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Dust Devil

author: Isaacs, Anne
Having moved to Montana from Tennessee in the 1830s, fearless Angelica Longrider--also known as Swamp Angel--changes the state's landscape, tames a wild horse, and captures some desperadoes.
398.2
year: 2010
copies: 31
call number/section: 398.2
lexile: 900
subjects: frontier and pioneer life [X], tall tales, montana [X], picture books for children, tall tales

Hattie Big Sky

author: Larson, Kirby
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 91
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700

When The Circus Came To Town

author: Yep, Laurence
An Asian cook and a Chinese New Year celebration help a ten-year-old girl at a Montana stage coach station to regain her confidence after smallpox scars her face.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 530
subjects: self-esteem, frontier and pioneer life [X], chinese new year, circus, chinese americans, montana [X]

Mountain Solo

author: Ingold, Jeanette
Tess, a violin prodigy who has been playing since age three, throws away all her training and talent to start a new life with her father in Montana, where she realizes having a normal life isn't always so normal.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: violinists, family life, mothers and daughters, stepfamilies, schools, montana [X], frontier and pioneer life [X]

The Big Burn

author: Ingold, Jeanette
Three teenagers battle the flames of the Big Burn of 1910, one of the century's biggest wildfires.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: forest fires, wildfires, frontier and pioneer life [X], idaho, montana [X], united states

The Big Sky

author: Guthrie, A. B
The first in a six-volume saga about the Western frontier, following the life of Boone Caudill, a young man who learns the ways of the West from farmer Dick Summers, only to turn to violence.
FIC
year: 1992
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 960
subjects: western stories, montana [X], frontier and pioneer life [X]

Ransacker

author: Laybourne, Emmy
Sixteen-year-old Sissel Hemstad and her siblings have been living peacefully in small-town Montana, but while two men, one a mine owner and one a Pinkerton spy, are courting her, using her gift as a Ransacker could doom them all.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
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Lone Women

author: Lavalle, Victor
Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: frontier and pioneer life [X], secrets, sisters, montana [X]

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