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Heirs of Montana volume 2
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English
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Heirs of Montana book 2, the sequel to the bestselling Land of My Heart. With the love of her life missing in the Montana wilderness, a young woman must manage a ranch on her own. 1870 Montana ranching proves to be a hard life for Dianne Chadwick. Her &supl;ancé, Cole Selby, has yet to return from his journey east. Unbeknownst to her, he has been captured by Indians, and Takes-Many-Horses, who also loves Dianne, must decide whether or not to let...
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Killstraight stories volume 3
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His Arrows Fly Straight into the Hearts of His Enemies was his Comanche name. But the Pale Eyes called him Daniel Killstraight, and that is the name he is known by since he returned to the reservation and became a native police officer. Toyarocho, in a drunken stupor on contraband whiskey, rolled over onto his four-year-old daughter and smothered her. The Indian agent wants Killstraight to find out who supplied the whiskey - a task that is both difficult...
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The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
4) Centennial
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A novel depicting the history and development of a section of Colorado and the lives of the people of the area.
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The compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must call upon the ancient skills of his Indian forebears to survive the vast Siberian wilderness. Only one route lies open to Mack: the path of his ancestors, overland to the Bering Strait and across the sea to America. But in pursuit is a legendary tracker, the Yakut native...
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"A Woman of Courage Makes an Epic Journey Take a three-thousand mile journey with Amanda Pearson as she leaves the disgrace of a broken engagement and joins the work at a Quaker mission in the western wilds. The trip is fraught with danger, and Amanda is near death before reaching her destination. Among those she meets are an Indian woman who becomes her first convert and a half-Indian trapper who seems to be her biggest critic. But love follows her...
8) Talking God
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The 2 Navaho police officers, Jim Chee & Joe Leaphorn, featured together in the author's earlier A Thief of Time & Skinwalkers, once more solve a puzzling, complex murder mystery set in New Mexico. Washington politics and protests lead Chee and Leaphorn to cases of grave robbing and to a body that was found stripped of all identification. Lt. Joe Leaphorn seeks the identity of a murder victim. Officer Jim Chee arrests a Smithsonian conservator for...
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 12
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English
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In Alberta, the star-crossed romance between Martin Forbes, a young white missionary, and Running Fawn, an Indian maiden. She is one of his most promising pupils, but so is Silver Fox and it is he who gets her in the end.
11) Moon of Thunder
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Rabbit sets off on his vision quest with the Spanish Bit, the revered "elk-dog medicine" of his 16th century Plains Indian tribe, entrusted to him by his grandfather, the great chief Heads Off, but he is ambushed and the Spanish Bit is stolen, so in addition to his personal quest, he must recover his People's special medicine.
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Spanish bit saga volume 25
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English
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Pipe Bear, a holy man of the Elk-Dog People, journeys north to seek an answer to a mysterious dream, accompanied by the mare and foal that featured in it. A portrait of the culture of the Plains Indians.
13) On Mother's lap
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A small Eskimo boy discovers that Mother's lap is a very special place with room for everyone.
14) Sky dogs
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1990
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English
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A young motherless boy in a tribe of Blackfeet Indians is present when his people see horses for the first time and are changed forever.
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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...