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The story of Nophaie, a young Navajo, who is picked up by a party of whites at the age of seven. White parents bring the child up as though he were their own, eventually sending him to a prestigious Eastern college where he distinguishes himself by his outstanding athletic skill all the while struggling to find a place in society.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
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"A young Native American, Abel has come home to New Mexico from war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his garndfather’s, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world—modern, industrial America—pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty and goading him into a destructive cycle of depravity and despair. A Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack is a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must call upon the ancient skills of his Native American forebears to survive the vast Siberian wilderness. Only one route lies open to Mack: the path of his ancestors, overland to the Bering Strait and across the sea to America. But in pursuit is a legendary tracker, the Yakut native Alekhin, who...
4) The prairie
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The Prairie marks the final chapter in James Fenimore Cooper’s great saga of American frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Though nearly ninety in 1804, Bumppo, now on the Great Plains, is still a competent frontiersman and trapper. Once more he is drawn into conflict with society in the form of an emigrant party led by the surly Ishmael Bush and his miscreant brother-in-law, Abiram White. And once again, this great man of nature is called upon to exhibit...
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From her favorite hilltop perch, the unadorned beauty of Montana fills Dianne Chadwick with serenity and purpose. But fear gnaws at that peace, for her fiance, Cole Selby, has yet to return from his journey east. When accidents and illness threaten those at the Diamond V ranch, Dianne searches for a haven from the storm that surrounds her. But with Cole's fate uncertain and another man proclaiming his love for her, Dianne's faith is a tenuous anchor...
6) Savage skies
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When she is rescued by Chief Blue Thunder from rape and torture at the hands of the Comanche, Shirleen, on the run from her abusive husband and searching for her missing daughter, finds salvation in his powerful arms.
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Killstraight stories volume 3
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When we met Daniel Killstraight, he was a young Comanche man willing to risk his own life to prove the innocence of a man convicted of murder. Now Daniel is a "Metal Shirt," a tribal police officer. When an Indian accidentally kills his own daughter after he's had too much whiskey (a prohibited substance), Daniel is instructed to find out who's behind the running of the illegal liquor; but the evidence points to a white man whom Daniel has no authority...
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"It's one of the great mysteries of the Old West. The unexplained disappearance of a hunting party of Prussian nobles who entered the American wilderness--and never returned. Now, years later, the Prussian government demands an explanation. In response, the U.S. Army hires Preacher and Jamie MacCallister to join their search party--along with a band of Prussian soldiers led by the sinister Baron Adalwolf von Kuhner. Some believe it's a hopeless mission,...
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Free Anderson-Parks Scott Trilogy volume 03
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The year is 1874 and the plains of Texas are on the brink of war. This final book of the Free Anderson-Parks Scott trilogy finds the men caught up in the conflict as the military and native people prepare to clash over societal rights. Free and Parks are in a fight for their lives at the battle of Adobe Walls and later as witnesses to the momentous battle of the Palo Duro Canyon. Ambush at Mustang Canyon provides the harsh reality of each side's destiny...
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Skye's West volume 10
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During a trip back to the village of his Crow wife, Victoria, she is abducted by a deadly band of Blackfeet, and Skye must risk his life to rescue her, following a trail that takes him back to Canada, where he is still wanted by the British Navy for deserting his ship, four years ago.
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Spanish bit saga volume 2
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A Southern Indian tribe under the leadership of Heads Off is transformed into warriors when they adapt the "elkdogs"--horses--as part of their culture.
12) Home by morning
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Thomas Redstone--a former Cheyenne warrior seeking new purpose by following the ways of his white grandfather--is returning to Heartbreak Creek, Colorado, when he decides to give the woman he loves one last chance to accept him into her life.
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The New York Times–bestselling saga of Creek Indian Mary Musgrove and her descendants, whose lives parallel the American story through two centuries.
In Creek Mary’s Blood, Dee Brown fictionalizes the astonishing true story of Mary Musgrove—born in 1700 to a Creek tribal chief—and five generations of her family. By tracing her struggles with colonists in Georgia, and then the lives of her two...
In Creek Mary’s Blood, Dee Brown fictionalizes the astonishing true story of Mary Musgrove—born in 1700 to a Creek tribal chief—and five generations of her family. By tracing her struggles with colonists in Georgia, and then the lives of her two...
14) Dry gulch ambush
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The Indians around Fort Laramie, Wyoming are peaceful. Or so it has seemed - until killers ambush a detail of U.S. soldiers and an officer's wife. One man, an ambitious cavalry officer, flees the carnage and lives to tell 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 very much alive and at the cold merciless hands of the sadistic warrior Yellow Hawk....
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"The Keepers of The Trail" deals with an episode, hitherto unrelated, in the lives of Henry Ware, Paul Cotter, Shif'less Sol Hyde, Long Jim Hart, and Silent Tom Ross. In point of time it follows "The Forest Runners," and, so, is the third volume of the "Young Trailer" series.
17) Richard Lamb
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He was a peace-loving man forced to fight for his kin and his rights against the U. S. Army. In the forty years since Richard Lamb had come to Montana, he had built a thriving trading post where he lived with his Blackfoot Indian wife, their children and grandchildren. It was a hard, but happy existence. That is until ""they"" came. Captain Partridge had orders to arrest Lamb's entire family, then place them on the Blackfoot Reservation. Half-indian...
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In 1840 mountain man Sam Morgan, his daughter Esperanza, and his people set out for California. At Fort Hall on the Oregon Trail, they encounter a terrified woman, Lei Palua, and take her under their wing unaware that her one-time lover and now bloodthirsty nemesis dogs her trail, vowing to kill her and all who stand in his way.
19) Warrior's blood
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Set in 1874, Warrior's Blood is the brutal story of two very different warriors who are destined to confront each other on the Staked Plains. Raised by Kiowa tribesmen, Boytale is now 17 years old and filled with an insatiable thirst for the blood of his people's enemies. Meanwhile, across the prairie at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 20-year-old army private James Rambling gears up for action as an Indian fighter. Henry Strozier provides a dramatic narration...
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"Skye is born into a remote world of the unsettled West--her Scottish father a loving but moody mountain man, her mother a Lakota bride taken from her Sioux family by this passionate Highlander. But the steel-springed lunge of a mountain lion tears Skye's mother from her, starting her on a destiny-filled journey. With half-Scottish feet clad in Indian moccasins, Skye walks two separate paths, not knowing whether to believe her father's bitter enemy...
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