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Battling Harrigans of the Frontier volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
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"Spring, 1850. After a brutally long winter in the Rockies, Mack Harrigan and his growing family have learned to manage the harsh realities of frontier life. Their new friends, the Shoshone, have taught them the skills they need to survive in this rugged land, from tracking and hunting to fishing and foraging. But when their camp is attacked by an enemy tribe, the skills the Harrigans need most are those of a Shoshone warrior. Sometimes there is a...
85) To hell and gone
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Hunters volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
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"Orphaned in a massacre. Raised by Crow Indians. Destined to become a powerful hunter, a legendary scout, and a true American hero . . . As a widower with three young boys, Duncan Hunter dreamed of a new life for his sons in the heart of Washington Territory. But the journey was doomed from the start. Before reaching Hell Gate, their wagon train was attacked by Blackfoot Indians. Most of the pioneers were viciously murdered. But Hunter's son Cody...
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"On May 19, 1836, Fort Parker in Texas was overwhelmed by a band of Comanche Indians. Some residents were brutally murdered, others taken prisoner. Among those captured was eleven years old Cynthia Parker, who would remain with the Comanche for 24 years and give birth to famed Chief Quanah. Another captive was 17-year-old Rachel Plummer, mother of one, pregnant with her second child. She would soon have her first-born ripped from her arms, never to...
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Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
"In 1864, Jenny Sanders Pryor is brash, impetuous, optimistic, and nineteen. She and her husband, John, are about to embark on what they think will be a wonderful adventure, joining a wagon train along the Oregon Trail; they are young and in love and eager to begin their new life together. But Jenny will need every bit of her youthful strength and resilience, for she is about to be tested beyond the limits of her physical, emotional, and spiritual...
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Pub. Date
c1990
Description
At the age of 19, she was traveling west with her husband and family when she was captured by Oglala Sioux warriors west of Fort Laramie on July 12, 1864. Hers is a remarkable tale of survival by an intelligent, strong young woman and she was finally released at Fort Sully, Dakota Territory on December 12, 1864.
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
After his son was kidnapped by Apaches, rancher John Ward reported blame for the incident on a band of Chiricahuas led by Cochise. Lt. George Bascom's subsequent meeting with the Apache leader ignited a Southwestern frontier war between the Chiricahuas and the US Army that would last twenty-five years.
93) Thieving forest
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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
On a humid day in June 1806, on the edge of Ohio's Great Black Swamp, seventeen-year-old Susanna Quiner watches from behind a maple tree as a band of Potawatomi Indians kidnaps her four older sisters from their cabin. With both her parents dead from Swamp Fever and all the other settlers out in their fields, Susanna makes the rash decision to pursue them herself. What follows is a young woman's quest to find her sisters, and the parallel story of...
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Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
In 1754, with her own parents taken captive, twelve-year-old Rebecca must confront her fear and hatred of the Abenaki when a boy raised by members of that tribe is brought to the fort at Charleston, New Hampshire, just before a series of thefts occurs.
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Pub. Date
[1967]
Description
Accounts of young Indians and whites who were unwillingly subjected to life in an alien culture during the years of American settlement of the West. Includes the stories of an Osage boy stolen and sold into plantation slavery by the Cherokees and a white girl whose Indian captors provided for her future welfare by giving her a tribal tattoo.
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