Atkinson, Jay
Summary: Early on March 15, 1697, a band of Abenaki warriors in service to the French raided the English frontier village of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Striking swiftly, the Abenaki killed twenty-seven men, women, and children, and took thirteen captives, including thirty-nine-year-old Hannah Duston and her week-old daughter, Martha. A short distance from the village, one of the warriors murdered the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: LP, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 ATKSwanson, James L.
Summary: "Once it was one of the most famous events in early American history. Today, it has been nearly forgotten. In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little village in western Massachusetts, there lies what once was the most revered but now totally forgotten relic from the history of early New England--the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SEATanner, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0497 TANKercheval, Samuel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Traverse Area Genealogical Society 2000
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 975.59 KEROsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC OSBWakefield, Sarah F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 WAKKelton, 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 #3Pearl, Matthew
Summary: Explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone, Daniel Boone's daughter, by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party and the ensuing battle with reverberations that nobody could predict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.9 PEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.9 PEAColeman, Emma Lewis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Southworth press 1925
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 ColemHebert, Ernest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of New England 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEBMifflin, Margot
Summary: Tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own. She was fully assimilated and perfectly happy when, at nineteen, she was ransomed back to white society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.004 OATMAN, OLIVE ANN MIFRichards, Dusty
Summary: "Spring, 1850. After a brutally long winter in the Rockies, Mack Harrigan and his growing family have learned to manage the harsh realities of frontier life. Their new friends, the Shoshone, have taught them the skills they need to survive in this rugged land, from tracking and hunting to fishing and foraging. But when their camp is attacked by an enemy tribe, the skills the Harrigans need most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Konecky & Konecky 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 KELCapps, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAPPeterson, Tracie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PeterWest, Charles
Summary: "Orphaned in a massacre. Raised by Crow Indians. Destined to become a powerful hunter, a legendary scout, and a true American hero . . . As a widower with three young boys, Duncan Hunter dreamed of a new life for his sons in the heart of Washington Territory. But the journey was doomed from the start. Before reaching Hell Gate, their wagon train was attacked by Blackfoot Indians. Most of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: Presents the mystery story of an aging prisoner and a young graduate student whose lives are altered when they are lost in the hills of Appalachia with a 200-year-old ghost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner's 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCSpeare, Elizabeth George.
Summary: During the French and Indian War, young Miriam Willard is captured by Indians and taken to Montreal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield Co. 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.559 KERAnderson, 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 ANDBrown, Sandra
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROKelton, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2001