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1) The missing
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maggie is a young plainswoman raising her two daughters in the desolate wilderness of New Mexico. When daughter Lily is kidnapped by a dark-hooded phantom with shape-shifting powers, Maggie's long-estranged father offers to help find her. Though stunned by his return, Maggie knows she must swallow both hurt and pride if she is ever to see Lily again. Unaware of the frightening events that lurk in the distance, father and daughter set out to track...
3) Destry
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ruthless gambler Decker and his cronies are causing unrest in the sleepy frontier town of Restful. After the local sheriff dies under mysterious circumstances, Decker arranges to have the town drunk appointed sheriff, thinking he will be easily controlled. But the new sheriff sends for Tom Destry, son of a famous two-fisted lawman, to be his deputy. When Tom arrives, he isn't exactly the swaggering hero the sheriff had in mind. In fact, Destry doesn't...
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on true events, THE NIGHT THEY CAME HOME chronicles the ruthless exploits of the Rufus Buck Gang, Native American outlaws who terrorized the Indian Territory of Middle America at the tail end of the 19th century. The combined force of local lawmen and Indian police aim to take down a coldhearted band of fugitives with vengeance on their minds in this Western-thriller.
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The television movie that started the Little house on the prairie series takes viewers "from the woods of Wisconsin to the plains of Kansas, where the Ingalls struggle to build a new life"--Container.
Series
Love Comes Softly volume 10
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A heartwarming story adapted from the bestselling 'Love Comes Softly' series by Janette Oke. When the wife of a struggling homesteader on the western frontier unexpectedly dies, the man searches for the strength and courage to raise his young daughter, and finds it, with the help of his parents.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 196 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The premiere movie depicts Charles Ingalls and his family leaving their home in Wisconsin to make a new life in Kansas. Remember me involves a terminally-ill widow who enlists Charles Ingalls' help in finding a home for her three children.
10) Lone rider
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On the lawless outskirts of the Wild West an honored soldier must stand alone to protect his family from a corrupt landowner and a ruthless band of outlaws.
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (295 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sarah, plain and tall: In this heartwarming, enormously popular family film, a mail-order bride travels to Kansas in 1910 and teaches a lonely family to love again. Skylark: When Sarah's beloved family is tested first by nature and then by a separation, they discover that home is not a piece of land, but a place within the heart. Winter's end: Having abandoned his family decades ago, Palance returns to the farm to reconcile his relationship with his...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 393 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Seven westerns starring John Wayne.
Star packer: A gang working for The Shadow is terrorizing the town. John Travers decides to take on the job of sheriff and do something about it.
Randy rides alone: Jailed for murders he didn't commit, Randy escapes only to stumble into the den of the real murderers.
Dawn rider: Just as John travels to visit his father, he witnesses his death and suffers a gun wound - a beautiful woman is kind enough to help...
13) The homesman
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs to join her.
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Missie and Wille LaHaye are on their way to the west. The couple become rugged pioneers as they face all kinds of hardships, including death. Missie fights homesickness, boredom, and being pushed to the limit. Can her faith help her through?
15) Young pioneers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (97 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film tells the tale of Molly and David Beaton, two teenage newlyweds, who start their life together as homesteaders in the Dakota Territory in the 1870s.
16) The homesman
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) ( approximately 122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs to join her.
Series
Love Comes Softly volume 8
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 mins) sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pregnant Annie visits Dr. Owen who desperately wants a child but is unable to get pregnant, and Belinda faces some difficult decisions.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (ca. 1020 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book.
Language
English
Description
The Ingalls leave Walnut Grove and the Carters move into their old house. Meanwhile Nellie returns to Walnut Grove and Nancy runs away because she is no longer the center of attention. These are just a few of the moments from the ninth season.
19) Jane got a gun
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young and pretty with a soul of pure steel, Jane Hammond is a good girl married to one of the worst baddies in town. When her husband Bill turns against his own gang, the vicious Bishop Boys, and returns home barely alive with eight bullets in his back, Jane knows it's time to ditch the dress for a pair of pants and strap on her own gun.
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two years after the death of her husband, Missie heads home with her son to be near her parents and to return to teaching. Certain she will never find love again, Missie adopts Belinda, a feisty young teenager who's arrived with a secret. As Missie struggles with raising Belinda, she finds she is falling for the local sheriff who might be the only man who can help her save Belinda...and herself.
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