Patricia Beatty
6) Jayhawker
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In the early years of the Civil War, teenage Kansan farm boy Lije Tulley becomes a Jayhawker, an abolitionist raider freeing slaves from the neighboring state of Missouri, and then goes undercover there as a spy.
7) Bonanza girl
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A widow and her two children head for gold rush territory in Idaho, hoping to find jobs and a new life.