Grey, Zane
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 GREMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: The adventures of two youthful Rangers in the days of the Texas Republic. They battle heat, thirst, bandits, Indians and the Mexican Army to emerge mature men. By the author of Lonesome Dove.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: W MCMMcMurtry, Larry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall & Co. 1996
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP W MCCKelton, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KEL TR #3Anderson, 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 ANDDaniels, 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 DANPeacock, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2017
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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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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 BLACapps, 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 CAPMeyer, 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, Call number: Fiction Meyer 2013L'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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1962
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMCombs, Harry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1994
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Summary: Two Texas Rangers fight Indians and bandits while trying to sort affairs with their women. One is Gus McCrae, a hard-drinking womanizer jilted by his love, the other is sober Woodrow Call, father of a boy by a prostitute. By the author of Lonesome Dove.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1997
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: WESTERN KeltonCrawford, Max
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRAKelton, Elmer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1992
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Western Kelton 1992Summary: "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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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 SEABird, 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 BIRWeso, T. F. Pecore (Thomas F. Pecore)
Summary: "Native Americans have a long tradition of storytelling. Now, you can easily introduce your children to these rich cultures with a compilation of powerful tales from multiple tribes like the Cheyenne and the Lenape. What sets this book apart from other Native American books for kids: Tales from 12 tribes--Kids will embark on a literary adventure with 12 stories from tribes around America,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2022
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Summary: After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2005