Central Kansas Library System

It was no work for a woman. That's what they told Mary Breydon when she came to manage a rundown stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail. But Mary had no choice. Her fine Virginia home burned to ashes in the Civil War and her husband was brutally shot down on the way to Colorado. She needed to make a new beginning for herself and her young daughter on the raw frontier. Isolated in an untamed land, their life at the station was achingly hard and they...

Counts things associated with a harvest feast in colonial Plymouth Colony, including pilgrims, Wampanoags, nuts, squash, and, of course, turkeys.

Nine-year-old Kirsten keeps her friendship with a Sioux Indian girl a secret until Kirsten's little brother becomes lost in the woods. Includes a section on Sioux Indians and a project related to the story.

A quarrel between the first man and the first woman is reconciled when the Sun causes strawberries to grow out of the earth.

Blue Sky, a young Indian boy, goes hunting to bring food home only to have the food bring him home instead.

In 1764, when Kaya and her family reunite with other Nez Perc�e Indians to fish for the red salmon, she learns that bragging, even about her swift horse, can lead to trouble. Includes historical notes on the Nez Perc�e Indians.

A brief history of the Cheyenne Indians, who call themselves "The People."

'First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., 1992'--T.p. verso.