1930's teacher in Alaska, (Hobbs) - Specht

Robert Specht:

Tisha (autobiographical)

True story of young teacher (Anne Hobbs) in the Alaskan wilderness as told to Specht

Little House Series - Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder: (autobiographical)

· Little House in the Big Woods

· Little House on the Prairie

· Farmer Boy [Alonzo’s story]

· On the Banks of Plum Creek

· By the Shores of Silver Lake

· The Long Winter

· Little Town on the Prairie

· These Happy Golden Years

· The First Four Years

(Our 7-year old grandson went right through the series including The Long Winter, before the story got too grownup for his interests.)

Louis L'Amour - Historical Novels, etc.

from Wikipedia and other sources

Louis L'Amour [1908-1988]

(I have not read all of these; should I determine any are not family friendly I will note the circumstance by the title as I read them.)

Novels - (including series novels)

Westward the Tide (London, 1950; first US publication 1976)ISBN 0-553-24766-2 The Riders of High Rock (1951) ISBN 0-553-56782-9 The Rustlers of West Fork (1951) ISBN 0-553-29539-X The Trail to Seven Pines (1951) ISBN 0-553-56178-2 Trouble Shooter (1952) ISBN 0-553-57187-7 Hondo (1953) ISBN 0-553-80299-2 Showdown at Yellow Butte (1953) ISBN 0-553-27993-9 Crossfire Trail (1954) ISBN 0-553-28099-6 Heller with a Gun (1954) ISBN 0-553-25206-2 Kilkenny (1954) ISBN 0-553-24758-1 Utah Blaine (1954) ISBN 0-553-24761-1 Guns of the Timberlands (1955) ISBN 0-553-24765-4 To Tame a Land (1955) ISBN 0-739-34406-4 The Burning Hills (1956) ISBN 0-553-28210-7 Silver Canyon (1956) ISBN 0-553-24743-3 Last Stand at Papago Wells (1957) ISBN 0-553-25807-9 Sitka (1957) ISBN 0-451-20308-9 The Tall Stranger (1957) ISBN 0-553-28102-X Radigan (1958) ISBN 0-553-28082-1 The First Fast Draw (1959) ISBN 0-553-25224-0 Taggart (1959) ISBN 0-553-25477-4 The Daybreakers (1960) ISBN 0-553-27674-3 Flint (1960) ISBN 0-553-25231-3 Sackett (1961) ISBN 0-553-06205-0 High Lonesome (1962) ISBN 0-553-25972-5 Killoe (1962) ISBN 0-553-25742-0 Lando (1962) ISBN 0-739-32114-5 Shalako (1962) ISBN 0-553-24858-8 Catlow (1963) ISBN 0-553-24767-0 Dark Canyon (1963) ISBN 0-553-25324-7 Fallon (1963) ISBN 0-553-28083-X How the West Was Won (1963) ISBN 0-553-26913-5 Hanging Woman Creek (1964) ISBN 0-553-24762-X Mojave Crossing (1964) ISBN 0-739-32115-3 The High Graders (1965) ISBN 0-553-27864-9 The Key-Lock Man (1965) ISBN 0-553-28098-8 Kiowa Trail (1965) ISBN 0-553-24905-3 The Sackett Brand (1965) ISBN 0-739-34221-5 The Broken Gun (1966) ISBN 0-553-24847-2 Kid Rodelo (1966) ISBN 0-553-24748-4 Kilrone (1966) ISBN 0-553-24867-7 Mustang Man (1966) ISBN 0-739-32116-1 Matagorda (1967) ISBN 0-553-59180-0 The Sky-Liners (1967) ISBN 0-553-27687-5 Chancy (1968) ISBN 0-553-2808-56 Conagher (1968) ISBN 0-553-28101-1 Sackett series In fictional story order (not the order written). (There is a difference of opinion on the order to read this series; overlapping times make it difficult to determine. Sackett’s Land - Barnabas Sackett (circa 1600) To the Far Blue Mountains - Barnabas Sackett (circa 1600-1620) The Warrior’s Path - Kin Ring Sackett (circa 1620s) Jubal Sackett - Jubal Sackett, Itchakomi Ishai (circa 1620s) Ride the River - Echo Sackett (Aunt to Orrin, Tyrel, and William Tell Sackett) (circa 1840s-1850s, before the Civil War) The Daybreakers - Orrin and Tyrel Sackett, Cap Rountree, Tom Sunday (circa 1870-1872) Lando - Orlando Sackett, the Tinker (circa 1873-1875) Sackett - William Tell Sackett, Cap Rountree (circa 1874-1875) Mojave Crossing - William Tell Sackett and Nolan Sackett (circa 1875-1879) The Sackett Brand - William Tell Sackett, and the whole passel of Sacketts! ((circa 1875-1879) The Sky-liners - Flagan and Galloway Sackett (circa 1875-1879) The Lonely Men - William Tell Sackett (circa 1875-1879) Mustang Man - Nolan Sackett (circa 1875-1879) Galloway - Galloway and Flagan Sackett (circa 1875-1879) Treasure Mountain - William Tell Sackett (circa 1875-1879) Ride the Dark Trail - Logan Sackett, Em Talon(born a Sackett) (circa 1875-1879) Lonely on the Mountain - William Tell, Orrin and Tyrel Sackett (They go on a mission to help Logan Sackett) (circa 1875-1879) There are also two Sackett-related short stories: "The Courting of Griselda" (available in End of the Drive) "Booty for a Badman" (available in War Party) Sacketts are also involved in the plot of 7 other novels: Bendigo Shafter (Ethan Sackett) Dark Canyon (William Tell Sackett) Borden Chantry (Joe Sackett, killed in ambush that B Chantry solves murder, and Tyrel Sackett) Passin' Through (Parmalee Sackett is mentioned as defending a main character in the book) Son of a Wanted Man (Tyrel Sackett) Catlow (Ben Cowhan marries a cousin of Tyrel Sackett’s wife) Man from the Broken Hills (Em Talon a main character in this book was in fact born a Sackett. Mentions William Tell Sackett) Talon and Chantry series Borden Chantry Fair Blows the Wind The Ferguson Rifle The Man from the Broken Hills (Em Talon was born a Sackett she is the main character's mother.) Milo Talon (Is a cousin to the Sacketts through his mother Em Talon) North to the Rails Over on the Dry Side Rivers West Kilkenny series The Rider of Lost Creek (1976) The Mountain Valley War (1978), which previously been released as a magazine novella, entitled A Man Called Trent and was re-written for the Kilkenny trilogy. A Man Called Trent is included in the short story collection entitled The Rider of the Ruby Hills(1986) Kilkenny (1954) A Gun for Kilkenny is a short story featuring Kilkenny as a minor character, from the collection Dutchman's Flat (1986). Monument Rock is a novella in the story collection of the same name. Hopalong Cassidy series Originally published under the pseudonym "Tex Burns". The Riders of High Rock The Rustlers of West Fork The Trail to Seven Pines Trouble Shooter Collections of short stories War Party (1975) The Strong Shall Live (1980) Yondering (1980; revised edition 1989) Buckskin Run (1981) Bowdrie (1983) The Hills of Homicide (1983) Law of the Desert Born (1983) Bowdrie's Law (1984) Night Over the Solomons (1986) The Rider of the Ruby Hills (1986) Riding for the Brand (1986) The Trail to Crazy Man (1986) Dutchman's Flat (1986) Lonigan (1988) Long Ride Home (1989) The Outlaws of Mesquite (1990) West from Singapore (1991) Valley of the Sun (1995) West of Dodge (1996) End of the Drive (1997) Monument Rock (1998) Beyond the Great Snow Mountains (1999) Off the Mangrove Coast (2000) May There Be a Road (2001) With These Hands (2002) From the Listening Hills (2003) The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 1 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 2 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 3 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Adventure Stories - Volume 4 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 5 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Crime Stories - Volume 6 The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 7 "Trap of Gold" "The Gift of Cochise" Non-fiction Education Of A Wandering Man Frontier The Sackett Companion A Trail Of Memories: The Quotations Of Louis L'Amour (compiled by Angelique L'Amour) Poetry Smoke From This Altar Compilations with other authors The Golden West Stagecoach