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2) Many a river
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2008
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.
3) The white
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
4) The son
Author
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
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
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 Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own. She was fully assimilated and perfectly happy when, at nineteen, she was ransomed back to white society.
Author
Pub. Date
1997
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.
10) The taking of Jemima Boone: colonial settlers, tribal nations, and the kidnap that shaped America
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
In the Appalachians, a historian writing on Katie Wyler, a young woman kidnapped from the area by Indians in 1789, sets out to retrace her tragic journey. He is unaware her spirit haunts the hills, nor is he aware that an escaped convict is on the loose. By the author of Bimbos of the Death Sun.
13) Follow the river
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Mary Ingles is a Virginia homesteader whose family is suddenly attacked by a Shawnee war party. After Mary is taken captive, the leader of the war party is impressed by her courage and strength, and decides to make her his mate. Mary then makes the dangerous decision to escape the Shawnee village with another captive woman. Together they embark on a harrowing journey through the Virginia wilderness toward freedom and home.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
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
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2014]
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,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches, raised by the tribe, and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and Texas Rangers and restored to her white family, to die in misery and obscurity. Cynthia Ann's story has been told over generations to become a foundational American tale. The myth gave rise to operas and one-act plays, and...
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