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With anxiety, Mr. Sheppard, his nephew, and daughter set up camp in the gathering darkness. They were trying to reach Fort Henry before nightfall but lost their way in the shades of the forest. Their guide had mysteriously deserted them that morning. Suddenly, a band of Indians appeared at the edge of the firelight brandishing tomahawks. As quickly as they appeared, they disappeared. Moments later, a man clad in fringed buckskins silently slipped...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 15
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He was known as Deathwind to the Ohio Valley Indians, and now Lewis Wetzel must single-handedly save Fort Henry. Armed only with his long rifle and knife, he heads out on a one-man rampage to stop the bloody border wars, to face down Chief Wingenund, and to avenge the brutal missionary massacre at Village of Peace.
3) Betty Zane
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1782 - the Ohio River settlements. The land along the Ohio River is newly settled. Indomitable men and women - Col. Zane and his family, the McCollochs, Wetzel, the "Death Wind" Indian killer, among them - have hewn a life out of the frontier wilderness, building homesteads and farms around the stockade and blockhouse of Fort Henry. All about them is the seemingly impenetrable forest, haunt of white renegades and hostile Indian tribes - the Wyandots,...
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Titus Bass novels volume 1
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In the early 1800s, a Kentucky farm boy abandons the security of home, and his girlfriend, for a life of adventure. At 16, Titus Bass runs away to become a deckhand on a Mississippi flatboat, the first of many frontier escapades. But he tires of adventure and becomes a blacksmith.
15) The river widow
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[2018]
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In 1937, with flood waters approaching, Adah Branch accidentally kills her abusive husband, Lester, and surrenders his body to the raging river, only to be swept away herself. So begins her story of survival, return to civilization, defense against accusations of murder, and the fight to save herself and her stepdaughter, Daisy, from the clutches of her husband's notoriously cruel family, who have their sights set on revenge for Lester's death. Essentially...
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2016
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The memory of love: Five years ago a flood destroyed Callie Troyer's home at a Pennsylvania orphanage -- and with it much of her memory. She has built a new life in the Ohio valley, assisting with the medical challenges of an eighteenth-century mission settlement of Christian Delaware Indians. But the sudden arrival of a mysterious man from Philadelphia -- a man who claims to have known her before the flood -- makes her question who she really is.
Healing...
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2017.
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Betty Zane: In the last battle of the American Revolution, British forces besiege Fort Henry. With the defenders running out of food and ammunition, sixteen-year-old Betty Zane volunteers to retrieve a gunpowder cache hidden outside the fort. Her brazen bravery--she make the trip in broad daylight--stuns the Americans' enemies and inspires her countrymen to successfully resist the siege.
To the last man: The range wars have been raging in the Tonto...
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