Summary: "Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call are now young men dealing with the ever increasing tensions of adult life-- Gus with his great love, Clara, and Call with Maggie, the young prostitute who is in love with him. McCrae and Call join a Ranger troop in pursuit of three outlaws: Comanche Chief Buffalo Hump, Comanche horse thief Kicking Wolf and Ahumado, the deadly Mexican bandit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN COMBird, F. A.
Summary: "This book introduces young readers to the Comanche people, their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing and more, their contact with Europeans, and how the Comanche are keeping their culture alive today"--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.0497 BIRCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.0497 BIRGwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.)
Summary: Describes the actions of both whites and Comanches during a 40-year war over territory, in a story that begins with the kidnapping of a white girl, who grew up to marry a Comanche chief and have a son, Quanah, who became a great warrior.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.004 GWYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Native GwynneGwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.)
Summary: A historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 978.004 GWYSummary: "There has been a great deal of writing the past several decades about Native American Code Talkers of World War Two. The published works have been about Navajos and the tremendous contribution they made in the Pacific campaigns of the war. What is often overlooked is the role played in both World Wars by men of other tribes. There were Cherokee, Choctaw, Comanche, Creek and other tribal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2019
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Summary: When a black-hearted hide stealer kidnapped his girl and avenging Native Americans scalped his boss, buffalo hunter Tom Doan rides out on the prairies to deliver his own justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walter J. Black 1953
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREDe Paola, Tomie.
Summary: A retelling of the Comanche Indian legend of how a little girl's sacrifice brought the flower called bluebonnet to Texas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 DEPCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 DEPDaniels, James Robert
Summary: "Out of nowhere Comanches attack-- and sixteen-year-old Jane narrowly survives the slaughter of her family and the kidnapping of her baby sister. Driven by grief and fury, she rides headlong into Indian territory, seeking vengeance. But the odds are stacked against a young girl on the trail, and Jane soon realizes she must disguise herself as a boy to join forces with a tough company of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cutting Edge Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DANSummary: Larry McMurtry's Dead man's walk : This prequel to Lonesome Dove introduces Gus and Call when they were young Texas Rangers first experiencing the wild frontier.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vivendi/RHI Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN LARBlake, Michael
Summary: Due to bizarre circumstances, the Army is unaware of Lieutenant Dunbar's assignment to Fort Sedgewich, an abandoned outpost. Alone, with only a wolf and Indian friends, Dunbar finds himself adapting to a native way of life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLASummary: Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove: Two former Texas Rangers leave the South Texas town of Lonesome Dove on an epic 2500-mile cattle drive to the lush ranch country of Montana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MOVIE LonCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN LONSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANHämäläinen, Pekka
Summary: Discusses the power wielded by the Comanches in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the southern Great Plains, the Southwest, and northern Mexico, covering their military ability, political dominance, and commercial and cultural influence as they resisted European colonization until their defeat in 1875.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.004 HAMSummary: Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater who believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SEABlake, Michael
Summary: Plains Indian struggle for survival during the late 1800s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Gold Medal 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAPeacock, Nancy
Summary: A slave-turned-Comanche warrior travels from the brutality of a New Orleans sugar cane plantation to the indomitable frontier of untamed Texas to search for the woman he loves and for his own identity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PEACapps, Benjamin
Summary: When her parents are killed in a raid, 11-year-old Helen Morrison and her younger sister Katy are kidnapped by a band of Comanches. Given the name Tehanita, Helen vows to maintain her white identity and clings tightly to her only possession--the dress she was wearing when captured. She is appalled by Katy's quick adjustment to her new home and family. Helen resists assimilation but she must...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAPDe Paola, Tomie.
Summary: A retelling of the Comanche Indian legend of how a little girl's sacrifice brought the flower called bluebonnet to Texas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1983
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 398.2 DEPAnderson, Catherine (Adeline Catherine)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ANDKelton, Elmer.
Summary: After his company of Texas rangers is disbanded, David "Rusty" Shannon returns home to his land on the Red River, where he encounters a young white boy known as Badger Boy who had been taken from his murdered parents by a Comanche warrior.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: WESTERN KeltonMeyer, Philipp
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Meyer 2013Crawford, Max
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRAL'Amour, Louis
Summary: Dan Killoe--over six feet of tough, raw, lightning fast man. He had a trail heard and a mass of settlers to get across unknown territory to a new land. Then he gave shelter to a stranger being hunted by Felipe Soto, scar-faced leader of the renegade Comancheros. This time Killoe was borrowing more trouble than he wanted to handle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1962
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMKelton, Elmer.
Summary: Former Comanche captive Rusty Shannon tries to resume a normal life after the end of the Civil War, but instead finds himself confronted by racial tension, murderous outlaws, brutal Comanche bands, and his nemesis--the deadly Oldham brothers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2001