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1) I am Regina
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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The cabin door crashes open-and in a few minutes Regina's life changes forever. Allegheny Indians murder her father and brother, burn their Pennsylvania home to the ground, and take Regina captive. Only her mother, who is away from home, is safe. Torn from her family, Regina longs for the past, but she must begin a new life. She becomes Tskinnak, who learns to catch fish, dance the Indian dance, and speak the Indian tongue. As the years go by, her...
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English
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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...
3) Many a river
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English
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Relocating to western Texas with their sharecropper parents in the mid-nineteenth century, Jeffrey and Todd Barfield are separated by a Comanche attack that leaves their parents dead, and are reunited years later on opposing sides in the Civil War.
5) The taking of Jemima Boone: colonial settlers, tribal nations, and the kidnap that shaped America
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English
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"On a quiet midsummer day in 1776, weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone and her friends Betsy and Fanny Callaway disappear near the Kentucky settlement of Boonesboro, the echoes of their faraway screams lingering on the air. A Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party has taken the girls as the latest salvo in the blood feud between American Indians and the colonial settlers who have decimated native lands...
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English
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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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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A fictional retelling of the experiences of twelve-year-old Mary Jemison, who after being captured by a Shawnee war party during the French and Indian War, is rescued and subsequently adopted by two Seneca sisters with whom she ultimately chooses to stay.
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Heirs of Montana volume 2
Language
English
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Heirs of Montana book 2, the sequel to the bestselling Land of My Heart. With the love of her life missing in the Montana wilderness, a young woman must manage a ranch on her own. 1870 Montana ranching proves to be a hard life for Dianne Chadwick. Her &supl;ancé, Cole Selby, has yet to return from his journey east. Unbeknownst to her, he has been captured by Indians, and Takes-Many-Horses, who also loves Dianne, must decide whether or not to let...
10) The searchers
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughters. Breathtaking scenery gives a picture of frontier families separated by miles of emptiness.
12) The searchers
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Ethan Edwards returns from the Civil War to find that Comanches have taken his niece and killed her parents, he sets out after them.
13) Badger boy
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Series
Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st Forge ed.
Physical Desc
286 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
14) Follow the river
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mary Ingles is a Virginia homesteader whose family is suddenly attacked by a Shawnee war party. After Mary is taken captive, the leader of the war party is impressed by her courage and strength, and decides to make her his mate. Mary then makes the dangerous decision to escape the Shawnee village with another captive woman. Together they embark on a harrowing journey through the Virginia wilderness toward freedom and home.
15) Comanche woman
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Large type ed.
Physical Desc
611 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
16) Comanche moon
Author
Series
Comanche moon series volume 1
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Large type ed.
Physical Desc
693 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Language
English
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A historical novel based on the life of Mary Rowlandson. Even before she was captured by Indians on a winter day of violence and terror, Mary Rowlandson sometimes found herself in conflict with her rigid Puritan community. Now, her home destroyed, her children lost to her, she has been sold into the service of a powerful woman tribal leader and made a pawn in the ongoing bloody struggle between English settlers and native people. Battling cold, hunger,...
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
184 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.
20) The searchers
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
50th anniversary special ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughters. Breathtaking scenery gives a picture of frontier families separated by miles of emptiness.
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