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2) Homecoming
Author
Publisher
Center Point
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
After being freed from the Comanche, Eyes-of-the-Sky watches the white family who had taken her in after her rescue--Hattie, the mother, and her son, Joe--and begins to wonder what life had been like before her abduction, as she feels longing in her heart when she looks at Joe.
Author
Publisher
WiDo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Susanna, the daughter of Anne Hutchinson, is returned from Indian captitvity to her brother's home in Boston, where she struggles to conform to the restrictions of Puritan life. While learning midwifery, she attracts the attentions of her neighbor John Cole.
Author
Series
Sacketts volume 3
Language
English
Description
Vin and Yance Sackett dare to rescue a settler's beautiful daughter from ruthless men during a threatened Indian War.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
When an Oglala hunting party captured cavalry Lieutenant Lew Duffy, Fox Dancer convinced the other Indians that they should keep Duffy through the winter so that they could learn the ways of the white man. Although Fox Dancer learned much from Duffy, it didn't help the Oglala in their later dealings with the whites.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face...
Author
Series
Loner volume 12
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Drifting into New Mexico Territory, Conrad Morgan, the Loner, is turning his back on the past. Then he rides up on a wagon train of pioneers -- and straight into an inferno of death and revenge. Led by a charismatic fool, a group of pioneers are crossing Apache territory, blind to the danger around them. The Loner would ignore the passing pilgrims if it weren't for a beautiful woman. Then, when he turns his back, the Apaches strike. The night is lit...
11) Calico captive
Author
Language
English
Description
One morning in 1754, Miriam Willard finds herself an Indian captive caught up in the French and Indian War.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Civil War has ended, and Union soldiers and federal officials have taken control of Texas as Rusty Shannon rides to his home on the Colorado River. As a child he was a captive of the Comanche, as a young man a proud member of a ranging company protecting settlers from Indian raids. Shannon's fate is intertwined with the young man accompanying him: Andy Pickard, himself but recently rescued from Comanche captivity and known by his captors as Badger...
13) Medicine man
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1980.
Language
English
Description
A thrilling double d western.
14) Badger boy
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
The Civil War is over and Texas is reluctantly yielding to the Union soldiers spreading across the state, even into the dangerous Comanche country. David "Rusty" Shannon, proud member of a "ranging company" attempting to protect Texas settlers from Indian depredations, finds that the rangers are being disbanded. He makes his way home to his land on the Red River, hoping to take up the life of a farmer and the hand of the beloved girl he left behind,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the white men and agreed to return their captives, including fifteen-year-old True Son. Now he must go back to the family he has forgotten, whose language is no longer his, and...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"They were discovered when the old First Brethren Church in Denver, Colorado, was razed. The church records had been destroyed in a flood in 1965, so no one knew what the cornerstone might contain. There, in a steel strongbox with "Colorado Fuel & Iron" stamped into the lid, wrapped in a sheepskin, were the diaries of Ella Mae Campbell."--Page 4 of cover.
17) The son
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, this is a novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim. Spring, 1849. Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a marauding band of Comanches takes him captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to life among the Comanches,...
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Language
English
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The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Coopers Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become embroiled in the bloody battles of the French and Indian War. The abduction of the beautiful Munro sisters by hostile savages, the...
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
Sent to protect a U.S. outpost on the desolate American frontier, Lt. Dunbar befriends a tribe of Sioux Indians. What follows is a series of unforgettable moments - from Dunbar's tender scenes with Stands With A Fist to the thrilling, action-packed buffalo hunt.
20) Many a river
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Language
English
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Description
Relocating to western Texas with their sharecropper parents in the mid-nineteenth century, Jeffrey and Todd Barfield are separated by a Comanche attack that leaves their parents dead, a situation that culminates in their reunion years later on opposing sides in the Civil War.
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