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Three centuries of white-Indian relations in America are described in seven stories. They begin with the arrival of the Spanish and the initial peaceful cooperation, trace relations with the French, deal with the outbreak of hostilities and the American invasion of the West, and end in the early 1800s with the tale of a white youth living among the Indians.

When the buffalo fail to return to the plains, the People, who depend on the vast herd for their survival, send a young medicine man, Red Horse, on a quest in search of the skin of a white buffalo, a sacred symbol of good fortune.

In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril--the Kansas Indian Territory. The pioneer life is a hard one, especially for a pregnant woman with no friends or kin to turn to for comfort or help. The burden of work must be shouldered alone,...

An illustrated cornucopia of how-to advice written specifically for gardeners in the Great Plains. Covers all of Kansas, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Oklahoma, as well as parts of North Dakota, Wyoming, Iowa, Colorado, Missouri, New Mexico, Arkansas, and Texas.