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A Wartime Journey

Author: 
William Cupp
Published: 
2002
Price: 
$25.87

Follow the real-life journey of ball turret gunner of a B-24 bomber, William Lee Cupp. Cupp parachuted from his crippled aircraft on June 14, 1944 as it went down over Belgium. He spent the next ten months first evading the enemy, then being sheltreed by the brave mean and women of the Belgian and French Resistance, and finally as a POW of the Third Reich. 

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Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War

Author: 
TJ Stiles
Published: 
2002
Price: 
$17.58

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Faithful Unto Death

Author: 
John J. Koblas
Published: 
2001
Price: 
$36.24

The most accurate and detailed history yet written of the 1876 James-Younger Gang's raid on the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota.

On the 125th anniversary of the defeat of the gang, author John Koblas provides a detailed compilation of the known facts surrounding the foiled robbery. Koblas combines an exhaustive sweep of original source materials with previously unpublished information from the vaults of Northfield to shed new light on the raid. He takes us from New Orleans to the streets of Northfield to the State Prison of Minnesota, forming a coherent picture of the plans leading up to the raid and the days following it.

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The Story of Cole Younger by Himself

Author: 
Cole Younger
Published: 
Original: 1903; Updated: 2000.
Price: 
$13.43

Introduction by Marley Brant
 

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
 

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Mighty Stallion 4: Dancer's Dream

Author: 
Victoria Kasten
Published: 
2007
Price: 
$9.28

Dancer’s plan is simple. She wants nothing more than to live a life of solitary adventure. But when she meets Titan, a handsome black colt, she begins to question all of her plans.

As Dancer heads west with Titan and his young sister Lily, their lives are changed forever. They encounter wagon trains, a young girl’s friendship and a terrible western snowstorm, causing Dancer’s courage and inner strength to be put to the test.

Can Dancer uphold the image of her ancestors? Will she be worthy to be known as the great-granddaughter of the magnificent Sariavo?

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