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Author
Series
Outing adventure library volume no. 3
Publisher
Outing Publishing Company
Pub. Date
1915.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
4) Crazy woman
Author
Publisher
La Alameda Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Edition
Third edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
6) Girl captives of the Cheyennes: a true story of the capture and rescue of four pionneer girls, 1874
Author
Publisher
Gem publishing company
Pub. Date
1927.
Physical Desc
xv, 123 pages : frontispiece, illustrations (includes maps), plates, facsimiles ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Civil War has ended, and Union soldiers and federal officials have taken control of Texas as Rusty Shannon rides to his home on the Colorado River. As a child he was a captive of the Comanche, as a young man a proud member of a ranging company protecting settlers from Indian raids. Shannon's fate is intertwined with the young man accompanying him: Andy Pickard, himself but recently rescued from Comanche captivity and known by his captors as Badger...
12) 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.
13) 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.
14) Gold rush dream
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
176 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
15) The return
Author
Series
Amish Beginnings volume 3
Language
English
Description
Beautiful and winsome, Betsy Zook never questioned her family's rigid expectations, nor those of devoted Hans, but then she never had to. Not until the night when she's taken captive in a surprise Indian raid. During her captivity, Betsy faces brutality and hardship, but also unexpected kindness. She draws strength from native Caleb, who encourages her to find God in all circumstances. She finds herself torn between her pious upbringing and the intense...
18) The searchers
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughters. Breathtaking scenery gives a picture of frontier families separated by miles of emptiness.
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