Frank Carlson Library

In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild. Fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is heading west on the Oregon Trail with his family by wagon train. When he receives a rifle for his birthday, he is thrilled that he is being treated like an adult. But Francis lags behind to practice shooting and is captured...

While traveling west with her family in 1850, a young girl make a patchwork quilt chronicling the experiences of the journey and reserves two special patches for her pet hen Josefina.

From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy. Chosen as one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times, and greeted with critical acclaim as 'the most insightful and timely work on the Balkans to date'-The Boston Globe, Kaplan's prescient, enthralling, and...

Records the author's travels on the back roads of America. This trip around America celebrates underestimated pleasures, simple lives, and the appreciation of a continuity with the past.

Before New York Times bestselling author Bill Bryson wrote The Road to Little Dribbling, he took this delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation of Great Britain, which has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie's Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey.

This volume brings together James's writings on Great Britain and America. The essays of "English Hours" convey the freshness of James's 'wonderments and judgments and emotions' on first encountering the country that became his adopted home for half a century. He captures the varied life of London in a series of walks through that 'murky, modern Babylon,' which contains 'the most romantic town-vistas in the world.'...James includes vivid accounts...

Mercy Lynch is just a frustrated nurse who wants to see her father before he dies. But she'll have to survive both Union intrigue and Confederate opposition if she wants to make it off the Union-operated, Tacoma-bound "Dreadnought" alive.