Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

A boy worries that his aunt, who is raising him, will abandon him if she marries.

"She ventured west with the man she loved, but in one day her whole world had crumbled around her& Nineteen-year-old Marty Claridge starts west with her adventurous, boyish husband, Clem, seeking to claim land and hoping for good fortune. But when the venture turns suddenly to tragedy, Marty is left alone with her great loss. And coupled with her grief and heartache is the grim reality that there is no way to return home. Clark Davis and his little...

Sequel to: When comes the spring. Having survived their first year in the far Northwest, Elizabeth and her husband Wynn, a Royal Canadian Mountie, face new challenges and start a new school.

Cassandra Dell Winston recounts her life as the wife of a physician on the frontier.

"Addie Sullivan leads a quiet life in a northern California lighthouse. She mourns the death of her father and endures her mother's bitterness, until the night a storm brings an injured stranger and a dark secret to her home. The man insists she is not who she thinks she is, but rather "Julia Eaton" -- the child long lost and feared dead by her wealthy family. Seizing the chance to be reunited with the Eatons, Addie leaves her lighthouse home but...

Damaris runs away from an abusive father, with only the strength from her mother's love and two heirlooms, and her name. She must come to terms with her past, learn to live in her present circumstances, and trust her future to another Father.

Marty and Clark Davis's daughter Missie and her husband had homesteaded land in the far West, many weeks' journey away by covered wagon. But with the coming of the frontier railroad the miles are suddenly bridged, making possible their long-awaited reunion. Grandparents Marty and Clark are thrilled to meet their two little grandsons for the first time. Missie plies her mother with questions about her brothers and sisters while Willie shows them around...

Undecided about what to do with his life after graduation, Josh helps his grandfather and Uncle Charlie through some difficult times on the family farm.

A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally handicapped brother gets lost.

The year is 1817. Two years after Napoleons escape from Elba and his defeat at Waterloo. Two years after the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia came to be under Austrian control. Danger and intrigue flow through the waterways of Venice as Jack Coltrane, secret agent for the Crown, meets his match in Carlotta Bourdain, the most expensive courtesan in Europe.