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Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy, A division of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
A fictional retelling of the experiences of twelve-year-old Mary Jemison, who after being captured by a Shawnee war party during the French and Indian War, is rescued and subsequently adopted by two Seneca sisters with whom she ultimately chooses to stay.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"After visiting his late mother's people on the Mescalero reservation, Comanche tribal policeman Daniel Killstraight waits to catch a train home when local cowboys bring disturbing news: an Apache has brutally murdered a teenage girl in the railroad town of Deming and locals want to lynch him. Killstraight has no jurisdiction in this territory and he doesn't care much for Apaches. He knows nothing about Deming, the murdered girl, or the accused...
23) The coming storm
Author
Series
Heirs of Montana volume 2
Language
English
Description
Dianne Selby tries to keep it altogether when her fiancé, Cole, fails to return from a trip east, accidents and illness threaten those at the Diamond V ranch, and another man proclaims his love for her.
25) Dry Gulch ambush
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The Indians around Fort Laramie, Wyoming are peaceful. Or so it has seemed - until killers ambush a detail of U.S. soldiers and an officer's wife. One man, an ambitious cavalry officer, flees the carnage and lives to tell 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 very much alive and at the cold merciless hands of the sadistic warrior Yellow Hawk....
26) 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.
29) The searchers
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater who believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
As part of an agreement to keep peace, whites are insisting that captives who have been living with the Indians be returned to their white settlements. True True Son, fifteen years old, has lived with the Delaware tribe since being captured as a baby.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Language
English
Description
In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year-old pioneer traveling west toward Zion with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohaves, who tattooed her face...
32) The last ride
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Gunfighter Samuel Jones and his daughter, Maggie, ride in pursuit of an Indian witch who kidnaped Maggie's daughter for the Mexican slave market. They have to resort to their Christian faith to overcome Indian magic. By the author of St. Agnes' Stand.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty years ago, seven-year-old Sam was rescued by Indians after his family was massacred on the way to their new ranch in Desperation. Raised by a Sioux medicine man who taught Sam his skills, Sam is on the trail to Desperation to find the man responsible for the massacre of his family"--
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
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.
36) The son
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Comanche Indian captive Eli McCullough must carve a place for himself in a world in which he does not fully belong -- a journey of adventure, tragedy, hardship, grit, and luck that reverberates in the lives of his progeny.
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Badger Boy: The Civil War is over and Texas is reluctantly yielding to the Union soldiers spreading across the state, even into the dangerous Comanche country. David "Rusty" Shannon, proud member of a "ranging company" attempting to protect Texas settlers from Indian depredations, finds that the rangers are being disbanded. He makes his way home to his land on the Red River, hoping to take up the life of a farmer and the hand of the beloved girl he...
Author
Publisher
MacAdam/Cage Pub
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
After being returned to "civilization, " Abigail Buwell finds this new life a prison and finds the only person willing to listen to her plees for help is Major Robert Cutter, who is also trying to free himself from haunting memories of the Civil War.
