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Author
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
413 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A singer/songwriter and author, Mike Blakely is a two-time winner of the Spur Award. In this heartfelt novel, Comanche warrior Horseback is born on the same day that the first horse comes to his people. Maturing into a powerful leader of uncommon wisdom and vision, Horseback falls for Teal, the most beautiful woman in his tribe, as he forges a new direction for the Comanches.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Young Andy Pickard, known among the Comanches as Badger Boy, is now a teenager, and has been learning to live with the Texans from whom he was stolen years before. His divided loyalties between the Comanches and the whites lead to another kidnapping. Five-year-old Billy Gifford is taken by a warrior named Fights With Bears. Andy must save his honor by trying to recover Billy. Rusty Shannon must defend his home against men who hold a grudge from the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When his adoptive father is bushwhacked and killed in Texas in 1861, Rusty Shannon rides to fort Belknap on the Brazos River and joins the Texas Rangers. Mike Shannon's death haunts him; he owed his life to Mike, who rescued him from a Comanche War party when he was a child, and rusty thinks he knows the killer's identity. With Texas now in the throes of secession, Union sympathizers are regarded as traitors and it is Rusty's fate to fall in love...
7) Bird hunter
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
233 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
New York Times best-selling author Catherine Anderson tells the gripping tale of a woman running from violence and toward a quiet future. Years have passed since Amy Masters escaped the brutal Texas plains to become a schoolteacher in Oregon. But now that Comanche warrior Swift Antelope has galloped back into her life, she'll have to explore her heart for the courage to trust again.
10) The son: a novel
Author
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Formats
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.
12) Moon medicine
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
414 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Moon Medicine is the story of a boy genius with a peculiar sensitivity to lunar cycles. Jean-Guy lives in a school for boys in France until he murders his vile fencing teacher for raping a woman. He is smuggled aboard a Clipper ship bound for America-the place where he knows he will find the visions of his dreams. Featuring a masterful narration by Joel Leffert, this story is an excellent yarn, with an old-time feel and strong western flavors.
13) Many a river
Author
Language
English
Formats
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.
14) Slaughter
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Two ways of life collide when a Comanche warrior and a buffalo hunter meet on the southern plains.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Comanche warrior that Zack has been seeing in his dreams has begun to appear in real life, and as the line between his dream world and the real world blurs, the teenager embarks on a dangerous journey to resolve an old misunderstanding.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Comanchero Cullen Brice has escaped from a Huntsville, Alabama, prison, where he was sentenced to hang. And he has sworn revenge against the man who killed his brother and put him behind bars, Texas Ranger Matt McCulloch. Freed from the hangman by his gang, Brice has kidnapped the lawman's daughter Cynthia along with other women and make tracks to the Texas Panhandle. Holing up in The Canyon of Weeping Women, the outlaws plan to sell their captives...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 25 cm
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...