Frontier and pioneer life 
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 5.
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5 stars
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Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.
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4.2 stars
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The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Leatherstocking tales volume 1.
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5 stars
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The last of the five Leatherstocking tales recalls Natty Bumppo's adventures as a young man among the Delaware Indians of New York.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 9.
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4.3 stars
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During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.
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Leatherstocking tales volume 2.
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4.5 stars
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Chingachgook and Uncas are the last living members of the great Mahican tribe. Hawk eye, a colonial scout, is their companion and loyal friend. In the midst of the French and Indian War, the three take great risks to lead the two daughters of a British colonel to safety through the battle-torn northern wilderness. When the girls are captured by the vicious Huron tribe, Chingachgook, Uncas, and Hawk eye risk their very lives to rescue them.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 2.
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4.6 stars
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A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 7.
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5 stars
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At fifteen, Laura earns her teacher's certificate, gets a job, and starts going to parties.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 6.
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4.5 stars
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After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.
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2 stars
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In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy.
10. Old Yeller
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4.3 stars
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In the late 1860s in the Texas hill country, a big yellow dog and a fourteen-year-old boy form a close, loving relationship.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 4.
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4.4 stars
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Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.
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3.6 stars
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In the late eighteenth century, eleven-year-old Matt befriends an Indian boy of the Beaver clan who helps him survive alone in the wilderness.
Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 8.
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4.8 stars
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Fifteen-year-old Laura learns that living away from home and teaching school can be a bit frightening when most of the students are taller than she is, but every week Almonzo Wilder arrives to take her to her family for the weekend.