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3) Mr. Tucket
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Series
Language
English
Description
In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild. Fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is heading west on the Oregon Trail with his family by wagon train. When he receives a rifle for his birthday, he is thrilled that he is being treated like an adult. But Francis lags behind to practice shooting and is captured...
11) The soldiers
Author
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1973
Language
English
Description
An account of army life during the time of the Indian wars in the West, describing the soldiers' lives and major battles and campaigns.
12) Moccasin trail
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Series
Language
English
Description
A pioneer boy, brought up by Crow Indians, is reunited with his family and attempts to orient himself in the white man's culture.
Author
Series
Time warp trio series volume 3
Language
English
Description
'First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., 1992'--T.p. verso.
Author
Publisher
Olive Collins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In 1865, Goldie O'Neill was nine years of age when she trekked across the unclaimed American West with her family to form their own Irish Catholic Colony. Their new community had dreams of self-governance and prosperity far removed from the anti-Irish sentiment and prejudice of the ruling classes. They soon learned about the extremes of the American West and the ongoing Indian war. A year after their arrival, Goldie blames herself for her sister's...
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
In the 1850s, twelve-year-old Peter takes his dog and heads west on the Santa Fe Trail to find his father, guided by "Uncle" Seth, who leads their wagon train through an Indian attack, desertion by greenhorns, a buffalo stampede, and other hardships.
Publisher
Distributed by HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in the Black Hills--on Sioux land. In this film, the lives...