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Prairie winds volume 1
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Captured by the Lakota Sioux on a Nebraska prairie, Jesse King discovers God's tender mercies in her friendship with an Indian woman and in her love for the Sioux brave, Rides the Wind.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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"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 by the warrior Ćaske. As war rages, little does she know how entwined their lives will become. This is the gripping story of two people, caught between worlds, who are willing to do almost anything to defend those they care...
47) Savage Moon
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Pub. Date
c2002
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When she was only 10 years old, Misshi Bradley had seen the members of her family die on the the trail West. She survived only because she was taken captive by a band of Indians. Now a women yearning for a husband and children of her own, Misshi can't help being drawn to the brave Soaring Hawk. In his piercing dark eyes, she reads promises of a passion that will never end. But can she trust the proud warrior when his own father was the renegade who...
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
"The wife of a minister in a small frontier town west of Boston, Mary Rowlandson was forced to leave her house in the late winter of 1676 after marauding Indians set the building on fire. "I had often before this said," she later wrote, "that if the Indians should come, I should chuse rather to be killed by them than taken alive but when it came to the tryal my mind changed; their glittering weapons so daunted my spirit, that I chose rather to go...
49) Blood rage
Author
Pub. Date
c1987
Description
When Comanches kidnap Alec Dragoman's daughter, Mike Rhiannon wonders if Dragoman will keep his end of the bargain when Mike, wise to Indians' ways, rescues her.
52) Missing
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Pub. Date
2003
Description
A novel of the American West narrates the story of a dying man's attempts to make peace with his daughter, their struggle to rescue his granddaughter from renegades and slave traders, and his lifelong search for inner peace.
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The Oatman massacre is among the most famous and dramatic captivity stories in the history of the Southwest. In this riveting account, Brian McGinty explores the background, development, and aftermath of the tragedy.Roys Oatman, a dissident Mormon, led his family of nine and a few other families from their homes in Illinois on a journey west, believing a prophecy that they would find the fertile "Land of Bashan" at the confluence of the Gila and Colorado...
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"In the sooty blackness of a Tucson alley, Rim Fannin got word that about twenty heavily guarded freight wagons were traveling by night toward Tubac. Rim took a job as a mule skinner for White Mountain Freight in hopes of proving that the owner, John Romaine, was the traitor responsible for his father's death. He wasn't very good with a mule whip, but he managed until his train was attacked by Indians. Captured, he was taken to Canyon de Chelly where...
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Pub. Date
2011
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Tracking an Indian raiding party, Texas Ranger Josiah Wolfe and his compatriots run afoul of a notorious gang leader known as the Badger. As they are led to where the Badger is waiting, Josiah knows that time is running out. But luckily, Texas Rangers are hard men to kill.
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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....
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