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2) The captive
Author
Language
English
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"--
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"This volume collects a wide variety of works from a uniquely American literary tradition, the captivity narrative. Beginning with an excerpt from Hans Staden's The True History of His Captivity, which influenced the American captivity narrative, this volume presents accounts by early settlers held captive by Native Americans (Mary Rowlandson, John Smith), narratives by African American slaves (Olaudah Equiano, John Marrant), and others. Collected...
Author
Series
Sisters of the Lone Star volume 2
Language
English
Description
In this dazzling prequel to the New York Times bestsellers The Cowboy andThe Texan, Joan Johnston takes us back to a time when Texas was a young and wild republic, and three strong-willed sisters carved out a destiny that would spawn two legendary dynasties. Here is the spellbinding tale of a woman captured by Comanches--and of the proud warrior who vows to make her love him. Born to a white father and his Indian bride, Long Quiet believed his destiny...
10) Comanche moon
Author
Series
(Adeline Catherine).Comanche volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Loretta Simpson, a prisoner of the Comanches since the brutal murder of her parents at their hands, fights her attraction to Hunter, a Comanche warrior who believes she is the golden-haired maiden who is to fulfill his tribe's sacred prophecy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
With his father and brother serving in the Confederate Army and the rest of his family murdered in a Comanche raid of their west Texas farm, thirteen-year-old Lewallen seeks to free himself and his younger sister from their Indian captivity.
12) I am Regina
Author
Publisher
Dell Publ
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
In 1755, as the French and Indian War begins, ten-year-old Regina is kidnapped by Indians in western Pennsylvania, and she must struggle to hold onto memories of her earlier life as she grows up under the name of Tskinnak and starts to become Indian herself.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
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.
16) The last captive
Author
Publisher
Encino Press
Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English
Description
"The lives of Herman Lehmann, who was taken by the Indians as a boy from his Texas home & adopted by them; his career as an authentic wild warrior with the Apache & Commanche tribes; his subsequent restoration to the bosom of his family & the difficulties & confusions faced in adjusting his savage training to a civilized society; his experiences carrying him from the time of the scalping knife to the very threshold of our atomic age; together with...
18) The white Indian
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Rusty Sabin was a child when Cheyene Indians raided the Sabin homestead, killing his mother. Raised by Indians, known as Red Hawk, he has no recollection of his white father. His only goal is to kill Wind Walker, the white enemy of the Cheyenne and restore his reputation among the people who abandoned him when he was 15 after refusing to take part in their compulsory brutal initiation.
20) White warrior
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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