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Author
Series
Great Plains saga volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized saga about the settling of Kansas, covering over 300 years from the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors to the blazing of the Santa Fe Trail, and bringing to life characters from the many different heritages that vied for control of the North American prairie.
Author
Publisher
Caxton Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Indian raids and massacres covers incidents in Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska from 1864-1870. Each chapter is a story unto itself and the book can be read in any order as well as from beginning to end. There are two sides to these violent events, and, while the focus is on the Euro-American perspective, the contrary perspective of the Native American is also presented. Broome relies on primary-source documents usually ignored by other authors, but...
Author
Publisher
Norton
Language
English
Description
A dying Indian woman gives birth to a white man's son under a pitch-black prairie sky. In the basement of a Kansas brothel, a husband tends the furnace while his wife services the clientele upstairs. A preacher's mute daughter chases after a broken kite, paying no heed to the dangers lurking underfoot. An Englishman and his humpbacked guide track a phantom white buffalo from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and back again. A saga as...
4) War cry
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Will Cason's life once lacked purpose, but now that he is Fort Dodge's best scout, no one is complaining. Will's troubles begin when he saves a lovely widow named Sarah, who was helpless under Cheyenne Indian fire. His rescue has made him a mortal enemy of the Cheyenne and his life has taken a deadly new direction. Bloody Hand and his band of warriors are determined to avenge the deaths of their own by taking down this "white devil." But Will has...
5) Heartland
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
"A novel about a family's fortunes on the American frontier."
Author
Series
Frontier military volume 28
Publisher
Arthur H. Clark Company
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Detailed history of General Winfield Scott Hancock's 1867 "Expedition of the Plains", intended as a show of force to settle Indians angry at the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre, and which disrupted U.S.-Indian relations for more than a decade.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marshal Bill Harvey thought he had his hands full with hotheaded Jesse Overstreet, a Texan like Bill, who's stumbled into Redemption, Kansas. Then Caleb Tatum's gang sweeps through town, cleaning folks out and making off with a hostage: Bill's wife. Bill and his posse ride hard to save her, leaving the old buzzard Mordecai to police the town, desperate for Bill to return. And he just might -- after the posse gets unexpected help from Overstreet.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Successful pediatrician Marah Morgan returns home to help run the family farm after her father suffers a disabling injury. Marah finds herself reluctant to help a man who has not shown her the love she longs for and who holds the key to a tragedy from her childhood. When government archaeologists arrive to excavate Indian burial grounds on the Morgan farm, Marah becomes suspicious. Then a mysterious farmhand arrives, a man who both fascinates and...
Author
Series
Rivers West volume 2
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
A semi-historical novel set in 1844, the time of the Westward expansion. Central in the story is the Booth family. Gabe Booth, a mountain man and scout, joins up with John Charles Fremont. This is a tale of the push to open the West to settlers and the struggle against the Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, and Arapahoe Indians who fight desperately to save their ancient civilization.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pa Ingalls decides to sell the old house, and the family sets out for Indian Country! They travel from Wisconson to Kansas and there, finally, Pa builds their little house on the prairie. Sometimes farm life is difficult, even dangerous, but Laura and the family are kept busy and are happy with the promise of their new life on the prairie.
Author
Series
Kansas forts volume 5
Publisher
Kansas State Historical Society
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Gift donated in memory of Joan Croy.
"...Captures the drama and detail of events at a Santa Fe Trail army post during the troulous times of the 1860s-1870s on the western plains"Back cover.
Gift donated by George "Peter" Warrick.