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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.

Stolen at ten, Annie makes the difficult adjustment from pioneer to Indian daughter.

Disenchanted by his return home to Pennsylvania, 19-year-old Sam Morgan once again sets off for adventure in the American Plains of the 1820s. This time out, however, he is searching for his lost love--the Indian maiden Meadowlark.

The Texas Frontier provides for riveting adventure and inspiring characters as this historical fiction series draws readers into the struggle for freedom.

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.

"On New Years Day 1870, ten year old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by Plains Indians. For three years, he thrived on their rough, nomadic existence, becoming a fierce warrior. Never readjusting to white society, he spent his last years in a cave, all but forgotten by his family. That is, until Scott Zesch stumbled over his great-great-great uncle's grave. Determined to understand how a timid farm boy could have become so Indianized, Zesch traveled across...

A twelve-year-old white boy, adopted and raised by Mohicans in the Hudson River Valley during the 1730's, is sent with his younger brother to an English settlement for schooling. A story that shows how the Mohicans' ancient ways mixed with those of the English colonists.

An 'intimate re-imagining' of Mary Jemison's life story who was captured by the Shawnees in 1758 when she was sixteen near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and lived happily within her adopted culture.

Shares accounts of men, women, and children who were taken captive by Native Americans in the years between 1830 and 1885, focusing on events that occurred in Texas, featuring profiles of the victims before capture, explaining how they became captives, and discussing the effects of their captivity on the rest of their lives.