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41) A cold war
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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Nina Granville believes her business trip to Alaska will give her a short respite from the merry-go-round that came with her engagement to Congressman Terrence Donnelly. But instead of allowing her the peace she craves, Ninas getaway from the public eye means that no one witnesses her abduction into a very cold hell.
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Series
Adventures of Dalton Laird volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Dalton Laird is a loner, a fur trapper, living in the Alaskan bush during the Fairbanks gold rush in the early 1900s. He takes pride in handling his furs and managing the resource. Seemingly content with his lonely existence without a partner of any kind, save his lead dog Bandit, sired by a black wolf, his life is suddenly turned upside down when he finds Yukon Jack, an old Sourdough, mauled by a grizzly on the banks of the Salcha River. Still alive,...
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Adventures of Dalton Laird volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
The last thing legendary trapper and dog musher Dalton Laird expected while running mail and freight between steel during the construction of the Alaska railroad in 1918, was a run in with a member of the old Interior Syndicate he had broken up and sent to prison in 1910.To Frank Ward's way of thinking, he had done eight years in a Canadian Prison because of Dalton...and then Dalton went and stole his woman; the beautiful half-breed daughter of Jon...
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First mountain man series volume 8
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"In 1812, a boy filled with wanderlust and courage runs away from home, westward, into a vast, dangerous land. Along the way he learns the rule of the frontier: do whatever it takes to survive. By the time the boy-now a young man-is hired to lead a wagon train through the last leg of the Oregon Trail, he has acquired a nickname known throughout the West: Preacher. Armed with a long gun, he is as fierce as the land itself. For the brave pioneers...
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Tim Colter volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Leaving their Pennsylvania home to forge a new life in the untamed Oregon Territory of 1845, the Colter family is ambushed by a kill crazy gang of Indians on the Oregon Trail. Fifteen-year-old Tim Colter manages to escape and hide--only to return and find his parents butchered, his sisters Nancy and Margaret missing. Forced to fight for his life, the young Colter embarks on a perilous journey across a lawless wilderness, hoping to save his sisters...
50) Beauty for ashes
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Disenchanted by his return home to Pennsylvania, 19-year-old Sam Morgan once again sets off for adventure in the American Plains of the 1820s. This time out, however, he is searching for his lost love--the Indian maiden Meadowlark.
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Rendezvous novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Sam Morgan, a member of Jedediah Smith's trapping brigade, is forced to abandon his infant daughter when his beloved Indian wife dies in childbirth. After traveling to Santa Fe with the brigade, Sam returns to California to reclaim his daughter and take her to his wife's village on the Wind River in Wyoming. When he gets to California, however, he learns that his daughter has been taken captive in an Indian raid. He eventually rescues his daughter...
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Grizzly Killer volume 7
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"RENDEZVOUS: Willow Valley, July 1831 – Zach Connors and his family are finally safe and among friends, where he can let his wounded leg heal. All of the Trappers and Mountain Men anxiously await the supply train from Saint Louis. It had been a perilous spring and summer for Zach, his family and friends. Known as Grizzly Killer throughout the wilderness they had fought a battle against Gros Ventre warriors and nearly lost a close friend in an avalanche....
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The mountain men were the trappers of the Rocky Mountain fur trade in the years following Lewis and Clark's Expedition of 1804 - 1806. With their bold journeys peaking during the period of 1830 - 1840, they were the first white men to enter the vast wilderness reaches of the Rockies in search of beaver "plews," as the skins were called. They feasted on abundant buffalo, elk, and other game while living the ultimate free-spirited wilderness life -...
54) True heart
Pub. Date
2002
Description
A twin brother and sister, lost in the Canadian wilderness after a plane crash, are helped by a Tlingit trying to save a Kodiak bear from poachers. The same poachers soon begin to hunt the twins and their rescuer.
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Pub. Date
2017
Description
In 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first U.S. expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the twenty-eight month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and scout, and honed his survival skills on the western frontier. But when the journey was over, Colter stayed behind, spending four more years trekking alone through dangerous and unfamiliar territory. Along the way, he charted some of the West's...
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Pub. Date
1998
Description
If you have ever wondered what is was like to be an explorer in the unspoiled American West of the early 1800s, then this is the audiobook for you. Not only a groundbreaking work of American history by critically acclaimed author Robert M. Utley, A Life Wild and Perilous is also a dramatic story of innovation and survival. Here is your chance to live in the very heart of the American wilderness with legendary trappers and mountain men like Jim Bridger,...
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Pub. Date
2017
Description
In the 1830s in the wild Wyoming territory, young fur trapper Jonathan Byrd accompanies his older partner to the yearly Rendezvous, a time for trappers to sell and trade goods along with merrymaking and games. Persuaded to join in, Jonathan wins a Crow pony, which he reluctantly accepts, and the Crow chief's daughter, whom he refuses. Jonathan means to give up the high country life, and sets out to make a peaceful home of a little folded valley called...