of Misty Creek's one-room school desire? But few knew what was missing in her life. Elizabeth suffered from an unfulfilled void that drove her heart to ache. Nor did any know the words that only she heard. Perhaps others might...

Acclaimed for her 1928 novel "A Lantern in Her Hand," Bess Streeter Aldrich became one of the most widely read interpreters of the prairie pioneer experience. In 1935, she published her masterpiece, "Spring Came on Forever," a novel of two Nebraska pioneer families from settlement to the 1930s. Elsewhere an artist of the romance, here Aldrich turns romance on its head.

"R. S. Belcher's debut novel, The Six-Gun Tarot, was enthusiastically greeted by critics and readers, who praised its wildly inventive mixture of dark fantasy, steampunk, and the Wild West. Now Belcher returns to Golgotha, Nevada, a bustling frontier town that hides more than its fair share of unnatural secrets. 1870. A haven for the blessed and the damned, including a fallen angel, a mad scientist, a pirate queen, and a deputy who is kin to coyotes,...