The Bears of Blue River describes the adventures of a young boy growing up in early nineteenth-century rural Indiana. Little Balser lives with his parents, a younger brother, and a baby sister in a cozy log cabin on the bank of the Big Blue River. Although only thirteen or fourteen years old, he is quite familiar with the dangers and rigors of frontier life. As the story unfolds, the boy becomes lost in the forest, encounters the fierce one-eared...

In the year 1824, not far from what is now Indianapolis, Indiana, five white men killed a group of nine innocent, peaceful Indians who were camped nearby. Fall Creek, a settlement about 100 miles northwest of Cincinnati, Ohio, was on the frontier of white civilization. The people who lived there had pushed westward to find their own land, enduring hardships, including Indian raids, before reaching their goal. For many years whites had been killing...

Describes a year in the life of a white man and his Indian family on the Indiana frontier.

Follows the lives of Dr. McCart and his wife Jenny as they journey from Troy, NY to frontier Indiana.

This "lost historical novel" was by a former leader of the Society of Indiana Pioneers, attorney and historian Emsley W. Johnson, Sr. who was Society president from 1940 to 1946. The intriguing story draws on experiences of his ancestors and relates challenges and triumphs of settlers between 1811 and 1861. Originally written in 1950, the manuscript for this novel was discovered 65 years later by Johnson's granddaughter. Based on the lives of Johnson's...

William Conner married a Delaware Indian maiden and lived among the Delawares for many years. He later negotiated a treaty to move the Delaware Indians out of the area. He would remain in Indiana, but his wife and six children had to leave in 1820 because of the treaty.