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1) The homesman
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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.
2) True women
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A powerful, moving story about two fearless women, of friendship, romance, courage and survival in the Old West. When Mexican forces threaten their homeland, Sarah Ashby McClure and her younger sister Euphemia, move their family and friends to safety. Resettling on the rugged West Texas plains, they soon become targets of Indian raids. They are determined to defend their homeland while their men fight in the Civil War.
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An unvarnished look at the unlikely author whose autobiographical fiction helped shape American ideas of the frontier and self-reliance. A Midwestern farm woman who published her first novel at age 65, Laura Ingalls Wilder transformed her frontier childhood into the best-selling Little House series.
5) Hondo
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Hondo Lane, a dispatch rider for the cavalry, encounters Angie Lowe, a woman living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory. She presumes she is safe because the Apaches, under their chief Vittorio, have always left them alone. Later Hondo has a run-in with Angie's good-for-nothing husband and is forced to kill him. When Vittorio captures Hondo to save his life, Angie tells the Apache chief that he is her husband. In order...
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Love comes softly film volume 1
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A woman's dream to forge a new life for herself on the great American plains becomes a test of her pioneering spirit, her inner strength, and her undying faith. It was Marty Claridge's dream to build her new life on the frontier with her husband. But when the courageous pioneer woman is suddenly widowed, she's offered a new opportunity-- to marry a widower in a marriage of convenience. What they did not expect was that the marriage would lead to love....
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Love comes softly volume 3
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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?
8) O pioneers!
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Hallmark hall of fame volume 2
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At the turn of the century, an immigrant's daughter inherits her family's Nebraska farm and her father's fierce love for the land. Fifteen years later she has made the family a fortune through her canny management of the farm, but has never forgotten the young man who left the prairie to seek his fortune.
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"'When Calls the Heart' tells the captivating story of Elizabeth Thatcher (Erin Krakow), a young teacher accustomed to her high society life, who receives her first classroom assignment in Coal Valley, a small coal mining town where life is simple, but often fraught with challenges. Lori Loughlin plays Abigail Stanton, a wife and mother whose husband, the foreman of the mine, along with a dozen other miners, has just been killed in an explosion. The...
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An unseen evil haunts the homestead in this chilling, folkloric tale of madness, paranoia, and otherworldly terror. Lizzy is a tough, resourceful frontierswoman settling a remote stretch of land on the nineteenth century American frontier. Isolated from civilization in a desolate wilderness where the wind never stops howling, she begins to sense a sinister presence that seems to be borne of the land itself, an overwhelming dread that her husband dismisses...
11) Badland
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Detective Matthias Breecher is hired to hunt down the foulest of the Confederate war criminals. As he travels the Old West pursuing justice, his determination is tested when he meets a strong-minded pioneer woman who is far more than she seems.
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Elizabeth Thatcher is a strong-willed teacher who has foregone the life of the big city and found a job, a home (and a bit of unexpected romance with a handsome Mountie named Jack in the small frontier town of Hope Valley. But life on the frontier can hand you many tough turns, and so it is for Jack and Elizabeth as they face their very different upbringings, the pressures put upon them by family, rival suitors and even various criminal counterfeiters...
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Young teacher Elizabeth Thatcher trades high society life for a classroom on the prairie, determined to prove she is brave enough to live on her own. She learns through her aunt's secret diary that she had been a pioneer woman herself, and uses it as a guide to embark on her own adventures.
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Life never dull in Hope Valley! Elizabeth finds herself courted by two potential suitors while also raising her young son. Rosemary helps Clara and Jesse plan their wedding and the town rallies together to face a variety of challenges, including a windstorm and an outbreak of chickenpox.
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When calls the heart volume Season 2, movie 1
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Elizabeth Thatcher is a young teacher accustomed to high society, so she experiences culture shock when she gets her first classroom assignment in Coal Valley. Life in the small mining town is filled with challenges. A recent explosion has killed more than a dozen of the town's miners, compelling the widows of those men to work in the mines to earn money.
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It is a very eventful time in Hope Valley. Starting with a hopeful Christmas, Elizabeth is finally reunited with Jack to celebrate a very special Christmas. Eventually, they plan and have the wedding of their dreams, much to the delight of the town. However, life is not a fairy tale, and soon Jack is called away on Mounties duties. Elizabeth continues to work with her students as Abigail rallies the town to assistance as the town bank fails.
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"Return to Hope Valley's ninth season. Join schoolteacher Elizabeth Thornton and the kind and loving citizens of your favorite frontier town as they navigate the highs and lows of romance, friendship, and the progress that comes with the changing times they face"--Container.
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A strong-willed teacher who has foregone the life of the big city, Elizabeth Thatcher has made the small frontier town of Hope Valley her home, with no small help from a handsome Mountie named Jack. But life on the frontier can hand you many tough turns, and so it is for Jack and Elizabeth as they face pressures put upon them by family, rivals, lawless criminals and even catastrophic natural disasters in their quest to find their place in this remote...
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