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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
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
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.
8) The taking of Jemima Boone: colonial settlers, tribal nations, and the kidnap that shaped America
Author
Language
English
Description
Explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone, Daniel Boone's daughter, by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party and the ensuing battle with reverberations that nobody could predict.
Author
Series
Lakeside classics volume 88
Publisher
Lakeside Press
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
lviii, 367 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
One Sky Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 309 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"August 18, 1862. On the Sioux reservation in southwestern Minnesota, Indians desperate for food and freedom rise up against whites in the region. Sarah Wakefield, the wife of a physician, is taken captive with her two babies. Their fate falls into the hands of the warrior Caske, with whom she has slim acquaintance. As war rages, little does she know how entwined their lives will become. Beneath the Same Stars is the gripping story of two people,...
Author
Language
English
Description
A historical novel based on the life of Mary Rowlandson. Even before she was captured by Indians on a winter day of violence and terror, Mary Rowlandson sometimes found herself in conflict with her rigid Puritan community. Now, her home destroyed, her children lost to her, she has been sold into the service of a powerful woman tribal leader and made a pawn in the ongoing bloody struggle between English settlers and native people. Battling cold, hunger,...
15) The searchers
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughters. Breathtaking scenery gives a picture of frontier families separated by miles of emptiness.
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
Language
English
Description
"Once it was one of the most famous events in early American history. Today, it has been nearly forgotten. In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little village in western Massachusetts, there lies what once was the most revered but now totally forgotten relic from the history of early New England--the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre. This impregnable barricade--known to early Americans...
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