Lamar Public Library

Exciting escapades follow Shirley's attempts to make an apple pie for Claude until one day an orphan boy makes a pie that wins him Claude's favor.

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

While traveling in 1883 with her Italian-American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.

Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.

Focuses on the homesteaders of the Great Plains, including who they were, their houses, hardships, farms, towns, food, laws, commerce and entertainment.

A pictorial history of Alaska, from its purchase by the United States in 1867 through 1912, chronicling the exploration of the wilderness, the discovery of gold, and the development of the whaling, fishing, and fur industries.

Portrays the people and times, the drama and danger of the developing frontier in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century United States.

Returning from the Civil War, wounded hero Toby Holt rides west to claim a homestead in the vast Washington timberland. There he finds a seductive courtesan and ruthless profiteers scheming to take over his property.