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All True
Travels and Adventures of Liddie Newton / Jane Smiley
PS 3569 .M39 A79 1998b
Liddie Newton, plain, penniless, and
parentless, and her new husband, make their way to Kansas
Territory with a case of Sharpes rifles and a desire to keep
Kansas free.
Citizen
Washington / William Martin
pbk - Martin
A fictional account of George
Washington portrays a man full of imperfections and
limitations who overcame personal struggles to become one of
history's greatest leaders.
Dream
West / David Nevin
PS 3564 .E853 D7 1983
Based on truth about the brave men
and women who forged westward, this book personalizes Charles
Fremont, an American explorer.
Drums
Along the Mohawk / Walter Dumaux Edmonds
PS 3509 .D564
D7 1964
The Martins endure the grave hazards
of pioneer life in the Mohawk Valley and cling tenaciously to
the land for which they fought in this classic tale of
frontier life.
Drums
of Autumn (Outlander Series) / Diana Gabaldon
PS 3557 .A22 D78 1997
and
pbk - Gabaldon
Scottish soldier Jamie Fraser and his
wife, Claire Randall, a twentieth century doctor who has
traveled two centuries back in time, find themselves in South
Carolina on the eve of the American Revolution, where they
must fight to save a young girl.
Flight
of the Intruder / Stephen Coonts
PS 3553 .O5796
F5 1986
During the Vietnam War, attack pilot
Jake Grafton, struggling with his conscience and trying to
find meaning to all the senseless death and destruction,
decides to plan an illegal bombing raid into the heart of
Hanoi.
The
Grapes of Wrath / John Steinbeck
PS 3537 .T3234 G8 1967
and PS
3537 .T3234 G8 1993
Set during the Great Depression, this
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a story of human
perseverance, survival, and dignity.
In search of a better life, a
migrant family travels from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to
California only to be exploited by the agricultural system.
The
Great Alone / Janet Dailey
PS 3554 .A29 G7 1986
This sweeping epic, spanning more
than 200 years and seven generations of native Alaskans, tells
the story of the building of Alaska from a woman's point of
view
Homeland
/ John Jakes
PS 3560 .A37 H66 1993
Paul Crown, a bold, ambitious man
driven by a powerful vision rises from a penniless newcomer to
a pioneer newsreel cameraman. The story continues in American
Dreams (pbk - Jakes).
The
Last Full Measure / Jeff Shaara
PS 3569 .H18 L3
1998
Follows the continuing showdown
between Grant and Lee on the battlefields of the Civil War.
The Last
of the Mohicans / James Fenimore Cooper
PS 1408 .A1 1932
and
PS 1408 .A1 1951
Hawkeye and his two Mohican
companions join two sisters on a perilous trek through the
wilderness near Lake Champlain to join their father at Fort
William Henry during the French and Indian War.
Martha
Peake / Patrick McGrath
PS 3563 .C3663
M37 2000
Fleeing the brutality of her father,
poet, smuggler, and drunkard Harry Peake, Martha Peake sets
sail for America, where she becomes caught up in the colonies'
struggle for independence from Britain. She soon discovers
that she cannot escape the betrayals of the past.
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Mason
& Dixon / Thomas Pynchon
PS 3566 .Y55
M37 1997
Follows mismatched British surveyors,
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, as they make their way
through the perils of eighteenth-century, pre-Revolutionary
America.
On
Secret Service / John Jakes
PS 3560 .A37
O52 2000
Retraces the early years of the
"Secret Service," from the Pinkertons to the
assassination of Lincoln, following four main characters--a
spy, a rebel, an actress, and an officer.
On
the Occasion of My Last Afternoon / Kaye Gibbons
PS 3557 .I13917
O58 1998
Set in the South, this is the
fictional reminiscences of Emma Garnet Tate Lowell, circa
1842-1900.
Once
an Eagle / Anton Meyer
PS 3563 .Y74 O5
1968
Tells the brilliant inside views of
the life of a career officer in peace and war.
A
Place Called Freedom / Ken Follett
PR 6056 .O45
P58 1995
In 1766, Mack McAsh and Lizzie Hallam
are two restless souls searching for freedom, undertaking a
turbulent journey that takes them from London to a Virginia
plantation.
The
President’s Lady / Irving Stone
PS 3537 .T669 P7 1951
A novel about the lives of President
Andrew Jackson and his wife, Rachel.
Stone also writes of the lives of John and Abigail
Adams (Those Who Love – PS 3537. T669 T5
1965) and Abraham and Mary Lincoln (Love is Eternal
– PS 3537 .T669 L6 1954).
The
Proud and the Free / Janet Dailey
PS 3554 .A29 P73 1994
The author takes us inside the
Cherokee Nation’s struggle for justice in the early 1830s
and their forced removal known as the Trail of Tears.
Continued by Legacies - PS 3554 .A29 L43 1995.
Ragtime
/ E. L. Doctorow
PS 3554 .O3 R33 1975
This is
a hilarious yet somber tale of life in America in the early
1900s. Magically
the story lines interweave historical figures with fictional
events and fictional characters become part of real history.
Rise
to Rebellion / Jeff Shaara
PS 3569 .H18
R57 2001
The 1770 killing of civilians by
British troops during the Boston Massacre and the tumultuous
trial that follows ignites the flames of revolution that will
culminate in America's epic struggle for independence.
Sapphire’s
Grave / Hilda Gurley-Highgate
PS 3607 .U55 S36 2003
Spanning more than two centuries,
this novel tells the stories of several generations of African
American women.
Shiloh
/ Shelby Foote
PS 3511 .O348
S5 1976
Written by a historian and Civil War
expert, this is a vivid story of a pivotal battle in American
history.
The 13th
Valley / John Del Vacchio
PS 3554 .E4463 A613 1982
James Chelni, an infantryman in
Vietnam, who, while stationed in an area controlled by enemy
forces, changes from having pacifist leanings to being a
raging war lover.
The
Way to Bright Star / Dee Alexander Brown
PS 3503 .R79533 W39 1998
Presents the story of a boy who makes
an adventure-filled journey across Kansas and Missouri to
Bright Star, Indiana, during the Civil War.
Zeke
and Ned / Larry McMurtry
pbk - McMurtry
Narrates the story of the last
Cherokee warriors through the adventures of two proud and
passionate men, Ezekiel Proctor and Ned Christie, on a
remarkable quest to carve a future out of wild Oklahoma
Territory after the Civil War, while remaining true to their
heritage and eluding the white law officers pursuing them.
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