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1) Many a river
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Barfield brothers are separated by a Comanche raid. Years later, they are destined to be reunited and discover how their separate lives have changed them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
283 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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...
3) Badger boy
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
286 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Civil War is over and Confederate Texas is reluctantly yielding to Union military peace-keepers and regulations imposed by Washington. David "Rusty" Shannon is the member of a "ranging company" attempting to protect Texas settlers from Comanche depredations. He learns that the rangers are being disbanded. He makes his way home to his farm on the Colorado River, and discovers that the land around his home is filled with hostiles Indians, Confederates,...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kidnapped, along with her young son, off a train-load of tourists, Miranda Price is held hostage on a remote reservation by Hawk O'Toole (a man desperate to help his people), only to find herself drawn to her aloof,but tender and seductive captor.
Author
Publisher
Methuen
Pub. Date
c1980
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
90 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Persistent memories of his earlier life compel 15-year-old Tanial to flee from his Abnaki Indian captors and journey during the winter from the northern shores of Lake Champlain to the English settlements.
Author
Series
Skye's West volume 10
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
On deserting from a Royal Navy ship, sailor Barnaby Skye becomes a fur trapper in America. He marries an Indian woman, but she leaves him to become the second wife of an Indian chief. When another tribe abducts her, Skye goes to her rescue.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
As PI Holly Winter, a dog trainer and writer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, reads of the unsolved murder of a publisher two decades earlier, she sees a clue in the publisher's dog being tied up while the deed was done. Obviously the killer didn't like dogs, which makes him a candidate for Holly's sleuthing.
Author
Series
Publisher
University Press of New England
Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
ix, 287 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in New England and Canada during the French and Indian Wars; driven by its complex character, Caucus-Meteor. By turns shrewd and embittered, ambitious and despairing, inspired and tormented, he is the self-styled 'king' of the remnants of the first native tribes that encountered the English. Displaced and ravaged by disease, these refugees have been forced to bargain for land in Canada on which to live. Having hired himself out as interpreter...
10) The coming storm
Author
Series
Heirs of Montana volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Doubleday large print home library ed.
Physical Desc
621 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Heirs of Montana book 2, the sequel to the bestselling Land of My Heart. With the love of her life missing in the Montana wilderness, a young woman must manage a ranch on her own. 1870 Montana ranching proves to be a hard life for Dianne Chadwick. Her &supl;ancé, Cole Selby, has yet to return from his journey east. Unbeknownst to her, he has been captured by Indians, and Takes-Many-Horses, who also loves Dianne, must decide whether or not to let...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
407 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Indians around Fort Laramie, Wyoming are peaceful. Or so it seemed -- until killers ambush a detail of U.S. soldiers and an officer's wife. One man flees the carnage and tells the story -- his own story, an outright lie. When Duff MacCallister and a few brave men go after the attackers, they discover the officer's wife is alive and in the merciless hands of the sadistic warrior Yellow Hawk. To free her, Duff touches off a fierce battle.
Author
Series
History mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
163 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1754, with her own parents taken captive, twelve-year-old Rebecca must confront her fear and hatred of the Abenaki when a boy raised by members of that tribe is brought to the fort at Charleston, New Hampshire, just before a series of thefts occurs.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
©1992
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
197 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A fictional retelling of the abduction of Cynthia Parker, who was stolen by Comanches as a child & lived with them for 24 years, first as a slave, then as a chief's wife. Having been taken as a child and raised by Comanche Indians, thirty-four-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker is forcibly returned to her white relatives, where she longs for her Indian life and her only friend is her twelve-year-old cousin Lucy.
16) To hell and gone
Author
Series
Hunters volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Orphaned in a massacre. Raised by Crow Indians. Destined to become a powerful hunter, a legendary scout, and a true American hero . . . As a widower with three young boys, Duncan Hunter dreamed of a new life for his sons in the heart of Washington Territory. But the journey was doomed from the start. Before reaching Hell Gate, their wagon train was attacked by Blackfoot Indians. Most of the pioneers were viciously murdered. But Hunter's son Cody...
17) The son
Author
Language
English
Description
Spring, 1849. The first male child born in the newly established Republic of Texas, Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a marauding band of Comanche storm his homestead and brutally murder his mother and sister, taking him captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to Comanche life, learning their ways and language, answering to a new name, carving a place as the chief's adopted son, and waging war against their enemies, including white men...
Author
Series
Battling Harrigans of the frontier volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
367 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Spring, 1850. After a brutally long winter in the Rockies, Mack Harrigan and his growing family have learned to manage the harsh realities of frontier life. Their new friends, the Shoshone, have taught them the skills they need to survive in this rugged land, from tracking and hunting to fishing and foraging. But when their camp is attacked by an enemy tribe, the skills the Harrigans need most are those of a Shoshone warrior. Sometimes there is a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
213 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fictional retelling of the early life of Mary Jemison who was captured during the French and Indian War and lived for most of her life with the Seneca Indians.
Author
Publisher
Turtle Point Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 223 pages : color map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A most unusual portrait of early America based on a rare family document, in which a young mother's years in captivity with the Shawnee prove to be the best years of her life. It's 1779 and a young white woman named Margaret Erskine is venturing west from Virginia, on horseback, with her baby daughter and the rest of her family. She has no experience of Indians, and has absorbed most of the prejudices of her time, but she is open-minded, hardy, and...
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