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The Man from Shenandoah    by Marsha Ward
Price: $3.99 USD. 76260 words. Published on October 27, 2009. .

Book 1: The Owen Family Saga. Returning from the Civil War, Carl Owen finds the farm ruined and his father set to leave Virginia. Then Carl falls in love, and he battles a band of outlaws, a prairie fire, blizzards, a trackless waterless desert, and his own brother—all for the hand of feisty Ellen Bates.
Eden's Deadly Shore    by John Ivor
Price: $2.99 USD. 27550 words. Published by Darling Newspaper Press  on November 15, 2009. .

At seventeen, shopgirl Maggie meets the man of her dreams, but her dye-stained cheeks turn the dream to nightmare. This thrilling sequel to Run Maggie Run is set in a class conscious 1830s colony, where Maggie opposes its corrupt British rulers.
Tales From the Drake House Outhouse    by Joe Novara
Price: $1.49 USD. 22890 words. Published on January 3, 2010. .

Based on a real pioneer homestead in Kalamazoo, Michigan, this story has two 12-year olds working back in time with each ‘find’ they dig up from an historian’s dream: a 180-year old outhouse. Zach uses his imagination to create a movie script about the Drake family. Maddy objects to Zach’s notion that, “all stories are true and some of them actually happened.”
Jane, A Woman's Determination and the Wild West Frontier    by Michael R. King
Price: $6.99 USD. 70960 words. Published on May 1, 2010. .

Jane McKechnie Walton was murdered during Utah's pioneer day celebration in 1891. One hundred and eighteen years later, her case - solved. Emigrated from Scotland in 1850, she braved an ocean crossing, walked the American plains as a pioneer and conquered, "Hole in the Rock," where wagons and cattle were lowered 2,000 feet below. Fought Indians and drunken outlaws and settled the west.
Passengers to Zeta Nine    by Peter Salisbury
Price: Free! 103880 words. Published on August 2, 2010. .

Raife and Doctor Nancy Zing’s electronic DNA records and mind patterns have been travelling for one hundred and twenty years. They will be the first humans to see Zeta Nine, a beautiful Earth-class planet covered in lush vegetation, warm seas and having an apparent absence of predators. Everything looks perfect, or is it too good to be true..?
The Pioneers    by Jack Cavanaugh
Price: $3.99 USD. 122320 words. Published on September 25, 2010. .

Book 5, American Family Portrait series. In an age of sweatshops and oppressive factory conditions, tenement dwellers cling to dreams of better days. One such dreamer is Jesse Morgan. But when a real-life act of heroism goes terribly wrong, Jesse flees New York’s east side for the pioneering West, pursued by his past. On steamboats, wagon trains, railroads and open buggies, the chase is on.
A Home from the Woods ebook version    by Michael Antoniak
Price: $5.00 USD. 60960 words. Published on January 17, 2011. .

Part how to, part adventure, A Home From The Woods details methods used for four different log cabin projects: Restoring A Standing Cabin; Building A Hand-hewn Cabin; Building with Rounded Logs; and Taking Down and Recreating An Original Log Cabin. The straightforward advice is put in perspective with a personal narrative of the challenges and rewards of building that idyllic cabin in the woods.
Catherine's Travels    by Adele Marie Crouch
Price: $3.99 USD. 89510 words. Published on February 6, 2011. .

The chances that we ll find ourselves in a wilderness survival situation are remote, of course, but immigrants who came to this country to help settle the vast wilderness of the America of 1820 willingly put themselves in just such circumstances. They prepared themselves for dangerous and long treks across wide stretches of prairie, through dense forests, over mountains and through rivers.
Pioneer Mother:The Life and Times of Esther Clark Short    by Hillary Brown
Price: $4.99 USD. 60990 words. Published on February 20, 2011. .

Esther Clark Short was a Native American woman who went West. She was a claim jumper, an enterprising business woman, and the founder of the town of Vancouver, Washington. She lived in a time when the Pacific Northwest was a place of danger and opportunity. This book explores not only her life, but the lives of the famous people she knew in the swirl of tummultous times.
The Real Story of Kit Carson    by Alton Pryor
Price: $0.99 USD. 2450 words. Published on July 6, 2011. .

Kit Carson was the consummate American hero. He was a little man but could handle a big man's courageous feats. He was a mountain man that led such explorers as John C. Fremont across the driest of deserts and highest of mountains into uncharted territory.