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1) O pioneers!
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O Pioneers by Willa Cather is story of a family of Swedish immigrants who settle in a fictional town in Nebraska. When her father dies, Alexandra Bergson inherits the family farm and is determined to see it succeed, even at a time when many immigrant families are leaving the prairie.
2) Badlands
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Candace enters the Badlands on a scientific expedition to study prehistoric man and fossils. The men with her attempt to plunder the Sioux Nation and everything becomes a nightmare.
4) Nebraska
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Describes the geography, ecology, history, economy, religions, culture and people of the state of Nebraska.
6) My Antonia
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Widely recognized as Willa Cather's finest book and one of the outstanding novels of American literature, My Antonia deals with the life of Bohemian immigrant and native American settlers in the vast frontier farmlands of Nebraska. It is a work which is particularly noted for its lucid and moving depiction of the prairie and the lives of those who live close beside it.
7) Nebraska!
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This is the story of fearless devotion to a hard-won ideal, of betrayal from within, and of sabotage that reaches as far as the shores of Britain and inperial Russia. And, above all, it is the story of "Whip" Holt, teh ruggedly quiet leader of this leg of the perilous migration, and of Cathy Van Ayl, who leaves her family behind in Missouri to continue on with Whip Holt's train, perhaps to win his heart.
8) Elsie's bird
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Young Elsie must find a way to adapt to her new home on the Nebraska prairie after she and her father leave their comfortable city life in Boston.
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"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon...
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"On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche received her medical degree becoming the first Native American doctor in U.S. history. She earned her degree thirty-one years before women could vote and thirty-five years before Indians could become citizens in their own country. By age twenty-six, this fragile but indomitable Indian woman became the doctor to her tribe. Overnight, she acquired 1,244 patients scattered across 850 square miles of rolling countryside...
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