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Nick Graves seeks out honest work as a grave digger and casket maker in the western plains town of Jessup, Nebraska, where the law is corrupt and violence rules. A former gun slinger, Nick hopes to make a fresh start but is confronted by a vengeful deputy and by Nathan Skinner, a man from his dark past who is deadly with a Bowie knife. Nick faces the prospects that the next funeral may be his own. Contains violence and strong language. Narrated by Pete Mayeux.

Former gunslinger Nick Graves now makes a modest living in the Dakota Territories by planning funerals. He accepts the mundane nature of his new existence until his previous partner in crime enters his life with a fresh scheme to pull off a potentially lucrative jewel heist. Attracted to the prospects of quick money, Nick must choose between the dangers of living with a price on his head and the tranquil routine of digging graves. Strong language, violence, and some descriptions of sex. Narrated by Dick Shasteen. (7 hours, 18 minutes)

Nick Graves is content to ply the trade his father taught him--that of funeral arranger and coffin maker--in the lawless town of Jessup, Nebraska. A killer and former partner, Red Parks, wants Graves to pay for past wrongs. He has brought along the old gang in order to target Graves' family as a way to settle the score. When an innocent woman is caught in the crossfire, Graves knows that his gunslinger days aren't yet over. Narrated by Pete Mayeux.

An undertaker with a violent past, Nick Graves finally discovers some measure of peace on the edge of the desert, in the small New Mexico town of Ocean, where he hopes to use his skills with a gun to help keep order. When a quiet rancher turns desperate in seeking revenge for the murder of his family, Nick comes to his rescue in tracking down the marauding outlaws. Contains violence and strong language. Narrated by Dan Howell. (6 hours, 30 minutes)

Hester, a sixteen-year-old girl, is found murdered on the outskirts of frontier San Francisco. Four young men flee on the Sacramental Trail. Four men who watched Hester grow up pursue them to avenge her death. Second sequel to The Back-Up Girl and follows the first sequel The Trials of the Western Trail. Narrated by Ben Bossard.

Texas Panhandle rancher Ben Crye has his eye on taking over adjourning ranches. He plots ways to force ranchers to sell by bringing about hard times. As their cattle are being rustled, the ranchers recruit troubleshooter John Doddling to end the onslaught against them. Contains some violence and some strong language. Narrated by Tamara Wellmann.

Mary Needham, a young Nebraska ranch woman, wakes in a hospital from a coma to find that her husband has died in a car wreck and that she has lost a leg. Unable to participate in the ranch work that she loves, Mary chooses to enter into a mismatched marriage with a young preacher, rather than a life spent convalescing. Only after she and her preacher husband have four children and little money does she realize the enormity of her mistake. Then she finds herself embroiled in a controversy involving a local feedlot run by her former in-laws. Some strong language. Narrated by Kay McKinzie. (11 hours, 30 minutes)

Established in the Nebraska Sandhills by Bartlett Richards in 1888, The Spade Ranch played a role in the state's early livestock history. At its height, the ranch grew to 500,000 acres. Following the founder's death in 1911, a young neighbor and summer employee, Lawrence Bixby, worked tirelessly to preserve and maintain The Spade's holdings. Beginning in 1924, Bixby began acquiring ownership of Spade land. He lived to see the ranch entered into the National Registry of Historic Places. Narrated by Carlene Miller.

Ten years after the Wounded Knee Massacre, Nebraska Sandhills rancher J.B. Bennett and Star, a Lakota woman, are found murdered. J.B.'s estranged wife Dulcinea must now return to take care of the ranch, deal with her tough father-in-law Drum, raise two teenage sons, and try to discover who was responsible for the murders. Contains strong language, violence, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2016. Narrated by Connie Healey. (16 hours, 17 minutes)

First published in 1948, this account, written in the first person, describes the one-day visit of Clyde Muncy to "the home place" at Lone Tree, Nebraska. This story of a New York family's visit to a Nebraska farm has been acclaimed for its human interest and humor, stemming from the quiet collision of ways of life going in opposite directions. 1968. Narrated by Bill Ainsley. (2 hours, 24 minutes)

A novel about a Danish family struggling to establish themselves on a rented farm in Nebraska at the turn of the century. 1936. Narrated by Budd Duvall. (6 hours, 59 minutes)

A work of historical fiction; the story tells of the gambler and townsite promoter who founded Cozad, Nebraska, and of his family, particularly his younger son, [who] became a world-famous artist and teacher known as 'Robert Henri.' This tale is essentially Robert's story, the story of a sensitive talented boy growing up in the midst of frontier violence. But it is also the story of the ambitious promoter and of frontier people fighting hunger, cold, blizzards, drouths, grasshoppers, prairie fires, and ruthless cattlemen... 1976. Narrated by James Shelley. (10 hours, 11 minutes).

Troublesome times in Russia prompt a young Mennonite family to migrate to America, drawn by the promise of free land and freedom of religion. The harrowing trip takes much longer than anticipated, thanks to a robbery, a collision at sea, and a severe storm that disables the vessel. A young Hollander named Toby and a young Russian, Sophia, also plan to migrate, though Sophia's father strongly opposes the risky venture. Narrated by Marilee McPherson. (7 hours, 50 minutes)

Mennonite immigrants Ben, Nettie, and their children made their way from Russia to Dakota Territory in the 1870s where Ben finally found an unclaimed parcel of land to homestead. After breaking sod, digging a well, and building a sod house, Ben and his family struggled to live off the land. Ben constructs a wooden house and a wooden barn for his twenty-four head of cattle. They endure financial hardship, blizzards, and a ferocious prairie fire that threatens the farm they had grown to love. Narrated by Marilee McPherson. (5 hours, 35 minutes)

Jake Richert’s parents were Hollanders who migrated from Russia to South Dakota in search of religious freedom. Sara’s maternal grandparents did the same. After their first buggy ride together, Sara falls in love with Jake. Because she is only fourteen and her parents insist she is too young to be courted, Jake marries someone else. After the couple move away and start a family, Jake’s wife dies. Six years later, even though Sara’s family has moved to Montana where she establishes her own homestead, Jake drives his team of horses into her yard and resumes his courtship. Narrated by Marilee McPherson. (6 hours, 20 minutes)