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Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001
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...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
In The Big Fifty, another name for the famous Sharps rifle, reality of frontier life becomes brutally clear to twelve-year-old Coady McIlvain. He falls in with a buffalo sharpshooter, and the two must survive the unforgiving terrain and hostile enemies.
3) The son
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Description
Kidnapped by the Comanche after his mother and sister are murdered, thirteen-year-old Eli McCullough quickly adapts to Comanche life until the tribe is decimated by armed Americans, leaving Eli alone in a world where he is neither white nor Indian.
Author
Series
Montana marriages volume 3
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Description
"Welcome to the wilds of Montana, where humor, romance, and suspense ride the range. Glowing Sun, a white woman raised by the Flathead tribe, has vague memories of her former life, including a name: Abby Lind. When she's forced to sever all links with her adopted family, Abby wonders if she'll ever find a home again. Tenderhearted Wade Sawyer, responsible for Abby's survival during the village massacre, convinces the knife-wielding woman to return...
5) The captive
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"For newlyweds Jaine and Ter Bryant the long tiring journey across the prairie from their comfortable home in Natchez was a small price to pay for the new life they hoped to find in the promised land of California. But the dream became a nightmare when their wagon train was attacked by a Commanche war party"--
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997
Description
Best-selling author Sandra Brown continues to capture an ever-growing audience with her heady, passionate romances. Her continuous presence on the New York Times best-seller list has proven her to be one of America's most beloved writers. When Miranda Price and her young son are kidnapped from a sightseeing train, she's prepared to risk her own life to protect her child. Dragged off to a Native American reservation and held hostage by the mysterious...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Assigned to track an Indian raiding party, Texas Ranger Josiah Wolfe and his compatriots from the Frontier Battalion are overtaken by two Comanche scouts and find themselves captives instead of captors. Comanches aren't known for going easy on prisoners, so Josiah is surprised when they don't shoot him. Turns out there's a price on his head - and the Comanches are dragging him to Liam O'Reilly, a gang leader known as the Badger.
8) Savage dream
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
Description
After her dalliance with Shadow, the fearsome Native American her father forbade her even to acknowledge, sultry Maria yearns again for his forceful embrace.
10) White warrior
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"A nine-year-old boy is taken in a raid on a wagon train and adopted by an Arapaho to replace his own son who had died. Raised by Red Stone and Beaver Woman, he learns to see the good and the bad in both Indians and whites and struggles to find where he belongs"--Provided by publisher.
11) The taking of Jemima Boone: colonial settlers, tribal nations, and the kidnap that shaped America
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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.
13) Storm rider
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Rescued as a child by a band of Crow Indians after her parents die in a tragic accident, Tabitha Daniel grows up to become Talking Rain, a legendary warrior woman who captures the heart of a young Assiniboine leader named Storm Rider.
14) The coming storm
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Series
Heirs of Montana volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
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
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In this riveting historical fiction narrative, National Book Award Finalist John Demos shares the story of a young Puritan girl and her life-changing experience with the Mohawk people.
Inspired by Demos's award-winning novel The Unredeemed Captive, Puritan Girl, Mohawk Girl will captivate a young audience, providing a Native American perspective rather than the Western one typically taught in the classroom.
As the armed conflicts between the English...
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Description
In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa...
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Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"When Comanche tribal policeman Daniel Killstraight hears an Apache has murdered a teenage girl in the railroad town of Deming and the locals want to lynch him, Daniel rushes to help a fellow Indian. Although he has no jurisdiction there, Killstraight sets out to prove the wrong man has been accused in this town that hates Indians"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1998
Description
It is 1831 and Barnaby Skye, a deserter from the British Royal Navy and now a seasoned trapper in the Rocky Mountains, accompanies his Crow wife, Mary Quill Woman-whom he calls "Victoria"-to her village on the Yellowstone River. Victoria-unhappy with her husband's drinking and his unwillingness to join her people's fight against their sworn enemies, the Blackfeeet-succumbs to the entreaties of Jim Beckwourth, the much-honored and wealthy mulatto war...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Five years after the Civil War, Captain Kidd moves from town to town as a storyteller. In Texas, he crosses paths with Johanna, a ten-year-old taken in by the Kiowa people six years earlier. She is being returned to her biological aunt and uncle against her will. Kidd agrees to deliver the child where the law says she belongs. As they travel hundreds of miles, the two will face tremendous challenges of both human and natural forces as they search...
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