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Novel, based on the true story of Mary Draper Ingles, captured by Shawnee Indians in 1775, who walked 1,000 miles to escape.

In the borderlands of 1770 West Virginia there is no place for finer feelings. Charged with keeping the peace with local tribes, a hero of the French and Indian War is determined to stay free of romantic entanglement--until he meets a frontier maiden who just might be able to change his mind.

In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies and are forced to march through bitter cold to French Canada.

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...

"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,...

While living in the wilderness on Long Island Sound, Susanna, daughter of Anne Hutchinson, is taken captive by Indians and forced into the family of the very man who killed hers.

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.

Andy MacDuff was just a baby when captured in a raid by the Apache chief, Geronimo, adopted by the leader, and grew up to be an expert hunter. As a young man he became an expert fighter and fell in love with an Indian maiden.

A sequel to "So Wild a Dream" finds 1820s apprentice mountaineer Sam Morgan traveling with a fur brigade in search of the Crow Native American woman he loves, an endeavor for which he must adopt the ways of her people and escape capture by the Sioux.

A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.