James Alexander Thom
Author
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
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Description
"Following the Louisiana Purchase, Thomas Jefferson sends Meriweather Lewis and William Clark to explore the newly acquired territory. To survive, the two captains need an extraordinary hunter who will be able to provide the expedition with fresh game, and a sign-talker to communicate with the native tribes. They choose George Drouillard." -- back cover.
3) Long Knife
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
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Description
Two centuries ago, with the support of the young Revolutionary government, George Rogers Clark led a small but fierce army west from Virginia to conquer all the territory between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. He battled the British, forged friendships with French and Spanish settlers, and made treaties with many Indian tribes who revered him and called him Long Knife.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
"A novel based on the true ordeal of Mary Ingles."--Cover.
After being captured in an Indian raid during 1755, Mary Draper Ingles follows the Ohio River for 1,000 miles to return home to Virginia by herself.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 65
Language
English
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Description
In one generation, the Clark family of Virginia fought for our nation's independence, and explored, conquered, and settled the continent from sea to shining sea. This powerfully written book recreates the warm life of the family, the dangers of the battlefield, the grueling journeys across an untamed wilderness, and the soul-stirring Lewis and Clark Expedition. This mighty epic is a fitting tribute to the wisdom and courage of Ann Rogers Clark, her...
Author
Language
English
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For famous one-armed war correspondent Paddy Quinn, this is to be his final Civil War assignment: the funeral of the assassinated President Lincoln. Quinn and his new bride Felice are aboard the steamboat Sultana going up the spring-flooded Mississippi River toward Illinois to meet the Funeral Train, when their honeymoon vessel stops at Vicksburg and takes on a pathetic human cargo of 2,000 sick and ragged survivors of the hellish Andersonville prisoner-of-war...
Author
Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Description
In the 12th Century, a Welsh prince and his band of men sail to America where they intermarry with Indian women to form a colony. The novel chronicles the colony's rise and fall, including the fate of its descendants, an Indian tribe near the Ohio River whose members have flaxen hair and grey-blue eyes. A story based on a Welsh legend.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Rich, colorful and bursting with excitement, this remarkable story turns James Alexander Thom's power and passion for American history to the epic story of Tecumseh's life and give us a heart-thumping novel of one man's magnificent destiny—to unite his people in the struggle to save their land and their way of life from the relentless press of the white settlers.
“Oh, what a man this will be, with such a sign as that!”
In...
“Oh, what a man this will be, with such a sign as that!”
In...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Description
A bestselling master of historical fiction, James Alexander Thom has brought unforgettable Native American figures to life for millions of readers, powerfully dramatizing their fortitude, fearsomeness, and profound fates. Now he and his wife, Dark Rain, have created a magnificent portrait of an astonishing woman–one who led her people in war when she could not persuade them to make peace.
Her name was Nonhelema. Literate, lovely, imposing...
Her name was Nonhelema. Literate, lovely, imposing...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
They were proud and doomed, Irish rogue cannoneers under a green silk banner, fighting against their former comrades-in-arms to defend Catholic Mexico against the invading U.S. Army.
Their choices were to win, die in battle, or hang as deserters. To the Mexicans they were heroic saviors, but they were seen as despicable traitors by the West Point officers who faced their grapeshot and cannonballs on every major battlefield Matamoros to Mexico
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Series
Pub. Date
1985.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Author's note: "Like my character, Scotty Montgomery, I grew up in the idyllic prewar Midwest, was a Marine, and later a journalist appalled by the apparent cheapness of life and the world's casual disregard for human suffering. Like my protagonist, I am unable to reconcile my country's two roles: the citadel of humane idealism, and the leading world merchant of death-dealing weapons. I hope by this novel to awaken our benumbed souls to the awful...
Author
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Photographer Jones sees beyond the surface of nature to the basic elements - earth, air, water, and rock. This text, inspiring from Jones's images, traces the cycle of his life from birth in Gosport to a life of journalism in the big cities of the world, and back home again, where he found both his voice as a writer and his spiritual rootedness.