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1) Many a river
Author
Publisher
Forge
Language
English
Description
The Barfield brothers are separated by a Comanche raid. Years later, they are destined to be reunited and discover how their separate lives have changed them.
2) The Comanche
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Explores what life was like for the Comanche Indians before, during, and after Europeans arrived on the continent, also includes true tales of traditions and history, tragedy and triumph.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Civil War has ended, and Union soldiers and federal officials have taken control of Texas as Rusty Shannon rides to his home on the Colorado River. As a child, he was a captive of the Comanche, as a young man a proud member of a ranging company protecting settlers from Indian raids. Shannon's fate is intertwined with the young man accompanying him: Andy Pickard, himself but recently rescued from Comanche captivity and known by his captors as Badger...
Author
Series
Publisher
Fawcett Gold Medal
Pub. Date
1988.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Ordered to hold an abandoned army post, John Dunbar found himself alone, beyond the edge of civilization. Thievery and survival soon forced him into the Indian camp, where he began a dangerous adventure that changed his life forever.
7) War Valley
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In this powerful new series, a Confederate veteran heads west to start a new life-and gets caught in the middle of a new kind of war . . . WAR VALLEY Hank Gannon grew up on a Florida plantation. He fought alongside his brothers-in-arms in the Civil War. Then he joined the Texas Special Police to help build a more peaceful union-and a future for his beloved Constance. That was the plan. But when a prisoner dies in his custody, Gannon is forced to leave...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the spring of 1874 the Ranger companies that protect settlers against Indian raids and outlaw bands are being reorganized and David "Rusty" Shannon is the most sought-after veteran for reenlistment.
But Shannon has new goals for his life: He is in love with Josie Monahan, daughter of the family that adopted him, and he intends to marry Josie and take her to his farm on the Colorado River. Rusty also feels affection and responsibility for Andy...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
1860. Persimmon "Persy" Wilson is sold to Sweetmore, a Louisiana sugar plantation, alongside a light-skinned house slave named Chloe. Their deep and instant connection fueled a love affair and inspired plans to escape Wilson, their owner, who claimed Chloe as his concubine. On the eve of the Union Army's attack on New Orleans, Wilson shot Persy, and fled with Chloe and his other slaves to Texas. Determined to reunite with his lost love, Persy's odyssey...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A treacherous journey… Joel McAllister is a lieutenant in the Confederate Army-or at least he was, until Lee surrendered. Now he's determined to get as far away from war as possible, somewhere beyond North and South … and maybe somewhere with some gold: Idaho Territory. Accompanied by his steadfast sergeant, Riley, the two former soldiers travel westward from Texas. But the trail to Silver City is littered with peril-including a band of notoriously...
12) The son: a novel
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Comanche Indian captive Eli McCullough must carve a place for himself in a world in which he does not fully belong -- a journey of adventure, tragedy, hardship, grit, and luck that reverberates in the lives of his progeny.
14) Comanche moon
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times best-selling author Catherine Anderson pens riveting historical romances. Loretta Simpson lost her parents to a daring Comanche raid seven years ago-and now she lives as a mute with her extended family. Meanwhile, Comanche Hunter of the Wolf sees her as the embodiment of an ancient prophesy and chooses her for marriage. Still fearful of his tribe, Loretta soon finds her will bending, even as conflict between their two peoples intensifies....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young Comanches Daniel Killstraight and Charles Flint have been called to Texas. Captain Pratt will be giving a talk on the transformations brought about by the Carlisle Industrial School, of which Killstraight and Flint are shining examples. They'll be joining a Comanche delegation led by Quanah Parker, who will be negotiating grasslands leases-until blown-out gas lamps in Quanah Parker's room kill a Comanche chief and put Parker in a coma.
But...
Author
Series
Publisher
Villard
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In The Holy Road, sequel to Dances With Wolves, master storyteller Michael Blake at long last continues the saga. Eleven years have passed sub Lieutenant John Dunbar became Dances With Wolves and married Stands With A Fist, a white-born woman raised as a Comanche from early childhood. With their three children, they live peacefully in the village of Ten Bears. But there is unease in the air, caused by increased reports of violent confrontations with...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A history of the 40-year battle between the Comanche Indians and white settlers, centering on the Comanche chief Quanah.
The compelling drama of Cynthia Ann Parker, a lovely nine-year-old girl with cornflower-blue eyes who was kidnapped by Comanches from the far Texas frontier in 1836. She grew to love her captors and became infamous as the White Squaw who refused to return until her tragic capture by Texas Rangers in 1860. More famous still was...
Author
Series
Lonesome Dove saga volume Second Prequel
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
19) Quanah Parker
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of Quanah Parker, a spiritual and political leader of the Comanche people in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches, raised by the tribe, and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and Texas Rangers and restored to her white family, to die in misery and obscurity. Cynthia Ann's story has been told over generations to become a foundational American tale. The myth gave rise to operas and one-act plays, and...
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