"Presents biographical information for nearly 6000 pioneers who settled Massachusetts between 1620 and 1650. This classic reprint includes Pope's full, annotated text (published 1900) and his ten-page supplement of additions and corrections (published 1902-1904). This book also contains a list of abbreviations, sources, former town names, aggregate data for occupations and social position, and an all-name index" -- Back cover.

"Based on an actual historical event but told through fictional diaries, this is the story of a remarkable woman who travels west in 1875 and marries the chief of the Cheyenne Nation. One thousand white women begins with May Dodd's journey west into the unknown. Yet the unknown is a far better fate than the life she left behind. Committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for the crime of loving a man beneath her station, May finds that...

Elizabeth Thatcher is young, pretty, cultured, and educated. But when she journeys west to teach school in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, she's completely unprepared for the conditions she encounters. Still, she's determined to succeed at the formidable task of fitting in with the locals and shaping the hearts and minds of the schoolchildren in her care. She's just as determined not to give her heart to any of the local frontiersmen. Until...

"Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It's locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide start to disappear. The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will become one of the "lone women" taking advantage...

A PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist • Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award • Winner of the Oregon Book Award

"An instant classic. . . a truly beautiful piece of American storytelling." —William Kittredge, author of Owning It All

A widowed homesteader is determined to make a life in the unforgiving mountains of late 19th century Oregon in

...

Book 3 of Love Comes Softly. Clark and Marty's daughter, ready to start her own life, must rely on faith in the face of homesickness and mounting hardships.

Follows the Ingalls family's journey through Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, back to Minnesota, and on to Dakota Territory, examining sixteen years of travels, unforgettable experiences, and the everyday people who became immortal through Wilder's fiction. Using additional manuscripts, letters, photographs, newspapers, and other sources, Wilder biographer Pamela Smith Hill adds context and leads readers through Wilder's growth as a writer....

"A New York society girl buys a ranch in New Mexico and finds herself involved in frontier warfare and a love affair with one of the dashing cowboys she feared before she knew the ways of the West"--Amazon.

"Josephine Nordegren and her two sisters grew up nearly wild in southwestern Colorado. Jo has the archery skills of Robin Hood and a curiosity about the forbidden outside world -- a world she's been led to believe killed her parents. When rancher David Warden brings a herd near the girls' secret home, Jo is too interested to stay away. David's parents soon follow, escaping bandits at their ranch. David's father is wounded and needs shelter, and Jo...

"My Antonia(1918) depicts the pioneering period of European settlement on the tall-grass prairie of the American midwest, with its beautiful yet terrifying landscape, rich ethnic mix of immigrants and native-born Americans, and communities who share life's joys and sorrows". --- back cover.