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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.

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...

One morning in 1754, Miriam Willard finds herself an Indian captive caught up in the French and Indian War.

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...

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,...

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...

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.

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