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In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, 14 year old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.

At her death an elderly Plains Indian woman experiences the afterlife believed in by her people, while the surviving family members prepare her body according to their custom.

A novel of the Great Plains. This novel brings to life more than three hundred years of the region known as Kansas, crossroads of a continent. The adventure opens in 1541 with the arrival of the first Spanish conquistadors, and continues through the blazing of the Santa Fe Trail in the early nineteenth century as a new world is born.

A youth in a tribe of Plains Indians gives up a girlfriend to serve as a holy man's pipe bearer, first step in becoming a holy man himself. The novel follows his training in communicating with spirits and in preserving tribal legends and culture. By the author of Child of the Dead.

With a loyal Cheyenne as his guide, and a spirited Dragoon squadron for cover, Preacher forges up the treacherous Santa Fe Trail. But the way to win this war is to unmask the hell-raising Messiah whose godforsaken message is leading a desperate people into certain massacre. In the Wyoming wild, Blackfoot warriors prepare for battle, their bloodlust stirred by a legendary prophet promising victory in a war that will forever rid the plains of the white...

His name is Grudj. He was less than a year old when a wagon wheel crushed his head, and he was left in a shallow grave. His only possession was a heavy iron bar. When the Plains Indians found the abandoned infant they made him one of their own.

This is "the tale of one family torn apart by mob violence in Nauvoo, making their way West across lifeless plains in the dead of winter. . . . The Richards' face impossible odds as they head for the basin of the Great Salt Lake. Faced with the spine-chilling possibility of being scalped by the Blackfoot and the sober reality of meeting members of the Missouri mob out on the plains, the Richards' struggle to go the way of their God" -- book jacket....

Seamus Donegan is not under the command of Col. Nelson A. Miles, who must lead his war-weary troops up the Tongue River into butte country. There, amidst the snow-covered bluffs, awaits Crazy Horse with a thousand-strong force of Lakota braves. They are ready to engage Col. Miles and the Fifth U.S. Infantry, in the last battle Crazy Horse will ever fight against the white man's army.

Singing Wolf has reached his seventeenth summer, and the time has come to prove himself as a hunter. . . and a lover. But Singing Wolf has a rival in the hunt for buffalo and in the courtship of the beautiful woman called Rain. He is a handsome stranger from the eastern band of the People, and he has brought a weapon of extraordinary power, magic, and danger: the thunderstick. Their enemies already have the death-dealing muskets, and if the People...