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Author
Series
Little house volume 3
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Laura Ingalls is heading west! The Ingalls family packs up their covere wagon and sets off for the big skies of the Kansas Territory, where wide open land stretches as far as the eye can see. Just when they begin to feel settled, they are caught in the middle of a dangerous conflict"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Language
English
Description
In February 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts of Wisconsin's Big Woods for a new life in Kansas's Indian Territory. Packing what they can in their wagon, Caroline; her husband, Charles; and their daughters, Mary and Laura, head west to settle in an umpredictable land full of promise and peril. The pioneer life is a hard one, especially for a pregnant woman with no friends or kin to turn to for comfort or help. The burden...
3) Makoons
Author
Series
Birchbark House volume 5
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
156 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Named for the Ojibwe word for little bear, Makoons and his twin, Chickadee, have traveled with their family to the Great Plains of 1860s Dakota Territory. There they must learn to become buffalo hunters and once again help their people make a home in a new land. But Makoons has had a vision that foretells great challenges -- challenges that his family may not be able to overcome. (Based on the author's own family history.)
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 18
Pub. Date
1999
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians.
Author
Series
Cuatro vientos volume 87
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
4. ed.
Physical Desc
206 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
10) Long winter gone
Author
Series
Son of the plains volume 1
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
452 pages : map, portrait ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a year of retirement at the end of the Civil War, George Armstrong Custer is summoned by General Sheridan and appointed to the cavalry to quell the Indians of the Southern plains territory. Success in this area leads Sheridan to have Custer subdue the Sioux and Cheyenne of the Northern plains. Custer carries on an extra-marital affair with a young Indian girl. This novel is a prelude to the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jimmy McClean is a Lakota boy, though you wouldn't guess it by his name. His mother is Lakota, and his father is half white and half Lakota. Over summer break, Jimmy embarks on a journey with his grandfather, Nyles High Eagle. While on the road, his grandfather tells him the story of Crazy Horse, one of the most important figures in Lakota, and American, history. . . . Through his grandfather's tales about the famous warrior, Jimmy learns about his...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Cassie Witting is upset when she finds out that her mother, Sarah, is expecting a baby, but writing in the journal that was her brother Caleb's helps her sort out her feelings and she finally learns that Sarah will always love her.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The story of a Civil War soldier finding his humanity in the face of horrible savagery. Emerging from the Civil War a shamed and broken man, Stephen Latch turns to a life of thievery and murder. Still hoping to uphold the values of the Confederacy, Latch sets his sights on the wealth of resources pouring westward from the northern United States, putting together a band of ruthless misfits to help him stake his claim of the riches of the caravans....
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Center Point large print ed.
Physical Desc
320 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
With white settlers moving in, the Plains Indians were fighting desperately to preserve their lands, their sacred traditions, their very existence as a people. As they neared Wounded Knee Creek, the people of the plains asked themselves each day if it was a good day to die. Set amid the drama of the Plains Indians' last fight for freedom is the love story between Chance Easterbrook, a reporter, and Shining Woman, daughter of a Sioux chief.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mama and little Elsa are kidnapped by Indians. As his father lies dying, fourteen-year-old Ryker Landstad promises to take the nine-year-old twins to safety and rescue Mama and Elsa. It takes all Ryker's gumption, to reach the fort, only to discover that Fort Abercrombie is besieged by 500 warriors" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of the pioneering men and women who sowed the seeds of a nation with their courage and their blood, and how their paths would meet amid the epic struggle against fierce enemies and nature's cruelty to win, for all time, the rich and untamed West.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the seventh book in his bestselling Preacher series, William W. Johnstone gives his millions of avid fans exactly the kind of gritty, action-packed Western novel they look for from this prolific and hugely popular writer.
"A Messiah Shall Lead Them...".
In the Wyoming wild, Blackfoot warriors prepare for battle, their bloodlust stirred by a legendary prophet promising victory in a war that will forever rid the plains of the white man. To legendary...
18) Mr. Tucket
Author
Series
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Turn the Stars Upside Down is the compelling and little-known story of Crazy Horse's surrender in 1877 only months after his last fight with the U.S. Army at Battle Butte, his futile attempts to find peace for his warrior heart among the reservation Indians, and his eventual undoing at the hands of his own Oglala people.
For all his life, this warrior has been a defender of the weak and helpless. But surrounded now on a tiny red island in a sea of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
CBA best-selling author Kim Vogel Sawyer captivated millions with her emotionally moving gem Waiting for Summer's Return-a CBD Top-Twenty Fiction. Set in 1936 Kansas, Where Willows Grow transports listeners to America's drought-stricken heartland as the hopes and dreams of hardworking farmers blow away with the wind. As pregnant Anna Mae and her husband Harley struggle to feed their growing family, Harley travels 100 miles to build a WPA monument....