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Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (358 pages)
Language
English
Description
JW is a bank president whose life in turmoil as he faces the repercussions of his gambling addiction. With his career and family hanging by a thread, JW agrees to sabotage a rival banker, a Native American named Johnny Eagle, in the hopes of regaining his own financial foothold. But as JW befriends Eagle's son and his own prejudice against Natives begins to melt away, his task becomes easier said than done.
2) The orenda
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Publication Date
2014
Physical Desc
433 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"History reveals itself when, in the seventeenth century, a Jesuit missionary ventures into the Canadian wilderness in search of converts-the defining moment of first contact between radically different worlds. What unfolds over the next several years is truly epic, constantly illuminating and surprising, sometimes comic, always entrancing and ultimately all too human in its tragic grandeur. Christophe has been in the New World only a year when his...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
2018.
Physical Desc
649 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After four years of adventure in the frontier, Win Avery returns to his hometown on the edge of the prairie and tracks down his childhood friend, Jeb Dawson. Jeb has just lost his parents, and, in his efforts to console him, Win convinces his friend to travel west with him to see the frontier before it is settled, while it is still unspoiled wilderness. They embark on a free-spirited adventure, but their journey sidetracks when they befriend Meg Jameson,...
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Language
English
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"Luke Ransom was just eighteen years old when he answered an ad in a St. Louis newspaper that would change his life forever. The American Fur Company needed one hundred enterprising men to travel up the Missouri River--the longest in North America--all the way to its source. They would hunt and trap furs for one, two, or three years. Along the way, they would face unimaginable hardships: grueling weather, wild animals, hunger, exhaustion, and hostile...
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