Mastincala, the Rabbit Boy, is born in a tumultuous and uncertain time for his people, the Lakota. He is but a boy when his father is killed during the clash between the Lakota and Colonel Harney’s army at Rosebud, and he vows to avenge his father’s death. Mastincala joins Crazy Horse and the Oglala on their rides against the Crow, fighting against the encroachment and overhunting of Big Horn country. He earns the name Tacante, Buffalo Heart, for his courage during one particularly fierce battle, and sheds his softer boyhood persona. When gold is discovered in the sacred Black Hills, a series of unstoppable events is set in motion—culminating in the bloody massacre at Little Big Horn. In the midst of the turmoil, Mastincala must decide how to forge a future for his family while defending the honor and tradition of his ancestors. Lakota vividly details the struggle of the Lakota people against the white man for control of their hunting grounds, and offers a moving, bittersweet portrait of the period that marked the end of a way of life for the Plains Sioux.
R.J. thought that war would be the ultimate adventure—until he was in the middle of it. In 1862, thirteen-year-old Ransom J. Powell lies about his age and joins the Union Army as a drummer boy. At first, he is thrilled to be defending his country, but by the time he has been in his first skirmish he sees war for the brutal horror that it is. Then he and his regiment are captured and taken to Camp Sumter, a Confederate prison. With its disease and cruel guards, Camp Sumter is worse than any battlefield, and Ransom watches is friends die one by one. Will he be next? "A sober but important contribution to the growing number of Civil War novels."—Booklist "Vibrant characters and realistic war and prison scenes combine to make [this] a compelling book."—School Library Journal
When his little brother is carried off by raiding Comanches, fourteen-year-old Lige disguises himself as an Indian and joins a former slave in a bold rescue attempt.
For the wagon train of 150 men, women and children, Oregon was a dream of paradise, but guides Darby Prescott and Tom Shea knew that many freshly dug graves would mark the way. For the obstacles ahead were not merely searing heat or freezing cold but marauding Indians and outlaws.
Drought and stolen range land threaten to develop into a violent range war, but Bret Pruett, the local lawman is determined to bring the instigator to justice
Lucius Bratton, estranged from his son Tory for more than fifteen years, tries to make things right with his dying breath by asking that his gold pocket watch, containing a map to his fortune in gold, be delivered to the young man.
A young Illinois farm boy matures into a man when his family joins the wagon train west for Oregon. Ahead lay 2000 miles of the continent's rawest terrain to cross and savage Indians to fight. By the author of the Texas Brazos series.
In 1858 Texas, people are violently divided over a law that makes it a crime to help runaway slaves. Caleb isn't sure how he feels. When an escaped slave saves his life, Caleb knows he has a debt to repay. But should he break the law and risk his life to help two slaves escape? "Fast paced and filled with details that illuminate a less well-known escape route than the Underground Railroad." —School Library Journal
Willie might be too young to be a fighter, but he's brave enough to be a drummer. Ten-year-old Willie Johnston is too young to be a soldier in Mr. Lincoln's army. So he joins as a drummer boy, instead. Part of Willie's job is rousing the troops in the morning with his drum—the other part is being the last to retreat in battles. In this true story, Willie shows he's brave enough to keep beating his drum, but will he be lucky enough to survive the war? "Scrupulously researched and overflowing with evocative detail . . . Willie's tale is authentic and engaging."—Kirkus Reviews
When his father returns from the war in 1865, fourteen year old Alby finds his beloved Pa a changed man and can only hope that they will be friends again.
Moving to Texas offers the promise of big adventure . . . but the journey there is tougher than Jericho ever imagined! Leaving Tennessee for Texas in 1852 to make a fresh start seems like pure adventure to Jericho Wetherby. But as he and his family travel across the country with a few animals and a covered wagon loaded with possessions, they endure rain, muddy roads, bitter cold, and illness . . . and the fast approach of winter's blinding snowstorms. Can they make it to their new home before winter strikes? And is Jericho brave enough to survive the trip? "[A] fast-paced, action-packed pioneer story."—Kirkus Reviews "The book's great local color and folksy, personable narrator . . . will carry readers along for the trip."—Booklist
The beginning of an exciting new Western series by the Spur Award-winning author of Among the Eagles and My Brother, the Wind. For Jake Wetherby and his three younger brothers, the trip was a true education. Jake didn't know anything about cattle or Comanches--but he was good with a gun. And that would come in very handy.
Kidnapped by Cheyennes and traded to the old mountain man named Bear, Timothy Welles had gone up into the Teton wilderness as a boy of nine and learned to live the way the indians and mountain men did. But now Bear was dead, gored by a fuffalo and fifteen-year-old Timothy came down from the mountains and hit the trail west to Oregon and his long lost family.
Following his father's example, sixteen-year old Willie Delamer joins the Second Texas Regiment and leaves his beloved Texas to fight for the Confederacy.
Peaceful coexistence between the settlers and the Sioux on the Wyoming plains is shattered when a band of renegade Indians kidnaps the women and children aboard a wagon train, and Darby Prescott sets out to track down the marauders
As Willie Delamer rode the dusty wagon trail toward the prairie town of Edwards, he couldn't help feeling the world had turned on him. He expected Kansas to bring peace. But it had only brought death. Now, he couldn't explain, he was back.
Ages ago, the great Cheyenne prophet Sweet Medicine foretold that pale, earth-colored people would come from across the sea, and the Cheyenne's only hope lay in four sacred stone-tipped arrows, the gift of the grandfathers. Now the dark prophecies are coming true, and leader Stone Wolf desperately tries to save his tribe when the sacred arrows are broken.
It was six years since the first small band of settlers struggled toward the West Texas frontier. Now progress, had come to this outpost of civilization, but it took a man like Charlie Justiss to fight the unknown dangers of the West. He would do whatever was necessary to protect his cattle operation and turn it into an empire.
Color illustration on front cover of a Native American man mounted on a white horse in a grassy field with a silhouette of more riders in the distance; above the rider is an eagle feather headdress and a tomahawk.
Jake Wetherby didn't survive the move from Tennessee to Texas and the loss of his parents for nothing. Thought there was little law and plenty of trouble, he aimed to keep his small family alive. It would take more than blood and bullets to bring his down.
A young man returns home from the Civil War and must make a deadly choice between his brother and his neighbors, in this novel from two-time winner of the Spur Award and author of "Esmeralda.
When his father dies and the family scatters, Erastus (‘Rat’) Hadley hires on as a hand to a local farmer. Rat is abused and tortured in his new home, but a depression is on and it’s a tough time for a young man to be on his own. When Rat’s loyal childhood friend Mitch Morris intervenes and the sheriff rescues Rat, his luck changes. Landing a job at last, Rat rides shotgun for the Western Stage Company out of Fort Worth. He quickly picks up a reputation as a crack shot, and as business increases, Rat is able to save towards the small ranch he’d always dreamed of. His steady routine is interrupted when the hero of his childhood, Sheriff Cathcart, asks him to become his deputy. Rat’s first duty as deputy is to track down the Oxenberg gang, one of the deadliest groups of bandits in all of Texas. When he draws close to his quarry, Rat is faced with one of the toughest lessons of his life: friendship and old loyalties don’t always square with justice and the law.
Younger Wolf, the bearer of the buffalo shield, must maintain the fragile peace in his tribe even as its tribal lands, traditions, and the lives of its people are threatened by the whites. Original.
Even as Dreaming Wolf joins Cheyenne leader Talking Stick in his quest to destroy the white man, he has a visions of a future haunted by tragedy and defeat. Original.
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