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1) The son
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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.
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Sisters of the Lone Star volume 2
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In this captivating prequel to the New York Times bestsellers The Cowboy and The Texan, Joan Johnston tells the story of a woman kidnapped by Comanches—and the proud warrior who vows to make her love him.
Living as a Comanche, the son of a white father and his Indian bride, Long Quiet secretly dreams of making Bayleigh Stewart, daughter of the richest cotton planter in Texas, his wife. When Bay is stolen...
Living as a Comanche, the son of a white father and his Indian bride, Long Quiet secretly dreams of making Bayleigh Stewart, daughter of the richest cotton planter in Texas, his wife. When Bay is stolen...
5) Badger boy
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 2
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The Civil War is over and Confederate Texas is reluctantly yielding to Union military peace-keepers and regulations imposed by Washington. David "Rusty" Shannon is the member of a "ranging company" attempting to protect Texas settlers from Comanche depredations. He learns that the rangers are being disbanded. He makes his way home to his farm on the Colorado River, and discovers that the land around his home is filled with hostiles Indians, Confederates,...
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 3
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Young Andy Pickard, known among the Comanches as Badger Boy, is now a teenager, and has been learning to live with the Texans from whom he was stolen years before. His divided loyalties between the Comanches and the whites lead to another kidnapping. Five-year-old Billy Gifford is taken by a warrior named Fights With Bears. Andy must save his honor by trying to recover Billy. Rusty Shannon must defend his home against men who hold a grudge from the...
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A Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger Novel Assigned to track an Indian raiding party, Texas Ranger Josiah Wolfe expects to return home to his son in Austin in a few days. But when the Ranger and his compatriots from the Frontier Battalion are overtaken by two Comanche scouts, they find themselves captives instead of captors. Comanches aren’t known for going easy on their prisoners, so Josiah is surprised when they don’t immediately shoot him. Turns out...
11) Lakota flower
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2003
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383 p. ; 18 cm.
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Threatened by the eber-encroaching Bluecoats, the Oglala Lakotas must strike hard and fast fo ensure their tribe's survival.
16) Many A River
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From Elmer Kelton comes a riveting tale befitting the Western Writers of America's Greatest Western Writer of all time. When Comanches slaughter his parents in 1855 West Texas, eight-year-old Jeff buries their scalped bodies-and the charred remains of his younger brother. Taken in by a homesteading family, Jeff ekes out an existence. But as he dons Confederate gray, he never dreams his brother is alive-or that he's wearing Union blue.
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1997
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198 pages ; 18 cm
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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.
18) The removes
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2018.
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370 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm
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Anne Cummins survives an attack on her family's homestead, and is thrust into a difficult life she never anticipated-- living among the Cheyenne as both a captive and, eventually, a member of the tribe. Libbie Custer and her husband, Civil War hero George Armstrong Custer, move to the territories with the U.S. Army. There Libbie is challenged daily and her worldview expanded. Each woman discovers self-reliance, freedom, danger-- but after tragedy...
19) Beauty for ashes
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Rendezvous novels volume 2
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p2011
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11 sound discs (13 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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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.
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2015.
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407 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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The Indians around Fort Laramie, Wyoming are peaceful. Or so it seemed -- until killers ambush a detail of U.S. soldiers and an officer's wife. One man flees the carnage and tells 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 alive and in the merciless hands of the sadistic warrior Yellow Hawk. To free her, Duff touches off a fierce battle.
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